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• Basic Computer Science(CS)

• Tech trends• Startups• Web/Mobile• Social tech• Future technologies

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CSTech trendsStartupsWeb/MobileSocial techFuture Tech

Part I

Rules

• 4 Rounds with 24 questions.• 10 points for each question and no negative

mark unless you pounce.• Infinite bounce will be followed.• 5 seconds will be allowed to pounce. You can

write the answer with a risk of +10 or -5.

• Which leading Electronics company’s initiative is ‘Make for India’?

• Samsung

• Which US technology company owns electronic commerce application iStore?

• Oracle

• Name the Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturing company, the official manufactures of iPhone?

• Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co)

• Expand the online education related terminology MOOC?

• Massive Open Online Course

• What is the typeface(font) of Google’s new logo?

• Sans-serif

• What is the popularly known name of Hypertext Preprocessor, a server side scripting language?

• “Never be satisfied, Be ready to learn new things. Dare to make unconventional decisions and stupid risks”

• In June 12, 2005; Which 14 minutes long incident in the tech world concludes with a phrase carrying the meaning as mentioned above?

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech.

• Zip2 Corporation(Online content publishing software), X.com(Financial services and Email Payment company). Which technology entrepreneur's early ventures are this?

Elon Musk

Which CEO’s alma mater?

• IIT Kharagpur (Metallurgical Engineering)• Stanford University (M.S)• Wharton School of the University of

Pennsylvania(M.B.A)

Sundar Pichai

Who is this?

• John McAfee

Identify the Logo

Dave Goldberg(October 2, 1967 – May 1, 2015). He was the founder of LAUNCH Media and the CEO of SurveyMonkey. How you know his wife in the tech

world?

Sheryl Sandberg (Chief Operating Officer of Facebook)

• The first known instance of the usage of these terms together in computer literature occurred in Kernighan's 1972 Tutorial Introduction to the Language B[1], with the following code. What usage?

• Hello World!

Jeremiah Jacks• IN 2002 Jeremiah Jacks discovered that

Guess.com was vulnerable to a type of attack, permitting anyone able to construct a properly-crafted URL to pull down 200,000+ names, credit card numbers and expiration dates in the site's customer database.

• Which popular hacking technique (Targeting data driven applications) was proved for the first time by this action?

• SQL Injection

• "I wanted a scripting language that was more powerful than Perl, and more object-oriented than Python. That's why I decided to design my own language”.- Yukihiro MatsumotoWhich programming language was created?

• Ruby

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• A spambot is an automated computer program designed to assist in the sending of spam. It harvest e-mail addresses from material found on the Internet in order to build mailing lists for sending unsolicited e-mail. And usually surf the web, looking for guestbook, wikis, blogs, forums, and other types of web forms that it can then use to submit bogus content.

• These kind of bots often use OCR(Optical character recognition) technology. Why?

To bypass CAPTCHA

• Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi wrote a book titled On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals in about 825 AD, and was principally responsible for spreading the Indian system of numeration throughout the Middle East and Europe.

• A term in the Latin translation of the title of the book led to the formation a popular computer science terminology. What?

• Algorithm

• “Thousands of people have come together to demand justice for X and recognition of the appalling way he was treated. While X was dealt with under the law of the time and we can't put the clock back, his treatment was of course utterly unfair and I am pleased to have the chance to say how deeply sorry I and we all are for what happened to him ... So on behalf of the British government, and all those who live freely thanks to X 's work I am very proud to say: we're sorry, you deserved so much better”-Prime Minister,Gordon Brown

Identify X?

Alan Turing (1912 - 1954)

Whose Facebook timeline?

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Rahul Yadav

• Housing.com founder

Identify the woman?

Shradha Sharma

• YourStory.com founder

Connect and Identify the North Kerala based start-up: Leading School Management system provider in the

world?

• Wharton graduate Kunal Bahl and his IIT Delhi alumni Rohit Bansal originally launched X as a daily online deals site. X received its 7th round of funding in Aug-2015 from Alibaba Group, Foxconn and SoftBank with investments worth $500 million. Identify X?

Well known personalities in the digital marketing space! How you know them?

• Digital marketing and Online promotion of Premam, Neram , Oru Vadakkan Selfie , Neena, OSO etc.

• In 2014, this E-commerce company launched their online Wallet and became India's largest mobile payment service platform with over 40 million wallets. Which Noida based startup?

• Paytm

II Round

Rules

• Total 24 questions & all questions on buzzer• Each question carry a Risk value ranging from (5-

20) on buzzer and Base value 5.• If you press the buzzer and got it correct you will

get +Risk value & if you are wrong it will cost you –Risk value.

• If no one attempts on buzzer, question will be directed to each team with base value point and no negative mark.

In 2014, Social@Ogilvy, a division of the advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather, published a widely cited white paper titled

‘Facebook Zero: Considering Life after the Demise of Organic Reach’. What issue does it concern about? (20)

• Sharp decline in the facebook post reach regardless the number of likes you have for a facebook page.

• In 2012 it was 16% and now it is just 2% for non paid business page.

Identify the website from the screenshot!(5)

DigiLocker

• In 2004, Nokia along with Philips and Sony established a Forum to promote a wireless communication standard. In the wireless world, it's closest relative is RFID (radio frequency identification). Which technology?(10)

• NFC

Identify the personality?(15)

• NASSCOM Chairman B.V.R.Mohan Reddy

• He was not related with any technology company till 1983. But later in May 1987, he was named Silicon Valley's top-paid executive, with an annual salary of US$2.2M. Recently he launched two new Android phones with brand name Obi Worldphone SF1 & SJ15?(20)

John Sculley

Reddit post releasing Ashley Madison data. Which hacking group?(20)

Impact team

• HDP Bill, a proposed legislation in India, was expected to presented in the parliament in the monsoon session of 2015. This bill will allow the government to establish a national level database. What database?(15)

• Human DNA Profiling

This term- a recent controversial topic, was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003. Identify the term blanked out?(5)

Recent Google Doodle. Which date?(5)

• September 5 (Teacher’s day Doodle)

24 year old photograph. Identify the team?(20)

Technopark founding team

• X was originally developed by its makers as a platform for digital cameras, to weave apps into them.

• The very first phone to be released using X was the HTC Dream.

• X, Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California in October 2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears and Chris White. Identify X?(20)

• Android

• The Senior Research Associateship (Scientist’s Pool Scheme) introduced by late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, is a scheme primarily meant to provide temporary placement to highly qualified Indian scientists, engineers, technologists, and medical personnel returning from abroad, who are not holding any employment in India. Which famous technocrat return back to India from USA in 1963 through this scheme and taught modern semiconductor electronics in the Electrical Engineering Department of the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi?(5)

• KPP Nambair

• The Android pattern is one style of graphical passwords where a user traverses an onscreen 3x3 grid of contacts points. There are a three restrictions on acceptable patterns in an android password pattern

1. …………………………………………………...2. The dots in the pattern must all be distinct.3. If the line segment connecting any two consecutive

dots in the pattern passes through any other dots, the other dots must have previously been in the pattern.What is the first restriction?(10)

• It must contact a minimum of four points (A single stroke is unacceptable)

• This technological acquisition is expected to be completed in early 2016 in which X officially announced that it had agreed to purchase Y for €15.6 billion in an all-stock deal

• At completion, famous research and scientific development company Bell Labs will be maintained by Y, but the Y brand will be replaced by X.

• Y is a French telecommunications equipment company.

• Identify X and Y?(10)

• NOKIA ALCATEL LUCENT DEAL

Identify(5)

• Paul Allen

Project Fi is a program to deliver a fast, easy wireless experience in USA. Whose project?(10)

• Google

Identify the companies they are representing?(15)

• HP Enterprise and HP Inc• MEG Whitman and Dion Weisler

• Rocket Internet SE is a German internet company headquartered in Berlin. The company builds online startups and owns shareholdings in various internet companies.

• They have large ownership stakes in more than 60 e-commerce firms across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Name their Indian fashion and lifestyle e-commerce wing?(5)

• Jabong

Identify what?(10)

LG’s new rollable Bluetooth keyboard

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• Its an artificial intelligence-based personal assistant integrated within the Facebook Messenger app that completes tasks and finds information for users, such as ordering tickets or finding restaurants

• Name Facebook’s new virtual personal assistant?(10)

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Identify the logo(5)

• CyanogenMod • An open-source operating system for

smartphones

• Why Indian telecom operators like airtel, vodafone, reliance etc were fined 10.80 Crore recently?(15)

• For violating mobile radiation limit

• What was the codename of Windows 10?(15)

• Threshold

• Name the programming language released by Apple on April 2015 to replace Objective C for modern Cocoa development on iOS and OSX?(15)

• Swift

• Thank You!