MS TECH CHALLENGE 2015

MS TECH CHALLENGE 2015
Bivash Rath
(on behalf of Odisha Quiz Assciation and QUIZZINE)
17.01.2015

THANK YOU…
• ODISHA QUIZ ASSOCIATION (join the group on Facebook to stay updated on
Quizzing scenario in and around Odisha)
• QUIZZINE – QUIZ CLUB OF VSSUT,BURLA ( team working to promote quizzing in
Western Odisha)
• MICROSOFT DEVELOPERS GROUP
• SPECIAL THANKS – SOUBHAGYA JENA , SAMPAD PATTANAIK , DEBASISH DAS
SANKET TRIPATHY , CHANDI SARANGI , DEBASHISH PRADHAN

ANSI – AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS
INSTITUTE

2
• British firm Bullit has made most
of the components of this
smartphone. Bullit is best known
for making rugged CAT-
branded smartphones.The
dual-SIM smartphone, the IM5,
will be available first in Europe
followed by a global launch by
the end of Q1 2015 at a price
tag of EUR 299 or $249 (roughly
Rs. 15,800).

3
• Married the daughter of an IAS personnel in 1992.
• Has a daughter and two sons.
• Draws a base salary of nearly $700,000, for a total compensation, with stock bonuses,
of $7.6 million.
• Quoted controversy on his comments regarding the gender inequality in regards of
pay in the technical industry.

4
• "There is an association of social media for India the IAMAI, and they reward me with
the 'Social Media Person of theYear' award and it is time really to reward the
extended family for this... you are the ones that have made it possible for me to be
given this recognition,“
• Internet and Mobile Association of India

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Give me the author of these books

8
• MOZILLA FIREFOX
• We’re building a better Internet

9
• The origin of this term can be traced to 1886 as follows,
It used to be a sailors' slang word for any small mechanical thing or
part of a ship for which they lacked, or forgot, a name; perhaps from
French gâchette "catch piece of a mechanism” .
• The usage of the term in military parlance extended beyond the navy
in the 1918s and by the second half of the twentieth century, the term
"gadget" had taken on the connotations of compactness and mobility.
• Extra hint - the first atomic bomb was nicknamed this same.

10
• The precise date of this occurrence is Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 “ABCD”. At this time, a
machine prone to this bug will show the time Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901, hence it is
possible that the media will call this The Friday 13th Bug.
• The Year “ABCD” problem is an issue for computing and data storage situations in
which time values are stored or calculated as a signed 32-bit integer, and this
number is interpreted as the number of seconds since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January
1970 ("the epoch").Such implementations cannot encode times after 03:14:07 UTC on
19 January “ABCD”, a problem analogous to the "Y2K problem"

12
• The company said their 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 counts) was doing well for
many years until a certain phenomenon happened which created records and which
forced them to abandon their 32bit based operation.
• The company was forced to upgrade their system to a 64-bit integer.That means the
next record will be made when the counter crosses the value
9,223,372,036,854,775,808.
• What was the reason for such a shift and who was responsible ?

14
• The smartphone maker has launched a trade in program for customers based in USA
and in Canada by which customers can exchange a certain smartphone say X for this
company’s phone sayY priced at $550.
• It may sound bizarre and desperate attempt but such is the condition of the makers of
Y which has forced them to adapt such tactics.
• The exchange of a X phone will cut the price of $550 by $150 in USA and by $200 in
Canada. Subsequent cuts will be with respect to the variant of X.
• This program is scheduled to run till Feb 2015.
• Give me X andY.

16
• This person was born on the 27th of January 1982 in
Chennai, India.
• He went on to work with Lucent, Sony, Nokia and Sun
Microsystems before he started his mobile social-
networking venture along with Dennis Crowley.
• It is a location-based social networking website for mobile
devices, such as smartphones. Users "check in" at venues
using a mobile website, text messaging or a device-specific
application by selecting from a list of venues the application
locates nearby. Each check-in awards the user points and
sometimes "badges".The user who checks in the most often
to a venue becomes the "mayor," and users regularly vie for
"mayorships."

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• Over six years ago, in December 1989, I was looking for a
"hobby" programming project that would keep me occupied
during the week around Christmas. My office ... would be closed,
but I had a home computer, and not much else on my hands. I
decided to write an interpreter for the new scripting language I
had been thinking about lately: a descendant of ABC that would
appeal to Unix/C hackers. I chose X as a working title for the
project, being in a slightly irreverent mood
• Founder of which programming language narrating the story of its
origin.

18
• This event was first held in 2012 and was advertised onYouTube and via posts on
Google Plus. For the event, Google partnered with a number of ecommerce sites.
• In December 2014, this took place on Dec 10 - 12, and involved over 450 online
retailers.
• Apart from discounts, several brands also launched their products during the event.
Some of the launched products included Motorola Nexus 6, Google Chromecast, and
Appyappstore (an app store for children)

GOSF – GREAT ONLINE SHOPPING
FESTIVAL

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• When we started brainstorming names we wanted to pick something short, simple
and fitting for the new mascot. Obviously trying to stray away from the *droid or
*Andy type names we decided to pay homage to D.A.R.Y.L., B.O.B Maximillion or
V.I.N.Cent and create a name that could also be an acronym.
• We chose X which is also an acronym for Y id, the common thread thatY users share;
each user’s unique place in our community.
• Some of you may also be familiar with the concept of the “id”, the instinctual driving
force behind our personalities. It seemed fitting, that this chaotic force and need for
immediate gratification, was incorporated into the image of a OS which strives to be
on the bleeding edge of Android development.
• Whose (Y) mascot is being talked of and name it (X).

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• The first use of this word was recorded in 1613 in a book called “The yong mans
gleanings” by English writer Richard Braithwait
“ I haue read the truest X of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and
he reduceth thy dayes into a short number “
• It referred to a person who carried out calculations, and the word continued with the
same meaning until the middle of the 20th century.

ROUND 1.1
• WRITTEN ROUND.
• 10 QUESTIONS
• 10 FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER. 20 BONUS FOR ALL CORRECT.
• EXCHANGE SHEETS AT THE END.
• Provide with the names of the missing websites. Answer serially

ROUND 1.2
• 6 QUESTIONS ON THE INFINITE POUNCE.
• CLOCKWISE IS THE DIRECTION.
• NO NEGATIVES BUT TWO STRIKES PER TEAM.
• DIRECT AND PASS 10 POINTS FOR EITHER.

1.2.1
• While Apple was announcing its latest iPhones, X was showing off a wheelchair.
• X revealed its connected wheelchair on Tuesday, complete with endorsement Dr.
Stephen Hawking.The wheelchair is being created by X 's internet of things
department, and is designed to take biometric information from the user and display
it on touch screens.
• The device is capable of measuring the health of the user, including body
temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure, in addition to the status of the
wheelchair itself. It also allows people to quickly judge the wheelchair accessibility
of places they visit. Hawking, has worked with X’s engineers for more than a decade.

UNRELEASED VERSIONS OF WINDOWS OS
• CAIRO
• NASHVILLE
• NEPTUNE
• ODYSSEY

1.2.3
• This is the snapshot of an island off the coast of known as the Réunion (a French island
located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar).
Since 6 December 2011, the rules for registering French domains have changed.The
owner of a domain does not need to be based in France anymore. All European
individuals, companies and organizations can register French domains.
• Its claim to fame in recent years like many of the smaller and obscure nations or
colonies of the world is provision of a safe haven to torrent hosting websites which are
being hunted all around the world by big powers to fight privacy and to maximize
their commercial gains.
• Which torrent website is this island hosting ?
(the QM is a big fan of this site for its more than awesome quality and more than
convenient sizes)

1.2.4
• This is the Twitter profile of
a company who hit the
headlines a week or two
back because they were
acquired by a certain giant.
• Name this firm and who
acquired it ?

GOOGLE IN HACKER/LEETSPEAK.
• Leet/1337 (derived from elite), also known as eleet or leetspeak, is an alternative
alphabet for the English language that is used primarily on the Internet. It uses
various combinations of ASCII characters to replace Latinate letters.

1.2.6
• Neslson Mandela :
“A traveller through a country would stop at a village and he didn't have
to ask for food or for water. Once he stops,the people give him food,
entertain him.That is one aspect of X, but it will have various aspects. X
does not mean that people should not enrich themselves.The question
therefore is:Are you going to do so in order to enable the community
around you to be able to improve?”

ROUND 1.3
• 6 QUESTIONS ON THE INFINITE POUNCE.
• ANTI CLOCKWISE IS THE DIRECTION.
• DIRECT AND PASS 10 POINTS FOR EITHER.
• BASICALLY SAME RULES AS THE PREVIOUS ROUND IN A REVERSE DIRECTION

1.3.1
Identify this couple. Names please

1.3.2
• US patent #7,684,694 is held
by a Toronto inventor named
Wayne Fromm who is on a
mission to litigate the
numerous "knockoffs" of his
decade-old patent for a
certain apparatus.

1.3.3
• In a June 2011 article, Harry McCracken of Time Magazine commended X , comparing it to his
favorite hamburger restaurant, In-N-Out Burger,
"It feels a lot like early Google,with a stripped-down home page.Just as In-N-Out doesn't have
lattes or Asian salads or sundaes or scrambled eggs, X doesn't try to do news or blogs or books or
images.There's no auto-completion or instant results.It just offers coreWeb search—mostly the
"ten blue links" approach that's still really useful,no matter what its critics say....But X ...is really
good at bringing back useful sites.It all feels meaty and straightforward and filler-free..."
• McCracken also included the site in the Time list of "50 Best Websites of 2011"

1.3.4
• The founder of the organization, was born and raised in New Orleans to a father from
Bangladesh, and mother from Calcutta. After earning three degrees from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (a BS in mathematics, a M.Sc. in electrical
engineering and computer science, and an MEng in electrical engineering and
computer science) he pursued an MBA from Harvard Business School.
• In late 2004, the founder began tutoring his cousin Nadia in mathematics usingYahoo!'s
Doodle notepad.When other relatives and friends sought similar help, he decided it
would be more practical to distribute the tutorials on YouTube.Their popularity there
and the testimonials of appreciative students prompted him to quit his job in finance as
a hedge fund analyst at Connective Capital Management in 2009, and focus on the
tutorials.The project is funded by donations. It is funded also by Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation and also Carlos Slim Foundation.

1.3.5
• Tom and James, both 29, of Brisbane, Australia, who created an app called “BroApp”
for those committed souls.Their app has been very well received and females have
also requested to come up with a version for the “she” s. It has been downloaded
over times and is soon to be launched for iOS.What does this app do?

THE BRO APP
WHICH SENDS MESSAGES AUTOMATICALLY TO YOUR GIRLFRIEND AT
REGULAR INTERVAL OF TIME TO KEEP YOUR LOVE LIFE ALL SPICED UP!!

1.3.6
• This company was incorporated in 1911 in NewYork and its logo was unveiled for the
first time in 1924.In 1972, a new version of this company’s logo was introduced.The
solid letters were replaced by eight horizontal stripes, suggesting speed and
dynamism. If observed closely, the logo generates a message of "Equality". The white
lines passing through the logo (at the foot of the logo) gives the appearance of the
equal sign in the lower right corner, representing equality.

ROUND 2.1
• SIX TOPICS ON THE GRID FORYOUR TASTE.
• TEAM WITH LOWEST SCORE GETS CHANCE TO CHOOSE THEIR TOPIC FIRST AND
SO ON.
• 10 ON A DIRECT AND ON PASS.
• YOU MAY CHOOSE TO DOUBLE AN ATTEMPT FOR 20/-10 ON EITHER DIRECT OR
PASS.

• China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and its unit Alipay are in advanced talks to buy a
stake for about $550 million in India's One97 Communications
• Investors at One97 which is the parent of PayTm
• Vijay Shekhar Varma founder and CEO of One97
HOME

LETS TIE UP
• Under the partnership, subscribers of this company will be
able to purchase premium apps and game from the Windows Store on Microsoft
Lumia as well as other Windows based smartphones and pay for them through
integrated billing.The amount will be either added to the subscriber's monthly bill or
deducted from the prepaid balance, depending on the plan.
• According to a spokesperson of Nokia/Microsoft :
“They are the first operator in India to offer integrated operator billing on
the Windows Store.We are in discussions with other operators as well. It will help
customers who don't have credit cards or are not comfortable using them for online
transactions," he said.

FRESH IN THE MARKET
• The video shows a certain product.What first has it to its credit ?
(something was made available to the consumers through this product)

GAMES
• The original version of this game was developed by a pre-Apple Steve Wozniak after
his friend Steve Jobs promised Atari founder Nolan Bushnell that he could deliver a
prototype in just four days.
• Woz worked for four straight nights and used some time at his day job at HP to make
this product for which he received $350 out of a total payment of $700. Other half
went to Steve Jobs. However Steve Jobs had cut a deal with Atari of $5000 which was a
secret Jobs kept from Woz.
• To commemorate the 37th anniversary of this product Google came up with
something very innovative in May 2013.

ATARI BREAKOUT
• HOME
Check out Atari
breakout in
Google Images for
“magic”

POP CULTURE
• Modified excerpt from “The Lost Worlds of 2001” :
“As is clearly stated in the novel (Chapter 16), it stands for Heuristically
programmed ALgorithmic computer. However, about once a week some character spots the
fact that it is as an acronym one letter ahead of X, and promptly assumes that we were taking a
crack at the estimable institution ...As it happened, X had given us a good deal of help, so we
were quite embarrassed by this, and would have changed the name had we spotted the
coincidence.’’
Which company /“estimable institution” is X ?

• HOME
Left image :
Lizard Squad started
selling their hacking
packages for
everyone to use
Right Image :
Tweets by the squad
leader while being
arrested

ROUND 2.2
• FOUR QUESTIONS ON POUNCE
• CORRECT – 20POINTS
• WRONG NEGATIVE 10

1
• Etienne Jules Marey was a 19th century French scientist and physiologist , with
significant work in the development of the fields of cardiology and aviation.
• However he is remembered best in a different field owing to this invention of 1882.
• What was this invention ? What term gained prominence because of the manner in
which it was used?

• The first ever portable motion picture camera called the “photographic rifle”. Since the camera was
shaped like a gun and a trigger had to be pressed to take a picture, the term SHOOTING found its
way to artistic parlance.

2
weRead, formerly iRead, is an online community of book enthusiasts. weRead started
out as a social cataloging application on Facebook in June 2007 and has since
expanded to over 3.1 million active members across Facebook,MySpace, Orkut, Hi5,
and Bebo.
It was acquired by a company in 2010 and is the first acquisition of that company which
has followed up with many acquisitions with one in 2014 worth being around 2000Cr
INR.
Which companies first acquisition was weRead ?

3
• Scripts for television and film are submitted through the web.They are reviewed and rated
by other readers in a crowd-source fashion, and/or by the studio staff. Scripts may be
submitted with the option to allow other people to modify them. In addition there is a
separate submission method for professional writers (Writers Guild of America
members) with separate rules.
• The studio has 45 days to choose a submitted script. If a project is chosen for
development the writer receives $10,000.If a developed script is selected for distribution
as a full-budget movie, the creator gets $200,000;if it is selected for distribution as a full-
budget series, the creator gets $55,000 as well as "up to 5 percent of Amazon’s net
receipts from toy and t-shirt licensing, and other royalties and bonuses.“
• This studio also plans to launch a TV show by Woody Allen. Sweet eh ? Give me the studio

4
• Developed by Suyog Computech Pvt Ltd, these are the features of which app launched
just days back
• • Emergency police assistance
• • Direct helpline numbers for women
• • Direct helpline numbers for traffic
• • Information about senior citizens security cell
• • Details about pink auto service
• • Download forms
• • Detail about woman security cell
• • Complaints can be lodged against TSR/ taxi drivers for misbehavior, refusal and
overcharging

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