Mr Know IT all

Mr. Know ‘IT’ all

IT Quiz Prelims. NMAMIT, Nitte.

Grey Matter Presents:

Conducted on: 22nd March 2012

1. More to her than meets the eye

Identify the Lady

and her claim to

fame.

2. While we’re on the topic.Link to previous slide.

3. Think Medieval.

• The name for this font X, was inspired by a puzzle question overheard at Microsoft headquarters: "Can you make a X that could launch a person from main campus to the new consumer campus about a mile away? Mathematically, is it possible and how?" The creator of X thought “that would be a great name for a font that launches words across the Internet".

*4. Think Etymologically.

A. Erstwhile ( Some say so) telecom market leader named after a certain Nordic town/river.

B. Popular FOSS OS. A portmanteau of the creator’s and his girlfriend’s first names.

C. Popular H&E manufacturer that was named after the fabled winged horse of Greek myth. The first three letters were eventually dropped.

5. Connect

Connect the following companies. List is not exhaustive. Specific answer.

Google, HTC, Sony, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, T-Mobile, Nvidia….

6. “What’s happening?”

7. Remove hat and glasses.• Error 001: Weak or no signal detected. Upgrade transmitter and retry.• Error 666: Multiple transmitters detected. Silence voices in your head and try

again.• Error 01: Brainwaves received in analog. Please re-think in digital.• Error 8P: Unclear on whether your search is about money or monkeys. Please try

again.• Error 005: Searching on this topic is prohibited under international law.• Error CKR8: That information is protected under the National Security Act.• Error 144: That information was lost with the Martian Lander. Please try again.• Error 006: Query is unclear. Try again after removing hat, glasses and shoes.• Error 008: Interference detected. Remove aluminum foil and remote control

devices.• Error: Insufficient conviction. Please clap hands 3 times, while chanting "I believe"

and try again.• Error: ________(tm) has determined that this is not your final answer. Please try

again.

*8. Expand.

A. PARC. As in Xerox PARC.B. OMAP. As in TI OMAP Microprocessors. C. WYSIWYG

9. Beam me up, Stevey!• XYZ is a term coined by Bud Tribble at Apple Computer in 1981, to

describe company co-founder Steve Jobs' charisma and its effects on the developers working on the Macintosh project. Bud Tribble claimed that the term came from Star Trek. Later the term has also been used to refer to perceptions of his keynote speeches (or "Stevenotes") by observers and devoted users of Apple computers and products.

• The term is also used by Apple's competitors when they criticize Apple. On Research In Motion's official BlackBerry blog, Jim Balsillie introduced his article by saying “For those of us who live outside of Apple’s YZ”.

• ID XYZ

10. Doodleplex.

Google Doodle to commemorate what?

*11. Logorithm

Identify the following logos. (Bonus points for connect)

A B C

12. Say Cheese.

• ID this Iconic device.

13. @$*#!

Put Funda

Clue

14. On similar lines.

What in computing is a three finger salute?

15. FITB

It is a brand used by Matsushita Electric to sell home appliances, personal appliances, and industrial appliances.

It was also the first name used by Matsushita's electric firm to sell his battery-powered bicycle lamps. He hoped that they would be a product used by all of Japan, hence the name___________.

Clue:

16. No stranger to these quizes.

• Has close to a 100 patents.

• Awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2009 for contributions to science and engineering.

• Has served as an advisor to the United Nations.

• Is considered a pioneer in handhelds. Invented the Electronic Diary in 1975.

• Also an avid painter.

ID this great personality.

17. “Hi, Joel!”• Dr Martin Cooper grew up in Chicago and earned a degree in electrical

engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology. After four years in the navy serving on destroyers and a submarine, he worked for a year at a telecommunications company.

• On April 3, 1973, Before going to a press conference at the Manhattan Hilton, What was it that Dr Cooper did, standing on the sidewalk that completely bewildered the pedestrian lot?

18. Try to remember.

• X received its name from the first name of the its creator, who is a Turk. In Turkish, X means "the holy meeting place.". In Finnish slang, it means "orgasms" or, more generally, "pleasure of the body".

ID X.

19. But do you want to?

1. The First 20 Chapters of Genesis .2. Bambi – 2X3. Journey's Don't Stop Believin‘- 61X4. Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors – 0.73X5. The U.S. Constitution – 2.32X6. ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ -0.47X7. Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ 0.0197X Non-Exhaustive list. What is this?

20. What’s worse than H5N1?In 2003, three students from Helsinki University of Technology (currently Aalto University School of Science), _________, Jarno Väkeväinen, and Kim Dikert participated in a mobile game development competition at the Assembly demo party sponsored by Y. A victory with a real-time multiplayer game called King of the Cabbage World compelled the trio to set up their own company, Z. King of the Cabbage World was sold to Sumea and renamed to Mole War, which became the first commercial real-time multiplayer mobile game in the world.The current avatar of the company is X, famous the world over for their multiplatform application.

Give me X Y and Z.

Bonus: ID for a cookie.

The End.

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