This document summarizes the stages and questions of the finals round of a competition with 6 top teams. It includes 5 stages: 1) a visual round on cloud computing, 2) an automatic computing round, 3) a buzzer round with questions about TCS, 4) a parallel computing buzzer round, and 5) a final grid computing round to solve a single word answer using a formula and answers to 4 questions. The grid computing rounds covered topics in computer history, software, networking and web browsers.

1. THE FINALS : STAGE ROUND ( top 6 teams)
I. Cloud Computing (+10) – visual round
1. pic ? Andy Bechtolsheim // I got a cool TCS bag for answering this,
passed as audience question
2. pic and clue : look at the parking lot ? Bell Labs HQ. (there was a B
symbol in parking lot)
3. pic ? Ronald Wayne (the Apple guy)
4. pic : Google doodle having nature, identify the man ? Charles Darwin
5. pic : Apple logo with „Hold differently‟ written below ? iPhone4
antenna problem spoof
6. pic : new Palm logo, what‟s significance ? HP bought Palm recently
and changed the logo to HP style
II. Automatic Computing
1. What‟s blingtronics ? wearable electronics made of gold or diamonds
2. Connect these terms :
base,trigger,button,autofire,hatch,suction,throttle ? Joystick
3. Six letter word of Greek origin, arranging together, rules of
governing, construction of command ? Syntax
4. Barbara Liskov is a Prof. of CS from MIT, only female to have
achieved this ? Alan Turing award
5. Connect these Mephisto,gidion,shredder,hiarcs,junior ? These are
chess engines
6. This ambitious project called Project X has codenames
cupcake,doughnut,eclairs ?Android
Audience questions
· What‟s flog ? Fake blog
· What‟s napstering ? Distributing illegal content and making money
out of it
III. @TCS : Buzzer round
1. TCS is a tech partner to world‟s oldest marathon ? Boston marathon
2. With which state in India did TCS start a citizen portal called
„MahaOnline‟ ? Maharashtra
3. TCS is officially partner till 2012 for this a leading European pro-
cycling team ? Cervélo
4. Expand TRDDC ? Tata Research Development and Design Center
IV. Parallel Computing ( +10,-5) buzzer round
1. pics of Obama ,Mark Zuckerberg and another lady ? Facebook
2. Video showing Beckham, pics – flickr logo,inktomi logo,del.icio.us
logo ? Yahoo
3. pics of camel,java temple,turtle,song „ruby tuesday‟ playing in
background ? Programming languages
4. MSN messenger logo,cdragon logo and another pic ? Apps designed
by MS for Apple on AppStore
V. Final round – Grid Computing (+5,+10,+15)
Solve the 4 questions, derive the final single worded answer using the given formula and
the answers of 4 questions !
Example Question :
R-2,C+3,F-2

2. · A program that permits rewriting and editing of file ? ediTor
· This name is abbreviation of San Francisco ? cisCo
· Web browser from Apple for Mac OS X ? Safari
Answer : TCS
1. E+2,T-2,R+2,A-2
· Designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert ? enIac
· A small piece of software designed to fix problems ? Patch
· Advanced Research Project Agency Network ? arpAnet
· Original developer was C. Wayne Ratliff ? Dbase
Answer : IPAD
2. P+3,P+1,A+1,E-1
· Published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth ? pasCal
· Greek letter for „five‟ ending with “ium” ? pEntium
· Base 2 number system ? binaRy
· Nippon Denki Kabushiki Kaisha ? Nec
Answer : CERN
3. X-1,I-1,U-2,A-2
· Founded as Graphics Group ? pIxar
· Coined by Ralph Vaerst, published by Don Hoefler ? Silicon Valley
· Device that interconnects two or more networks ? Router
· Netscape based web browser ? mOsaic
Answer : ISRO