Tech Quiz Feb 21,2013

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2. 1.In what context this image is popular? 3. The first image in web history 4. 2.Shaadi.com released a game in protest ofthe dowry system still existing in the country.Itwas inspired by another game which by itselfhas inspired many other games.The game isthere in facebook.Id the game. 5. Angry Brides 6. 3.Doodle for?? 7. da14 astroid 8. 4.This has been the biggest web video trend of the month. What is it? 9. Harlem Shake(army style) 10. *5.The earliest technical use for _____ wasdefined by Gilbert Newton Lewis. He defined itas the amount of time light takes to travel 1centimeter (about 33.35 ps).In electronics, a ______ is the time betweenalternating power cycles, 1/60 or 1/250 secondsin most power supplies.In computing, it is the duration of one tick ofthe system timer interrupt. In the Linuxmachines running i386, it is typically 4 ms.What is this unit of time? 11. 1 jiffy 12. 6.Print Ad for what?? 13. Fevicol 14. 7.X was launched in 2003.It has about 1,00,000 active contributors.It has more than 275 active editions (285 intotal).Most popular on internet.Id X. 15. Wikipedia 16. 8.Old logo of?? 17. Samsung 18. 9.Expand 19. Advance Micro Devices 20. *10.The Codex Leicester (also briefly known asCodex Hammer) is a collection of largelyscientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci. Whopurchased it in 1994 for 30.8 Million $ making itthe costliest book ever? 21. Bill Gates 22. 11.Which two IIT Delhi graduates developed acompany that started in 2007 as an online bookstore and has now reinvented ways of buying aproduct ?? 23. Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal(Flipkart) 24. 12.Connect 25. Cupcake, Donut, Eclair and Froyo areupdates to Googles Android OS. 26. 13.What is "David and Jerrys Guide to the WorldWide Web now famously known as? 27. Yahoo! 28. 14.Where are you likely to see thisrather funny error message ? 29. You Tube 30. *15.What visual effect used most famously inthe Matrix series, slows the passage of time sothat the viewer can see the projectile motion ofa gunshot? 31. Bullet Time 32. 16.Old logo of?? 33. Windows 1 34. 17.Andy Rubin and Rich Miner deviced thissoftware as early as 2003 before they sold it tothe comany which owns it today for $50million.The company kept it in coldstorage for 4years until 2007.Rubin and Miner now hold highposts in this company.Id the software. 35. Android 36. *18.Shown here is the poster for a recentlyreleased film based onX and itsfounders. X, being a well known name in the world of internethas also been the subject of many controversies. Id X. 37. X isThe Pirate Bay.TPB AFK: ThePirate Bay Away From Keyboard is adocumentaryfilm released onFebruary 8 2013 38. 19.With the upcoming trends, a lot of series of smartphones are coming up with models whichare typically larger in size than a smartphone butsmaller than a tablet. What are they generally called ? 39. Phablet 40. *20.ID the song & event to which it isrelated. 41. Daav laga (Windows 8 indian ad) 42. Finals 43. Round1:Visual8 questions(clockwise)Direct/Indirect+10/+5 No negative 44. 1.Headquarters of?? 45. Microsoft 46. 2.IDENTIFY THE PERSON IN THIS OLDLOGO OF THE FACEBOOK ? 47. Al Pacino 48. 3.Id the place: 49. E-bay 50. 4.Significance of this pic 51. First click from the camera 52. 5.A very old ad for which company? 53. TCS 54. 6.The image above shows the page from anorganizations website was hacked & defaced recently in wake of something.Which organization ? 55. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Following the death of Aaron Swartz, the website was defaced by theAnonymous. 56. 7.This single called Ekki Mukk by the IcelandicBand Sigur Ros came into limelight because it was tied,in some manner, to a majorlaunch/announcement in the world of social networking. What launch/announcement ? 57. Graph Search / Facebook Graph Search 58. 8.What is this? 59. Google Earths recreation ofAncient Rome 60. Round 2:IT +5/05 questionsWrite answers on the paper 61. They were theactual creator ofvery popularGame nowpublished by EA.Identify theGame. 62. NEED FOR SPEED 63. Whats this visual representation called? 64. Tag CloudIt is a visual representation for text data,typically used to depict keyword metadata (tags)on websites, or to visualize free form text. Tagsare usually single words, and the importance ofeach tag is shown with font size or color. 65. What variation on a six-letter wordresulted because Silicon Valley engineerTim Beauchamp refused in 1997 torelinquish the domain that he was using asa site for math and astronomy? 66. Google 67. The following was the content of an emailsent way back in the 1900s.Why is itsignificant??DIGITAL WILL BE GIVING A PRODUCT PRESENTATION OF THE NEWEST MEMBERS OF THE DECSYSTEM-20FAMILY; THE DECSYSTEM-2020, 2020T, 2060, AND 2060T. THE DECSYSTEM-20 FAMILY OF COMPUTERS HASEVOLVED FROM THE TENEX OPERATING SYSTEM AND THE DECSYSTEM-10 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE.BOTH THE DECSYSTEM-2060T AND 2020T OFFER FULL ARPANET SUPPORT UNDER THE TOPS-20OPERATING SYSTEM. THE DECSYSTEM-2060 IS AN UPWARD EXTENSION OF THE CURRENT DECSYSTEM2040 AND 2050 FAMILY. THE DECSYSTEM-2020 IS A NEW LOW END MEMBER OF THE DECSYSTEM-20FAMILY AND FULLY SOFTWARE COMPATIBLE WITH ALL OF THE OTHER DECSYSTEM-20 MODELS.WE INVITE YOU TO COME SEE THE 2020 AND HEAR ABOUT THE DECSYSTEM-20 FAMILY AT THE TWO PRODUCTPRESENTATIONS WE WILL BE GIVING IN CALIFORNIA THIS MONTH. THE LOCATIONS WILL BE: TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1978 - 2 PM HYATT HOUSE (NEAR THE L.A. AIRPORT) LOS ANGELES, CA THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1978 - 2 PM DUNFEYS ROYAL COACH SAN MATEO, CA (4 MILES SOUTH OF S.F. AIRPORT AT BAYSHORE, RT 101 AND RT 92)A 2020 WILL BE THERE FOR YOU TO VIEW. ALSO TERMINALS ON-LINE TO OTHER DECSYSTEM-20 SYSTEMSTHROUGH THE ARPANET. IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT THE NEARESTDEC OFFICE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE EXCITING DECSYSTEM-20 FAMILY. 68. First spam E-mail 69. The first search engine was called X, and wascreated in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student atMcGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.but, for whatever reason, it only lets you searchworldwide anonymous FTPs or Polish websites.Id X. 70. Archie 71. ID8 questions(anti-clockwise)Direct/Indirect+10/+5 No negative 72. 1.X and Y were students at StanfordUniversity. They wanted to exchangetheir love letters secretly.For this they required some softwareor hardware. Thus, leading to thefounding of Z.ID X,Y,Z 73. X=CiscoY=Leonard BosackZ=Sandy Lerners 74. 2.X coined a new type of journalism: ScientificJournalism. We work with other media outletsto bring people the news, but also to prove it istrue. Scientific journalism allows you to read anews story, then to click online to see theoriginal document it is based on. That way youcan judge for yourself: Is the story true? Did thejournalist report it accurately?Id X. 75. Julius Assange 76. 3.X is the Ceo of SUMZERO .He filed a lawsuitagainst multi-billionaire company because thesaid firm had broken an oral contract with himas well as his.Identify X. 77. Divya Narendra 78. 4.X started off as a Rubber Products Companyand a Cable Works Company.Soon thereafter it established a groundwoodpulp mill and started manufacturing paper.Later it added electricity generation to itsbusiness activities.Today it is the largest company of Y and plays avery important role in the economy of thiscountry Y.IDENTIFY X and Y 79. X-NOKIAY-FINLAND 80. 5.He did not believe that the Higgs bosonparticle could ever be found. In fact, some yearsago he had taken a bet of $100 with the leadingUS particle physicist, Gordon Kane. When CERNscientists announced the discovery on 4 July2012, he sent a cheque for $100 to Kane. Who? 81. Stephan Hawkings 82. 6.This gentleman has already gone down in the history of mankind as the founder of something which has revolutionized communication and mobility.ID him. 83. Andy Rubin, the co-founder of Android Inc. 84. 7.Identify the person silhouetted inthis Generic User Icon. 85. BILL GATESUsed as a Generic Image in Office 2010 86. 8."Do you want to sell sugar water forthe rest of your life, or do you want tocome with me and change the world?Who said this and to whom? 87. Steve Jobs to John Sculley 88. Thank YouPrepared By-Rakshit SoodTanuj Bakshi