Prelims

Rules• 20 Questions in the prelims

• Name, Phone Number, College name on the sheet.

• People caught using mobile phones during the prelims will be made to watch Messenger of God.

• There are two doors in this room, people who are easily offended are free to leave from either.

• “Never irritate a sleep deprived Quizmaster”

Aamir Khan when asked about the Quiz

• I have not yet seen that quiz, but I have heard a lot about it. And I have seen 2-3 slidesharepowerpoints of that. I am disturbed. It is a very violent quiz.

Q1

• Urban Dictionary defines this term as “A word Evolved by the late Tupac Shakur. Commonly mistaken for a Criminal. X is the opposite of someone having all he needs to succeed. X is when you have nothing, and succeed, when you have overcome all obstacles to reach your aim.” Give X.

• Thug Life

Q2 – Identify the guy on the left.

Gabe Newell

Q3

• The name of this cigarette brand is so named due to the colour of the tobacco used in it. Manufactured by W.D & H.O Wills, its recent product shares name with a line of processors. Give the name of the brand and the product

• #shadytech

• Gold Flake Quad Core

Q4

• This Assassin’s Creed comic strip is imitating which iconic 90’s cartoon show ?

• (Image on next slide)

• Dexter’s Labotrary

Q5

• X is an Indian ************ cartoon character and has earned a recognition as India's first **** star The cartoon character was first introduced by Deshmukh in March 2008. It proved controversial in the conservative Indian setting as soon as it was introduced. Some critics felt it represented the face of new India's ultra-liberal section.The X Movie was released on May 2013; it deals with the subject of internet censorship in a humorous way with X as the heroine who saves the day.Who is X ?

• Savita Bhabhi

Q6

• X is an American company best known for manufacturing test and measurement devices such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and video and mobile test protocol equipment. In November 2007, Danaher Corporation acquired X as a subsidiary. The company received a 2007 Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for compliance standards monitoring systems for Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standard and Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) transport streams. Several charities are or were associated with X, including the X Foundation and the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust in Vancouver, Washington. It’s biggest consumers would be Engineering and Science Colleges. Give X ?

• Tektronix

Q7

• X is the practice of consultancy firms recruiting information technology workers in order to contract their services out on short-term basis. Regarded as legitimate consultancy by both the companies that practice it and by the people employed, X is disparaged by those IT services companies that assert that they provide real services (such as software development) rather than the "sham" of merely farming out professionals to overseas companies X in IT originated during 1993-1999 where there was huge demand for people with mainframe, COBOL and related technology skills to prevent systems being affected by the Y2K bug. Identify this practice which sounds almost like an organ trade.

• Body Shopping

Q8

• Steve Ballmer

Q9 – This company has seen a surge of almost 300% in its stocks. Why ?

• The Dress/Dressgate

Q10

• Which popular website was started by its founder to help his niece in Mathematics subject as she used to lived across the country ?

• Khan Academy

Q11 – Which site ?

• Kama Sutra

Q12

• Book of Mozilla

Q13 – Who ?

• Uday Chopra

Q14

• The X effect is the tendency of a spell checker to suggest or autocorrect with incorrect words to replace misspelled words and words not in its dictionary. This term refers to the unhyphenated English word “cooperation” often being changed to “X” by older spell checkers with dictionaries containing only the hyphenated variant, “co-operation”.

• Other examples include replacement of “definately” with “defiantly”, DeMecoRyans with “Demerol”, Voldemortwith “Voltmeter” and the MuttahidaQuami Movement being replaced with “Muttonhead Quail Movement”.

• Give X

• Cupertino Effect

Q15

• God, grant me the serenity to accept the pages I cannot edit,

• The courage to edit the pages I can,

• And the wisdom to know the difference.

• What is the name of the prayer?

• The Wiki Prayer

Q16 – These two people founded which company ?

• King.com

Q-17

• X was the founder and chairman of Internet Users Community of India (IUCI). He had also played a major role in setting up internet organizations like the Ethical Hackers Association. He was one of the first few Indians to own a website. However we know him for a completely different reason. Identify this insanely popular guy.

• Shammi Kapoor

Q18

• Catull is an old style serif typeface designed by Gustav Jaeger for the Berthold foundry in 1982. What makes this one among the most viewed fonts in the world ?

• Google logo

Q19 Some of the stories behind the naming of this company. Which company ?• X used to work at a California or Oregon farm

during the summer.

• X really liked the Beatles

• X was three months late filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company ______ if his colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 p.m.

• X wanted to distance the company from the cold, unapproachable, complicated imagery created by other computer companies at the time.

• Apple

Q20 – Connect. (Apart from the fact they work in Bollywood)

• Servers of Slideshare.

Finals

Rules

• 26 Questions

• Infinite bounce and pounce

• +10/-10 on pounce and +10 on bounce

• “Never irritate a sleep deprived Quizmaster”

Q1

• X are frequently found in software releases. Sometimes the documentation is omitted through simple oversight, but X are often elements of the software not intended for use by end users, but left available for use by the vendor for software support and development.

• The usage of X was popularized by Microsoft’s responses to bug reports for its first Word for Windows product, giving rise to the popular phrase – “It’s not a bug; it’s an X!”

• Ironically, X themselves have become a major feature of computer games. Developers often include cheats and other special features that are not explained in the package material, but have become part of the ‘buzz’ about the game on the Internet and among gamers. What is X ?

• Undocumented Features

Q2

• The first one used Baskerville Bold from September to October 1998 but the new variation which included an exclamation mark at the end with a change in colors was intended to “bring back the idea that ______ doesn’t follow the rules” lasted from October 1998 - May 1999.

• The next variant lasted for 10 years and 11 months (May 31, 1999 – May 5, 2010) and is still used on the Picasa software and the Internet Explorer Gallery.

• The one currently in use has had minute changes in position, color and shadows.

• What am I talking about?

• Google Logo

Q3 - What are these collectively known as? Only a specific one-word answer will get you points.

• Yoodles

Q4 – Connect the following games

• Pac-Man • Tetris• Another World• Myst• SimCity 2000• vib-ribbon• The Sims• KatamariDamacy• EVE Online• Dwarf Fortress• Portal• flOw• Passage• Canabalt

• The above 14 video games are the only ones to have been acquired by Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) as part of their art collection.

Q5

• X is an informal term used in software engineering for a method of debugging code. The name is a reference to a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a programmer would carry around a X and debug their code by forcing themselves to explain it, line-by-line, to X. Many other terms exist for this technique, often involving different inanimate objects.

• Many programmers have had the experience of explaining a programming problem to someone else, possibly even to someone who knows nothing about programming, and then hitting upon the solution in the process of explaining the problem. In describing what the code is supposed to do and observing what it actually does, any incongruity between these two becomes apparent. By using an inanimate object, the programmer can try to accomplish this without having to involve another person. Give X.

• Rubber Duck Debugging

Q6 – Put Fundae

• Rule 34

Q7

• X (color) is a bright red with a slightly orange tinge. In the spectrum of visible light, and on the traditional color wheel, it is one-fourth of the way between red and orange, slightly less orange than vermilion.

• According to surveys in Europe and the United States, X and other bright shades of red are the colors most associated with courage, force, passion, heat, and joy. In the Roman Catholic Church, scarlet is the colorworn by a cardinal, and is associated with the blood of Christ and the Christian martyrs, and with sacrifice. However we know this color for an infamous reason. Give me the funda.

• Scarlet Collar Worker – Female Sex Workers

Q8 – Excerpt from which book.• 1.Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.

2. Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear

them.

3. When in another’s lair, show him respect or else do not go there.

4. If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.

5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.

6. Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the

other person and he cries out to be relieved.

7. Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to

obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it

with success, you will lose all you have obtained.

8. Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.

9. Do not harm little children.

10. Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.

11. When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask

him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

• The Satanic Bible

Q9

• The Industrial design (Product Design) of this device were done by Professor A G Raoand Professor Ravi Poovaiah both faculty members at the Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay. The electronics of the device was done by ECIL, HYDERABAD. These devices were subject of various controversies yet they are in use. Which device am I talking about which have been in news recently ?

• Electronic Voting Machines

Q10 – What is the claim to fame of this episode ?

• Synopsis of Modern Family “Connection Lost”

• “Claire's computer becomes the hub of all the family's activities when she gets stuck at the airport and is desperate to reach Haley after a big fight. After FaceTiming with Phil and the rest of the family to help track her down, Claire quickly turns to online snooping which inevitably becomes disturbing real quick and everyone gets sucked into the online drama.”

• Shot entirely on iPhone and iPad

Q11

• This is a product of the IT firm 'Innovazion'.According to the CEO Gagneja, "By building this software, we wanted to...congratulate the current government. We also want to pass a message to the government that the nation has high expectations from them.“Which software is this?

• NaMo Anti-Virus.

Q12

• He was initially a firm believer of communism but an interesting incident changed his life which led him to become a capitalist & an entrepreneur. During a foreign visit, for having talked against the Bulgarian govt with a co-passenger in train, he was jailed for 4 days without food but later released because he was from India (which was a friendly country to them). This changed his life, he gave up the idea of communism and decided to create jobs in India. Thats how the story of his entrepreneurship started. Which iconic person am I talking about ?

• NR Narayana Murthy

Q13

The "Moon Stage Theme" is a piece of music from the X NES video game composed by Hiroshige Tonomura. It is the background music for the fifth stage of the game, which is set on the Moon. The “Moon Theme” background music has enjoyed a cult-like status in recent years. Identify the Game.

• Duck Tales

Q14

• The reason for this is attributed to the perfectionist characteristic of Jobs. When Steve Jobs orchestrated the launch event of iPhone during Macworld 2007, it was a presentation on stage carried out by Jobs for more than an hour. During such keynote he starts with some introductory slides, company sales-report and in the middle of keynote, generally launches a new product with ads on the big screen on stage. He wanted all the things to be in sync as per his calculations thus he asked his design team to tweak every minute detail in order to match his plan, this led to a common practice which can even be seen in latest product release. What practice ?

Q15 – Which epic search engine ?

• Koogle

Q16

• This piece of music is titled as “Hello World!”. Why it is important in the history of technology or what importance does this piece of music have?

• Considered the first work to be composed by a computer without any human intervention by Iamus computer located in Spain.

Q17

• How has Vishal Malhotra, a model from Delhi has become an over-night sensation and one of the most recognisable face in the past few days ?

Q18

• How has Chandauli, a village situated 150 miles from Delhi become one of the most talked about place in the recent days ?

• First destination to be powered by Internet.org in India

Q19

• The X is famous for being the first commercially successful typewriter. During its development, the typewriter evolved from a crude curiosity into a practical device, the basic form of which became the industry standard. The machine incorporated fundamental typewriter design, including a cylindrical platen and a four rowed QWERTY keyboard.

• Identify this famous typewriter which paved the way for the entrance of women into the clerical work force.

• Sholes and Glidden Typewriter OR Remington No. 1

Q20 – Connect the following.

• Saint Barthelemy• Bouvet Island• Czechoslovakia• East Germany• Western Sahara• Great Britain• Saint Martin• Saint Pierre and Miquelon• Svalbard and Jan Mayen• Somalia• Chinese Taipei• United States Minor Outlying Islands• Yugoslavia• Mayotte• Zaire

• All of the above countries or regions have Unused/Phased out or retired Domain names

Q21

• XY (two-word term) is the observation that the intrinsic rate of human performance is exponential. Named after X, whose work in augmenting human performance was explicitly based on the realization that although we make use of technology, the ability to improve on improvements resides entirely within the human sphere.

• In discussing the exponential nature of Moore’s Law, Gordon Moore locates the root of his inspiration in X’s observations on the propensity of humans to envision and achieve scale, and its non-linear effects.

• Give XY.

• Engelbart’s Law

Q22

• X was a problem faced in the 1960s by computer engineers. Engineers were unable to increase the performance of their designs due to the huge number of components involved.

• In theory, every component needed to be wired to every other component (or at least many other components), and were typically strung andsoldered by hand. In order to improve performance, more components would be needed, and it seemed that future designs would consist almost entirely of wiring.

• The term was first used by Jack Morton, the Vice President of Bell Labs in 1957 in a paper celebrating the 10th anniversary of the invention of the transistor.

• Jack Kilby worked on the problem of X and finally came to the conclusion that manufacturing the circuit components en masse in a single piece of semiconductor material could provide a solution, and hence giving birth to modern electronics and technology as we know it.

• Give X.

• Tyranny of Numbers

Q23

• X is a programming language consisting of only eight simple commands and an instruction pointer. Designed to amuse programmers, X was created in 1993 by Urban Miller. What programming language X ?

• Brain Fuck

Q24

• _____ is a magic word from the Colossal Cave Adventure computer game, in which if the player typed _____ he/she could move instantly between two otherwise distant points. As Colossal Cave Adventurewas the first adventure game and the first interactive fiction, hundreds of games included responses to _____ in tribute.

• Though the origin is debatable, the mnemonic _____ has long been taught by math teachers to remember the process for cross products.

• The most famous use of this magic word was in the form of an easter egg in Minesweeper in the older version of Windows.

• What is this magic word which has been used in countless number of video games as a cheat code ?

• Xyzzy

Q25

• The idea of X came to Bob Brown after watching his first talkie (movie with sound). In 1930, he wrote a book on this idea and titled it The Readies, playing off the idea of a talkie.

• The inventor of the first X is not agreed upon.

• Robert Busa (late 1940s), Angela Ruiz Robles (1949), Doug Engelbart and Andries van Dam (1960s) and Michael S. Hart (1971) all are disputed to be the inventors of X.

• What is X? What am I talking about?

• E-book/Digital book/ Electronic Book

Q26

• The Trabb Pardo-Knuth algorithm is a program introduced by Donal Knuth and Luis Trabb Pardo to illustrate the evolution of computer languages.

• In their 1977 work "The Early Development of Programming Languages", Trabb Pardo and Knuth introduced a trivial program that involved arrays, indexing, mathematicalfunctions, subroutines, I/O, conditionals and iteration. They then wrote implementations of the algorithm in several early programming languages to show how such concepts were expressed.

• What is the most famous example of the Trabb Pardo-Knuth Algorithm?

• Hello World Program