MVDIT TECH QUIZ Answers
- 1. MVDIT TECH QUIZ Quizmasters: Mudit Bhargava & Vidit Bhargava
- 2. Rules • There will be 20 Questions in the elimination round. 6 Top scoring teams will qualify for the finals. There is no negative marking. • You have been given one hour to attempt the quiz. • Only one submission per team is allowed. • Please refer to the Registration details sent to you, on your registered email ID. • Time of Submission will serve as a tie-breaker. Quiz Master's decision is final and binding.
- 3. "A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human." - Alan Turing
- 4. Q1. Put funda name the products that are being talked about?
- 5. Answer: Square Card Reader and Paypal Here Funda: The left image is that of a Jack, Its says, its a square: Thus, it is implied that we are talking about a certain Jack, who prefers something called Square or in terms of technology, the Square Card Reader made by Jack Dorsey The Second image is that of the ‘Don’, Since, Square Card Reader takes on Paypal, Don implies the Don of ‘Paypal Mafia’ (Pieter Thiel Of Course), Whose company created a ‘triangular’ product to compete with Square. Which is called Paypal Here.
- 6. Q2. Connect the following to the world of internet.
- 7. Answer: Robots.txt Clockwise: Image 1: A Still from the movie Robot Image 2: Martijn Koster was the first one to use it. Image 3: Robots.txt often prevents search engine bots from accessing certain parts of website
- 8. "Look at cookie. Identify the Cookie Now Smell Cookie. Now Ready for this part? This is the fun Part. Now you eat the cookie. No! wait. Wait. You've got to eat it like this __________." Q3. The Above Quote is about a character from a 1966 Children's TV Series which is still running. Identify the Blanked out Part. Name the Game Character. *Points only for naming the game character not the blanked out part
- 9. Answer: Om Num from the popular game, Cut the Rope.
- 10. Q4. A very popular quote first appeared on the image on the left. In the early 2000s the quote got a tech connection when a person closely associated with technology uttered it. What is the quote?
- 11. Answer: “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”
- 12. Q5. Connect the following set of images.
- 13. Answer: Technologies used in Cricket Clockwise: Image 1: Mohawk: Hawk Eye Technology Image 2: Virtual DJ: Virtual Eye Technology Image 3: Hot Dot: Hot Spot Technology
- 14. Q6. A is an American Television and Film actor, who had played the role of a White Hat Hacker in a 2007 Movie. A has also given his voice to an children's movie series. B is a few year's older than A. B is an Author and Actor, B is has also appeared in a QI Episode in 2009 as a guest. B wasn't given a buzzer in that episode. B is a Mac User since1984. A Microsoft Employee is a B Look Alike and has hence helped Microsoft a lot for a 'particular' task. Both A and B had come together in 2006 for a series of something which was humorous and loved by many. B even tried to impersonate Steve Jobs at an Apple Event. B has subsequently appeared at a few more keynotes. By What Nick-Names do we popularly know A and B and and where have we seen them together?
- 15. Answer: A: Mac B: PC No Points for Justin Long or John Hodgman
- 16. Q7. Connect the Following set of images to the world of Internet.
- 17. Answer: The Urban Dictionary Clockwise: Image 1: Aaron Finch: The Urban Dictionary was created by a person called. “Aaron” Peckham Image 2: The Man was the first word to be listed in the Urban Dictionary. Image 3: Peckham created The Urban Dictionary when he was studying at the California Polytechnic State University
- 18. Q8. X is a term used for a technology that is inferior in quality but sells more than the better technology due to good marketing. What is X?
- 20. Q9. Put fundae and find the reason for the happiness.
- 21. Answer: Flipkart Funda: This is an image from the ‘Happy Doors’ Print ad campaign by Flipkart
- 22. Q10. He invented something in the world of social networking while working at google. What did he invent?
- 23. Answer: The “#” Tag Popularly seen on Twitter.
- 24. Q11. Think out of the box, and put together these images and identify the Indian IT firm headed by the person hinted above.
- 25. Answer: Mind Tree Funda: Put together the Names Implied from the three Images and you get the Krishna Kumaran Natarajan, who is the current CEO of Mind Tree. Image 1: Lord Krishna; Image 2: Akshay Kumar; Image 3: Nataraj
- 26. Q12. They made a camera technology which is soon going to be implemented into a mobile operating system. Which Mobile Operating System is it?
- 27. Answer: Blackberry OS 10 The Logo is of Scalado, which is providing Camera technology for Blackberry OS 10 Devices, and provides a really cool feature where you can edit an image that went wrong by going back in time and choosing the perfect expression on the person’s face while the camera app was on!
- 28. Q13. A development event was held in June some years ago by the developers of an open source operating system in Canada. The event saw a few developers working on cryptographic software. This event is widely considered the world's first _______. Fill in the blank.
- 30. Q14. Put fundaez & connect the upcoming video to a local online shopping website * The video is in the Next Slide
- 31. Answer: Junglee The Video is of a song titled “Ram Ram” Ram Shreeram is the name of the founder of Junglee. * No Points for Amazon or Google
- 32. Q15. Which popular website did he create?
- 33. Answer: Book My Show He is Ashish Hemrajani
- 34. Q16. Connect these images to the world of Internet.
- 35. Answer: SPDY Clockwise: Image 1: Ghost Protocol: SPDY is an Internet Protocol Image 2: Pinky from Pacman is also called Speedy: SPDY was named so as to be pronounced “Speedy” Image 3: The Protocol is a Google Creation
- 36. Q17. Recently a movie studio and the developers of a hot selling mobile game collaborated to release a game where the protagonist of the movie would be chased by a bear in a forrest some where in Great Britain, the protagonist is also given a hunting mechanism for earning more points. What's the game called?
- 38. Q18. Two people were talking on the Internet. They were old friends they had met over the Internet in their teens and had become friends over a conversation on theoretical physics. Both of them had later founded a revolutionary service in the early 21st century. They had, had various video conversations on a mac before, but this conversation was different, it was in the air. Put funda and identify the Internet app.
- 39. Answer: AirTime Funda: The Friend ship of Two people is indicated in the Question: The Two People as can be worked out, are “Sean Parker” and “Shawn Fanning” A Hint was dropped when it was said that they had had conversations on a Mac. Mac’s video chatting software is called FaceTime. It was also told that they were having it on the air. Combine the two and you get Sean Parker & Shawn Fanning’s new service Air Time.
- 40. Q19. His website has recently threatened to tax a certain minority. Which minority?
- 41. Answer: Internet Explorer 7 Users The image is of Ruslan Kogan, whose website Kogan (A popular Online Shopping service in Australia) is taxing IE7 users.
- 42. Q20. Connect the following Images.
- 43. Answer: Apple’s Maps From the Left: Image 1: Tom Cruise: The Mapping Data is provided by TomTom Image 2: Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie: There work Thrice over can be read as C3. Apple’s Maps are a result of the acquisition of 3D Mapping tool C3 and another Mapping Service. Image 3: Polygon with 9 Sides, Implies Poly9: Poly9 and C3 were acquired to provide data for Apple’s New Maps application.
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