Mario Dcunha

TechNidarshan 2012

IT QuizP R E L I M S

Here are the answers…

The finalist team names better be good…

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He is widely considered to be the ‘Father of computer science and artificial intelligence’.

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Alan Turing, 100th Bday Doodle

2

Name all three Products

2

SkyDrive, SoundCloud, iCloud

3

Who or what is Tux ?

Umm… here’s your clue.

3

Tux the penguin, mascot of Linux

4

What’s comes here…?

4

Bing!

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X is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by Bengali-American educator

Salman Khan, now backed by Gates Foundation and Google.

It launched a computer science module in September 2012 and has delivered 200 million

lessons.

Id X.

5

Khan Academy

6

Match the following acquisitions

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Match the following acquisitions

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“Jello runs into trademark issues, as would Krispy and Kreme. So they seem to have locked down on X.”

- Wired Magazine

7

Android’s next version after Jelly Bean is

Key Lime Pie (KLP)

8

Yes, this is very much an IT Quiz. Now, connect.

8

The Firefox Browser with Gecko Layout Engine

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P S U T V J

Connect these product models

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The recently launched Sony Xperia Smartphones

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This great computer science revolutionary was found dead on October 12, 2011.

He received the Turing Award from the ACM in 1983, the Hamming Medal from the IEEE in 1990 and the National Medal of Technology

from President Clinton in 1999.

Stating other achievements would be just way too obvious.

Who is he?

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Dennis Ritchie, (co-created The C Language)

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Google Handwrite

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• The Miss World 2012 had 6 FastTrack Events before the Stage Finals.

• Ms.Wales, Ms.China, Ms.Sweden and Ms.South Sudan won 4, while Ms.X won both ‘Miss Beauty with a Purpose’ and ‘Miss Social Media’ titles.

• X is the first country to win two fast track events in a single edition.

Id country, X.

12

Miss India, Vanya Mishra

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X is a user interface element used in Y

X provides a central launching point for application and tasks.

With the official upgrade of Y on October 26th

2012... X is no more.

What is X?

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• Finnish game developer X, formerly called Relude, has a super-duper hit game Y to its credit and it launched Z, a spin-off to Y, just a month back.

• Now, another version of Y is expected to be released on November 8th 2012, and it has Y as the Rebels and Z as the Empire.

Id X, Y, Z

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Rovio, created Angry Birds, Bad Piggies and soon to be released, Angry Birds Star Wars.

Wait for it, I can’t.

Fun, it will be.

15

“Its interesting to know what they focused on getting right. They got each and every shirt that I own exactly right! What they got terribly wrong

is that I started it just to get girls!

They just can't wrap their head around the idea that someone might build something because

they like building things!”

Who said this about what?

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Mark Zuckerberg stated this in his interviews about what he thought was right and wrong of the Oscar winning film, “The Social Network”

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Foo Fighters at the iPhone 5 Launch

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This has recently displaced Eminem, Shakira and LMFAO and has taken the 3rd spot!

The Number 1 and 2 spots are still reserved by Justin Bieber and my favorite, Jennifer Lopez ;-)

Who’s in the 3rd spot?

17

Gangnam Style! 3rd most watched on YouTube!

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• For better Nintendo game sales, the character of X came into being previously taking many names like “Mr. Video”, "Ossan" (the Japanese term for middle-aged man).

• It was renamed to X when an employee at Nintendo of pointed out the similar physical appearances between X and Nintendo's Italian landlord.

Id character X.

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It's called the “snail” by Italians and the “monkey tail” by the Dutch.

It has even been inducted into the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, which cited its modern use as an example of “elegance, economy, intellectual transparency, and a sense

of the possible future directions that are embedded in the arts of our time.”

What is it?

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And the Finalists are…