Senior Quiz prelims (with answers) from Digilogous2014 held at Rukmini Devi Public School

1. SENIOR QUIZ PRELIMS
digilogous-2014

5. QUESTION MARK-II
What is the Digilogous's favourite energy source?

6. QUESTION ONE
• This widely criticised Microsoft product had a
codename “Utopia”. Identify.

7. ANSWER
• Microsoft B.O.B

8. QUESTION TWO
• This company is popularly known as the world’s
first company to offer quantum computing
solutions commercially. In 2011, it announced it’s
first quantum computer based on neodymium
loops, having 128 qubits. Founded by Haig Farris,
Geordie Rose, and Bob Weins, it’s computers
were recently bought for bombastic prices by
organisations like NASA, Google, Lockheed
Martin, and USRA. What company?

9. ANSWER
• D-Wave Systems

10. QUESTION THREE
• While examinations are going on in India,
copying and cheating is often
discouraged. But one technology
company put out an advertisement for
which it got an international award. It
advertised “We encourage copying”.
Which company?

11. ANSWER
• Xerox, of course!

12. QUESTION FOUR
• This is a data centre of what?

13. • Internet Archive. The man is Brewster
Kahle

14. QUESTION FIVE
• Who is he? Which controversial service
did he start in 2013?

15. • Chaitanya Khanojia, the founder of Aereo

16. QUESTION SIX
• When a 1981 video game called Radar Scope
sold poorly, Nintendo suddenly had 2,000 empty
arcade-game cabinets to fill. At the same time, a
deal with King Features to make a Popeye
Nintendo game fell apart, so staff designer
Shigeru Miyamoto used the Popeye love triangle
for inspiration: Popeye, his girlfriend Olive Oyl,
and brute Bluto became various characters. What
was the name of the new game?

17. QUESTION SEVEN
• Who is he?

18. ANSWER : EUGENE GOSTMAN
CHATBOT (PASSED THE
TURING TEST)

19. QUESTOIN EIGHT
• Whose last tweet?

20. ANSWER : EVAN BLASS
(@EVLEAKS)

21. QUESTION NINE
Condescending Wonka,Conspiracy Keanu,scumbag
Steve,Confession Bear. what are these?

22. ANSWER : MEMES

23. QUESTION TEN
x , a CS grad from Stanford was google's very first
employee. x was instrumental in creating the search
engine that has built Google into one of the world's leading
tech companies. Later, he left google and joined Khan
Academy. Id x

24. ANSWER : CRAIG
SILVERSTEIN

25. QUESTION ELEVEN
Soon after the introduction of the HTC Dream, a method was
discovered to attain privileged control (termed "root access")
within Android's Linux-based subsystem.Having root access,
combined with the open source nature of the Android
operating system, allowed the phone's stock firmware to be
modified and re-installed onto the phone.
In the following year, several modified firmwares for the
Dream were developed and distributed by Android
enthusiasts. One, maintained by a developer named
JesusFreke, quickly became popular among Dream owners.
In August 2009, JesusFreke stopped work on his firmware,
and suggested users switch to another version that had been
further enhanced by developer Steve Kondik. what was that
new version called?

26. ANSWER : CYANOGEN
MOD

27. QUESTION TWELVE
• What is this potato salad doing in a tech quiz?

28. ANSWER : GATHERED HUGE
FUNDS ON KICKSTARTER

29. QUESTION THIRTEEN
• This new media player app, available for
various platforms, has been described as
“Hollywood’s worst nightmare’. It is a free
alternative to streaming media subscription
services like NetFlix, and made waves in the
film industry because it ‘made torrenting as
simple as paying for content’.
It’s mascot is called “Pochoclin”. Which app?

30. ANSWER : POPCORN TIME

31. QUESTION FOURTEEN
• There is one Indian in the “Internet Hall of
Fame”. His name is Dr. Srinivasan
Ramani. What did he create to get his
place there?

32. • Answer : Created India's academic
network, ERNET

33. Question Fifteen
X is an accessibility feature to help Windows users who
have physical disabilities, but it is also used by others as a
means to reduce repetitive strain injury (or a syndrome
called the Emacs Pinky).
It essentially enables the user to press keys in a serial order
instead of pressing multiple keys at a time: X allows the user
to press and release a modifier key, and have it remain
active until any other key is pressed. Microsoft first
introduced X with Windows 95.
This feature does not go well with a certain group of users,
especially those who loved to use a popular program by
Jordan Mechner.
What is X?

34. ANSWER : STICKY KEYS

35. QUESTION SIXTEEN
• This person came in a bunny suit on the stage
in one of the Apple's keynote when apple
announced a replacement related to hardware
in their macbook pro. identify the person.

36. • Paul Otellini , Intel CEO

37. QUESTION SEVENTEEN
• X is an E-commerce and online travel
organization founded in January 2007 by
Ashish Kashyap. X started as a social
network in 2007 and pivoted to an e-commerce
and travel organization. It
recently acquired the company redbus.in
and also launched a payment gateway
innovation called y

38. • X is Ibibo
• Y is PayU

39. QUESTION EIGHTEEN
• In 2012, Skype, as a part of it’s
marketing campaign, launched a
ridiculous new way for conveying one’s
message. They felt that the
conventional methods for conveying
emotion through the web were not
competent enough, and required a more
touching experience. What was this
called?

40. • Humoticons

41. QUESTION NINETEEN
• There's a lot of hoopla about Hollywood and Silicon Valley converging.
They call it "X" I think. Y is really going to be the first digital studio in the
whole world. It really combines art and technology together. Again in a very
wonderful way. Y's got by far and away the best computer graphics talent in
the entire world and it now has the best animation and artistic talent in the
whole world to do these kinds of film. We have the second largest group of
animators in the world outside of Disney and we think the most talented in
the world working side by side with these computer scientists, the best
graphics people in the world. There's really no one else in the world who
could do this stuff. It's really phenomenal. We're probably close to ten years
ahead of anybody else.
• These are lines from an interview with Steve Jobs.Now, ID X and Y

42. QUESTION TWENTY
• X is a non-profit organization and eponymous website led by brothers
Hadi and Ali Partovi that aims to encourage people, particularly school
students in the United States, to learn to code.The website includes free
coding lessons, and the initiative also targets schools.On December 9,
2013, they launched the Hour of Code 2013 challenge nationwide to
promote computer science during computer science week until
December 15, 2013.
• Previous year they came up with a video titled 'What Most Schools dont
Teach'. The video includes the likes of Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg,
Twitter and Square creator Jack Dorsey, musician Will.i.am, Valve co-founder
Gabe Newell,and Dropbox co-founder Drew Houston,

43. • Code.org

44. QUESTION TWENTY ONE
Whats the pic showing?(i need you to be as precise as possible)

45. BILL GATES’S SETUP FOR
ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE

46. QUESTION TWENTY TWO
• <<insert answer here>> is a Brazilian computer
scientist, technology executive and entrepreneur.
He is currently Vice President of International for a
chinese mobile company.
• From 2008 to 2013, he served in a number of
product management roles at Google in London
and California, including Vice President and
product spokesman of Google's Android division.
• Who is <<insert answer here>>?

47. • Hugo Barra

48. QUESTION TWENTY THREE
• Well first of all it was a totally 'plug and play' machine. Except
for Macintosh, that's hard to find. It's an extremely powerful
machine, way beyond the Macintosh. So it sort of nicely
combined the power of the workstations with the 'plug and
playness' of the Mac. Second of all, the machine had a fit and
finish that you don't find today. Of course the Z Computer was
also the first computer with built-in high quality sound, CD
quality sound. Most people do that now. It took them a long
time but most people do that. It was just ahead of its time.
• Who said it? About what?

49. • Steve Jobs on NeXt computer

50. QUESTION 24
X was founded in August 2001 by Michael Robertson
with the goal of developing a Linux-based operating
system capable of running major Microsoft Windows
applications. It based its Windows compatibility on the
Wine API. Later the name X was changed to Linspire
due to copyright issues with Windows. ID x.

51. • Lindows

52. SCRAPPED EXTRA
QUESTIONS

53. QUESTION TWENTY
• This is an augmented reality ad on a bus stop
in London. By whom?

54. SOME ADS WE CAN FRAME
QUESTIONS ON

55. QUESTION EIGHTEEN
• what is the name of this computer (yes this is a
computer)?

56. QUESTION EIGHTEEN
Identify the person OR name the company he founded

57. ANSWER
Markus Persson, the founder of Mojang

58. QUESTION FIFTEEN
In April 2014, three companies, HTC, Samsung and Toshiba
accidentally pulled the same April Fools prank. What was
the prank about?

59. ANSWER
Smart gloves

60. QUESTION SIXTEEN
Planetary Resources Inc. is a company started by x and
y in 2010. Its stated goal is to “expand Earth’s natural
resource base” by developing and deploying the
technologies for asteroid mining.Identify x and y

61. ANSWER
Larry Page and Sergey Brin