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THE FINALS : STAGE ROUND ( top 6 teams)I. Cloud Computing (+10) – visual round1. pic ? Andy Bechtolsheim // I got a cool TCS bag for answering this, passed as audience question2. pic and clue : look at the parking lot ? Bell Labs HQ. (there was a B symbol in parking lot)3. pic ? Ronald Wayne (the Apple guy)4. pic : Google doodle having nature, identify the man ? Charles Darwin5. pic : Apple logo with ‘Hold differently’ written below ? iPhone4 antenna problem spoof6. pic : new Palm logo, what’s significance ? HP bought Palm recently and changed the logo to HP styleII. Automatic Computing1. What’s blingtronics ? wearable electronics made of gold or diamonds2. Connect these terms : base,trigger,button,autofire,hatch,suction,throttle ? Joystick3. Six letter word of Greek origin, arranging together, rules of governing, construction of command ? Syntax4. Barbara Liskov is a Prof. of CS from MIT, only female to have achieved this ? Alan Turing award5. Connect these Mephisto,gidion,shredder,hiarcs,junior ? These are chess engines6. This ambitious project called Project X has codenames cupcake,doughnut,eclairs ?AndroidAudience questions· What’s flog ? Fake blog· What’s napstering ? Distributing illegal content and making money out of itIII. @TCS : Buzzer round1. TCS is a tech partner to world’s oldest marathon ? Boston marathon2. With which state in India did TCS start a citizen portal called ‘MahaOnline’ ? Maharashtra3. TCS is officially partner till 2012 for this a leading European pro-cycling team ? Cervélo4. Expand TRDDC ? Tata Research Development and Design CenterIV. Parallel Computing ( +10,-5) buzzer round1. pics of Obama ,Mark Zuckerberg and another lady ? Facebook2. Video showing Beckham, pics – flickr logo,inktomi logo,del.icio.us logo ? Yahoo3. pics of camel,java temple,turtle,song ‘ruby tuesday’ playing in background ? Programming languages4. MSN messenger logo,cdragon logo and another pic ? Apps designed by MS for Apple on AppStoreV. Final round – Grid Computing (+5,+10,+15)Solve the 4 questions, derive the final single worded answer using the given formula and the answers of 4 questions !Example Question :R-2,C+3,F-2
· A program that permits rewriting and editing of file ? ediTor· This name is abbreviation of San Francisco ? cisCo· Web browser from Apple for Mac OS X ? SafariAnswer : TCS1. E+2,T-2,R+2,A-2· Designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert ? enIac· A small piece of software designed to fix problems ? Patch· Advanced Research Project Agency Network ? arpAnet· Original developer was C. Wayne Ratliff ? DbaseAnswer : IPAD2. P+3,P+1,A+1,E-1· Published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth ? pasCal· Greek letter for ‘five’ ending with “ium” ? pEntium· Base 2 number system ? binaRy· Nippon Denki Kabushiki Kaisha ? NecAnswer : CERN3. X-1,I-1,U-2,A-2· Founded as Graphics Group ? pIxar· Coined by Ralph Vaerst, published by Don Hoefler ? Silicon Valley· Device that interconnects two or more networks ? Router· Netscape based web browser ? mOsaicAnswer : ISRO