Alphabit Tech Quiz 2017 Prelims
- 1. AMITY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, SAKET AlphaBit 2017 Quiz - Prelims Q1. X Internet, Inc. is an American company based in California that provides commercial web traffic data and analysis. Founded as an independent company in 1996, it was acquired by the company Y in 1999. Its toolbar collects data on browsing behavior and transmits them to the X website, where they are stored and analyzed. This is the basis for the company's web traffic reporting. According to its website, it provides traffic data and other information on 30 million websites. As of 2015, its website has been visited by over 6.5 million people monthly. Id X and Y. ____________________________________________________________________________ Q2. Connect all the mentioned events- (non-exhaustive list) ● Orkut displayed its name as 'yogurt'. ● All featured videos on the UK and Australian homepages, and later, all international homepages, of YouTube linked to a video of Rick Astley's song “Never Gonna Give You Up". ● Project Virgle, a joint venture project of Google with Virgin Group to establish a permanent settlement on Mars. ● Auto-Awesome Photobombs with David Hasselhoff. ● Pac-Man view on Google maps ● Google Wind, a series of machine learning windmills that can blow away cloudy skies for another day. ___________________________________________________________________________ Q3. On 1st February 2017, Japan launched a nationwide “Green Initiative”. Japanese citizens were requested to donate their discarded or obsolete electronic devices like mobile phones, laptops, cameras etc. Around 2000 collection bins will be placed at offices and NTT Docomo stores all over Japan by April 2017. It is estimated that nearly 8 tons of metal can be collected from these electronic devices. The aim is that the metal collected from these devices will be used in the production of something. What? ____________________________________________________________________________ Q4. Not originally from World of Warcraft as some people think, _____ is the Korean approximation in english of laughter when typed on a Korean keyboard during Starcraft matches. As Starcraft was made by Blizzard as is world of warcraft, their connection to laughter in both games seems to be an homage of sorts, now especially popular in the meme sphere. FITB. ____________________________________________________________________________
- 2. Q5. _____, is an esoteric programming language created by two programmers, Stephen McGreal and Alex Mole, who decided that it would be a good idea to create a language out of _____, a term which refers to users substituting words and letters with numbers and intentionally bad spelling. As with many other esoteric languages, it was designed to be as “brain-melting as possible to code in”. The “Hello, world!” code for the language starts and ends as follows: “Gr34t ___N3$$? M3h… iT 41n't s0 7rIckY. . . . 1s whAt th1s 1s!!!!! 5uxX0r5!!!L0L0L0L0L!!!!!!!” FITB. ____________________________________________________________________________ Q6. ID the entity. ____________________________________________________________________________ Q7. In 2013, Lenovo announced X as its latest product engineer. X, who previously studied biochemical engineering at the University of Iowa, will work alongside Lenovo's engineering
- 3. teams around the world to "develop and market" its Yoga line of Windows 8, Windows RT, and Android convertible tablets. X's first duties appear to be promoting the Lenovo Yoga in a commercial, in which the he proudly brandishes his new Lenovo ID card. X's investments in startups like Skype, Airbnb, and Path, not to mention his role as an advisor to The Verge's parent company Vox Media, are well publicized, meaning the star may do more for Lenovo than cynically lend his face to a product line. ID X. __________________________ __________________________ ________________________ Q8. Of all renowned celebrity inventors, X is the one whose ingenuity has had the biggest impact on the world. The Hollywood actress invented a “secret communication system”, granted a patent in 1942, that has since gone on to be used in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS technology. X is also, at times, referred to as the “Mother of Wifi” ID X. ____________________________________________________________________________ Q9. The quote occurs in the anime, Arakawa Under the Bridge’s 2nd season, when the characters are discussing the proper method to have a tea party and a suggestion is made to tie the hair backwards in a ponytail-like knot in the classical style of Nobunaga, in order to properly have a tea-drinking ceremony. What remark, made about the way to prepare tea and tie hair, is being talked about? ____________________________________________________________________________ Q10. Yves and Michel Guillemot are two brothers originating from a small village in France. They both started out in the video game business, and both became the CEOs of companies that made big names in the gaming world. One makes games for handheld devices while the other publishes several franchises such as Just Dance, Rainbow Six and Rayman. Name both the companies. ____________________________________________________________________________ Q11. This word was coined by Jack E Steele in 1958, possibly meaning ‘unit of life’ and the suffix meaning ‘like’ or “in the manner of’, hence ‘like life’. Some dictionaries, however, explain
- 4. the word as being formed as a portmanteau from biology and electronics. It is the application of biological methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems and modern technology. ____________________________________________________________________________ Q12. X was the first portable computer. It was developed by Lee Felsenstein and introduced at the West Coast Computer Faire in April 1981. It was the first computer that included software; the bundled WordStar, SuperCalc, dBase II, CBASIC and MBASIC had a retail value of more than $ 2000.The operating system was CP/M 2.2 and memory 64 K of RAM. ID X. ____________________________________________________________________________ Q13. Of all the major manufacturers in a particular industry, X has the longest corporate history, being founded in 1889. However, for 67 years, it had only one product, Hanafuda playing cards. In 1956, the founder’s grandson visited the US and upon seeing how small the world’s largest playing card company was, decided to diversify it. After several false starts, X got into electronics. Name X. ____________________________________________________________________________ Q14. In a blog post titled “PETA has come to X”, the animal rights organisation announced it has set up its own X server. “Animal-loving X builders, your wish has been granted! PETA has launched an animal utopia on the popular X system. True to PETA’s mission—and unlike on other X servers—no animals, not even digital ones, can be harmed on our dedicated X server! Visitors to PETA’s custom-made digital island can explore vast expanses of landscapes where the animals of X roam free. They can also visit extensive vegetable and flower gardens, walk through a fantastic re-creation of PETA’s HQ, and discover an abandoned and decaying slaughterhouse.” X? ____________________________________________________________________________ Q15. The project’s origin can be traced to Interaction Design Institute, Ivrea in Italy where students used a BASIC stamp microcontroller at a cost of $100 which was a costly affair for many students. In 2003, Hernando Barragán started WIRING, a development platform.The name of the project comes from the bar in Ivrea, Italy where the founders used to meet. ID this project. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
- 5. Q16. X was invented by Fujio Masuoka while working for Toshiba in the year 1980. According to Toshiba, the name X was suggested by Masuoka's colleague, Shōji Ariizumi, because the erasure process of the X contents reminded him of a certain characteristic feature of a camera. Fujio Masuoka and his colleagues presented the invention at the IEEE 1984 International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) held in San Francisco. ID X. ____________________________________________________________________________ Q17. Boeing researcher Thomas Caudell coined the term X in 1990, to describe how the head- mounted displays that electricians used when assembling complicated wiring harnesses worked. One of the first commercial applications of X technology was the yellow “first down” line that began appearing in televised football games sometime in 1998. Ivan Sutherland invented the first X head-mounted display at Harvard University. What is X? ____________________________________________________________________________ Q18. In a 2001 interview, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said, “X is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.” However, after 15 years, Microsoft joined hands with X as a high paying member of the X foundation. Under Satya Nadella, Microsoft contributed to X’s projects like OpenDaylight and R consortium. ID X. ____________________________________________________________________________ Q19. X, which became the first web server software to serve more than 100 million websites, is, is said to be a pun on the fact that it has been developed as a series of patches. But in reality, the name was chosen out of respect for a particular group of people known for their superior skills in warfare and strategy skills. ID the software X. ____________________________________________________________________________ Q20. The company X’s blog explains: “In Mandarin, X has two interesting meanings, each highly relevant to our mission. The primary meaning interested us because it is used in an ancient Chinese proverb that describes the X as the holder of precious things. It literally translates to "gourd", and in ancient times, the X was
- 6. Priorities- 1) Safety hollowed out and used to hold precious things. The secondary meaning is "interactive recording". We saw both definitions as appropriate bookends and highly relevant to the mission of X.” The venture, X, was announced in March 2006 with AOL, Comcast, Facebook, MSN, Myspace, and Yahoo! planned as "initial distribution partners". In 2009, The Walt Disney Company also announced that it would join the venture, purchasing a 27% stake in X. ID X. ______________________________________________________________________________ Q21. Connect: ______________________________________________________________________________