FINALS Round 1

(Suck my tech)

Quiz Masters :Kanav RampalParas Chitkara

Winner :Akshay Kalia

RULES

• Pounce • Bounce• 2 Questions in each category• Pounce window 20 seconds• For direct +10 for correct -0 for incorrect• For pounce +10 for correct -5 for incorrect• +10 for passed and correct• No negative on passed question

QUES 1 GAMING

(1)________ is a live streaming video platform owned by (2)_________, a subsidiary of Amazon.com. The site primarily focuses on video gaming, including playthroughs of video games, broadcasts of esports competitions, and more recently, creative content. Content on the site can either be viewed live, or viewed via Video on demand.On August 25, 2014, it was announced that Amazon.com Inc. would acquire (2)__________ for US$970 million.

Answer

• 1)twitch.tv• 2)twitch Interactive

QUES 2 GAMINGThe developers behind Google's popular augmented reality game Ingress are teaming up with (1)________ and (2)___________to produce a new game for iOS and Android devices.It Utilizing GPS technology on mobile devices, it gets players to collaborate and search the real world for something. The app will be free to download but will offer in-app purchases to enhance the experience. There will also be a Bluetooth device that syncs up with the game and flashes and vibrates to help users.

Answer

• Nintendo• Pokemon Company

QUES 1 GADGETSIDENTIFY THIS DEVICE AND IT’S CLAIM TO FAME.

Answer

• Nextbit robin • First cloud based smartphone

QUES 2 GADGETSNAME IT AND WHY IT IS DIFFERENT FROM OTHER THINGS IN THIS CATEGORY.

Answer

• endless mini• pc with offline data of educational websites

QUES 1 INTERNET

___________ was founded in 2002 by Darren Morgenstern. It is a Canada-based online dating service and social networking service marketed to people who are married or in a committed relationship. The company received attention on July 15, 2015, after hackers stole all of its customer data—including emails, names, home addresses, sexual fantasies and credit card information—and threatened to post all the data online if it and fellow Avid Life Media site EstablishedMen.com were not permanently closed.

Answer

• Ashley Madison

QUES 2 INTERNET

Answer

• HTC and Samsung

QUES 1 STARTUPS__________ a phenomenon that has changed the way people choose to travel, happened in November 2014, founded by a handful of IITians. What started as a small organisation built around an on-demand auto rickshaw app, which connects passengers wishing to travel from one point to another within a particular city, less than a year ago, has now snowballed into a revolution.

Despite the availability of numerous modes of luxurious transport options, people in India prefer commuting through local means.

With more than a 200 million internet users, most of them using mobile phones, and the momentum of the country towards a Digital India has made it imperative to employ App services with a higher accuracy and exposure.

Answer

• Jugnoo

QUES 2 STARTUPS

______________ is an automotive website based in India. Part of Times Internet, a subsidiary of the Times of India Group, ____________provides automotive industry news, reviews and advice to consumers.

____________ was awarded the most popular automotive website of the year in 2013.[

The website provides consistent, unbiased, in-depth information about cars and bikes and is the first with news, reviews and comparisons. ComScore ratings for ___________as the No.1 website in the automotive category are proof of its leadership position in the industry.

Answer

• Zigwheels

QUES 1: Personalities

• ID

Answer

• Kunal Shah

QUES 2: Personalities

• X was an American computer scientist. He created the Y and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system .X and Thompson received the Turing Award from the ACM in 1983, the Hamming Medal from the IEEE in 1990 and the National Medal of Technology from President Clinton in 1999. X was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007. He was the "R" in K&R C, and commonly known by his username dmr.

Answer

• Dennis Ritchie

ROUND 2

LONG TEXT

QUES 1• X was an American manufacturer of programmable logic

devices (PLDs), reconfigurable complex digital circuits. The company released its first PLD in 1984. X main products are the Stratix , Arria and Cyclone series FPGAs,the MAX series CPLDs, Quartus II design software,and Enpirion PowerSoC DC-DC power solutions.

• X and Y announced on June 1, 2015 that they have agreed that Y would acquire X in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $16.7 billion. As of December 28, 2015, the acquisition had been completed. Dan McNamara of X is expected to run it as a new division of Y, the Programmable Solutions Group, going forward.

Answer

• Altera was bought by Intel

QUES 2• X was sold to Y in December 1997 , X quickly gained in

popularity as it was localized for different markets around the globe.

• X originally ran on a mixture of FreeBSD and Solaris operating systems.

• In 1999, hackers revealed a security flaw in X that permitted anybody to log into any account using the password Z.

• At the time it was called "the most widespread security incident in the history of the Web". In 2001, the X was compromised again by computer hackers who discovered that anyone could log into their account and then pull messages from any other X account by crafting a URL with the second account's username and a valid message number.

Answer

• X-Hotmail• Y-Microsoft• Z-’eh’

QUES 3• X is a low-level, low-overhead hardware-accelerated graphics and

compute application programming interface(API) that debuted in iOS 8. It combines functionality similar to OpenGL and OpenCL under one API. It is intended to bring to iOS some of the performance benefits of similar APIs on other platforms, such as Khronos Group's cross-platform Vulkan and Microsoft's Direct3D 12 for Windows. Since June 8, 2015, X is available for iOS devices using the Apple A7 or later, as well as Macs (2012 models or later) running OS X El Capitan.

• X also further improves the capabilities of GPGPU programming by introducing compute shaders.

• X uses a new shading language based on C++11; this is implemented using Clang and LLVM.

Answer

• Metal

QUES 4X has often been criticized by Elon Musk for running two companies at one time. One is a major social network and the other, Y, is a Financial Services startup. Identify X and Y.

x: Jack Dorseyy: square

QUES 5

X brothers created the largest European social network. They also created an app Y. This app Y was used extensively by a pseudo government

organization Z. After blocking of the links on its app, Z was forced to create a

secret mobile application for messaging. Identify X,Y,Z.

x:Durov brothers y:telegramz:isis

ROUND 3

AV

Ques 1:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foywg7zXS9c( Id the woman in the clip[Name was cropped] )Ques 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cSFPIwMEq4( Id the videogame [Name was cropped in the end] )Ques 3:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oINYoy98JJo(Id the specific product[Name was cropped])Ques 4:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6oEoBCuDDM(Name the product and Add. campaign name (Funda))Ques 5:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QNiZfSsPc0(Name the project )[names were cropped]

ROUND 4CONNECT

QUES 1

Answer

• Sequoia Capital

QUES 2

Answer

• IMDb

QUES 3

Answer

• Tcs

QUES 4

Answer

• Ps 3

QUES 5

Answer

• Android Stage Freights