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TeQuiz Prelims

Who is regarded as the father of Computer Science?

Alan Turing

Id the logo-

VLC(VideoLan Client) Media Player

Which software developed by Google is named after a famous Spanish Painter?

“Picasa” named after Pablo Picasso

Expand pdf as in .pdf files.

Portable document format

Id this co-founder of a famous IT company of India.

(Hint: He’s also the chairman of UIDAI)

Nandan Nilekeni of Infosys

This term suggests that the software secretly monitors the user's behavior. What term?

Spyware

Spywares install on users system from the internet and collect user logins and passwords from the pc without his knowledge..!

Id the tablet in her hand.

Aakash Tablet

World’s cheapest $35 tablet released by MHRD, India running Android 2.2(Froyo)

What does USB stands for?

Universal Serial Bus

ID the technology.

Bluetooth

Ericsson’s Jim Kardman named this technology after the Viking king Harold Blatand who united Denmark and Sweden. This king liked to eat blueberries which gave blue color to his teeth that lead to the nickname “Bluetooth”..!!

Who coined the term “Software”?

John Tukey

He also introduced the word "bit" as a contraction of "binary digit“.

Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari and Explorer are types of what?

Web Browsers

Which is Intel’s first microprocessor?

Intel 4004

It was released way back in 1970.

Id this famous Linux distro.

RedHat

Which OOP Language was designed by Bjarne Stroustrap in 1983 at Bell Labs as an enhancement to C?

C with classes(C++)

What is the name given to a region of memory that is used to temporarily hold data while it is being moved from one place to another?

Buffer

Connect-

They’re all part of Openoffice suite

The Internet Movie Database(IMDb) is the most revered online database of information related to movies. It was acquired by X in 1998. Even today, IMDb is a wholly owned subsidiary of X.

Amazon

Who said this in a funny way-

“A Computer is like Air Conditioning- it becomes useless when you open Windows”.

(Hint: Think Linux.!)

Linus Torvalds

19.Id this local place from a Google-map snap.

Hassan Old Bus stand!!

Where did Narayan Murthy work before forming Infosys?

Patni Computer Systems, Pune

Now it’s called iGATE Patni after iGATE acquired it in 2011.

ID the person and the device-

Apple Lisa and Steve Jobs

Lisa was the first personal computer to offer a GUI in an inexpensive machine with the mouse during the early 1980s.

The name COMPAQ is derived from which 2 words?

COMPatibility And Quality

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a)BSDb)GREP

● Berkeley Software Distribution● Global Regular Expression and Print

Jack Smith, a hardware engineer left Apple computers along with his colleague(who is a BITS Pilani Graduate) to form a free e-mail portal which created e-mail revolution.

Name the person and the email service.

(Hint: Now it is a part of Microsoft)

Sabeer Bhatia and HoTMaiL

Id these famous persons who co-founded one of the earliest Silicon valley company.

William hewlett and David packard

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Infinite Bounce

• Every question is addressed to the team succeeding the team that answered the previous question.

• If the question is left unanswered then subsequent team will get next direct question.

• 10pts for every question answered, either direct or passed.

• No NEGATIVE points for wrong answers.

How do we better know “Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”?

And the answer is…

CAPTCHA

The exact definition of this word is “edible part of a nut”. This is the layer which connects the application software and hardware. Name this?

Kernel

Where do you find these? Indicative, Non Exhaustive.

Wikipedia logo

X is a recently launched digital content service from Google which includes an online store for music, movies, books, and Android apps and games. Id the X.

Which is this very famous ad campaign of 1997 that marked the return of tech legend to his co-founded company.?

Apple’s Think Different

Id this logo.

Sony Ericsson

How do we popularly know "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web"?

Yahoo!

Infinite Bounce RV

• Every question is addressed to the team succeeding the team that answered the previous question.

• If the question is left unanswered then subsequent team will get next direct question.

• 10pts for every question answered, either direct or passed.

• No NEGATIVE points for wrong answers.

(Anticlockwise)

Which was the first mobile smart phone to run the Android mobile Operating system?

HTC Dream

Released Oct 2008

The creator of X was paid a mere $45 for creating this. It later became a part of daily writing used mainly in SMS, E-mail, etc.,. Scott Fahlman was the person who developed this later. What?

Smileys/Emoticons

Id the notebook.

The Thinnest Notebook in the world, its thickest part is thinner than the thinnest part of a normal thin laptop.

Apple MacBook Air

Name the command in Unix/Linux that is used to record a session.

script

This collection of essays is named after a Hungarian who according to urban legend invented the modern English keyboard. Who?

Qwert Yuiop

_______ Day is celebrated on the 256th day of the year (13 September in normal years and 12 September in leap years). The number 256 (2^8) was chosen because it is the number of distinct values that can be represented with an eight-bit byte.

Also, '256' in hexadecimal is '100' ('0x100'), and it's the highest power of two that is lower than 365 (the number of days in a year).

Typical celebrations of _______ Day include playing around with old computers and behaving in a generally inane(stupid and silly) manner.It is an official professional holiday in Russia.!

Programmer’s Day

X was first announced on 16 August 1993 by Ian Murdock. The name X was formed as a combination of the first name of his then-girlfriend Debra Lynn and his own first name.

What is X?

Debian..!!

Fair Play

• Each team will have its direct question.• No passes. Other teams can write their

answers in the sheet of paper they have.• Each question will have two answers.• Each right answer for direct question will

fetch 10+10=20pts.• Other teams can get 5+5=10pts for every

right answer they write.• No NEGATIVE points for wrong answers.

“We Love X, We Love the Web, We Love Flash and We Love Y”.

These lines have been quoted from a very famous ad campaign in 2010. What are X and Y?

X is Apple

Y is HTML5

This product is similar to and was preceded by a system known as Telepointer developed by Media Lab student Steve Mann in the 1990s. Designed by a student who is a graduate of Nirma Institute of Technology, Gujarat, the product prototype costs around $350 and it’s source code will be released in open source. Which product and also name this Indian?

Sixth Sense and Pranav Mistry

Id these very famous entrepreneurs.

Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Larry Page is the current CEO of Google.

Id this popular game and its developer.

By March 2012, the game had reached 700 million downloads on various platforms.!!

Angry Birds and Rovio

X is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University who created a computer typesetting system that became a precursor for the most widely used format of typesetting called Y.

X is also the author of famous multi-volume book “The Art of Programming” and has been called the “Father of the Analysis of Algorithms”.

Id X and Y.

Donald E Knuth and LaTeX

The tradition of using the phrase “X” as a test message was influenced by an example program in the seminal book “Y” in 1970s. Since then “X” has become the traditional first program that many people learn in most programming languages.What are X and Y?

main() { printf("hello, world\n"); }

X is “Hello World” and Y is “The C Programming Language”

Connect-i-Cut

• Connect the visuals in the question and crack the answer.

• All teams will get their direct question and DO NOT answer until the pounce is closed.

• When the question is on pounce, other teams can write their answers in the paper.

• Right answers will fetch 10pts and no passing.• Wrong answers on the pounce will attract the

penalty of NEGATIVE 5pts and no penalty for unanswered questions.

Facebook

• That dog with kareena was called “Facebook” in golmaal3.!

• Facebook was first launched in Harvard.

• Eduardo saverin is the co-founder of facebook.

• Timeline is the new feature for profiles in facebook.

Android phones

They’re all the major manufacturers of Smart phones running on Android mobile OS.

Youtube

Steve chen, Chad hurley and Javed karim are the founders of Youtube.

All 3 were ex-employees of Paypal Inc.,

Youtube is a part of Google services.

Kolavari di went viral on internet and became the most watched Indian Youtube video last year.

Vinod khosla

• Received B.Tech degree in Electrical Engg from IIT-D.

• Alumnus of Stanford School of Business.

• Co-founder of SUN microsystems.• Its been acquired by Oracle

recently.

Nintendo

• Gameboy is the Nintendo’s first handheld gaming device.

• Mario is Nintendo’s one of the famous game.• Logo of Nintendo64.• The song “love the way you lie” contains a

reference to nintendo (Eminem says “Life’s no nintendo game”)!!

Ubuntu

• All those animals are the codenames of Ubuntu-

• Koala(Karmic koala 9.10)• Lynx(Lucid Lynx 10.04)• Meerkat(Maverick Meerkat 10.10)• Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical Inc., is

the sponsor of Ubuntu

MCQ and Theme• Each question will have 4 clues and points associated

with them are shown with each of those clue.• Each team will have its direct question and DO NOT

answer until pounce is closed.• Questions will be on pounce only for the first 3clues and

other teams can write their answers in the sheet.• First 3clues will have NEGATIVE points and at last clue

only the team to which the question was addressed can answer.

• No passing and unanswered questions do not have any penalty.

• All questions are based on single theme and +10pts for cracking the correct theme. No –ve pts here and all the teams can write their answer in sheet at the end of the round.

+30/-15

This venture capitalist and entrepreneur was born in Hubli, Karnataka and his father was a labor commissioner with the Indian Govt. He graduated with the B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

+20/-10

He went on to complete his Ph.D. in Data Communications from Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Presently, he is the Chairman of A123Systems, Sycamore Networks, Tejas Networks, HiveFire, Sandstone Capital, Sparta Group, and sits on the Board of Airvana.

+10/-5

He is also a Life Member of the MIT Corporation, the Board of Trustees of MIT.In July 2010, he was appointed by President Barack Obama to the Co-Chairmanship of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a group established to support the US President's innovation strategy.

Gururaj Deshpande

+30/-15

He was born on Feb 9, 1943 in Malavalli, Mandya and attended National Institute Engineering, Mysore and gained two degrees, one in Physics and another in Engineering.

+20/-10

He worked in HP for nearly two decades before summoning up the courage to hit the digital trail on his own. He was Chairman of the ANSI INCITS T11 Technical Committee in 1994 and in 1995, he co-founded Brocade Communications Systems, the leader in storage area switching. He is also the chairman and co-founder of Orchesys, Inc.

+10/-5

He is the co-author and considered one of the originators and the driving force behind Fibre Channel, an evolutionary technology that enabled the development of storage area networks (SAN's), which lead to a multi-billion dollar industry.

Kumar Malavalli

+30/-15

He is from Bangalore, Karnataka and did his under graduation in UVCE, Bangalore University. He went to the US to do graduate work at the University of California, Davis and Stanford University.

+20/-10

He has co-founded companies like Alantec and other two companies in California. He was a programmer in microsoft and his latest venture, an IP security provider called Allegro Systems, was acquired by Cisco Systems. But we all know him better in other field.

+10/-5

He is a rare combination of a gifted musician, a programmer and an entrepreneur. He had nurtured deep interest in music since a young age and used to play drums when he was in UVCE.

He is considered on of the best music directors in Sandalwood and has composed music for ಕನ್ನ�ಡ movies like “ ” ಅಮೇ�ರಿಕ ಅಮೇ�ರಿಕ , “ ” ಮುಂ�ಗಾ ರು ಮುಂಳೆ etc., which has won him a lot of awards including the Filmfare awards.

Mano Murthy

+30/-15

+20/-10

He was a graduate student at IISc Bangalore, Karnataka and is the founder of Mahabharata Research Foundation (MRF) and India Innovation Labs, Bangalore. His software together with a 3-D console can enable users to experience the past in present, virtually.

+10/-5

With interest in cognitive science, augmented reality, humanoid robotics as well as history and heritage of India, he is a solution architect and researcher at Wipro Technologies, Bangalore. Along with a team of 10, he has developed a software application that computes human gestures into virtual reality.

He is very famous for his talks in TED conferences about his new project called “Digital Hampi” - a project in which his application has been put in use to not only bring the ruins of Hampi to glory, but also to allow users to virtually experience the era and see the monuments that were present then but are broken now.

Ramachandra Budihal

+30/-15

He was born in Mysore, Karnataka on 20 August 1946 and is famous Indian Industrialist and Software Engineer. His first job position was at IIM, Ahmedabad where he worked as the chief systems programmer.

He graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Engineering, University of Mysore in 1967. He received his master's degree from IIT Kanpur in 1969. After working at IIM Ahmedabad, he started a company named Softronics in 1976.

+20/-10

When that company failed, he joined Patni Computer Systems in Pune. After settling down in Pune, he co-founded another company with his 6 colleagues of PCS in 1981 with an initial capital injection of Rs 10,000, which was invested by his wife.

+10/-5

This company later shifted to Bangalore, which became its Global Headquarters and set-up Asia’s largest training center at Mysore. His wife’s sister, Jayashree Deshpande is wife of serial-enterpreneur and founder of US-based Sycamore Networks, Gururaj Deshpande.

N. R. Narayan Murthy

+30/-15

He was born on Nov 4 1986 in Bangalore, Karnataka. He launched a web site at the age of 14, and incorporated his Globals Inc., an IT multinational company in the same year, becoming the world's youngest CEO.

+20/-10

He taught himself how to build websites and sold portals to bricks-and-mortar firms in the US. In 2005, he was the youngest among the 175 recipients of Karnataka’s Rajyotsava Award. He holds a diploma on global leadership and public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University.

+10/-5

On December 2, 2007, The European Parliament and International Association for Human Values conferred "Young Achiever Award" on him at the European Parliament, Brussels.In November 2008, he was invited to represent the World Bank's ICT Leadership Roundtable for adopting ICT in Africa to increase employability and fostering ICT skills in students from these countries.

Suhas Gopinath

So, What’s the theme now.?

• Gururaj Deshpande• Kumar Malavalli• Mano Murthy• Ramachandra Budihal• N. R. Narayan Murthy• Suhas Gopinath

Crack it and get +10pts….. very easy……

They all hail from Karnataka.

Karnataka in IT

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