Queek Prelims The Alphabet(a)

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RULES

The prelims contains 26 questions

Each of the 26 answers starts with a unique letter of the English alphabet(in no particular order, though)

It is the Romanized spelling of a Swahili word meaning “all together” or “as a whole”.

Joomla

In 1983, while a student at the University of Southern California's School of

Engineering, Fred Cohen wrote a program for a parasitic application that seized

control of computer operations, one of the first _____

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Virus

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TWITTER

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The logo has four interleaved copies of the company name. It can also be described as a

combination of 8 U’s And yes, it is also an

ambigram

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HOT COFFEE MOD

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The first use of the word ____ was recorded in 1613, referring to a person who carried out

calculations, and the word continued to be used in that sense until the middle of the 20th century.

From the end of the 19th century onwards though, the word began to take on its more familiar

meaning

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Computer

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• Identify. • The port, in this picture, to the right of

the 3.5mm audio jack is present in every laptop. What is its purpose/ What do we call it? 6

Kensigton Lock Port

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_______ releases are given alliterative code names, using an adjective and an

animal (e.g., "Dapper Drake" and "Intrepid Ibex"). With the exception of the first

three releases, code names are in alphabetical order, allowing a quick

determination of which release is newer

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Ubuntu

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In computational linguistics, word sense ______ is an open problem of natural language processing, which governs the process of identifying which sense of a word (i.e. meaning) is used in a sentence, when the word has multiple meanings (polysemy)

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Disambiguation

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Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation is an American manufacturer and supplier of metal machine tubes and pipes, founded in 1985. The company specializes in buying

and selling tube mills, pipe mills and rollforming machines. In 2006, it filed a lawsuit against a website(X). Their original

domain name sounded very similar to that of X. This resulted in them receiving 68 million hits in Aug 2006 and their servers

crashed. The lawsuit was later settled by the parties.

Identify X.

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Youtube

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This was founded in 1906 in Rochester as "The Haloid Photographic Company

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XEROX

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LIMEWIRE

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The lead developer of A, Bruce Leak, ran the first public demonstration at the May 1991 Worldwide Developers Conference, where he played Apple's famous 1984 TV

commercial on a Mac, an astounding technological breakthrough at the time.

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Quicktime

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Shortly after he left apple, Steve Jobs purchased ____ from George Lucas in 1986.

It had actually begun in 1979 as the Graphics Group, part of

the Computer Division of Lucasfilm

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Pixar

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ZUNE

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Where would you find the names Axel, Bose Jefferson, Cydney Bass, Milwaukee Jon, Pearl McKurdy, Rhonda the Rash, Slim Jim and Teflon Mike?

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Roadrash

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GOD OF WAR

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This Taiwanese MNC company sells and markets consumer electronics, computing and communications devices. Its tagline is Enjoyment Matters

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BenQ

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(MACBOOK) AIR

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I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and - ta-da! - the _____________

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World wide web

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With the launch of this product in 1998, the company declared that “The back of our computer looks better than the front of everyone else’s”. Attention was given to the out-of-box experience.

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iMac

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___ is a family of products by Asustek. The product family began with the release of the ___ PC subnotebook in 2007. . At the time of its introduction, it was noted for its combination of a light weight, Linux-based operating system, solid-state drive and relatively low cost. Newer models have added the option of the Windows 7 operating system, dual-core Intel Atom CPUs, and traditional hard disk drives, and have also increased in price, though they remain relatively inexpensive as laptops, and notably inexpensive for ultra-small laptops.

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Eee pcs

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Mozilla

Which product is also known as Tata Famicom in India?

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Nintendo Entertainment System

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Video(ad.mp4)

(ad for Outlook)

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In 1912, Tokuji Hayakawa founded a metal workshop in Tokyo. One of his major

inventions was the Ever-___mechanical pencil in 1915, from which the

___Corporation took its name. After the pencil business was destroyed by the 1923

Great Kantō earthquake, the company relocated to Osaka and began designing the

first generation of Japanese radio sets. These went on sale in 1925. In 1953

____started producing television sets.

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Sharp

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Probably the easiest of the quiz – Which company did he found

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(Mark Zuckerberg)-Facebook