SENIOR QUIZ PRELIMSdigilogous-2014

QUESTION MARK-II

What is the Digilogous's favourite energy source?

QUESTION ONE

• This widely criticised Microsoft product had a codename “Utopia”. Identify.

ANSWER

• Microsoft B.O.B

QUESTION TWO• This company is popularly known as the

world’s first company to offer quantum computing solutions commercially. In 2011, it announced it’s first quantum computer based on neodymium loops, having 128 qubits. Founded by Haig Farris, Geordie Rose, and Bob Weins, it’s computers were recently bought for bombastic prices by organisations like NASA, Google, Lockheed Martin, and USRA. What company?

ANSWER

• D-Wave Systems

QUESTION THREE

• While examinations are going on in India, copying and cheating is often discouraged. But one technology company put out an advertisement for which it got an international award. It advertised “We encourage copying”. Which company?

ANSWER

• Xerox, of course!

QUESTION FOUR

• This is a data centre of what?

• Internet Archive. The man is Brewster Kahle

QUESTION FIVE

• Who is he? Which controversial service did he start in 2013?

• Chaitanya Khanojia, the founder of Aereo

QUESTION SIX

• When a 1981 video game called Radar Scope sold poorly, Nintendo suddenly had 2,000 empty arcade-game cabinets to fill. At the same time, a deal with King Features to make a Popeye Nintendo game fell apart, so staff designer Shigeru Miyamoto used the Popeye love triangle for inspiration: Popeye, his girlfriend Olive Oyl, and brute Bluto became various characters. What was the name of the new game?

QUESTION SEVEN• Who is he?

ANSWER : EUGENE GOSTMAN CHATBOT

(PASSED THE TURING TEST)

QUESTOIN EIGHT• Whose last tweet?

ANSWER : EVAN BLASS (@EVLEAKS)

QUESTION NINE

Condescending Wonka,Conspiracy Keanu,scumbag Steve,Confession Bear. what are these?

ANSWER : MEMES

QUESTION TEN

x , a CS grad from Stanford was google's very first employee. x was instrumental in creating the

search engine that has built Google into one of the world's leading tech companies. Later, he left

google and joined Khan Academy. Id x

ANSWER : CRAIG SILVERSTEIN

Soon after the introduction of the HTC Dream, a method was discovered to attain privileged control (termed "root access") within Android's Linux-based subsystem.Having root access, combined with the

open source nature of the Android operating system, allowed the phone's stock firmware to be modified

and re-installed onto the phone.

In the following year, several modified firmwares for the Dream were developed and distributed by Android enthusiasts. One, maintained by a developer named JesusFreke, quickly became popular among Dream

owners. In August 2009, JesusFreke stopped work on his firmware, and suggested users switch to another version that had been further enhanced by developer

Steve Kondik. what was that new version called?

QUESTION ELEVEN

ANSWER : CYANOGEN MOD

QUESTION TWELVE• What is this potato salad doing in a tech

quiz?

ANSWER : GATHERED HUGE FUNDS ON KICKSTARTER

QUESTION THIRTEEN

• This new media player app, available for various platforms, has been described as “Hollywood’s worst nightmare’. It is a free alternative to streaming media subscription services like NetFlix, and made waves in the film industry because it ‘made torrenting as simple as paying for content’.

It’s mascot is called “Pochoclin”. Which app?

ANSWER : POPCORN TIME

QUESTION FOURTEEN

• There is one Indian in the “Internet Hall of Fame”. His name is Dr. Srinivasan Ramani. What did he create to get his place there?

• Answer : Created India's academic network, ERNET

Question Fifteen

X is an accessibility feature to help Windows users who have physical disabilities, but it is also used by

others as a means to reduce repetitive strain injury (or a syndrome called the Emacs Pinky).

It essentially enables the user to press keys in a serial order instead of pressing multiple keys at a time: X allows the user to press and release a modifier key,

and have it remain active until any other key is pressed. Microsoft first introduced X with Windows 95.This feature does not go well with a certain group of users, especially those who loved to use a popular

program by Jordan Mechner.

What is X?

ANSWER : STICKY KEYS

QUESTION SIXTEEN• This person came in a bunny suit on the

stage in one of the Apple's keynote when apple announced a replacement related to hardware in their macbook pro. identify the person.

• Paul Otellini , Intel CEO

QUESTION SEVENTEEN

• X is an E-commerce and online travel organization founded in January 2007 by Ashish Kashyap. X started as a social network in 2007 and pivoted to an e-commerce and travel organization. It recently acquired the company redbus.in and also launched a payment gateway innovation called y

• X is Ibibo

• Y is PayU

QUESTION EIGHTEEN

• In 2012, Skype, as a part of it’s marketing campaign, launched a ridiculous new way for conveying one’s message. They felt that the conventional methods for conveying emotion through the web were not competent enough, and required a more touching experience. What was this called?

• Humoticons

QUESTION NINETEEN

• There's a lot of hoopla about Hollywood and Silicon Valley converging. They call it "X" I think. Y is really going to be the first digital studio in the whole world. It really combines art and technology together. Again in a very wonderful way. Y's got by far and away the best computer graphics talent in the entire world and it now has the best animation and artistic talent in the whole world to do these kinds of film. We have the second largest group of animators in the world outside of Disney and we think the most talented in the world working side by side with these computer scientists, the best graphics people in the world. There's really no one else in the world who could do this stuff. It's really phenomenal. We're probably close to ten years ahead of anybody else.

• These are lines from an interview with Steve Jobs.Now, ID X and Y

QUESTION TWENTY • X is a non-profit organization and eponymous website led by

brothers Hadi and Ali Partovi that aims to encourage people, particularly school students in the United States, to learn to code.The website includes free coding lessons, and the initiative also targets schools.On December 9, 2013, they launched the Hour of Code 2013 challenge nationwide to promote computer science during computer science week until December 15, 2013.

• Previous year they came up with a video titled 'What Most Schools dont Teach'. The video includes the likes of Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter and Square creator Jack Dorsey, musician Will.i.am, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell,and Dropbox co-founder Drew Houston,

• Code.org

QUESTION TWENTY ONE

Whats the pic showing?(i need you to be as precise as possible)

BILL GATES’S SETUP FOR ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE

QUESTION TWENTY TWO• <<insert answer here>> is a Brazilian

computer scientist, technology executive and entrepreneur. He is currently Vice President of International for a chinese mobile company.

• From 2008 to 2013, he served in a number of product management roles at Google in London and California, including Vice President and product spokesman of Google's Android division.

• Who is <<insert answer here>>?

• Hugo Barra

QUESTION TWENTY THREE• Well first of all it was a totally 'plug and play'

machine. Except for Macintosh, that's hard to find. It's an extremely powerful machine, way beyond the Macintosh. So it sort of nicely combined the power of the workstations with the 'plug and playness' of the Mac. Second of all, the machine had a fit and finish that you don't find today. Of course the Z Computer was also the first computer with built-in high quality sound, CD quality sound. Most people do that now. It took them a long time but most people do that. It was just ahead of its time.

• Who said it? About what?

• Steve Jobs on NeXt computer

QUESTION 24

X was founded in August 2001 by Michael Robertson with the goal of developing a Linux-

based operating system capable of running major Microsoft Windows applications. It based

its Windows compatibility on the Wine API. Later the name X was changed to Linspire due to

copyright issues with Windows. ID x.

• Lindows

SCRAPPED EXTRA QUESTIONS

QUESTION TWENTY

• This is an augmented reality ad on a bus stop in London. By whom?

SOME ADS WE CAN FRAME QUESTIONS ON

QUESTION EIGHTEEN• what is the name of this computer (yes this is a

computer)?

QUESTION EIGHTEENIdentify the person OR name the company he

founded

ANSWER

Markus Persson, the founder of Mojang

QUESTION FIFTEEN

In April 2014, three companies, HTC, Samsung and Toshiba accidentally pulled the same April Fools

prank. What was the prank about?

ANSWER

Smart gloves

QUESTION SIXTEEN

Planetary Resources Inc. is a company started by x and y in 2010. Its stated goal is to “expand

Earth’s natural resource base” by developing and deploying the technologies for asteroid

mining.Identify x and y

ANSWER

Larry Page and Sergey Brin