QuizITAhaan 2013 Technical Quiz - Mains

ROUND 1 : POINT 2 POINT

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Q1 . Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a check for $100,000 to an entity that doesn’t exist yet: a company called?

Q2 . What are BlackComb and Vienna ?

Q3 . Which Linux Distro is owned by this company, which was a pioneer in LAN Technology?

Q4 . In the original version of the hotmail logo what letters were UpperCase??

Q5 . The term BDFL originated with Guido van Rossum and has been used for people like Linus Torvalds and Rasmus Lerdorf. What does it stand for ?

Q6 .This Microsoft Product is now known as PixelSense. Under what name did steve balmer introduce it in 2007 ?

Q7 .Which is the First Device to run the Android OS ?

Q8 . I have a 3.2GHz CPU,256MB RAM, run on XrossMediaBar OS, run Blu-Ray Discs and was launched in 2008. What am I??

Q9 .What was special about the official wedding photographer in the marriage of Larry Ellison, the CEO of ORACLE?

Q10 .This will be released formally by facebook on 12th April 2013 and is claimed to transform the user interface into cover feeds with visually rich and swipable news updates. What is this product?

Q11 .The First Web Server was called CERN HTTPd. Who was its creator?

Q12 .Most Minesweeper games were getting over too early initially. What change did Microsoft make to this ever-popular Windows game and thus saved users much frustration and disappointment?

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ROUND 2 : IMAGE MANIA

Identify this Famous Entrepreneur ?

What was the First Product to be Launched by him ?

Identify This FOSS Activist ?

Which Product did this comic strip build onto ?

He is the founder of several ventures out of which Napster is a major one. He also possesses significant shares of Facebook. Who is he ?

Here, IBM’s supercomputer Watson beat the top rankers in this famous American show. Name the Show ?

She has done pioneering work for two technology companies in the past 2 decades and is currently heading one . Who is she ?

Which company did this logo belong to ?

Which Linux Distro uses this as their Symbol ?

This IT Company is a global leader in Manufacturing RAM modules and Motherboard cooling solutions. Identify it from its Logo ?

What High Capacity Data Technology does this symbol belong to ?

This is a logo for a Product of Which Company ?

Which company used this Logo for their Product ?

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ROUND 3 :

Q1 .The common name for this plant means a lion’s tooth in French. It’s flower head is composed of millions of smaller florets and seed heads which propagate by wind. How has it become famous in the world of technology ?

Q2 .The American Dialect Society selects its Word of the year.For 2012 it was a bit surprise. It wasn’t fiscal cliff or YOLO or Gangnam Style. The statement was “This year Q became a ubiquitous phenomenon in online talk. Q has created instant social trends, spreading byte-sized viral messages on topics ranging from politics to pop”

What is Q?

Q3 . Connect “ Sam, Mike, Mary. Michael, Michelle Hazel, David, Zira, Anna, Lili” ?

Q4 . “Blogger” is not an indigenous Google Product. It was built by this company which was acquired by Google in 2003. Identify this company ?

Q5 . What do AT&T, Lucent Technologies and Alcatel-Lucent have in common?

Q6 . A Turkish software engineer working at Google made this to find himself a girlfriend but later it turned into a massively successful product. What am I talking about ?

Q7 . Is credited with the creation of many of the features seen today in all computers like GUI,Mouse,etc. Which tech firm owns it??

Q8 .A recent internet slowdown was caused by a DDoS attack against which Dutch Anti-spam group allegedly by CyberBunker, a dutch service provider because the former had imposed a ban on its services ?

Q9 .Which Product led to apple being dragged to court by a Chinese company Zhizhen Technology Co. claiming infringement of one of its products?

Q11 . The Intel Atom (Medfield) processor appeared for the first time in this flagship phone by an India-based Company. What was this device called ?

Q11 . Who founded Yahoo ? sitter

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ROUND 4 : Tech-Advert

This logo was used by the computer sellers Digicape to convey to customers that . . . . .

Which Company advertised using this signifying “keeping windows clean” ?

Intel brought out this commercial with Blue men painting a wall to commemorate the launch of what ?

This ad promotes what ?

This Meditating Monkey was a brilliant advertising feature of which product ?

This 1984 commercial with bald men was released by Apple against IBM to promote the launch of what ?

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ROUND 5 : Rapid Fire