A geeky quiz for programmers and the like. Originally presented by Ampersand Commerce and Manchester Girl Geeks at AmpersandHQ in Manchester, UK on 20 June 2012.
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3. Question 1 (2 points)
Find three ways to make the program below print
20 copies of the dash character '-' by changing or
adding one character:
int i, n = 20;
for (i = 0; i < n; i--)
{
printf("-");
}
4. Question 2 (2 points)
Encryption challenge.
(see code page behind answer sheet)
Calculate the returned value for each
number of the $inputData in turn to
reveal an English message.
5. Question 3
What was the name of the chess-
playing computer that beat world
champion, Garry Kasparov?
12. Question 1
The streets of the Northern Quarter
were transformed into 1940’s New York
for what movie in 2010?
13. Question 2
MOSI and the Manchester Science
Festival are celebrating the centenary
of Alan Turing’s birth by organising the
mass planting of sunflowers. This is
because Turing had observed a
mathematical sequence in the seeds of
sunflowers. What is the sequence
called?
14. Question 3
What was the name of the world's first
commercially available general-
purpose electronic computer, invented
in Manchester and known in its sales
literature as the Manchester Electronic
Computer?
15. Question 4
Which chemist, physicist and
meteorologist has a street named after
him in Manchester City Centre, and a
building at one of the universities?
16. Question 5
A Clockwork Orange, by Mancunian
writer Anthony Burgess, mentions a
number of fictional music groups.
Which Sheffield synthpop band took
their name from one of these fictional
bands?
17. Question 6
Which Manchester landmark did Sony
get in trouble for using without
permission as the setting for a virtual
shoot-out against invading aliens, in
their 2007 PlayStation 3 game
Resistance: Fall of Man?
18. Question 7
How many Starbucks are there within
Manchester’s inner ring road?
a) 2
b) 5
c) 13
d) 20
21. Question 1
How should a quotation mark character
be encoded in HTML?
(both correct methods will be accepted)
22. Question 2
The WebKit layout engine used by the
Google Chrome and Apple Safari web
browsers, began development as a fork of
which Linux-‐based HTML engine?
23. Question 3
What is the correct syntax for a media
query for an iPad in landscape orientaIon?
24. Question 4
What is the difference between
comparison operators == and === in
JavaScript?
25. Question 5
In a HTML document, where is the correct
place to insert JavaScript code:
a) In the head of the document (between
the <head> and </head> tags)
b) In the body of the document (between
the <body> and </body> tags)
c) Code can be inserted in the head or
the body of the document.
26. Question 6
According to sitepoint, what percentage of
internet users were using ie7 in march
2012?
a) 9.78%
b) 15.56%
c) 32.87%
d) 50.12%
27. Question 7
What is the correct syntax for creaIng a
black drop shadow with a horizontal and
verIcal offset of 5px, and a blur radius of
5px for firefox?
32. Question 3
What does BOFH stand for?
Bonus (and clue): (1 extra point)
Where can you read all of the episodes?
33. Question 4
Name the artist who famously took
stock instead of money for painting
murals in the first Facebook
headquarters?
34. Question 5
Name the Film:
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear
is the little-death that brings total
obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit
it to pass over me and through me. And
when it has gone past I will turn the inner
eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone
there will be nothing. Only I will remain”
35. Question 6
Name the woman who in the 1840’s
wrote what is recognised as the first
algorithm intended to be processed by
a machine?
Thanks to this, she is widely credited
with being the first computer
programmer.
36. Question 7
What was the name of the first
computer to use a GUI that Steve Jobs
named after his daughter?
a) The Lucy
b) The Liza
c) The Lisa
d) The Mona
37. Question 8
In the TV series Futurama, what is the
character Bender’s full name?
39. Question 1
What is the full name of P.E.T, the UX
methodology used in ecommerce for
conversion?
40. Question 2
Which of the following is not an
ecommerce platform?
a) Magento
b) Venda
c) osCommerce
d) Drupal
41. Question 3
The term ‘Multi-channel Retailing’
refers to:
a) A store that sells more than 1 brand
b) A store that has an online & offline
presence
c) A store that sells only through eBay
42. Question 4
Recently Google made a comical video,
based in a grocery store, meant put an
online checkout experience into a real
life scenario.
What was the man buying?
43. Question 5
Which of these big high street brands
do not yet have mobile friendly
versions of their ecommerce sites?
a) John Lewis
b) Debenhams
c) Harvey Nichols
d) Selfridges
45. Question 7
Most people think that choosing ‘Check
out as a Guest’ is faster than registering
for checkout.
What is the one additional form field
that a registration process requires?
46. Question 8
In the recent airing of a fly-on-wall-
documentary by Channel 4, ‘More Sex
Please, We’re British’ which online
retailer had to struggle under the
weight of one order every 3 seconds
while the show was airing?