IT quiz final @ MES College

1. IT Quiz
MES College

2. Identify the logos
10 logos, 1 minute, 2 points each

5. Part I
• 12 questions.
• 10 points for each question
• Infinite bounce will be followed.
• 5 seconds to pounce. You can write the
answer with a risk of +10 or -5.

6. 1.
• On January 11, 2014, a biographical
documentary film named The Internet’s Own
Boy officially released at Sundance Film
Festival. It was a powerful homage to which
Internet activist?

7. 1. Aaron Swartz

8. 2.
• What word refers to the process of removing
software restrictions imposed by Apple,
enabling of third party apps on iPhone?

9. 2.
• Jailbreak

10. 3. Identify

11. 3.
• Abidali Z. Neemuchwala

12. 4.
• IPv4 addresses use a dotted-decimal format,
where each byte ranges from 0 to 255. What
separates eight sets of four hexadecimal
addresses in IPv6?

13. 4.
• (Colon:)

14. 5.
• Its more generic term is Flash crowd. Also use
terms like Farked, Drudged, being under the
Reddit effect, or receiving a hug of death. Id
the terminology.
• It occurs when a popular website links to a
smaller site, causing a massive increase in
traffic

15. 5.
• Slashdot effect

16. 6.
• Which three key sequence developed by David
Bradley is known as three finger salute?

17. 6.
• Ctrl + Alt + Del

18. 7.
• Early (1990’s) definitions of this internet slang
X primarily consisted of low-level disruption of
discussions, by posting meaningless questions
for their own amusement, without any regard
over whether the targets are hurt.
• X is a person who sows discord on the
Internet by starting arguments or upsetting
people, by posting inflammatory off-topic
messages.

19. 7.
• Troll

20. 8.
• In 1983 he became the first software manager
of sun Microsystems, and later CEO of Google
from 2001 to 2011?

21. 8.Eric Schmidt

22. 9.
• X is a non-technical method of intrusion
hackers use that relies heavily on human
interaction and often involves tricking people
into breaking normal security procedures. It
is one of the greatest threats that
organizations today encounter.
• In the context of information security, it refers
to psychological manipulation of people into
divulging confidential information

23. 9.
• Social Engineering

24. 10.
• In January 12th, 2009, Computer scientist Hal
Finney, who has been involved for a long time
in the cryptography community, received 100
X from Satoshi Nakamoto.
• Something happened for the first time in the
online transaction history. What?

25. 10.
• First Bitcoin transaction

26. 11.
• Internet pioneer and author Michael F.
Hauben is credited with coining and
popularizing the term.
• It describes a person actively involved in
online communities or the Internet in general.
• Identity the term?

27. 11.
• Netizen

28. 12.
• What is special about
the NeXT Computer
used by Tim Berners-
Lee at CERN?

29. 12.
• First web server

30. Part II
• 3 Rounds 18 questions
• Each round carry a Risk value, ranging 10,15 & 20
if you pounce, and Base value 5 if question
passed.
• If you pounce and got it correct you will get +Risk
value & if you are wrong it will cost you –Risk
value.
• If no one attempts on pounce, question will be
directed to each team with base value point and
no negative mark.

31. 1.
• Augusta Ada, is chiefly
known for her notes on
Charles Babbage's
Analytical Engine. These
notes were labelled
alphabetically from A to G.
• In note G, she describes an
algorithm for the Analytical
Engine to compute
Bernoulli numbers.
• Why this is important in the
history of computer?

32. 1.
• First computer program

33. 2.
• A landscape from Los Carneros, Sonoma
County, California
• A prehistoric monument located in Wiltshire,
England
• A flower that transform large parts of Holland
into colorful fields
• Give a popular connection related with
microsoft?

34. 2.

35. 3.Identify the personality

36. 3.
• Stewart Brand

37. 4.
• This is an observation made by the co-founder of
Intel. His prediction proved accurate for several
decades, and it was used in the semiconductor
industry to guide long-term planning and to set
targets for research and development.
• His predictions were remarkably accurate from
1965 to 2013. Since then we have seen it slowing
down a little.
• In what popular name we know this observation?

38. 4.
• Moore’s law

39. 5.
• Computers were not popular
in 1961. At that time
computer scientists were
faced with a problem, how
could they get people to use
it.
• Peter Samson and Steve
Russell introduced gaming as a
solution & PDP-1 became
original hardware for playing
history's first game on a mini-
computer
• One of 21 games currently on
display at The Museum of the
Moving Image in New York.
Identify the game ?

40. 5.Spacewar!

41. 6.
• This is an open-source software framework
written in Java for distributed storage and
distributed processing of very large data sets
on computer clusters built from commodity
hardware.
• It was created by Doug Cutting and Mike
Cafarella in 2005. Cutting, who was working at
Yahoo! at the time named it after his son's
toy elephant. What?

42. 6.

43. 1. When Google CEO Sundar Pichai interacts with
Students of Sriram College of Commerce in Delhi,
someone made these suggestions. What was that guy’s
suggestion about?

44. 1.
• Indian Names For Android.

45. 2.
• "The Mother of All Demos" is a name given retrospectively
to the first of its kind computer demonstration at the Fall
Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco.
• The 90-minute presentation essentially demonstrated
almost all the fundamental elements of modern personal
computing: windows, hypertext, graphics, efficient
navigation and command input, video conferencing, the
computer mouse, word processing etc. Its underlying
technologies later influenced both the Apple Macintosh
and Microsoft Windows graphical user interface
• Who was the presenter of this historic demonstration?

46. 2.Douglas Engelbart

47. 3.
• Neyya, is a Bluetooth ring
designed for remote-
controlling mobile devices
• Their initial idea was an
optical wearable that could
turn the entire hand into a
swipeable and tappable
interface— a concept that
enabled the startup to raise
more than $200,000.
• What was the name of its
earlier prototype developed
by a Kerala based innovator
Rohil Dev?

48. 3.Fin

49. 4.Connect these social networking
platform to the year it was founded.
• Linkedin
• Facebook
• Pinterest
• Twitter
• 2004
• 2010
• 2006
• 2002

50. 4.
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Linkedin
• Pinterest
• 2004
• 2006
• 2002
• 2010

51. 5.
• Arrange these Mac OS X version codenames
according to the year in which was developed.
• Snow Leopard
• El Capitan
• Cheetah
• Jaguar

52. 5.
• Cheetah - 2001
• Jaguar - 2003
• Snow Leopard - 2011
• El Capitan - 2015

53. 6.Identify these women IT company
leaders

54. 6.

55. 1.
• IPv6 is the most recent version of the Internet
communications protocol that provides an
identification and location system for computers
on network.
• Although IPv6 has been available since the '90s,
not many companies, ISPs, or other organizations
have implemented it. Currently the situation
changed.
• What problem in currently deployed standard
related with the number 3,706,650,000 leads to
the migration to IPv6?

56. 1.
• The problem is there is a finite number of IP
addresses (3,706,650,000 usable addresses)
that can be distributed with IPv4.

57. 2.Arrange the fictional super
computers against the movies
• HAL 9000
• ARIIA
• Skynet
• Red queen
• The Terminator
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Resident Evil
• Eagle eye

58. 2.
• HAL 9000
• ARIIA
• Skynet
• Red queen
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Eagle eye
• The Terminator
• Resident Evil

59. 3.
• Linus Torvalds is the original
author of this project.
• Later Torvalds turned over its
maintenance to Junio
Hamano, a Japanese software
engineer and hacker.
• He was responsible for the 1.0
release of the project on 21
December 2005, and currently
maintainer of the project
• Name the widely-used version
control system for software
development we are talking
about

60. 3.

61. 4.
• In 1957, Nobel laureate William Shockley recruited a group of
young PhD graduates with the goal to develop and produce new
semiconductor devices. But his managing of the group created
harsh working conditions. So eight among them left Shockley
Semiconductor Laboratory in 1957 an they are known as Traitorous
eight in the tech history.
• In August 1957, one among Traitorous eight, X met investor
Sherman Fairchild and pitched an impassioned presentation about
his vision of starting a semiconductor division. They reached an
agreement with Sherman Fairchild and on September 18, 1957 they
formed Fairchild Semiconductor.
• Two person among these Traitorous eight, later co-founded a
powerful American technology corporation. Identify the founders
and company.

62. 4.Robert Noyce and Gorden Moore

63. 5.
• OMG Electronics and Irish network service
firm Probendi owns certain trademark in USA
and European Union respectively.
• A multinational corporation had to rethink
their branding strategy because of this
trademark while naming their last year entry
into product line. Identify the product or
trademark?

64. 5.

65. 6.
• ‘I support Free Basics in India’ campaign
• “To the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
(TRAI) I would like to thank TRAI for the
opportunity to submit these comments in
response to the Consultation Paper on
___________________________. I support
digital equality for India”.

66. 6.
• Differential Pricing for Data Services

67. • Thank you
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