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Bringing out
the geek
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1 Talking about computer
hardware, if GPU is a Graphics
Processing Unit, then what is a
PPU?
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2

Identify this logo. This a

company that became very
famous in the world of the
internet some years ago.
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3 You are participating in a race.
You overtake the second person.
What position are you in?
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.4*

What is the collective

name given to these
images?
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5 If there are 8 bits in one
byte, then how many bits
are there in a nibble?
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.6*
This worldwide phenomenon was initially
termed by many across the internet as the
CDC and FADL. However, a certain
Massachusetts programmer David Eddy in
an email to his friend gave it a new name.
The name stuck and gained worldwide
fame. What name?
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7
What English word
retains the same
pronunciation, even
after you take away four
of its five letters?
Q. The complexity for minimum
component costs has increased at
8 a rate of roughly a factor of two
per year ... Certainly over the
short term this rate can be
expected to continue, if not to
increase. Over the longer term,
the rate of increase is a bit more
uncertain, although there is no
reason to believe it will not remain
nearly constant for at least 10
years. That means by 1975, the
number of components per
integrated circuit for minimum
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9 In 1971, while
investigating ways and
means to improve and
develop the Arpanet,
Ray Tomlinson (person in
the pic) developed a
certain symbol or sign
which has gone on to
become something that
we use almost everyday.
What symbol did he
introduce into the
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.10*
Connect the following :
Clippit, The Dot, Hoverbot, The
Genius, Mother Nature, Scribble,
Power Pup, Will, F1, Lynks,Rocky,
Bosgrove,Genie,Kairu,Max,Peedy,
Robby.
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11
Who was the Time Magazine
person of the year in 1982?
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.12

Identify the product.

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13 In which famous video game would
you find these characters :

Chaser (Red color)

Ambusher(Pink color)
Fickle(Cyan color)
Stupid (Orange color)
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.14 What is the biggest number that can
be written with four 1's without
using factorial?
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15

Identify this person.

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.16
This is a standard specification that
defines a cross platform API
developed by Silicon Graphics Inc
for producing 2D and 3D graphics.
What is it?
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17
In mathematical terms, what is a
googolplex?
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Which is the world’s largest
distributed computing system?
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.19
What is the last digit of the
sequence
101^101*202^202*303^303...........
.........909^909
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.20
If Tommy Vercetti : GTA Vice City ::
Niko Bellic : ?
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.21
Along with the IMAP protocol, this
protocol is the most widely used in
emailing systems to retrieve emails
from a remote server over a TCP/IP
connection. Name this.
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.22*
Connect :

Banias, Tumwater, Granite Bay, Salt

Creek, Allendale, Tanglewood and
Covington
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.23

Name this famous machine.

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.24
A human judge engages in a natural
language conversation with one
human and one machine, each of
which try to appear human; if the
judge cannot reliably tell which is
which, then the machine is said to
pass the test.” What test is being
talked about?
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.25
What word related to the computing
fraternity was crowned as the word
of the year in 2007 by merriam-
webster’s dictionary?
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.26
Daughter of the 18th century English
poet, Lord Byron, this person is
nicknamed as the world’s first
programmer. She was responsible for
developing programs which could be
run on the Analytical engine
conceived by Charles Babbage. Who
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.27
This feature of a particular software
was quoted by Smithsonian magazine
as “one of the worst software design
blunders in the annals of computing”.
After the feature was released, it
received wide criticism from the users
and hence the feature was removed
from the later editions of the
software. In fact, this feature during
its development phase was
codenamed TFC(The F****** Clown).