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“THINK IT”

INTERSTREAM IT QUIZ –

SENIOR FINALS

30th Oct 2013

By

Suresh & Gowri

Format

• This quiz consists of Four rounds of

quizzing

• Rules for each round will be explained at

the beginning of the round

• Quiz master is God for the next hour or

so…

Rules

• This round consists of 6 questions

• You have to identify and write your answer

• + 5 for every correct answer

• If you get all 6 correct, a bonus of + 20

• No Negative marking in this round

• You can get a max of + 50 in this round

1. What are these collectively called?

2. Identify

3. Identify

4. Identify

5. Identify this logo

6. Who is this?

Answers written?

1. What are these collectively called?

1. What are these collectively called?

Internet MEMES

2. Identify

2. Identify

Shiv Nadar, founder of HCL

3. Identify

FEVICOL

3. Identify

4. Identify

Google Hummingbird the new search algorithm

4. Identify

5. Identify this logo

URL Shortening & Book marking service for Twitter

5. Identify this logo

6. Who is this?

6. Who is this?

Rules

• This round consists of 16 questions on

Infinite Bounce

• The first 8 will be clock-wise and the next

8 will be anti-clock-wise

• + 10 for every correct answer

• No Negative marking in this round

Question 1

Robot AstronautsKirobo is Japan's first robot astronaut, developed by

Tomotaka Takahashi, to accompany Koichi

Wakata, the first Japanese commander of the

International Space Station.

A twin to Kirobo, named Mirata, was created with the

same characteristics. Mirata will stay on Earth as a

backup crew member. The word "kirobo" itself is a

portmanteau of "kibō" (希望), which means "hope" in

Japanese, and the word "robo" (ロボ), used as a

generic short word for any robot.

Question 2With the NSA spying scandal (PRISM & Edward Snowden) still

making headlines, a Russian paper reports that Secret agencies in

that country have turned to a low tech way to avoid America's

prying eyes.

According to a recent report in the Russian newspaper Izvestia, the

Federal Guard Service (FSO), which is responsible for the security

of the Russian president and several high-ranking officials, is

looking to buy 20 of “something” costing about Euro 200 per piece.

They would be used to ensure that particularly sensitive documents

existed only on paper and would not be electronically archived.

According to the newspaper, the German model Triumph-Adler

Twen 180 is especially popular with Russian intelligence.

What is this “something”?

Our old fashioned

“Typewriter”

Question 3

Connect

JEOPARDY

This is a mobile application which provides access to live TV

channels and video “on demand” on handsets.

This app allowed people to watch live videos of one of the largest events in

human history – the Maha Kumbh Mela this year.

Which mobile apps?

Question 4

nexGTV

The act of “snubbing” some one in

a social setting by looking at your

“phone” , instead paying attention

to them / speaking to them has a

specific word / term in the IT lingo.

What?

Question 5

“PHUBBING”

6. Connect

Bhuvan (means Earth) is software application which

allows users to explore a 3D representation of the

surface of the Earth

The browser is specifically tailored to view

India, offering the highest resolution in this region

provided with local four languages

This refers to connecting one device to another and in the

context of mobile phones or Internet tablets, this allows

sharing the Internet connection of the phone or tablet

with other devices such as laptops.

Connection of the phone or tablet with other devices can be

done over wireless LAN (Wi-Fi), over Bluetooth or by

physical connection using a cable, for example through USB.

If this is done over Wi-Fi, the feature may be branded as a

Mobile Hotspot. The Internet-connected mobile device can

thus act as a portable wireless access point and router for

devices connected to it.

How do we commonly know this feature?

Question 7

TETHERING

What are these called and what are they used for?

Question 8

Nike FUEL BANDS

They are activity trackers / fitness

trackers worn on the wrist. It allows its

wearers to track their physical activity,

steps taken daily, and amount of

calories burned

Question 9

STEVE JOBS

Question 10

Question 11E.A. Johnson was the first to describe this in a short article published in 1965 and then more fully along with photographs and diagrams in an article published in 1967.

A description of the applicability of this technology for air traffic control was described in an article published in 1968 by Frank Beck and Bent Stumpe, engineers from CERN. They developed this in the early 1970s and it was manufactured by CERN and put to use in 1973 which was based on Bent Stumpe's work at a television factory in the early 1960s.

Today this technology is ubiquitous and comes in various forms like Resistive, Capacitive, Infrared, Surface acoustic wave.

What technology is being referred here?

Touch Screen

12. Connect

James Bond

Question 13This company was founded in 1906 in Rochester, New York, US as The Haloid Photographic Company, which

originally manufactured photographic paper and equipment.

An inventor Chester Carlson invented a process in 1938 which in Greek literally means “dry writing”. This became a modern word of everyday use which later came into the

English dictionary.

The company then developed this process and came into worldwide prominence in 1959 with the introduction of the

first ever product using Electro-photography.

Today it is a Fortune 500 company with interests in various industries liked Document Services, Digital Imaging,

Office equipments etc.

Name this company

XEROX

Question 14

ANKIT FADIA

He is an Indian independent Computer

security consultant and author. He

describes himself as an ethical

hacker, and has written several books on

the topic of computer security

Question 15This Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing

Machinery (ACM)

It is stipulated that "The contributions should be of lasting and major

technical importance to the computer field". It is recognized as the "highest

distinction in Computer science“ and also considered as the "Nobel Prize of

Computing“

This award is named a mathematician and reader in Mathematics at the

University of Manchester. He is "frequently credited for being the Father

of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence"

The first recipient, in 1966, was Alan Perlis, of Carnegie Mellon University

Name this award

Turing award named after Alan Turing

Question 16

CONNECT

Microsoft acquiring Nokia’s Mobile phone

& devices business

Steve Ballmer (CEO, Microsoft), Stephen

Elop (former CEO Nokia currently EVP,

Device at Microsoft)

Question 16

Rules

• This round consists of 10 questions on

Buzzer

• Questions are on logos related to IT

• Negative marking in this round

• + 10 for every correct answer

• - 10 for every incorrect guess / answer

1

2

3

GOOGLE PLAY

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5

6

7

8

9

10

APACHE

Rules

• 3 sets of statements have something in common

• You have to identify the hidden “Theme” in

these set of questions and write your answer

• If you guess the correct answer after

– 1st set + 60 points

– 2nd set + 40 points

– 3rd set + 20 points

• There is a constant negative of 20 points for

wrong guesses (-20 points)

• You can do any number of guesses

SET 1• It was founded in 1995, by French-born Iranian-

American computer programmer Pierre Omidyar as part of a

larger personal site

• It became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble; it

is now a multi-billion dollar business with operations

localized in over thirty countries

• It is an internet consumer-to-consumer corporation,

headquartered in San Jose, California

• It had a revenue of about $ 14 Billion and had 27,000

employees in 2012

• Other than its primary business this company has since

expanded to include Online classified advertisements (via

Kijiji), Online event ticket trading (via Stubhub), Buy it now

standard shopping (via Half.com) and Online money

transfers (via Paypal)

SET 2• The company over the last 18 years has made about 40

acquisitions. Some of the famous acquisitions are baazee.com,

paypal, skype, iBazar

• One of its popular offerings is the Online Charity Auction which it

does through Mission Fish as an Arbiter

• To date the highest successful bid on a single item for Online

Charity Auction was for the annual "Power Lunch“ with

investor Warren Buffett at the famous Smith &

Wollensky Steakhouse in New York. The winning bid was $2.63

million with all of the proceeds going to the Glide Foundation

• As it is a huge, publicly visible market, it has created a great deal

of interest from economists, who have used it to analyze many

aspects of its business model and compare these with previous

theoretical and empirical findings

• Many unusual items have been listed for sale on the website like

countries New Zealand, Iceland; car used by Pope Benedict XVI;

some new species like a type of sea urchin

SET 3• One of the first items sold was a broken laser pointer for

$14.83. Astonished, Omidyar contacted the winning bidder to ask if he understood that the laser pointer was broken. In his responding email, the buyer explained: "I'm a collector of broken laser pointers”

• Some of its famous slogans

“World's Online Marketplace""Connecting buyers and sellers globally""Buy it, sell it, love it""Buy it New, Buy it Now""When it's on your mind, it's on ……“

• Just as economists have shown interest in it’s operations, computer information systems researchers have also shown interest in its business model. Recently W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, published an academic case based on it’s big data management and use. The company processes 50 petabytes of data a day and employs about 5,000 data analysts to spur its online success

eBay

PLEASE WAIT TILL THE

SCORES ARE TABULATED

AND THE WINNER IS…

2. Identify

Question 9

This short film “A boy and his Atom” holds the Guinness World

Records™ record for the World's Smallest Stop-Motion Film.

The ability to move single atoms is crucial to IBM's research in the field

of atomic memory. But even nanophysicists need to have a little fun. In

that spirit, IBM researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope to

move thousands of carbon monoxide molecules (two atoms stacked on

top of each other), all in pursuit of making a movie so small it can be

seen only when you magnify it 100 million times.

A movie made with atoms.

3. Name this website

3. Name this website

Shelfari is a social cataloging website for Books.

Shelfari users build virtual bookshelves of the

titles they own or have read, and can rate, review,

tag, and discuss their books. It is owned by

Amazon

3. What is this called?