infoyage 2015 senior quiz prelims

INFOYAGE 2015SENIOR QUIZ PRELIMS

GENERAL RULES

The quiz consists of 20 questions.There is no negative marking.Questions marked with * are tiebreakers.Top 6 teams will qualify for onstage finals.The quiz master's decision will be final and binding.

*Q1.

When Sabeer Bhatia approached investors in Silicon Valley for HoTMaiL, he was denied funding due to the fact he was trying to sell porn website X as it rhymed with his email client. ID X.

Hot Male

ID. (the machine not the personalities.)

Q2.

HP model 200A audio oscillator

Q3.

X is a private museum where the Y was founded. It is considered to be the "Birthplace of Silicon Valley“. It is a designated California Historical Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.ID X and Y.

X-HP garage, Y-HP

Q4.

These three founded something very useful which has become ubiquitous in today’s technology. What they founded?

Unicode

Q5.

AWK is an interpreted programming language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool. It is a standard feature of most Unix-like operating systems. Expand AWK.

(Hint: AWK are abbreviations of the initials of founder(s) of AWK)

Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan

*Q6.At CES 2014, X unveiled Project Christine, a modular gaming PC. Each of the branches on the PC is a discrete component—a CPU, a GPU, a hard drive, memory—that simply plugs into the central backbone. Once slotted in, Project Christine automatically syncs the newly added module through PCI-Express.ID X.

Razer

Q7.

X is an Indian e-commerce/online classifieds company founded in 1995 by Sanjeev Bikhchandani and headquartered in Noida, India. It owns internet properties Naukri.com, Shiksha.com, Jeevansathi.com, Naukrigulf.com and 99acres.com and stakes in many other internet businesses. X is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange of India.

ID X.

InfoEdge

Q8.

This, X depicted as a modified version of Linux operating system,created some news when it was launched by Y. The desktop version retains the same look and feel as the server version, which is unashamedly based on that of Apple’s OSX operating system. That’s a switch from version 2.0, which was modeled on Windows 7. ID X and Y.

X-Redstar OS Y-North Korea

Q9.X is a computer hacker who, at the age of 19, hacked computer systems around the world over a period of six weeks between January and February 1999 as part of a multi-million pound credit card mission. He is dubbed the "Bill Gates Hacker". ID X.

Raphael Gray

*Q10.

Ad campaign for what?(Hint: Indian Tinder)

Truly Madly

Q11.

In response to claims that Apple is poaching key members of X’s staff to work on one of its long rumoured projects, the founder of X joked: "Important engineers? They have hired people we've fired. We always jokingly call Apple the X Graveyard." But just to make sure that his comments weren't entirely dismissed as harmless CEO-style jostling, he added: "If you don’t make it at X, you go work at Apple. I’m not kidding." Which company is X?

Tesla

Q12.ID the company which made this app.

FourSquare

Q13.

He is Lawrence Lessig. What famous thing in the field of tech. did he find?

Creative Commons

Q14.

Facebook bought Parakay soon after it was founded. Parakay was founded by X who left Facebook soon and later co-founded Firefox. The other co-founder of Firefox earlier founded Firebug.ID X.

Blake Ross

Q15.

One day I was in San Francisco in a coffee shop, and I was thinking X is a good name. And then a waitress came, and I said, "Do you know about X?" And she said yes. I said, "What do you know about X?"....and I said, "Yes, this is the name!" Then I went onto the street and found 30 people and asked them, "Do you know X?" People from India, people from Germany, people from Tokyo and China … they all knew about X.

(Easy one)

Alibaba

Q16.Identify the app.

Microsoft Send

*Q17.Connect.

Lycos

Q18.ID the new service by Twitter.

Curator

Q19.

These watches are called “One Touch”. Which company introduced this series of smartwatches?

Alcatel

*Q20.

This person X, recently passed away, is famously known as the

father of SMS.ID X.

Matti Makkonen

THAT’S ALL FOLKS!Wait for the result to get compiled.