Download - theQuiz(); from Ampersand Commerce & Manchester Girl Geeks 20/6/2012

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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...