Design Department Weekly Technical Quiz

Issue Number 64 (16th to 20th May 2011)

Questions for This Week

Answer of the Last Weeks Questions

Q.127) Any loading condition for a beam can be represented in form of a

a) Laplace transform b) McLaurin's series c) Fourier's series d) Fourier transform

Q.128) Who invented Internet (World Wide Web)?

a) Bill Gates b) Tim Berners-Lee c) Charley Kline d) Ray Tomlinson

Q.125) The Enabling structures are usually governed by ANS: Stresses and deflection both

a) stresses in them b) deflections in them c) stresses and deflection both d) durability

Q.126) The cross word puzzle was invented by ANS: Giuseppe Airoldi

a) Robert Adler b) Arthur Wynne c) Giuseppe Airoldi d) Joseph Aspdin

Thought of the Week

When Ambition Exceeds Performance The Gap Is Called Frustration

When The Performance Exceeds Ambition The Overlap Is Called Success"

Author Unknown

World Telecommunication Day In older days smoke signals, drums, semaphore, flags or heliograph were used to communicate messages to distant placed people. With modernization and development of technology the use of electronic devices such as telephones, television, radio or computers became common for telecommunication. World Telecommunication Day has been celebrated marking the founding anniversary of International Telecommunications Union (ITU) which was founded in 1865. World Telecommunication Day is celebrated annually on 17 May. First World Telecommunication Day was celebrated in 1969. The World Telecommunication Day focuses to tone up national policies, fill up the technological differences, promote connectivity, foster global interoperability of systems and to curb on physical distances globally through internet, television, phone etc. World Telecommunications Day is celebrated to increase awareness about the positives of Communication technology among public. It also aims to make information and Communication more accessible to people residing in remote and rural areas.

The first example of a crossword puzzle appeared on September 14, 1890, in the Italian magazine Il Secolo Illustrato della Domenica. It was designed by Giuseppe Airoldi and titled "Per passare il tempo" ("To pass the time"). Airoldi's puzzle was a four-by-four grid with no shaded squares, but it included horizontal and vertical clues.

On December 21, 1913, Arthur Wynne, a journalist from Liverpool, England, published a "word-cross" puzzle in the New York World that embodied most of the features of the genre as we know it. This puzzle is frequently cited as the first crossword puzzle, and Wynne as the inventor. Later, the name of the puzzle was changed to "crossword"

Although the crossword is an English-language invention and most common in English-

speaking countries, other countries have crosswords in their respective languages.

Telecommunication Humor

In order to develop friendly relationship between the two countries, Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pervez Musharraf

decided to visit each other's country regularly.

The first visit was by Vajpayee to Pakistan. There Musharraf showed him Pakistan's modern telecommunication

systems. It was so good that Vajpayee made a call to the Devil in hell and talked to him for 5 minutes! The bill for

the call came to only Re. 1.

When Vajpayee came back, he also wanted India's telecommunication systems to be at the best when Musharraf

visited India. Suitable arrangements were made.

Mushrraf came to India, visited the telecom department and talked to Zia-ul-Haq in hell for 5 minutes. But this

time, the bill was Rs. 500!

Musharraf asked with a sarcastic smile - "Why are telephone calls to hell so costly in India? "

A High level diplomat gave a smiling reply - "From Pakistan to hell, it is a local call, Sir, while from India, it is long

distance!"