Test your IT knowledge..!

1. QUEST MANIA
FINALS

2. QUEST MANIA RULES
 A team shall consist of max two students.
 The decision of the quiz-master will be final and will
not be subjected to any change.
 Participants shall not be allowed to use mobile or
other electronic instruments.
 Questions shall be in the form of multiple choice,
statement, Visuals, Specific-answer question etc.

3. ROUND 1
General Questions

4. Rules FOR ROUND 1
 Two questions for each team
 Each question carries 10 marks
 -5 marks for wrong answer
 If passed then no marks will be given
 +5 marks to the next team who answers correctly
 -5 marks to the next team who answers wrong

5. TEAM 1

6. QUESTION 1
The founder of this company initially hacked
into the protected areas of Harvard's
computer network and copied the students
directory with photos and information. He
was charged for the breach of security and
faced expulsion.
Later on his company grew multifold and
dropped “The” from its name after
purchasing the new domain in 2005 for US$
200,000.
Name this company.

7. Answer

8. QUESTION 2
What is the name of the recently
released Microsoft smart glasses ?
1. Cortana
2. Hololens
3.Oculus rift
4. Gear VR

9. ANSWER
HOLOLENS

10. TEAM 2

11. QUESTION 1
This is a kind of Internet-based
functionality that provides shared
processing resources and data to
computers and other devices on
demand. It is a model for enabling
global, on-demand access to a
shared pool of configurable
computing resources.
Name the technology !!!

12. ANSWER

13. QUESTION 2
Who won the Turing award in 2015 ?
1. Martin E. Hellman & Whitfield
Diffie
2. Silvio Micali &Shafi Goldwasser
3. Leslie Lamport
4. Michael Stonebraker

14. ANSWER
Martin E. Hellman
& Whitfield Diffie

15. TEAM 3

16. QUESTION 1
This person graduated from
Cambridge and was a leading
participant in the breaking of
German ciphers during the World
war 2 .
He was found dead and cause of
death was cyanide poisoning and an
apple was discovered half-eaten
beside his bed.
Name the personality !!

17. ANSWER
ALAN TURING

18. QUESTION 2
The unit of speed for a super
computer is ?
1. Mflops
2.Kflops
3.Gflops
4.None of these
Also give its full form

19. ANSWER
GFLOPS
Giga Floating
Point Operations
per second

20. TEAM 4

21. QUESTION 1
Ericsson, A Denmark based company
started working on a device which
establishes radio links between portable
devices . Jim Kardman named the
technology ______ after the 10th
century Viking king Harold Blatand
who liked eating Blueberries. What is
the name of technology?

22. ANSWER
BLUETOOTH

23. QUESTION 2
To resolve thrashing due to
excessive paging
1. Increase the amount of RAM in
the computer.
2.Decrease the number of
programs being run on the
computer.
3.Replace programs that are
memory-heavy with equivalents
that use less memory.
4. all of above.

24. ANSWER
All of the above

25. TEAM 5

26. QUESTION 1
The themes in this game are
borrowed from the major film
Scarface and blow, along with the
hit 1980s television series Miami
Vice .Which game are we talking
about?

27. ANSWER
GTA Vice City

28. QUESTION 2
If the wait for graph contains a cycle :
a) then a deadlock does not exist
b) then a deadlock exists
c) then the system is in a safe state
d) either b or c

29. Answer
deadlock exists

30. TEAM 6

31. QUESTION 1
The company name comes from the
name of a stream originating on Black
Mountain in Santa Clara County,
California, United States, which ran
behind the houses of John Warnock and
Charles Geschke, the founders of this
company. Which company am I talking
about?

32. ANSWER
Adobe

33. QUESTION 2
Who is considered to be the
father of Artificial Intelligence
?
1. Alan Turing
2.John McCarthy
3.Allen Newell
4.Gregory Freeman

34. ANSWER
John McCarthy

35. RESULTS OF ROUND 1

36. Identification Round
ROUND 2

37. Rules
 No negative marking
 No pass to contestants
 Question passed to audience
 Correct answer 10 marks
 Wrong answer 0

38. TEAM 1

39. QUESTION 1
 Give the name of the “company”
to which this logo of the product
currently belongs to.

40. ANSWER
Intel security
group

41. QUESTION 2
 With which one of the following
would you associate this guy?
1. Dell Computers
2. Sony PlayStation 4
3. Microsoft XBOX ONE
4. Microsoft Kinect

42. ANSWER
Sony
PlayStation 4

43. TEAM 2

44. QUESTION 1
Name the “company”
that owns this brand.

45. ANSWER
APPLE

46. QUESTION 2
He is an Indian-American
computer architect who
helped develop USB. Who is
he?
1. Vinod Bhatia
2.Ajay Bhatt
3.Vijay Bhatkar
4.Vinod Dham

47. ANSWER
Ajay Bhatt

48. TEAM 3

49. QUESTION 1
This organization
was formerly
(previously) known
as __________.

50. ANSWER
Infotech

51. QUESTION 2
 An Indian businessman and the co-founder of Micromax
Informatics.
1.Rahul Sharma
2.Rakesh Sharma
3.Rohan Sharma
4.Rohit Sharma

52. ANSWER
Rahul Sharma

53. TEAM 4

54. QUESTION 1
Give full name of
the company to
which this logo
belongs.

55. ANSWER
Advanced micro
devices

56. QUESTION 2
An Indian business executive
who is the CEO and managing
director of Tata Consultancy
Services.
1.Naresh Goyal
2.Lalit Suri
3.Kushal Pal Singh
4.Natarajan Chandrasekaran

57. ANSWER
Natarajan
Chandrasekaran

58. TEAM 5

59. Question 1
Identify the
software and give
the full name of
its latest version.

60. ANSWER
Eclipse Mars
4.5

61. QUESTION 2
Name the type of cable and one of its
functionality

62. ANSWER
COAXIAL CABLE
(transmission line for radio frequency signals.
Its applications include feedlines connecting
radio transmitters and receivers with their
antennas, computer network (Internet)
connections, digital audio (S/PDIF), and
distributing cable television signals)

63. TEAM 6

64. QUESTION 1
This 9 year old CEO is an international
expert on hacking and cyber security.
1.Larry Ellison
2.Larry Page
3. Reuben Paul
4.David Ogilvy

65. ANSWER
Reuben Paul

66. QUESTION 2
This is the old
logo of which
famous company?

67. ANSWER
XEROX

68. RESULTS OF ROUND 2

69. ROUND 3

70. RULES FOR ROUND 3
Total 5 rapid questions for each team in
60 seconds
Every correct answer 5 marks
Pass or wrong answer 0 marks

71. TEAM 1

72. QUESTION 1
What is the first
web browser to be
launched ?

73. QUESTION 2
IBM is a well known
computer and
information technology
company, what does
IBM stand for?

74. QUESTION 3
ERP is an acronym
for ________.

75. QUESTION 4
"Jeffrey Preston
Bezos" is a founder
and CEO of?

76. QUESTION 5
“Born in Japan
Entertaining The
World” is the tagline
of which company?

77. TEAM 2

78. QUESTION 1
Which is the first
web based mail?

79. QUESTION 2
Function of
CTRL+E in
windows?

80. QUESTION 3
JPEG stands for?

81. QUESTION 4
“The Network is the
Computer” is the
tagline of which
company?

82. QUESTION 5
This emerging technology
use visible light portion of
the electromagnetic
spectrum to transmit
information at very high
speeds.

83. TEAM 3

84. QUESTION 1
'Don’t be evil' is
corporate motto of
?

85. QUESTION 2
Which company
is nicknamed
"Big Blue"?

86. QUESTION 3
What is the process of
copying software
programs from
secondary storage
media to the hard disk
called ______

87. QUESTION 4
The first search
engine on
internet?

88. QUESTION 5
GIF stands for?

89. TEAM 4

90. QUESTION 1
A small piece of data
text stored specific to
website on a user's
computer by a web
browser for
maintaining the state.

91. QUESTION 2
PNG stands for?

92. QUESTION 3
The inventor,
founder, &
chairman of
Twitter is…?

93. QUESTION 4
“Delighting u
Always” is the
tagline of?

94. QUESTION 5
Which company
launched worlds first
windows 10 TV?

95. TEAM 5

96. QUESTION 1
Gutsy Gibbon,
Hardy Heron and
Jaunty Jackalope are
codenamed for which
software…?

97. QUESTION 2
Which is the first
company to pay
twitter for emoji?

98. QUESTION 3
What is the
extension of PDF?

99. QUESTION 4
”High Performance.
Delivered” is the
tagline of?

100. QUESTION 5
World's first
microprocessor is ?

101. TEAM 6

102. QUESTION 1
Rediff.com was founded
by?

103. QUESTION 2
Which technology
giant run the
campaign "Life
without Walls"?

104. QUESTION 3
Semaphores are
used to solve the
problem of?

105. QUESTION 4
First computer
virus is known
as?

106. QUESTION 5
Full form of VLC
media player?

107. RESULTS OF ROUND 3

108. ROUND 4

109. Rules FOR ROUND 4
Total 5 questions
Correct answer 10 points
Wrong answer -5 points.
Team who picks the flashcard first will
get to answer.
No pass

110. QUESTION 1
The name of the
programming language
recently introduced by
Apple is _____.

111. QUESTION 2
Which Chinese mobile
brand was accused of
stealing data from the
user’s handsets and
transmitting it to their
servers back in China in
year 2014.

112. QUESTION 3
The technologically
advanced humanoid
robot 'ASIMO' is
made by which car
company?

113. QUESTION 4
Where is an
autoresponder used?

114. QUESTION 5
What is the
CAPTCHA test?