TECH-SCIENZA

FINALS
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 ROUND 1
• Infinite Bounce
• +10,0
 1.Lets start off with a video.
This is a video called THE CHASE. What is it about??
 ANSWER
• A tough one… The INTEL i5 processor
 2.
• A X is a means of automatically generating challenges
which intends to - Provide a problem easy enough for all
humans to solve & Prevent standard automated software
from giving the responses, This has the benefit of
distinguishing humans from computers A check box in a form
that reads "check this box please" is the simplest (and
perhaps least effective) form of a X .
Most X display distorted text that is difficult to read by
character recognition software . It also creates incentive to
further develop artificial intelligence of computers.In case of
disability (specifically to the blind), X provides an audio
version. A newer version has been developed to help digitize
the text of books and is currently digitizing the archives of
The New York Times.
 ANSWER
CAPTCHA - (Completely Automated Public
Turing test to tell Computers and Humans
Apart)
 3.
Connect
Clippit, The Dot, Merlin, Mother Nature, Links
the Cat and Rocky the Dog. Since their
introduction, some more have been added to
this list-- Bosgrove a butler, Genie ,Kairu
the Dolphin, Max, Peedy a green parrot,
Robby a robot, Merlin a wizard.
All are Office assistants
 4.
Founded by three former employees of PayPal, the San Bruno-
based service utilizes Adobe Flash technology. The company
was named TIME magazine's "Invention of the Year" for 2006.
In its early stages it was one of the fastest-growing websites
on the World Wide Web, and was ranked as the 5th most
popular website on Alexa, far outpacing even MySpace's
growth. The site has almost 20 million visitors each month,
according to Nielsen/NetRatings.It was criticized in the
beginning as its running costs — specifically the bandwidth
required were as high as US$1 million per-month,thereby
fuelling criticisms that the company, like many internet start-
ups, did not have a viably implemented business model.

Which site is this?

5.What in the world of technology is
this???
• STEEL VELCRO
 6.QM question 
What is so special about this cycle??
 ANSWER
• This bicycle is the first in the world to be
created simply by printing it out on a
computer, using groundbreaking new
technology.  
• Scientists designed the bike on a computer
and sent it to a printer, which placed layers
of melted nylon powder on top of each other
to build-up the machine
 7.
Research in Motion (RIM) is a Canadian wireless
device company headquartered in Waterloo,
Ontario. It was founded by Mike Lazaridis,
who currently serves as its co-CEO along with
Jim Balsillie. What is their most famous
product?
The Blackberry
 8.
It is a removable smart card, available in two standard
sizes the first the size of a credit card (85.60 mm ×
53.98 mm x 0.76 mm), while its more popular mini
version has a width of 25 mm, a height of 15 mm,
and a thickness of 0.76 mm. Its operating systems
come in two main flavors: Native and Java. Native
are based on proprietary, vendor specific software
whereas, the Java are based on the Java
programming language. Java have the advantage of
being hardware independent and interoperable.
What is being talked about?
SIM cards
 9.
ambidextrous scallywags, illuminatus
ombudsman, fetishized armadillo and panfish
interrogation are examples of google whacks.
What is a google whack?
• A Googlewhack is a type of a contest for
finding a Google search query consisting of
exactly two words without quotation marks,
that returns exactly one hit!! 
10.Significance of this memo in
computers??
Picture of the world’s first computer bug!
 LVC
• Long Visual Connect
• 6 sets of 3 slides each… yeah.. It’s a bit
looonnngggg…
• +30/-15
• +25/-12.5
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• +15/-7.5
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• Newton per metre squared = ???
Its better late than Never!!

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 ALL are Programming Languages!! 

Babbage cola
Escher Corn
Alice Fly
Boomerang Java
Ladder Python
Cyclone PERL
Einstein Pascal
Mouse C
Grass
Eiffel
 ROUND 3
• One more infinite Bounce
• +10/0
 1.
• The earliest form of this game was a gambling game that was
briefly popular during the 1950s. The player would buy a
punchboard, which was made of paper and cardboard. The
top layer was cardboard with a square lattice of holes. The
holes were blocked by a layer of paper underneath. The
player could choose to punch the paper through any hole,
and would then see what was printed on a third layer of
cardboard underneath that hole. It revealed a color on the
cardboard. If the player succeeded in punching a sufficient
number of holes without punching a red hole, he/she could
return the board to the manufacturer for a prize. What is the
modern version?????
Minesweeper !
2. Connect the following companies(exhaustive) :
• Unitech group
• Swan telecom
• Loop mobile
• Videocon telecommunications
• S tel
• Reliance communications
• Sistema mobile russia
• Tata communications
• Vodafone Essar
• Dishnet wireless
• Alliance Infra
• 2G scam
 3.
• Pirates of the Silicon Valley is a 1999 film
based on the book Fire in the valley: The
making of the personal computer by Paul
Freiberger and Michael Swaine.It is a made for
television docudrama written and directed by
Martin Burke. What is the subject of this
film??
• Rivalry between Apple and microsoft
4.Whats being shown here??
Light Peak
Light Peak is the new high-speed optical cable
technology delivering high bandwidth starting at 10Gbps
with the potential ability to scale to 100Gbps over the
next decade.
 5.
In the 1930's, New Zealand had just two
computers. Something identical to the
machine in the image was one of them.
Identify the machine.
Babbage Difference engine
 6.
Responses by various companies in the wake of something,
questioning the fundamental strength of the internet:
Google: “Your query looks similar to automated requests
from a computer virus or spyware application"
AOL (after crashing for 40 minutes): "[it's a] seminal moment
in Internet history,... We've never seen anything like it in
terms of scope or depth.“
Google News, Yahoo!, MSNBC, LA Times,Wikipedia, CNET and
Twitter all crashed.
What caused all this?
Michael Jackson’s Death
7.The first logo of which famous company?
8. connect
ANSWER- CHROME Logo Origin
 9.
______________ was named after a late tenth century
king, Harald ______________, King of Denmark and
Norway. He is known for his unification of previously
warring tribes from Denmark (including now Swedish
Scania, and Norway. In 1998, Ericsson, IBM, Intel,
Toshiba, and Nokia, formed a consortium and
adopted the code name ______________ for their
proposed open specification. In December 1999,
3Com, Lucent Technologies, Microsoft, and Motorola
joined the initial founders as the promoter of
_____________ Special Interest Group (SIG).
 10.
• ____________is the world's 2nd largest optical
media manufacturer and supplies to the world's top
dozen brands.
• The company was founded in New Delhi in 1983 .
75% of its revenue come from exports. Although
most of that is from OEM products. The company
was among the first to set up a wholly-owned
subsidiary in 2005, to focus on the high-growth solar
energy segment in India.
• All of us have heard of this brand. Which?
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