Sharing the quiz questions for the IT quiz conducted by me earlier this month

1. WELCOME

2. KUMARANS
“THINK IT”
INTERSTREAM IT QUIZ –
SENIOR FINALS
10th Jan 2013
By
Suresh & Gowri

3. Format
• This quiz consists of Four rounds of
quizzing
• Rules for each round will be explained at
the beginning of the round
• Quiz master is God for the next hour or
so…

6. Rules
• This round consists of 6 questions
• You have to identify and write your answer
• + 5 for every correct answer
• If you get all 6 correct, a bonus of + 20
• No Negative marking in this round
• You can get a max of + 50 in this round

7. 1. What are these called?

8. 2. Identify

9. 3. What is this called?

10. 4. What does this do?

11. 5. Identify this logo

12. 6. Who is this?

13. Answers written?

14. 1. What are these called?

15. 1. What are these called?
Smart phone Apps

16. 2. Identify

17. 2. Identify
Bill Hewlett and David Packard created
HP

18. 3. What is this called?

19. 3. What is this called?
QR code (abbreviated from Quick Response Code) is the trademark
for a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional bar code) first designed for the
automotive industry in Japan.
Recently, the QR Code system has become popular
outside the automotive industry due to its fast readability and greater storage
capacity compared to standard UPC barcodes. The code consists of black
modules (square dots) arranged in a square pattern on a white background.

20. 4. What does this do?

21. 4. What does this do?
Nokia Wireless Charging Pillow by Fatboy

22. 5. Identify this logo

23. 5. Identify this logo
OPERA WEB BROWSER

24. 6. Who is this?

25. 6. Who is this?
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple

28. Rules
• This round consists of 16 questions on
Infinite Bounce
• The first 8 will be clock-wise and the next
8 will be anti-clock-wise
• + 10 for every correct answer
• No Negative marking in this round

29. Question 1

30. Google Glass
Project Glass is a research and development
program by Google to develop an augmented
reality head-mounted display (HMD).
Project Glass products would display
information in smart phone like format hands-
free and could interact with the Internet via
natural language voice commands

31. Question 2
X is a neologism (new term coinage), that
expresses the marriage of education and
entertainment in a work or presentation such as
a television program or a Web site.
Some of the examples of X on television as
children's programs are Sesame Street, The
Electric Company and some Outstanding Web
sites include Learn2.com and
HowStuffWorks.com.
Name X

32. Edutainment

33. Question 3
Connect
Advanced Step in
Innovative Mobility REEM COMAN
(ASIMO)

34. HUMANOIDS
A ‘Humanoid’ robot is a robot with its body shape built to
resemble that of the human body. It has a torso, a head, two
arms, and two leg and facial features such as eyes and mouths.
COMAN stands for “COmpliant huMANoid”, because this robot is
designed with passive compliance (via springs) in his joints. This
allows it to be more robust to environment perturbations (e.g.
walking on uneven ground), to be safer for human-robot
interaction (soft to touch), to be more energy-efficient, and to
perform more dynamic motions (e.g. jumping, running).

35. Question 4
Why was this in the news
recently?

36. Bal Thackeray’s death
When Shaheen Dhada of Palghar, Maharashtra
questioned (posted this on Facebook) the shutdown
in Mumbai after Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray's
death, she was arrested.
Her 20-year-old friend Renu Srinivasan 'liked' the
status and was arrested too.
Both of them became an overnight sensation.

37. Question 5
What was so special about the shop
that opened in Helsinki on
November 11th 2011 at 11:11 am
local time?

38. “The first Angry Birds RETAIL
store was opened in Finland ”

39. 6. Connect

40. Facebook paid $ 1 Billion to acquire Instagram founded
by Kevin Systrom and Cheyenne Foster in April 2012
Instagram is an online photo-sharing and social networking
service that enables its users to take a picture, apply a digital
filter to it, and share it on a variety of social networking
services, including its own.

41. Question 7
Google Trends - Zeitgeist 2012
The Top 4 Trending under “Searches”
No. 1 was Whitney Houston
No. 2 was Gangnam Style
No. 3 was Hurricane Sandy
Which was the No.4 search of 2012?

42. iPad 3

43. Question 8
A technology which has Electro-magnetic antennas placed
around the goalposts and crossbar to create a sort of invisible
curtain of a low-power magnetic field.
The ball has electronic probes fitted in between the inflatable
inner and the leather outer lining, meaning that the system
knows as soon as it crosses the line. A signal is then sent to
the referee's watch, notifying a goal.
Name this goal line technology which was approved for
match Testing by FIFA in 2012

44. Goal Ref was one of the Goal
Line Technologies tried out by
FIFA at the Club World Cup in
Japan in 2012

46. Question 9

48. Advertisement for Google Nexus 7 Phone

49. Question 10
This is one of the cheapest nuclear
technology you can own in your house -
a chunk of americium-241.
The element's radioactive particles
generate a small electric current. When
this flow of current is disrupted in the
chamber it triggers a safety alarm which
is life saving.
Name this gadget.

50. Smoke Detector

51. Question 11
Identify

52. It is an Internet Search Engine like
Google. However it values Online Privacy
and does not store personal information

53. Question 12
In Oct 2012, Collin Anderson an
independent security researcher
from Washington DC
announced that Iran is close to
creating a “Halal Internet”.
What is “Halal Internet”?

54. Halal Internet is a religiously acceptable
internal network isolated from the World
Wide Web which is being created by Iran.
Its purpose, they claim, would be to provide
national cyber security and promote Islamic
moral values.
It is nothing but the country’s plan for a
nationwide intranet separated from the
World Wide Web

55. Question 13
• The _____________ website hosts free user-
generated classified advertisements for urban
communities around the world and provides
discussion forums sorted by various topics
• Display your classifieds on your social networking
profile
• It was co-founded in March 2006 by Internet
entrepreneurs Fabrice Grinda and Alec Oxenford
• This website is used in over 96 countries in 40
languages

56. OLX

57. Question 14
• Founded in 1956, Roke Manor Research Limited is a UK
company based at Hampshire.
• It is a contract research and development business for
communications, networks, and electronic sensors
• One of it Products Hostile Artillery Location system
(HALO) an acoustic locator of Guns & Mortars used by
the British Army.
• Won the 2000 Worldaware Innovation Award for work on
land mine clearance
• It has several other Products which are used by Defence
forces
• However its most famous product is not used in Defence
but in an altogether different segment and a different
purpose
• What famous product are we talking about?

58. Hawk-Eye Technology used in
Cricket, Tennis

59. Question 15

60. BUMP
Bump is an application created by Bump
Technologies for the Apple's iOS and
Google's Android operating systems.
It allows two smart phone users to bump
their phones together to transfer contact
information, photos and other objects to
each other over the Internet.

61. Question 16
Deepinder Goyal, in 2008 when he was
working with Bain and Company, a
management consulting firm, was joined by
his 2 juniors from college, Pankaj Chaddah
and Gunjan Patidar who helped in building
this database of restaurants & menu cards.
They then launched this database as
foodiebay.com
Today this database covers 56,200+ restaurants
in 17 cities in 3 countries - India (13), UAE (3)
and Sri Lanka (1)
Name this company which is now known by a
different name

62. Question 16
Zomato.com

65. Rules
• This round consists of 10 questions on
Buzzer
• Questions are on logos related to IT
• Negative marking in this round
• + 10 for every correct answer
• - 10 for every incorrect guess / answer

66. 1. Identify

67. Blogger.com

68. 2. Identify

70. 3. Identify

72. 4. Identify

74. 5. Identify

76. 6. Identify

78. 7. Identify

79. ADOBE

80. 8. Identify

82. 9. Identify

84. 10. Identify

88. Rules
• 3 sets of statements have something in common
• You have to identify the hidden “Theme” in
these set of questions and write your answer
• If you guess the correct answer after
– 1st set + 60 points
– 2nd set + 40 points
– 3rd set + 20 points
• There is a constant negative of 20 points for
wrong guesses (-20 points)
• You can do any number of guesses

89. SET 1
• Initially they used word of mouth marketing to
popularize their company / website. The website sold
its first book in 2007 “John Woods' Leaving Microsoft
to Change the World”
• It has made quite a few acquisitions since its launch
notable among them being WeRead (2010),
Mime360 & chakpak.com (2011), Letsbuy.com
(2012)
• In February 2012, the company revealed its new
Flyte Digital Music Store a legal music download
service in the vein of iTunes and Amazon.com. Flyte
offers browse by language options where users can
download international as well as regional songs

90. SET 2
• This company was founded in 2007 by 2 IIT, Delhi
Graduates. They worked for Amazon.com before quitting
and founding their own company
• Today, as per Alexa traffic rankings, it is among the top 20
Indian Web sites and has been credited with being India's
largest online bookseller with over 11 million titles on offer
• It pioneered the “Cash-on-Delivery” model in India which
has significantly helped its growth

91. SET 3
• The company claims to have had at least 100% growth
every quarter since its inception
• It started with selling books and in 2010 branched out to
selling CDs, DVDs, mobile phones and accessories,
cameras, computers, computer accessories and
peripherals
• In 2011, pens & stationery, other electronic items such as
home appliances, kitchen appliances, personal care
gadgets, health care products etc. were added and in it
started selling A.C, air coolers, school supplies, office
supplies, art supplies & life style products to its product
portfolio
• As of today, it employs over 4500 people

92. FLIPKART

93. PLEASE WAIT TILL THE
SCORES ARE TABULATED

94. AND THE WINNER IS…

96. 2. Identify