PRELIM

Q1. Identify the company and what does it make?

[Skyfire—develops mobile web browser for Android and iOS

platforms]

Q2. X is an action game for the Atari 2600 programmed by Douglas Neubauer. It is also
a Famous Operating system. What am I talking about? [solaris]

Q3. Connect the following.

ts
Bo

[Honeycomb+Zoom(lense)+sanjay jha (CEO of Motorola)=Motorola XOOM tablet]

al
rtu
Vi
 Q4. What is the name of this dinosaur and for which community does he work for?

[Konqi
[Konqi—KDE]

Q5. X was a chief technologi

technologist at Xerox PARC and he is also known as the father of
"Ubiquitous Computing" as he coined this term in 1988. Identify X. [Mark Weiser]

Q6. Qualcomm recently bought which Wi

Wi-Fi chip maker for $3.1 Billion? [Atheros]

Q7. Volta Bureau is better known as? [Bell Labs]

Q8. X and Y were students at the Waterloo University in 1980, they both started an OS
developing company, Quantum Software Systems. In 1982 the first version of one of
their products was released for Intel 8088 CPU. [Gordon Bell and Dan Dodg
Dodge.. They
developed QNX whose version is now powering BlackBerry Playbook]

Q9. Name the image format pronounced as Weppy owned by a huge web giant?
[WebP—Google]

Q10. All The Dynamic Content such as images, sound files used in all Wikimedia projects
are handled
andled by one single Wikimedia project. Name the Project. (No need to Google it,
ts

It’s a sitter!) [Wikimedia Commons]

Bo

Q11. A wildbeast initiated by Richard Stallman. What does this statement signify? [GNU
public license]

Q12. This Company was founded in 2008. It Published Two Games with EA. Its second
al

game is the sequel of the first game and will be ‘unleashed’ in 2011. Name the
company. [Slightly Mad Studios and the game is NFS Shift]
rtu
Vi
 Q13. The Touch Features and gestures in the iPod Touch were developed by which
company? This Company is a subsidiary of Apple Inc. [Finger Works]

Q14. World’s first colored E ink reader is by which company? [CES] [Hanvon]

Q15. Connect

ts
Bo

[Dustin Moskovitz+Zuckerburg’s Gf+the main idea on which Facebook was based=FACEBOOK]

al
rtu
Vi
 Finals (Direct)
Q1. Gary Grossman designed an Object oriented programming language. The software which
uses this language is highly popular. Name the programming language. [ActionScript]

Q2. X is a joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment, Abu Dhabi Media and Universal
Media Group. They call this venture “Music Evolution Revolution!” Identify X. [VEVO]

Q3. X is a division and brand of Sonic Solutions. X’s products include PhotoShow, RecordNow,
CinemaNow. Identify X. [Roxio]

Q4. What is ‘abandonware’? [software that is no longer supported by its author]

Q5. This is a video compression format. It is developed by Xiph.Org Foundation. Its filename
extensions are .ogv and .ogg. What am I talking about? [theora]

Q6. X was announced at Game Developers Conference in 2009. Its original investors include
Maverick Capital, Autodesk and Warner Bros. The X gaming service was launched in the US on
June 17, 2010. Identify X. [Onlive]

Q7. Which computer was commissioned on May 17, 1943 as Project PX? [ENIAC]

Q8. The founder of this company was very fond of watching the hit television series The X-Files,
because of this fondness he kept the name of his company. This company is now a subsidiary
od Dell. Name the company. [Alienware]

Q9. In May 1997, DEC sued Intel for allegedly infringing on its Alpha microprocessor (the first
ts

commercially available 64-bit microprocessor) patents in designing which microprocessor of the

later? [Pentium]
Bo

Q10. It is free software application that allows programs written for Microsoft windows to run
on Unix like operating systems. What? [Wine]

Q11. Which image editor/organizer originally authored by IdeaLabs is sold as a freeware by

al

Google? [Picasa]

Q12. What would Microsoft’s logo signify if turns blue? (hint: think CLOUD) [Microsoft azure]
rtu
Vi
 Finals (FFF)
Q1. The Bluetooth logo was made by merging two alphabets in the Younger Furthak lingo.
Name the two alphabets. (don’t answer in Furthak :P , just two simple English alphabets) [H and
B]

Q2. He wrote the software, namely ANIMAL which self-replicated in the UNIVAC-1100
machines. Who am I talking about? [John Walker]

Q3. X lets you own a farm, a café, and even a Gangster! X’s age is 44 years currently. Identify X.
[mark pincus]

Q4. Tiger M@te, who recently hacked Google Bangladesh, has earlier hacked which Telecom
Giant’s website? [Airtel]

Q5. The name of this OS was derived from
, which is a Korean word for sea or ocean.
Which OS am I talking about? [bada OS]

Q6. "Another age must be the judge," when did Charles Babbage quote this line? [after the
failure of his Difference Engine model]

Q7. How did Yael Naim contribute her part to Apple?? [she sang the song for Macbook air
commercial]

Q8. In US the first commercial Android device was T-Mobile G1. But what was the first Android
device in Poland called? (No offence to New Era ;) ) [era G1]
ts

Q9. All iPads are dead But 3 Stars bring them to life. How? [A4 processor]
Bo

Q10. X is a computer programmer who at the age of 15 infected Apple II machines with a virus
and recently he created the first /search engine. Identify X. [Rich Skrenta]
al
rtu
Vi
 Visuals Round.

1. Identify the Logo

. [FreeBSD]

2. Name the smartphone.

ts

[Else Smartphone]
Bo

3. Identify the man.

al
rtu
Vi
 [pete cashmore]

4. Who is he? And what did he develop?

ts
Bo

[Mark Ewing]
al
rtu
Vi
 5. This gives you iPad like experience on you mac. Identify the
feature.

[Launchpad]

6. Identify the logo.

ts
Bo

[Open Handset Alliance]

al
rtu
Vi