IT Quiz

F I N A L S

Mario Dcunha
TechNidarshan 2012
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1 QUESTION PER TEAM +20 -0

PASS +10, DOUBLE ON PASS +20, -10

TEAM 1 STARTS
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Iceweasel.
Icedove.
Iceape.
Iceowl.

Icecream….
Haha no! I’m joking!
Just connect the first four.
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Rebranding of Mozilla Corporation products by
The Debian Project
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The American Farm Bureau Federation,
commonly known as Farm Bureau, is a nonprofit
organization and the largest general farm
organization in the US. They work to strengthen
the lives of rural Americans and to build strong,
prosperous agricultural communities.

X, a $billion company paid $8.5M to buy one of

its domains. Id X and the domain.
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Facebook Inc. bought fb.com
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Corbis Corp., Seattle, Washington licenses the
rights to photos, footage, visual media with a
collection of 100M+ images and 500K video
clips. It’s ‘GreenLight’ division handles content
licensing, rights representation, talent
negotiations including the personality rights of
Bruce Lee, Johnny Cash, Steve McQueen, the
Wright brothers and Albert Einstein.

Who owns Corbis Corp.?

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Bill Gates
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Zuse. Colossus. Harvard Mark 1.

Connect.
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First ever Programmable computers.

1931 Atanasoff–Berry Computer was non-programmable

1941 Konrad Zuse's Z3 - the world's first operational computer.
1943 The British Colossus computers - the world's first electronic computer.
1944 The Harvard Mark I
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His Twitter Bio: @ReallyVirtual - An IT consultant
taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the
mountains with his laptops.
He became instantly famous on May 2nd, 2011
when he first broke the shocking news to the
world by live-tweeting!

What was the breaking news?

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Sohaib Athar
live-tweeted a series of helicopter flypasts and
explosion, unwittingly covered the US forces
helicopter raid on Osama Bin Laden’s
compound, Abbottabad, northern Pakistan.

He was the first to report about the Operation

Neptune Spear
 Audience
• Nischal Shetty is a 2008 pass out of NMAMIT
Nitte 
• His claim to fame is a twitter application X
which got featured on TechCrunch.com as
soon as it was launched. Quite recently he hit
1 million users mark and got featured on
CNBC young turks.

Id X.
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JustUnfollow.com
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10 QUESTIONS

2 PER TEAM, +20 -10

NO PASS, NO DOUBLE

TEAM 2 STARTS
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Sony Xperia T, The Bond Phone
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The Ukrainian city of Odessa unveiled the
world’s second public monument to the late
Apple Inc. co-founder, titled "Thanks, Steve!". It
was welded from bits of scrap metal, including,
but not limited to, screws, nuts, bearings and
even an ax, and is illuminated at night by white-
and-blue lights.
The first one’s in Hungary.
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Wikileaks
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The Infinite Loop, Apple Inc.,
Cupertino, California
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Duke, mascot of Java
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Google’s Sergey Brin, Project Glass
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Professor Scott Fahlman, first created :-) hieroglyphic
when he included it in an email on Sep19th, 1982
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This picture of Les Horribles Cernettes was the
first photographic image to be published on
the World Wide Web in 1992.
From left: Angela Higney, Michele de Gennaro,
Colette Marx-Neilsen, Lynn Veronneau.
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Apple’s to-be-built Spaceship Campus,
California
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5 QUESTIONS ON BUZZER

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Id the occasion for these first 10-day statistics

• Total No. of Tweets: 2,84,42,407

• Average Tweets per minute: 1,975
• Tweets at peak time, per min: 13,366
The Royal Wedding had only 6,369 per min.
• Most RT’d: @TeamGB “If you think Danny
Boyle, thousands of volunteers & and all
associates with ‘Isles of Wonder’ did us proud
tonight”
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The London Olympics 2012

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"Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)" a song by Spiller,
featuring vocals by British singer-songwriter
Sophie Ellis-Bextor. The single was released in
August 2000 by Positiva Records. It peaked at #1
in the UK, New Zealand, Ireland and Australia, as
well as charting at number three on the
American Hot Dance Chart.

What historically significant role did this song

play?
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The song was tested on the iPod during its prototyping

phase, making it the first ever song on an iPod.
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Within a duration of four days the GOI blocked
Twitter accounts of journalists, Kanchan Gupta,
Shiv Aroor & Pravin Togadia. It also blocked the
website of RSS, articles from Wikipedia & news
reports of X on the websites of TOI, Firstpost,
The Daily Telegraph & Al-Jazeera.

On what reason X, did GOI do this…?

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Assam ethnic violence and hate content

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• In 1967, Damyanti Gupta aimed to become an
Engineer at Ford Motor Company, Detroit
• There were no female engineers there then, but
Damyanti was hired as Ford’s first-ever female
engineer.
• She inspired Reshma Saujani to found X, a New York-
based initiative to help teach girls to code so that
they pursue careers in technology/engineering.
• This has got the steadfast support of a number of
companies, including Google, GE, eBay and Twitter.
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GirlsWhoCode.com
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• X launched Y in 2003, and was a runaway hit
• 250 million units were sold making it the
world's best-selling mobile phone.
• Designed in X’s Design Center in California by
the Bulgarian-American designer Miki
Mehandjiysky.
• X's one billionth phone sold was a Y, 2005.

Id Y.
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Yoda Conditions & Pokemon Exception Handling
 X Y Z
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1 QUESTION EACH

+10 FOR EACH ANSWER

+50 FOR CRACKING X, Y, Z

TEAM 3 STARTS
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• The X movement, an offshoot of Y, published
about 1million UDIDs of Z devices last month.
• X claimed the material had come from a
laptop belonging to an FBI officer; FBI denied
that.
• FBI confirmed that "BlueToad was where the
information was actually compromised".

Id X, Y, Z
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They hacked iOS devices through iOS apps
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• X confirmed that album Y will be a "multimedia
experience" to be released in spring 2013.
• "The most major way to fully immerse yourself in
Y is through Z"
• Content will include extra music, videos, chat
options and games.
• X is renowned for interacting with fans via X’s
own social networking site, Little Monsters, and
Twitter.
Id X, Y, Z
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Lady Gaga is launching her next album ARTPOP
as a mobile app
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• X, co-founder of Y has been named as the 70th recipient of Z
on October 25th 2012.
• X was recognized for establishing a foundation that forges
outstanding improvements in healthcare, social rehabilitation,
rural uplift and education.
• Z is administered by a board comprising of The American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Civil
Engineers, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the
American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum
Engineers and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers.

Id X, Y, Z
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Narayan Murthy, co-founder of Infosys, is the
70th recipient of the Hoover Medal.
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• X and Henrique De Castro were previously
long-time executives for Z.
• Currently, X is the youngest CEO of a Fortune
500 company Y, since July 17th 2012, and
Henrique is the new COO of Y.
• X is ranked number 14 on America's most
powerful businesswoman of 2012 by Fortune
magazine.

Id X, Y, Z
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Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo! from Google.
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• The alleged attack on X was by people with inside
access to the company's networks during an Islamic
holiday wiping out data on 75% of the firm's
computers using a virus called Shamoon.
• “Cutting Sword of Justice” claimed responsibility
• Suspicions that Y performed the attacks partly came
from researchers who noticed that the erasing
component inside of Shamoon borrowed the name
"Wiper" from the US-developed Z worm.

Id X, Y, Z
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The cyber-attack on Saudi Aramco, Saudi’s state-
owned Oil Company, allegedly by Iran

This was allegedly, in retaliation to US-Israeli

cyber-attack ‘Stuxnet’ and ‘Flame’ on Iran’s
Nuclear Program
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• This 2010 Indian anthology film has 4 short films:
Abhimanyu, Omar, Megha and Afia based on child abuse,
gay rights, Kashmiri pandits and sperm donation
respectively.
• It has won the Best Film Award while Z bagged the Best
Actress award for her performance in the film at the 13th
London Asian Film Festival for her character of Megha.
Released in India on April 22, 2011.
• It’s the 1st mainstream Hindi film that is crowd-sourced
through Twitter and Facebook and director Y offered
backers co-production credit in the film and a share in the
profits.
Id X, Y, Z
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I am, Onir, Juhi Chawla
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1 QUESTION EACH

SCORING TEAMS WILL PLAY FOR BUZZER BONUS

SCORE +20 -10, BONUS +20

TEAM 4 STARTS
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Celebrity sites on GoDaddy’s DNS servers went
down as the result of an Anonymus hack-attack.
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NoSQL Databases
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The protest against SOPA by IT Biggies like
Google, Wikipedia

Lamar Seeligson Smith is the U.S.

Representative (Republican) for Texas's
21st congressional district, serving since
1987.
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Nokia
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Lucid Lynx
Maverick Meerkat
Natty Narwhal
Oneiric Ocelot
Precise Pangolin
Quantal Quetzal
Raring Ringtail
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Ubuntu OS release versions

Dapper Drake, Edgy Eft, Feisty Fawn, Gutsy

Gibbon, Hardy Heron, Intrepid Ibex, Jaunty
Jackalope, Karmic Koala, Lucid Lynx,
Maverick Meerkat, Natty Narwhal, Oneiric
Ocelot, Precise Pangolin, Quantal Quetzal,
Raring Ringtail
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MAX 3 QUESTIONS EACH, ONLY IF PREVIOUS IS CORRECT

+20 FOR 1ST, 2ND QUESTION EACH

THE 3RD QUESTION GAMBLE: +60, -40

TEAM 5 STARTS
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Co-founder of this popular file-sharing website,
Gottfrid Warg, has been arrested in Cambodia.
An international warrant was issued against him
in April by his native Sweden. He had failed to
show up for the start of his one-year jail term for
copyright violations. The site was founded in
2003, and claims to have more than 30M users
worldwide.

What is this site?

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Pirate Bay
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X is the world's most used open source RDBMS.
It is named after co-founder Michael Widenius'
daughter.
X was owned and sponsored by a single for-
profit Swedish firm, but is now owned by Y.

Id X.
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MySQL

It is named after co-founder Michael

Widenius' daughter, My.
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• Germany’s Samwer Brothers - Alexander, Oliver and Marc -
famous for creating replicas of well-established sites across
the world
• They are the expertise behind 3 recent players in the Indian e-
tailing space, FabFurnish, HeavenandHome and X.
• Xerion Retail Private Limited is the parent company of both X
and FabFurnish, which in turn is funded by the Samwer
Brothers Group.
• X is the company’s flagship venture in the Indian e-tailing
space which was started in late 2011-early 2012, and has
already established itself as a player to be reckoned with.
• Id X.
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Held last month it made itself into the Guinness
Book of World Records for the maximum
number of developers coding for a single event
at a common location. The total number of
coders was logged at 2567 by the Guinness
officials present at the venue, although the
initial number expected was around 3500.

What’s this event and where was it held?

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Windows App Fest, Microsoft’s 18 hour nonstop
marathon coding festival, Bangalore, India
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X, the Chinese company best known for
manufacturing the iPhone/iPad, had shut down
one of its factories after a fight erupted among
nearly 2,000 people. Bloomberg pointed out
that it all started between rival worker groups in
X's dorms.
With X’s 79,000 employees, the halt of this one
facility did not affect iOS device manufacturing
in a major way.
What’s X?
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Foxconn
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• In August, Electronic Arts filed a lawsuit
against social gaming giant Zynga for its new
Facebook game X.
• Zynga responded by accusing EA of copying
Activision’s 'Little Computer People' when it
created Y to begin with. It also accused EA of
copying Zynga itself.

Which are these games, X and Y?

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‘The Ville’ and ‘The Sims’
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The UIDAI awarded the contract to X to
implement the core biometric identification
system for the “Aadhaar” project; the largest
identity management program in the world.
X’s team includes Daon, a leading global
provider of biometric technologies & MindTree,
a Bangalore-based global IT company that
delivers innovative technology solutions.
Which is the X company?
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Accenture
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X project was to be a version of Mac OS running
as a GUI on Intel-compatible x86 PCs on top of
Novell's next in-development version of the DR
DOS operating system in a similar fashion as
Microsoft Windows 3.x would run on top of
DOS.
The project was named after X, the science
fiction franchise with the slogan "To boldly go
where no Mac has gone before."
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Star Trek Project
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More than 8M people watched LIVE this
unbelievable record-breaking event, in turn
setting another record for the largest number of
concurrent live streams in the YouTube's history.
Beating this, about 8.3M people accessed BBC’s
sport website on the first day of the London
Olympic Games.

Who made what record-breaking event?

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Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner, with his
“edge of space” stunt broke the record for the
highest free-fall (128,100ft), including most
number of concurrent live streams.
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The QR Code was invented in Japan by the X
subsidiary Y in 1994 to track vehicles during the
manufacturing process, and was originally
designed to allow components to be scanned at
high speed.
It has since become one of the most popular
types of two-dimensional barcodes.

What is X and Y?
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Toyota and Denso Wave
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• Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov, Russian computer
engineer, now in US, developed the popular
game X while working for the Dorodnitsyn
Computing Centre of the Soviet Academy of
Sciences.
• Since rights were owned by the Soviet Govt.,
he got royalties only later in 1996 when he
and Henk Rogers formed The X Company.
What’s X?
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Tetris, the Tetris Company
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Established in 1996 through Nelson Gonzalez
and Alex Aguila, X assembles desktops,
notebooks, and workstations. According to
employees, X got its name because of the
founders' fondness for the hit television series
The X-Files, hence the theme to their products,
with names such as Area-51, Hangar18 and
Aurora.

Id X.
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The X Awards are honors for top short-form
content creators on the micro-blogging website
Twitter. The awards have primarily been
sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight
Foundation.
Since their creation in 2008, the awards have
expanded to recognize content creation on
other social networking sites, including Tumblr,
Foursquare, and Facebook.
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One day, people from the VIA association, part
of the X free-open-source project came back
drunk with a traffic cone. They then began a
cone collection.
So later one day, the X project was done and
they decided to use the cone as their logo.
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The VLC Media Player
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It was founded in 2001 and the game studio is
currently based in Brisbane, Australia and has
offices in Sydney, Spain and San Francisco. It has
developed Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride
franchises.

What is X?
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X is one of the oldest industrial exhibitions in
Germany. Today it is one of world's leading trade
shows for consumer electronics and home
appliances.
The last event was held from 31 August, to 5
September 2012 in Berlin where Dell launched
its Win8 machines, Sony launched its flagship
Xperia phones, and many more.

What is X?
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The IFA or Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin
('Berlin Radio Show')
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30 SECONDS, 5 QUESTIONS,

SCORE +20, -10,

IF ALL RIGHT, +TIME REMAININGx10

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