Techno-Quiz Prelims

Prelims

There are 20 questions to follow. Each question carries one mark except those * marked whose

value is +3. Please keep your phones switched off, any unfair means will

lead to disqualification. The quiz master’s decision is final and binding.

General Rules

PrelimsQ1) *This company was ,founded in 1979 by Richard Egan and Roger

Marino,  introducing its first 64-kilobyte memory boards for the Prime

Computer in 1981 . It has 60,000 employees and is considered the world’s

largest provider of data storage systems, competing

against NetApp, IBM,Hewlett-Packard, and Hitachi Data Systems. In

2012 and 2013, it was included on a number of award lists, including the

World's Most Admired Computer Companies, Top 100 Global

Innovators, and Best Multinational Workplaces in Europe. It also received

a score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign 2012 and 2013 Corporate

Equality Index.Which famous company is being described here ?

EMC

PrelimsQ2) In 2012, X co-founded a start-up called Jelly Industries where he serves as CEO. The Jelly app came out of stealth in January 2014. Available for both iOS and Android, it is a Q&A platform that relies on images.X  is a co-inventor and co-founder of Twitter, Inc and also helped to create and launch Xanga, Blogger, Odeo, The Obvious Corporation.Who is this famous X being described here ?

Biz Stone

PrelimsQ3) * Identify this famous person from the world of Apple ?

Guy Kawasaki

PrelimsQ4) What is depicted in this comic strip ? (Hint :Recent)

Bitcoin

PrelimsQ5) Everyone knows he is Satya Nadella the present CEO of Microsoft . Simply ans me what was he heading at Microsoft before joining the post of CEO ?

Microsoft Cloud Services

PrelimsQ6) Project 2x1 is a 2013 American documentary film about the Hasidic and West Indian residents of Crown Heights, Brooklyn. It is shot in part using a Google offering . In November 2012, this Google offering received recognition by Time Magazine as one of the "Best Inventions of the Year 2012", alongside inventions such as the Curiosity Rover.Which famous offering is this from the world of Google?

Google Glass

PrelimsQ7)*On 2nd Jan 2014 Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg have officially launched this famous website , described as a “new tech and media news, reviews and analysis site.” Behind this new site is the same team from the former All Things Digital site — which Swisher and Mossberg ran for Dow Jones from 2007 onward. They explain as “ Because everything in tech and media is constantly being refreshed, renewed and reimagined. And this is the reinvention of ourselves.” Which is this newly launched website ?

Re/code

PrelimsQ8) Who is this famous X from the history of computing ?• X was portrayed by Derek Jacobi in the 1996 television

movie Breaking the Cod. • X was depicted in the drama-documentary Codebreaker,

was aired by UK's Channel 4 in 2011 and was released in the US in October 2012.

• The historical drama The Imitation Game, directed by Morten Tyldum and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as X, is set for cinematic release in 2014.

Alan Turing

Q9) Identify the person behind these tweets.

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Brian Acton (whatsapp founder)

PrelimsQ10) Identify the company from its beginning advertisement?

Dell

PrelimsQ11) Identify the famous organization form its recent innovation ?

Nasa Pizza

PrelimsQ12) Identify the logo of this free messaging app ? This was founded by 4 Israeli partners: Talmon Marco, Igor Megzinik, Sani Maroli and Ofer Smocha.

Viber

PrelimsQ13) Apply Logic and connect/infer from the image

Facebook’s first Indian Acuisition

PrelimsQ14)* Identify the company ?

Prometric

PrelimsQ15) Last week, a developer made a cubelike version of this for Minecraft. Another developer created a version that can run on the Commodore 64, an 8-bit home computer that went on sale in 1982 from Commodore International. And in one of the most impressive instances, it has been ported to a Texas Instrument graphics calculator. "Splashy Fish," "Hoppy Frog" are all parodies of it . What am I describing that created a huge rage among the people ?

Flappy Bird

PrelimsQ16) Identify the clame to fame of this ?

First Movie Shot in Space

PrelimsQ17) Blue Man Group is an organization founded in 1987 by Chris Wink, Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton. The organization produces theatrical shows and concerts featuring experimental music (with an emphasis on percussion), comedy and multimedia; recorded music and scores for film and television; television appearances for shows. Identify the product being advertised here ?

Intel Pentium 4

PrelimsQ18) X is a personal Stanford University assistant application used by

Google. The application uses natural language processing to answer

questions based on user voice request. It was developed in 8 hours by

Narayan Babu and his team at Dexetra Software Solutions Private

Limited, a Bangalore based firm. It stands for stands for "Intelligent Rival

Imitator of Siri". What is X ?

IRIS

PrelimsQ19)The studio behind A well known game Bioshock Infinite was shut down recently, Name the studio.• Infinity Ward• Rocksteady Studios • Bungie • Irrational Studios

Irrational Studios

PrelimsQ20) What concept is this which will make news in the future ?

LIFI