This was the quiz that was used for an inter-school tech fest, Incognito 2016, held at Somerville School, Noida. The quiz had a Game of Thrones theme and was a huge success.
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Junior Quiz for Incognito - A Tech Fest
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2. 1. There will be a total of 6 rounds in the Quiz.
2. Teams will be given 5 seconds for the directly
passed questions.
3. There will be NEGATIVE marking for answering
out of turn.
4. The decision of the quizmaster will be final and
binding.
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4. QUESTION 1
In FIFA 2016, Fratton Park, home of
Portsmouth, was added to honor Portsmouth
fan ___________, creative director of the FIFA
series, who died of cancer in 2015.
5. In which Call Of Duty game did the zombies
mode first appear?
QUESTION 2
6. _________ is set in a post-apocalyptic Boston
in the year 2287, 210 years after a devastating
nuclear war, in which the player character
emerges from an underground bunker known
as Vault 111.is a game about exploration and
survival in an infinite procedurally generated
galaxy. Name it.
QUESTION 3
8. Which Playstation 2 game, released in 2003,
was banned by several countries and
implicated by the media in a murder , due to its
graphic violence?
QUESTION 5
9. What is the name of the protagonist in the
game series Legend of Zelda?
QUESTION 6
10.
11. A set of guidelines set by Google for developing
apps to provide users with a seamless experience.
QUESTION 1
12. Name the person after which twitter’s logo has
been named. He was a former NBA player ?
QUESTION 2
14. It is a cursor control device found in IBM
ThinkPad notebook computers. The device is
sometimes called an eraser pointer because it is
roughly the size and shape of a pencil eraser.
What is its Trademarked name?
QUESTION 4
15. In Swedish, it is called snabel-a , In
Dutch it is called apestaart , which means
"monkey's tail", in Chinese, it's called a
mouse (shu). What is the symbol?
QUESTION 5
16. What is the 33.2 megapixel Resolution commonly
called?
QUESTION 6
17.
18. What was the first commercial home video game
console?
QUESTION 1
21. A notable company’s inventions or developments
include the automated teller machine (ATM), the
floppy disk, the hard disk drive, the Fortran
programming language, SABRE airline
reservation system, dynamic random-access
memory (DRAM). Name the company.
QUESTION 4
22. The old name of this company was Galvin
Manufacturing. Name the company.
QUESTION 5
23. This might have been released under the original
name of “Interface Manager” if marketing whiz,
Rowland Hanson had not convinced his boss that
X was the far better name. What was the name?
QUESTION 6
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25. A village was recently named after Snapdeal, it’s
original name was?
QUESTION 1
46. 1. Oracle started as a CIA project.
2. In 2001 it became the first to break the 3 terabyte transaction
Processing Performance Council (TPC) record.
3. SAP labs is a oracle spin-off.
4. In 2000, Oracle attracted attention from the computer industry and
the press after hiring private investigators to dig through the trash of
organizations involved in an antitrust trial involving Microsoft.
5. On July 29, 2010, the United States Department of Justice filed suit
against Oracle Corporation alleging fraud. The lawsuit argues that the
government received deals inferior to those Oracle gave to its
commercial clients.
48. 1. Siri was Apple's first digital assistant.
2. On August 20, 2012, Apple's rising stock rose the company's value to a
world-record $624 billion
3. Apple's headquarters for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are
located in Cork in the south of Ireland.
4. In February 2016, Apple issued a US$1.5 billion green bond (climate
bond), the first ever of its kind by a U.S. tech company.
5. Apple is the world's largest information technology company by revenue
and the world's second-largest mobile phone manufacturer.
50. 1. Bill Gates and Paul allen started the company Traf-O-Data.
2. In 1990, Microsoft introduced its office suite, Microsoft Office.
3. On May 10, 2011 Microsoft acquired Skype Tech.
4. On February 4, 2014, Bill Gates stepped down as CEO of Microsoft and
was succeeded by Satya Nadella
5. On April 25, 2014, Microsoft acquired Nokia Devices and Services for
$7.2 billion.
52. 1. Sony began in the wake of World War II. In 1946, Masaru Ibuka started
an electronics shop in a department store building in Tokyo.
2. Sony was one of the developers of the floppy disc format.
3. Sony launched in 1998 their Memory Stick format, flash memory cards
for use in Sony lines of digital cameras and portable music players.
4. In March 2014 a Japanese company Japan Industrial Partners (JIP)
purchased a large percentage of shares of the VAIO brand.
5. The company's current slogan is Make.Believe.
54. 1. The name of the company, Adobe, comes from Adobe Creek in San Jose,
California behind the company headquarters
2. In 1989, Adobe introduced what was to become its flagship product, a
graphics editing program for the Macintosh called Adobe Photoshop.
3. On December 12, 2005, Adobe acquired its main rival, Macromedia.
4. In the mid-1980s, Adobe entered the consumer software market with
Adobe Illustrator.
5. In 1992, Adobe acquired OCR Systems, Inc.; in 1994, the company
acquired Aldus.
56. 1. Intel created the first commercially available
microprocessor.
2. In 2007, Intel unveiled its Core microarchitecture.
3. In 2010, Intel purchased McAfee.
4. In June 1994, Intel engineers discovered a flaw in the
floating-point math subsection of the Core Duo
microprocessor.
5. The Classmate PC is the company's first low-cost netbook
computer.