Tech Quiz Finals

“T a n t r
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Th e Te c h Q u i z , 8
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Round 1 : ಹಂಗೆ ಸುಮನ! Just about IT

Instructions:
 No pass in this round.
 No negative points in this round.
 +10 for right answer.

Q1)The game Engine used in
 Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
 Assassin's Creed: Revelations
 Is__________.

Answer:
Anvil. It was created in 2007 by video game
developer Ubisoft Montreal for use on
Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox
360 and Wii U.

Q2)
Naveen Selvadurai is an internet
entrepreneur and co-founder of which
location-based social networking site?

Q3)
The themes in this game are borrowed
from the major films Scarface and Blow,
along with the hit 1980s television series
Miami Vice. Which game?

Q4)On 21 March 2005, _______founded
______Limited, a Hong Kong-based file
hosting and sharing business that
eventually became the 13th most popular
site on the internet with over 150
employees, US$175 million revenues, 50
million visitors daily.

Answer:
Kim Dotcom or Kim Schmitty
megaupload.com

Q5)
A __________is a type of a contest for
finding a Google search query consisting
of exactly two words without quotation
marks, that returns exactly one hit.

Round 2
ಕಥೆ!
The Story Behind IT.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ROUND 2
 Direct Question =+20 and -10
 Pass Question = +10 and -5
 Time Limit = 1 minute

Q1)Ericsson, A Denmark based
company started working on a device
which establishes radio links between
portable devices. Jim Kardman named
the technology _____________ after
the 10th century Viking king Harold
Blatand who liked eating Blueberries.
What is the name of the technology?

Answer:
“Bluetooth” because of the teeth
coloration after eating blueberries.

When the Internet was still very
much under the spell of bare Unix
shells and Gopher, an ambitious
group of scientists at CERN started
working on the World Wide Web.
In an office on the fourth floor they
placed the World Wide Web's
central database. Some faulty
requests were answered with a
standard message: “___________”

Answer:
Room 404: file not found

The company name comes from the name
of a stream originating on Black Mountain
in Santa Clara County, California, United
States, which ran behind the houses of
John Warnock and Charles Geschke, the
founders of this company. Which
company am I talking about?

Answer:
 Adobe. The name of the stream is Adobe
Creek.

Harvey Ball, co-owner of an advertising
and public relations firm designed the
_______in 1964 to help ease the
acrimonious aftermath following the
merger of two insurance companies:
State Mutual Life Assurance Company.
State Mutual planned up a “friendship
campaign” to get employees to smile
whenever they answered the phone,
paid a claim, or typed a report. What is
it that he designed?

Alone in a room in his home in
Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm
Hillebrand sat at his
typewriter, tapping out random
sentences and questions on a
sheet of paper. What standard
did this lead to?

Answer:
Hillebrand's magic number set
the standard for one of today's
most popular forms of digital
communication: text messaging.
160 Characters.

INSTRUCTIONS:
 Direct Question = 20 points.
 Pass Question = 10 points.
 No Negative Marking.

Answer:
 Near Field Communication.(NFC)

This is the old logo of Which
famous Company?

Answer:
 iCloud from Apple.

Which company recently came up
with this logo?

Why is this Google doodle very
famous?

Answer:
The doodle that Google India put on its
home page to celebrate Children's Day,
the birthday of the first Indian Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, was created
by Varsha Gupta, a Class III student from
Ryan International School, Greater
Noida. Varsha was chosen as the winner
of this year's Doodle 4 Google
competition organised by Google.

Why did this place get this name?

Answer:
Snapdeal has adopted a remote village in
Uttar Pradesh and enabled clean drinking
water facilities for its people by installing
manual pumps. To show their gratitude,
the village’s residents have decided to
rename their village to Snapdeal.com
Nagar, actually taking the company by
surprise.

Answer:
Apple is building what is sure to be the
coolest office building ever in Cuptertino,
CA Known as “Apple Campus 2″ to the city,
the project will be built on a 175 acre area
The total building will be approximately 2.8
million square feet, will feature a 1,000 seat
auditorium, a fitness center, 300,000 square
feet of research facilities, a power plant, and
underground parking. What you really need
to see is what it looks like: a giant, flying
saucer-like loop.

What is the name of this Nobel
Laureate who had a cameo appearance
as himself in "The Terminator
Decoupling", episode 17 of the second
season of The Big Bang Theory.

What is the name of the show and
the name of the super computer?

Answer:
Jeopardy and IBM watson.

INSTRUCTIONS:
 Total points = 25
 Each connection = 5 points.
 Final Connect = 5 points.
 No points will be awarded if the
CONNECT is not made.

Answer:
Amazon Kindle Fire.
2) Silk Browser
3) Amazon Forest
4) Fire
5) Junglee the Indian version of Amazon.

Answer:
 Different Versions of ECLIPSE IDE
2) Eclipse
3) Greek God Helious
4) Galelio
5) Indigo

Answer:
 Ubuntu Versions.
2) Natty Narwhal
3) Precise Pangloin
4) Oneric Ocelet
5) Canonical, the group which is behind
Ubuntu.

Answer:
 Companies Started by former employees
of Amazon
2) bankbazaar.com
3) Flipkart.com
4) Hulu
5) Quora

Answer:
 Pirates Of Silicon Valley
2) Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs
3) Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates
4) Fire in The Valley(The book on which the
movie is based.)
5) Joey Slotnick as Steve Wozniak

ROUND 5:Video Nodi Answer
Madi! 

Instructions
5 common questions for all teams.
Each team writes the answer on paper.
If 1 team gets the answer right they get 25 points.
If 2 teams get the answer right both get 20 points
each
If 3 teams get the answer right all three get 15
points each
If 4 teams get the answer right all four get 10
points.
If all 5 teams get the answer right 5 points for all
teams.

X smart phone mocking at Y smart
phone. Give me X an Y.

Answer:
 Samsung Galaxy s2 mocking iPhone

Name of the product and Tag line
of the campaign?

Answer: Google Chrome, “The
Web is what you make of it”

Answer:
 Old Hutch Advertisement

Which company? What are they
advertising?

Answer:
 LG ad showing the world’s thinnest TV.

Round 6 : Select your Mile….

Rapid Fire.

Instructions:
 Maximum Of 10 Questions for each
team.
 Time Limit: 1 Minute.
 No negetive.
 +5 for each right answer.
 If you do not know the answer, say pass.

In 1991, a small group of engineers
called the "Green Team" believed
that the next wave in computing
was the union of digital consumer
devices and computers. Led by
James Gosling, the team worked
around the clock and created the
programming language that would
revolutionize our world. What did
they create?

Answer:
Java Programming Language.

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