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The Tech Quiz, 8th Mile

Round 1 : Round 1 : ಹಂ�ಗೆ ಸುಮ್ನೆ�ಹಂ�ಗೆ ಸುಮ್ನೆ�! Just ! Just about ITabout IT

Instructions:Instructions:No pass in this round.No negative points in this round.+10 for right answer.

Q1)The game Engine used inPrince of Persia: The Forgotten

Sands Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Assassin's Creed: Revelations Is__________.

Answer:Answer:

Anvil. It was created in 2007 by video game developer Ubisoft Montreal for use on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii U.

Q2)Q2)

Naveen Selvadurai is an internet entrepreneur and co-founder of which location-based social networking site?

Answer:Answer:

FourSquare.

Q3)Q3)

The themes in this game are borrowed from the major films Scarface and Blow, along with the hit 1980s television series Miami Vice. Which game?

Answer:Answer:

GTA Vice City.

Q4)On 21 March 2005, _______founded ______Limited, a Hong Kong-based file hosting and sharing business that eventually became the 13th most popular site on the internet with over 150 employees, US$175 million revenues, 50 million visitors daily.

Answer:Answer:

Kim Dotcom or Kim Schmitty megaupload.com

Q5)Q5)

A __________is a type of a contest for finding a Google search query consisting of exactly two words without quotation marks, that returns exactly one hit.

Answer:Answer:

Googlewhack

Round 2Round 2

ಕಥೆಕಥೆ!!The Story Behind IT.The Story Behind IT.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ROUND INSTRUCTIONS FOR ROUND 22Direct Question =+20 and -10Pass Question = +10 and -5Time Limit = 1 minute

Q1)Ericsson, A Denmark based Q1)Ericsson, A Denmark based company started working on a company started working on a device which establishes radio device which establishes radio links between portable links between portable devices. Jim Kardman named devices. Jim Kardman named the technology _____________ the technology _____________ after the 10after the 10thth century Viking century Viking king Harold Blatand who liked king Harold Blatand who liked eating Blueberries. What is the eating Blueberries. What is the name of the technology?name of the technology?

Answer:Answer:“Bluetooth” because of the “Bluetooth” because of the teeth coloration after eating teeth coloration after eating blueberries.blueberries.

When the Internet was still When the Internet was still very much under the spell of very much under the spell of bare Unix shells and Gopher, bare Unix shells and Gopher, an ambitious group of an ambitious group of scientists at CERN started scientists at CERN started working on the World Wide working on the World Wide Web. In an office on the Web. In an office on the fourth floor they placed the fourth floor they placed the World Wide Web's central World Wide Web's central database. Some faulty database. Some faulty requests were answered with requests were answered with a standard message: a standard message: “___________”“___________”

Answer:Answer:Room 404: file not foundRoom 404: file not found

The company name comes from the name of a stream originating on Black Mountain in Santa Clara County, California, United States, which ran behind the houses of John Warnock and Charles Geschke, the founders of this company. Which company am I talking about?

Answer:Answer:Adobe. The name of the stream

is Adobe Creek.

Harvey Ball, co-owner of an Harvey Ball, co-owner of an advertising and public relations advertising and public relations firm designed the _______in firm designed the _______in 1964 to help ease the 1964 to help ease the acrimonious aftermath following acrimonious aftermath following the merger of two insurance the merger of two insurance companies: State Mutual Life companies: State Mutual Life Assurance Company. State Assurance Company. State Mutual planned up a “friendship Mutual planned up a “friendship campaign” to get employees to campaign” to get employees to smile whenever they answered smile whenever they answered the phone, paid a claim, or the phone, paid a claim, or typed a report. What is it that typed a report. What is it that he designed?he designed?

Answer:Answer:Smiley Smiley

Alone in a room in his Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm HillebrandFriedhelm Hillebrand sat at his typewriter, sat at his typewriter, tapping out random tapping out random sentences and questions sentences and questions on a sheet of paper. What on a sheet of paper. What standard did this lead to?standard did this lead to?

Answer:Answer:Hillebrand's magic Hillebrand's magic number set the standard number set the standard for one of today's most for one of today's most popular forms of digital popular forms of digital communication: text communication: text messaging. 160 messaging. 160 Characters. Characters.

ROUND 3: Picture IT!ROUND 3: Picture IT!

INSTRUCTIONS:INSTRUCTIONS:Direct Question = 20 points.Pass Question = 10 points.No Negative Marking.

Identify the TechnologyIdentify the Technology

Answer:Answer:Near Field Communication.(NFC)

Who designed this logo?Who designed this logo?

Answer:Answer:

Ronald Wayne

This is the old logo of Which This is the old logo of Which famous Company?famous Company?

Answer:Answer:Xerox

Identify the service. Identify the service.

Answer:Answer:iCloud from Apple.

Which company recently Which company recently came up with this logo?came up with this logo?

Answer:Answer:Windows 8

Why is this Google doodle Why is this Google doodle very famous?very famous?

Answer:Answer:

The doodle that Google India put on its home page to celebrate Children's Day, the birthday of the first Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, was created by Varsha Gupta, a Class III student from Ryan International School, Greater Noida. Varsha was chosen as the winner of this year's Doodle 4 Google competition organised by Google.

Why did this place get this Why did this place get this name?name?

Answer:Answer:

Snapdeal has adopted a remote village in Uttar Pradesh and enabled clean drinking water facilities for its people by installing manual pumps. To show their gratitude, the village’s residents have decided to rename their village to Snapdeal.com Nagar, actually taking the company by surprise.

What is this?What is this?

Answer:Answer:Apple is building what is sure to be the

coolest office building ever in Cuptertino, CA Known as “Apple Campus 2″ to the city, the project will be built on a 175 acre area The total building will be approximately 2.8 million square feet, will feature a 1,000 seat auditorium, a fitness center, 300,000 square feet of research facilities, a power plant, and underground parking. What you really need to see is what it looks like: a giant, flying saucer-like loop.

What is the name of this Nobel What is the name of this Nobel Laureate who Laureate who had a cameo had a cameo appearance as himself in "The appearance as himself in "The Terminator Decoupling", Terminator Decoupling", episode 17 of the second episode 17 of the second season of season of The Big Bang TheoryThe Big Bang Theory..

Answer:Answer:

George Smoot

What is the name of the What is the name of the show and the name of the show and the name of the super computer?super computer?

Answer:Answer:

Jeopardy and IBM watson.

ROUND 4: Connect ROUND 4: Connect ಮಾ�ಡಿ ಮಾ�ಡಿ

INSTRUCTIONS:INSTRUCTIONS:Total points = 25Each connection = 5 points.Final Connect = 5 points.No points will be awarded if the

CONNECT is not made.

ConnectConnect

Answer:Answer:

Amazon Kindle Fire.1)Silk Browser2)Amazon Forest3)Fire4)Junglee the Indian version of

Amazon.

ConnectConnect

Answer:Answer:Different Versions of ECLIPSE IDE1)Eclipse2)Greek God Helious3)Galelio 4)Indigo

Connect:Connect:

Answer:Answer:Ubuntu Versions.1)Natty Narwhal2)Precise Pangloin3)Oneric Ocelet4)Canonical, the group which is

behind Ubuntu.

ConnectConnect

Answer:Answer:Companies Started by former

employees of Amazon1)bankbazaar.com2)Flipkart.com3)Hulu4)Quora

ConnectConnect

Answer:Answer:Pirates Of Silicon Valley1)Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs2)Anthony Michael Hall as Bill

Gates3)Fire in The Valley(The book on

which the movie is based.)4)Joey Slotnick as Steve Wozniak

ROUND 5: Video Nodi ROUND 5: Video Nodi Answer Madi! Answer Madi!

InstructionsInstructions5 common questions for all teams.Each team writes the answer on paper.If 1 team gets the answer right they get

25 points.If 2 teams get the answer right both get

20 points eachIf 3 teams get the answer right all three

get 15 points eachIf 4 teams get the answer right all four get

10 points.If all 5 teams get the answer right 5 points

for all teams.

Which product?Which product?

Answer:Answer:Apple Macintosh

X smart phone mocking at Y X smart phone mocking at Y smart phone. Give me X an smart phone. Give me X an Y.Y.

Answer:Answer:Samsung Galaxy s2 mocking

iPhone

Name of the product and Tag Name of the product and Tag line of the campaign?line of the campaign?

Answer: Google Chrome, Answer: Google Chrome, “The Web is what you make “The Web is what you make of it”of it”

Which companies ad is Which companies ad is this?this?

Answer:Answer:Old Hutch Advertisement

Which company? What are Which company? What are they advertising?they advertising?

Answer:Answer:LG ad showing the world’s

thinnest TV.

Round 6 : Select your Round 6 : Select your Mile….Mile….

Rapid Fire.Rapid Fire.

Instructions:Instructions:Maximum Of 10 Questions for

each team.Time Limit: 1 Minute.No negetive.+5 for each right answer.If you do not know the answer,

say pass.

In 1991, a small group of In 1991, a small group of engineers called the "Green engineers called the "Green Team" believed that the next Team" believed that the next wave in computing was the wave in computing was the union of digital consumer union of digital consumer devices and computers. Led devices and computers. Led by James Gosling, the team by James Gosling, the team worked around the clock and worked around the clock and created the programming created the programming language that would language that would revolutionize our world. revolutionize our world. What did they create?What did they create?

Answer:Answer:Java Programming Java Programming Language.Language.