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Question 1
Find three ways to make the program below print 20 copies of the dash character '-' by changing or adding one character:
int i, n = 20; for (i = 0; i < n; i--) { printf("-"); }
(2 points)
Question 2
Encryption challenge.(see code page behind answer sheet)
Calculate the returned value for each number of the $inputData in turn to reveal an English message.
(2 points)
Question 3
What was the name of the chess-playing computer that beat world champion, Garry Kasparov?
Question 4
Which programming language was named after a 17th century French mathematician?
Question 5
What is the Linux mascot?
Bonus:Why?
(1 extra point)
Question 6
What is the use of capitalisation in the name of theQuiz(); commonly called?
Question 7
What is a polygot in programming terms?
Question 8
Which of the following languages can be used to write server side scripting in ASP.NET?
a) C-sharp b) VB c) C++ d) a and b
Manchester
Question 1
The streets of the Northern Quarter were transformed into 1940’s New York for what movie in 2010?
Question 2
MOSI and the Manchester Science Festival are celebrating the centenary of Alan Turing’s birth by organising the mass planting of sunflowers. This is because Turing had observed a mathematical sequence in the seeds of sunflowers. What is the sequence called?
Question 3
What was the name of the world's first commercially available general-purpose electronic computer, invented in Manchester and known in its sales literature as the Manchester Electronic Computer?
Question 4
Which chemist, physicist and meteorologist has a street named after him in Manchester City Centre, and a building at one of the universities?
Question 5
A Clockwork Orange, by Mancunian writer Anthony Burgess, mentions a number of fictional music groups. Which Sheffield synthpop band took their name from one of these fictional bands?
Question 6
Which Manchester landmark did Sony get in trouble for using without permission as the setting for a virtual shoot-out against invading aliens, in their 2007 PlayStation 3 game Resistance: Fall of Man?
Question 7
How many Starbucks are there within Manchester’s inner ring road?
a) 2 b) 5 c) 13 d) 20
Question 8
Which Mancunian physicist has a unit of energy named after him?
The Front-End
Question 1
How should a quotation mark character be encoded in HTML?
(both correct methods will be accepted)
Question 2
The WebKit layout engine used by the Google Chrome and Apple Safari web browsers, began development as a fork of which Linux-‐based HTML engine?
Question 3
What is the correct syntax for a media query for an iPad in landscape orientaIon?
Question 4
What is the difference between comparison operators == and === in JavaScript?
Question 5
In a HTML document, where is the correct place to insert JavaScript code:
a) In the head of the document (between the <head> and </head> tags)
b) In the body of the document (between the <body> and </body> tags)
c) Code can be inserted in the head or the body of the document.
Question 6
According to sitepoint, what percentage of internet users were using ie7 in march 2012?
a) 9.78% b) 15.56% c) 32.87% d) 50.12%
Question 7
What is the correct syntax for creaIng a black drop shadow with a horizontal and verIcal offset of 5px, and a blur radius of 5px for firefox?
Question 8
Name the three types of HTML lists.
Famous Geeks & Stuff Geeks Like
Question 1
In 1914, Thomas J Watson renamed the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR) to what?
Question 2
Who created Perl in 1986?
Question 3
What does BOFH stand for?
Bonus (and clue):Where can you read all of the episodes?
(1 extra point)
Question 4
Name the artist who famously took stock instead of money for painting murals in the first Facebook headquarters?
Question 5
Name the Film:
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain”
Question 6
Name the woman who in the 1840’s wrote what is recognised as the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine?
Thanks to this, she is widely credited with being the first computer programmer.
Question 7
What was the name of the first computer to use a GUI that Steve Jobs named after his daughter?
a) The Lucy b) The Liza c) The Lisa d) The Mona
Question 8
In the TV series Futurama, what is the character Bender’s full name?
eCommerce
Question 1
What is the full name of P.E.T, the UX methodology used in ecommerce for conversion?
Question 2
Which of the following is not an ecommerce platform?
a) Magento b) Venda c) osCommerce d) Drupal
Question 3
The term ‘Multi-channel Retailing’ refers to:
a) A store that sells more than 1 brand b) A store that has an online & offline
presence c) A store that sells only through eBay
Question 4
Recently Google made a comical video, based in a grocery store, meant put an online checkout experience into a real life scenario.
What was the man buying?
Question 5
Which of these big high street brands do not yet have mobile friendly versions of their ecommerce sites?
a) John Lewis b) Debenhams c) Harvey Nichols d) Selfridges
Question 6
What is the name of TK Maxx in the USA?
BonusWhy?
Question 7
Most people think that choosing ‘Check out as a Guest’ is faster than registering for checkout.
What is the one additional form field that a registration process requires?
Question 8
In the recent airing of a fly-on-wall-documentary by Channel 4, ‘More Sex Please, We’re British’ which online retailer had to struggle under the weight of one order every 3 seconds while the show was airing?
And the winner is...