theQuiz(); from Ampersand Commerce & Manchester Girl Geeks 20/6/2012

Question 1 (2 points)

Find three ways to make the program below print
20 copies of the dash character '-' by changing or
adding one character:

int i, n = 20;
for (i = 0; i < n; i--)
{
printf("-");
}

Question 2 (2 points)

Encryption challenge.
(see code page behind answer sheet)

Calculate the returned value for each
number of the $inputData in turn to
reveal an English message.

Question 3
What was the name of the chess-
playing computer that beat world
champion, Garry Kasparov?

Question 4
Which programming language was
named after a 17th century French
mathematician?

Question 5
What is the Linux mascot?

Bonus: (1 extra point)

Why?

Question 6
What is the use of capitalisation in the
name of theQuiz(); commonly
called?

Question 7
What is a polygot in programming
terms?

Question 8
Which of the following languages can
be used to write server side scripting in
ASP.NET?

a) C-sharp
b) VB
c) C++
d) a and b

Question 1
The streets of the Northern Quarter
were transformed into 1940’s New York
for what movie in 2010?

Question 2
MOSI and the Manchester Science
Festival are celebrating the centenary
of Alan Turing’s birth by organising the
mass planting of sunﬂowers. This is
because Turing had observed a
mathematical sequence in the seeds of
sunﬂowers. What is the sequence
called?

Question 3
What was the name of the world's ﬁrst
commercially available general-
purpose electronic computer, invented
in Manchester and known in its sales
literature as the Manchester Electronic
Computer?

Question 4
Which chemist, physicist and
meteorologist has a street named after
him in Manchester City Centre, and a
building at one of the universities?

Question 5
A Clockwork Orange, by Mancunian
writer Anthony Burgess, mentions a
number of fictional music groups.
Which Sheffield synthpop band took
their name from one of these fictional
bands?

Question 6
Which Manchester landmark did Sony
get in trouble for using without
permission as the setting for a virtual
shoot-out against invading aliens, in
their 2007 PlayStation 3 game
Resistance: Fall of Man?

Question 7
How many Starbucks are there within
Manchester’s inner ring road?

a)  2
b)  5
c)  13
d)  20

Question 8
Which Mancunian physicist has a unit of
energy named after him?

Question 1
How should a quotation mark character
be encoded in HTML?

(both correct methods will be accepted)

Question 2
The WebKit layout engine used by the
Google Chrome and Apple Safari web
browsers, began development as a fork of
which Linux-‐based HTML engine?

Question 3
What is the correct syntax for a media
query for an iPad in landscape orientaIon?

Question 4
What is the diﬀerence between
comparison operators == and === in
JavaScript?

Question 5
In a HTML document, where is the correct
place to insert JavaScript code:

a)  In the head of the document (between
the <head> and </head> tags)
b)  In the body of the document (between
the <body> and </body> tags)
c)  Code can be inserted in the head or
the body of the document.

Question 6
According to sitepoint, what percentage of
internet users were using ie7 in march
2012?

a)  9.78%
b)  15.56%
c)  32.87%
d)  50.12%

Question 7
What is the correct syntax for creaIng a
black drop shadow with a horizontal and
verIcal oﬀset of 5px, and a blur radius of
5px for ﬁrefox?

Question 8
Name the three types of HTML lists.

Famous Geeks & Stuff
Geeks Like

Question 1
In 1914, Thomas J Watson renamed the
Computing Tabulating Recording
Corporation (CTR) to what?

Question 2
Who created Perl in 1986?

Question 3
What does BOFH stand for?

Bonus (and clue): (1 extra point)

Where can you read all of the episodes?

Question 4
Name the artist who famously took
stock instead of money for painting
murals in the ﬁrst Facebook
headquarters?

Question 5
Name the Film:

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear
is the little-death that brings total
obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit
it to pass over me and through me. And
when it has gone past I will turn the inner
eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone
there will be nothing. Only I will remain”

Question 6
Name the woman who in the 1840’s
wrote what is recognised as the ﬁrst
algorithm intended to be processed by
a machine?

Thanks to this, she is widely credited
with being the ﬁrst computer
programmer.

Question 7
What was the name of the ﬁrst
computer to use a GUI that Steve Jobs
named after his daughter?

a)  The Lucy
b)  The Liza
c)  The Lisa
d)  The Mona

Question 8
In the TV series Futurama, what is the
character Bender’s full name?

Question 1
What is the full name of P.E.T, the UX
methodology used in ecommerce for
conversion?

Question 2
Which of the following is not an
ecommerce platform?

a)  Magento
b)  Venda
c)  osCommerce
d)  Drupal

Question 3
The term ‘Multi-channel Retailing’
refers to:

a)  A store that sells more than 1 brand
b)  A store that has an online & oﬄine
presence
c)  A store that sells only through eBay

Question 4
Recently Google made a comical video,
based in a grocery store, meant put an
online checkout experience into a real
life scenario.

What was the man buying?

Question 5
Which of these big high street brands
do not yet have mobile friendly
versions of their ecommerce sites?

a)  John Lewis
b)  Debenhams
c)  Harvey Nichols
d)  Selfridges

Question 6
What is the name of TK Maxx in the
USA?

Bonus
Why?

Question 7
Most people think that choosing ‘Check
out as a Guest’ is faster than registering
for checkout.

What is the one additional form ﬁeld
that a registration process requires?

Question 8
In the recent airing of a ﬂy-on-wall-
documentary by Channel 4, ‘More Sex
Please, We’re British’ which online
retailer had to struggle under the
weight of one order every 3 seconds
while the show was airing?

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