2. 1st Round-Straight Questions
Q1. It was first started as Orgish.com, a shock site and
was aimed at the empowerment of citizen journalism.
It came to lime light when it leaked the video of
execution of Saddam Husain. It has the tagline
“Redefining the media”. Which website is being talked
about here?
Ans- Liveleak.com
3. Q2. Which international fund raising site founded by
Danae Ringelmann and Eric schell is now raising funds
for the Ubuntu Edge?
Ans-Indiegogo
4. Q3. X is a collection of pro-government hackers aligned
with Syrian president Bashar Al Assad?
Ans-Syrian Electronic Army
5. Q4. This company had released its intentions to house
the blue waters project supercomputer. It was a project
started as an attempt to make the fastest
supercomputer at the prestigious University of
Urbana. Name the company.
Ans-IBM
6. Q5. The cofounder of which iconic cyber giant bid adieu
to his company with a memo titled “Thanks for a great
28 years” in which he said “....My hat is off to one of the
great capitalists I have ever met, Larry Ellisson”.
Ans- Sun Microsystems(Scott McNealy)
7. Q6. He was born in Queensland, Australia. In 1987, after
turning 16 he began hacking under the name Mendax.
He and two other hackers joined to form a group
which they named as International Subversives.
Which popular personality am I talking about?
Ans-Julian Assange
8. Q7. Which company was established in 1865 as a wood-
pulp mill by Miguel Franco on the banks of the river
which originally means dark, fury animal?
Ans-Nokia
9. Q8. Just like CDMA there is OFDMA (Orthogonal
Frequency Division Multiple Access) which is a
wireless setup used to assist what system in the field of
wireless networking and telecommunication?
Ans-Wi-max
11. Q10. The Centre for development of Telematics (CDOT)
was established in August 1984 as an autonomous
body and now works under the government of India to
develop intelligent computer software applications and
digital exchanges. Which Indian IT giant started it?
Ans-Sam Pitroda
12. Q11. Its earliest example can be given by “The cathode
ray amusement device” patented by Thomas
Goldsmith Jr and Estle Ray Mann in 1948. It was an
analogue device that allowed user to control vector
drawn dot on a screen to simulate a missile to be fired
on the target. Which revolutionary concept is being
talked about here?
Ans-VideoGame
13. Q12. It is the official mobile application of the
Philippines Department of Science and Technology. It
provides weather and flood forecasts as well as disaster
warnings. Identify it.
Ans-NOAH
20. 3rd Round-@TCS
Q1. A trademark of TCS, expand GNDM?
Ans- Global Network Delivery Model
21. Q2. Which French IT services company has been
recently acquired by TCS?
Ans-ALTI
22. Q3. Which mobile telecommunications giant has
declared TCS as its global IT partner?
Ans-Nokia
23. Q4. Which self service terminal by TCS allows customers
to pay their bills using cash or credit card?
Ans-Sevak
24. Q5. TCS has been declared as the technology partner of
which marathon?
Ans- Boston Marathon
25. Q6. Who has designated TCS as a Leader and 2012 Star
Performer in Capital Markets Application
Outsourcing?
Ans-Everest Group
26. Q7. WTI Advanced Technologies is a subsidiary of TCS.
The 'W' in 'WTI' actually represents a huge historic
Electric Corporation. Name it.
Ans-Westing House
27. Q8. Which business process management giant has
awarded TCS with a partner excellence award?
Ans-Pegasystems Inc.
28. Q9. TCS has been ranked as the #1 employer 2013 in
X. TCS was chosen as first among the final
20 companies participating at a continental level.
Identify X.
Ans-Europe
29. Q10. Who has honoured TCS as the ‘North America
System Integrator Partner of the Year’?
Ans-Redhat
30. Q11. What in the world of TCS is ‘TCS 8K’?
Ans- TCS has reinforced tie up with Amsterdam
Marathon and the race course is of 8000 metre so the
name TCS 8K.
31. Q12. It is a collaborated launch by TCS and CA
technologies. It is described as a design to help
customers automate the testing lifecycle. Which
technology is being talked about here?
Ans- Intelligent Testing System(ITS)