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IT QuizMES College
Identify the logos
10 logos, 1 minute, 2 points each
Part I
• 12 questions.
• 10 points for each question
• Infinite bounce will be followed.
• 5 seconds to pounce. You can write the answer with a risk of +10 or -5.
1.
• On January 11, 2014, a biographical documentary film named The Internet’s Own Boy officially released at Sundance Film Festival. It was a powerful homage to which Internet activist?
1. Aaron Swartz
2.
• What word refers to the process of removing software restrictions imposed by Apple, enabling of third party apps on iPhone?
2.
• Jailbreak
3. Identify
3.
• Abidali Z. Neemuchwala
4.
• IPv4 addresses use a dotted-decimal format, where each byte ranges from 0 to 255. What separates eight sets of four hexadecimal addresses in IPv6?
4.
• (Colon:)
5.
• Its more generic term is Flash crowd. Also use terms like Farked, Drudged, being under the Reddit effect, or receiving a hug of death. Id the terminology.
• It occurs when a popular website links to a smaller site, causing a massive increase in traffic
5.
• Slashdot effect
6.
• Which three key sequence developed by David Bradley is known as three finger salute?
6.
• Ctrl + Alt + Del
7.
• Early (1990’s) definitions of this internet slang X primarily consisted of low-level disruption of discussions, by posting meaningless questions for their own amusement, without any regard over whether the targets are hurt.
• X is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory off-topic messages.
7.
• Troll
8.
• In 1983 he became the first software manager of sun Microsystems, and later CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011?
8.Eric Schmidt
9.
• X is a non-technical method of intrusion hackers use that relies heavily on human interaction and often involves tricking people into breaking normal security procedures. It is one of the greatest threats that organizations today encounter.
• In the context of information security, it refers to psychological manipulation of people into divulging confidential information
9.
• Social Engineering
10.
• In January 12th, 2009, Computer scientist Hal Finney, who has been involved for a long time in the cryptography community, received 100 X from Satoshi Nakamoto.
• Something happened for the first time in the online transaction history. What?
10.
• First Bitcoin transaction
11.
• Internet pioneer and author Michael F. Hauben is credited with coining and popularizing the term.
• It describes a person actively involved in online communities or the Internet in general.
• Identity the term?
11.
• Netizen
12.
• What is special about the NeXT Computer used by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN?
12.
• First web server
Part II
• 3 Rounds 18 questions
• Each round carry a Risk value, ranging 10,15 & 20if you pounce, and Base value 5 if question passed.
• If you pounce and got it correct you will get +Risk value & if you are wrong it will cost you –Risk value.
• If no one attempts on pounce, question will be directed to each team with base value point and no negative mark.
1.
• Augusta Ada, is chiefly known for her notes on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. These notes were labelled alphabetically from A to G.
• In note G, she describes an algorithm for the Analytical Engine to compute Bernoulli numbers.
• Why this is important in the history of computer?
1.
• First computer program
2.
• A landscape from Los Carneros, Sonoma County, California
• A prehistoric monument located in Wiltshire, England
• A flower that transform large parts of Holland into colorful fields
• Give a popular connection related with microsoft?
2.
3.Identify the personality
3.
• Stewart Brand
4.
• This is an observation made by the co-founder of Intel. His prediction proved accurate for several decades, and it was used in the semiconductor industry to guide long-term planning and to set targets for research and development.
• His predictions were remarkably accurate from 1965 to 2013. Since then we have seen it slowing down a little.
• In what popular name we know this observation?
4.
• Moore’s law
5.
• Computers were not popular in 1961. At that time computer scientists were faced with a problem, how could they get people to use it.
• Peter Samson and Steve Russell introduced gaming as a solution & PDP-1 became original hardware for playing history's first game on a mini-computer
• One of 21 games currently on display at The Museum of the Moving Image in New York. Identify the game ?
5.Spacewar!
6.
• This is an open-source software framework written in Java for distributed storage and distributed processing of very large data sets on computer clusters built from commodity hardware.
• It was created by Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella in 2005. Cutting, who was working at Yahoo! at the time named it after his son's toy elephant. What?
6.
1. When Google CEO Sundar Pichai interacts with Students of Sriram College of Commerce in Delhi,
someone made these suggestions. What was that guy’s suggestion about?
1.
• Indian Names For Android.
2.
• "The Mother of All Demos" is a name given retrospectively to the first of its kind computer demonstration at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco.
• The 90-minute presentation essentially demonstrated almost all the fundamental elements of modern personal computing: windows, hypertext, graphics, efficient navigation and command input, video conferencing, the computer mouse, word processing etc. Its underlying technologies later influenced both the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows graphical user interface
• Who was the presenter of this historic demonstration?
2.Douglas Engelbart
3.
• Neyya, is a Bluetooth ring designed for remote-controlling mobile devices
• Their initial idea was an optical wearable that could turn the entire hand into a swipeable and tappableinterface— a concept that enabled the startup to raise more than $200,000.
• What was the name of its earlier prototype developed by a Kerala based innovator Rohil Dev?
3.Fin
4.Connect these social networking platform to the year it was founded.
• 2004
• 2010
• 2006
• 2002
4.
• 2004
• 2006
• 2002
• 2010
5.
• Arrange these Mac OS X version codenames according to the year in which was developed.
• Snow Leopard
• El Capitan
• Cheetah
• Jaguar
5.
• Cheetah - 2001
• Jaguar - 2003
• Snow Leopard - 2011
• El Capitan - 2015
6.Identify these women IT company leaders
6.
1.
• IPv6 is the most recent version of the Internet communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on network.
• Although IPv6 has been available since the '90s, not many companies, ISPs, or other organizations have implemented it. Currently the situation changed.
• What problem in currently deployed standard related with the number 3,706,650,000 leads to the migration to IPv6?
1.
• The problem is there is a finite number of IP addresses (3,706,650,000 usable addresses) that can be distributed with IPv4.
2.Arrange the fictional super computers against the movies
• HAL 9000
• ARIIA
• Skynet
• Red queen
• The Terminator
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Resident Evil
• Eagle eye
2.
• HAL 9000
• ARIIA
• Skynet
• Red queen
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Eagle eye
• The Terminator
• Resident Evil
3.
• Linus Torvalds is the original author of this project.
• Later Torvalds turned over its maintenance to JunioHamano, a Japanese software engineer and hacker.
• He was responsible for the 1.0 release of the project on 21 December 2005, and currently maintainer of the project
• Name the widely-used version control system for software development we are talking about
3.
4.
• In 1957, Nobel laureate William Shockley recruited a group of young PhD graduates with the goal to develop and produce new semiconductor devices. But his managing of the group created harsh working conditions. So eight among them left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1957 an they are known as Traitorous eight in the tech history.
• In August 1957, one among Traitorous eight, X met investor Sherman Fairchild and pitched an impassioned presentation about his vision of starting a semiconductor division. They reached an agreement with Sherman Fairchild and on September 18, 1957 they formed Fairchild Semiconductor.
• Two person among these Traitorous eight, later co-founded a powerful American technology corporation. Identify the founders and company.
4.Robert Noyce and Gorden Moore
5.
• OMG Electronics and Irish network service firm Probendi owns certain trademark in USA and European Union respectively.
• A multinational corporation had to rethink their branding strategy because of this trademark while naming their last year entry into product line. Identify the product or trademark?
5.
6.
• ‘I support Free Basics in India’ campaign
• “To the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) I would like to thank TRAI for the opportunity to submit these comments in response to the Consultation Paper on ___________________________. I support digital equality for India”.
6.
• Differential Pricing for Data Services
• Thank you
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