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Quiz Finals
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Set in December of 2633 AD, the game starts with the player taking control of an armed commando named Bill Rizer, or his partner Lance Bean, as they are sent to infiltrate the island headquarters of an alien army calling themselves Red Falcon
and thwart their plot to invade the Earth. Much of the game's popularity came from its two-player
simultaneous gameplay, which was an uncommon feature in video games at the time of its release.
Which game?
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Contra
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The first known existence of these two words together in computer literature occurred in 1972 in Brian Kernighan's book "Tutorial instruction to the Language B". They are often used for 'sanity tests' for languages, which make sure that the compiler,
development environment, and run-time environment are correctly installed. Experienced programmers learning new languages can also
gain a lot of information about a given language's syntax and structure from such a program. What?
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Hello World
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Olympia and Godrej are the only 2 companies in the world manufacturing ____?
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Typewriter
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He is a native of Seattle who exhibited an early interest in theoretical physics, especially quantum mechanics and the
theory of general relativity. His childhood heroes were Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and Richard Feynman.[3] After
observing a series of teleportation experiments conducted by the Institute for Experimental Physics in Innsbruck, Austria,
the transmission of matter became his obsession. He graduated from MIT with a Ph.D. degree in Theoretical
Physics. His doctoral thesis on the teleportation of matter through extremely dense elements was titled Observation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement on Supraquantum
Structures by Induction Through Nonlinear Transuranic Crystal of Extremely Long Wavelength (ELW) Pulse from
Mode-Locked Source Array.
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Gordon Freeman
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It is a Chinese and Japanese search engine for websites, audio files, and images. It censors its content in line with the Chinese government. It was
ranked 8th on Alexa.com's list of top sites. It is the #1 search engine in China, and controls a market share of more than sixty-three percent. Along with
Twitter, its domain name was also hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army. What is this search engine?
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Baidu
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This is a new image format that provides lossy compression for photographic images. In a large scale study of 900,000 web images,___ images were 39.8%
smaller than jpeg images of similar quality.
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.webP
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Founded by Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde in 2003, this website’s four Linux
servers ran a custom web server called Hypercube. An old version is open source.[15][16]
On 1 June 2005, they updated it in an effort to reduce bandwidth usage, which was reported to
be at 2,000 HTTP requests per second on each of the four web servers. In 2008, the website
announced that their servers would support SSL encryption in response to Sweden's new
wiretapping law. Which website are we talking about?
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The Pirate Bay
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This product is similar to and was preceded by a system known as Telepointer developed by Media Lab student Steve Mann in the 1990s. Designed by a student who is a graduate of Nirma Institute
of Technology, Gujarat, the product prototype costs around $350 and it’s source code will be
released in open source. Which product?
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Sixth Sense
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Connect John Draper aka Captain Crunch, the famous phone phreaker, with the word processor
of the IBM PC.
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He wrote it :P
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RS-232D was originally a Telephone-only standard. It is one of the many registered jacks,
like RJ11, another telephone standard. As a registered jack, telephone RS-232D specifies the physical male and female connectors as well as the pin assignments of the wires in a telephone
cable. The original RS-232D uses a special keyed 8P2C modular connector, with Pins 5 and 4 wired for tip and ring of a single telephone line and Pins
7 and 8 connected to a programming resistor. What do we commonly know it as?
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The Ethernet Jack
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This was a full page ad. What is the significance ?
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How was the size of the 5.25” floppy decided?
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The person who actually decided, was sitting in an eating place, and thinking about the size, and then he saw a
napkin lying there
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Why was the length of the original compact disc 74 minutes?
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So that Beethoven’s Symphonies could fit
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This project focused on the design and implementation of a free and open source object-oriented educational programming language with an integrated development environment (IDE).
Later versions are implemented in Java. It uses a drag and drop environment to create computer animations using 3D models. The software was
developed first atUniversity of Virginia, then Carnegie Mellon (from 1997). Who was the
founder of the project?
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Project AliceAnd the guy is Randy Pausch
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Rules for this are usually expressed in the form:
IF variable IS property THEN action
For example, a simple temperature regulator that uses a fan might look like this:
IF temperature IS very cold THEN stop fanIF temperature IS cold THEN turn down fan
IF temperature IS normal THEN maintain levelIF temperature IS hot THEN speed up fan
There is no "ELSE" – all of the rules are evaluated, because the temperature might be "cold" and "normal" at
the same time to different degrees.
Where are these rules applied?
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Fuzzy Logic
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This company was a division of Racal Electronics plc in the early 1980’s. In 1982, they started their business in UK. They launched themselves with their current name on Jan 1, 1985. Their logo is
called the speechmark logo. Name the company.
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Vodafone
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On the possibility of a thinking machine in 1943, this computer pioneer said : “No, I'm not
interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the president of American Telephone and Telegraph
Company.” Who’s words were these?
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Alan Turing
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Are you building your own computer? Terminal? TV typewriter? I/O device? Or some other digital
black box? Or are you buying time on a time sharing service? If so, you might like to come to a
gathering of people with like-minded interests. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help
work on a project, whatever.” This text could be found on the flyer for what?
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This is a schematic representation for something. What?
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Neural Networks
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The name ____ was proposed by Vinnie Chieco, a freelance copywriter.
After seeing the prototype, he thought of a phrase from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. It
referred to the fictional spacecraft used for extra-vehicular activity seen in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Jupiter spacecraft Discovery One
carries three of these small, one-man maintenance vehicles.
What popular product name is this?
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iPod
(from “open the pod bay door HAL”)
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If you are new to working with PCs and your PC hangs you generally perform a PLOKTA. What is
a PLOKTA ?
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Pressing lots of keys to abort!
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Connect
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He Worked at Patni Computers
The book has many references to him
Studied at IIT B
Nandan Nilekani
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Excerpt from the About Section at California Grazing’s website:
“Mike and Jan Canaday have 30 years experience in ranching and training Border Collies to work
livestock. We know of no other company that can match this experience in using dogs and portable electric fence to control goats, cattle and sheep.”This company came into news for what event?
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Introduction of goats to the Google campus
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The name for this network administration utility comes from
active sonar terminology. It operates by sending Internet Control
Message Protocol packets to the target host and waiting for an
ICMP response. In the process, it measures the round-trip time.
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ping
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In villages/rural areas, people would gather around
a specific place and discuss the various issues,policies etc.
Wikipedia has named its set of pages used todiscuss the technical issues and operations, onsimilar lines. What is this set of pages called?
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Village Pump(In villages/rural areas people usually have discussions while around water sources)
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This project was first announced by Ian Murdock, in 1993. He formed its name as a combination of the first name of his then-girlfriend Debra Lynn
and his own name
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Debian
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_________, 1352 KB/s, 4608 MB/s. This progression is neither arithmetic, nor geometric,
and is not harmonic. Fill in the blank.
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150 Kbps
These are the ‘x’ values for CD, DVD and BluRay
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This is a form of waterproof raincoat, first sold in 1824, made out of rubberised fabric. The ____ is named after its Scottish inventor Charles ____,
though a letter k is added by many writers
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Mac(k)intosh
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The Satyam Scandal
Deepak Parekh and Kiran Karnik were appointed to the board and Tech Mahindra bought it
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This was an ancient memory aid device to record and document numbers, quantities, or even messages.___sticks first appear as notches
carved on animal bones, in the Upper Paleolithic
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Tally
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What `oxymoronic' term, used in the context of computer environment/graphics, was coined by
Jaron Lanier?
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Virtual Reality
(oxymoronic)
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Microsoft owns 1.3% share, and other major share holders include but are not limited to
Greylock Partners and Meritech Capital Partners. What company?
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In 1999, seven Indian scientists and engineers led by Dr. Swami Manohar designed a self-contained, open hardware device. It includes text-to-speech
software and runs the GNU/Linux operating system
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Simputer
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_______ Day, an official professional holiday in Russia. It is celebrated on the 256th day of the
year (13 September in normal years and 12 September in leap years).
The number 256 (2^8) was chosen because it is the number of distinct values that can be
represented with an eight-bit byte.Also, '256' in hexadecimal is '100' ('0x100'), and
it's the highest power of two that is lower than 365 (the number of days in a year).
Typical celebrations of _______ Day include playing around with old computers and behaving
in a generally inane manner.
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Programmer’s Day
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Connect
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Graffiti
Palm
Graffiti is the hand-writing recognition software on Palm