Info Cruise 2006- Technical Quiz

INFO CRUISE 2006 – Techno Quiz

This quiz was conducted at UC College, Aluva on 28th August,2006 and was won by Rohit n yours truly. Prelims was all about total tech and I guess we scraped through with 4 teams qualifying for the final round. Here are a few of the questions which I could jot down. Questions in bold were the ones directed to us.

Quiz was divided into 5 rounds which were:

I TAKE OFF
Teams are asked direct questions with the right answer carrying 10 pts n pass q carrying 5 pts. Each team gets 2 direct questions, one on the clockwise round n other in the anti-clockwise round.

1) Expand YAHOO
Ans: Yet Another Heirarchical Officious Oracle

2) Expand MP3
Ans: MPEG Audio Layer 3

3) Who is the author of the book Business @ Speed of Thought?
Ans: Bill Gates

4) Which was the first ever domain name to be registered on the WWW?
Ans: symbolics.com

5) Where would you be if you were in Infinite Loop, Bay Area, California?
Ans: Apple HQ
6) Which company first manufactured the 3-½ inch floppy disk?
Ans: Sony

Two other questions I don’t remember!

II Slogans, Logos and Icons

In this round each team were asked 1 question each on Slogans, Logos and Icons of various companies/software. Correct answer fetched +10 and there were no passes.

A) Slogans

1) Creating Innovative Solutions
Ans: Nest

2) Tough on Viruses, Easy on users
Ans: AVG

3) Empowering the Internet generation
Ans: CISCO

4) Empowering People
Ans: Acer

A) Logos

1)
Ans: AT&T

2)

Ans: Kingston



3)


Ans: Satyam

4)

Ans: Gigabyte

B) ICONS

1)

Ans: AutoCad

2)
Ans: 3D Max
3)
Ans: Thunderbird

4)
Ans: Azureus

III Deep Dive

This was a round in which we could choose a topic from a given list of 6 topics namely: Operating Systems, Hardware/Software, Computer Languages, Computer Networks, Viruses and Computer Security( and 1 topic I don’t remember).
On the topic we choose we will be asked a series of 4 questions in which the correct answer fetches you +10 and incorrect fetches you –5. The questions can be passed which carry +5.

A) Operating Systems
1) Which is the file system used in Windows ’95?
Ans: FAT 16
2) Which is the smallest unit of Scheduling?
Ans: Thread
3) Name the directory which contains I/O devices in Unix
Ans: /dev
4) Which is the printout command in Unix?
Ans: lp

B) Computer Languages
1) Which was the first language to be used on an electronic device?
Ans: Short Code
2) What was the original name of C++?
Ans: C with classes
3) Which was the first company to develop a compiler for FORTRAN?
Ans: IBM
4) Who was the creator of PERL?
Ans: Larry Wall

C) Computer Networks
1) Which is the layer of reference model for Frames?
Ans: Data Link Layer
2) What is the set of technology used for wireless computer applications collectively called?
Ans: Wi-fi
3) Where was The Creeper virus detected? It had the message: “I am the Creeper: Catch me ifyou can”?
Ans: ARPANET…Its considered as one of the first ever viruses to affect systems

4) Name the process that allows a token ring/FDDI network to self-repair?
Ans: Beaconing
5) In which year did the internet first come into India?
Ans: 1995

D) Hardware and Software
1) Name the first ever special purpose supercomputer created by IBM?
Ans: Blue Gene
2) Which is the most powerful 3D animation, modeling and reconstruction software today?
Ans: Maya
3) What was the codename for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005?
Ans: Whidbey
4) Which was the first graphical browser for the World Wide Web?
Ans: Mosaic


IV FACE OFF

In this round, a picture of a famous personality was hidden behind a set of 9 squares. On correctly answering a particular square, a part of the picture grid is revealed. Each correct answer fetches +5 and we can reveal a maximum on 4 blocks. Correctly identifying the picture fetches you points based on a system.The scoring system was:
a) Identifying pic after revealing 1 square - +35
Total: 35 + 1x5 = 40 pts
b) Identifying pic after revealing 2 squares - +25
Total: 25 + 2x5 = 35 pts
c) Identifying pic after revealing 3 squares - +15
Total: 15 + 3x5 = 30 pts
d) Identifying pic after revealing 4 squares - +5
Total: 5 + 4x5 = 25
e) Not identifying pic but answering all 4 blocks:
Total: 0 + 4x5 = 20

1) (a) Who was the founder of the Free Software Foundation?
Ans: Richard Stallman

(b) Expand CGI.
Ans: Common Gateway Interface

(c ) When was Infosys founded?
Ans: 1981

(d) Who is the CEO of IBM?
Ans: Sam Palmesano

Picture: Carly Fiorina, the ex-CEO of HP

2) (a) In which year was Oracle founded?
Ans: 1977

(b) Expand WYSIWYG.
Ans: What You See Is What You Get

(c ) Who is the CEO of RedHat?
Ans: Mathew Szulik

(d) What is the technology that enables us to construct supercomputers the size of a sugar cube?
Ans: Nanotechnology
PIC: Nandan Nilekani, CEO of Infosys

3) (a) In which year was Windows XP launched?
Ans: 2001
PIC: Lady Ada Lovelace, the world’s first programmer

4) (a) In which year was HP founded?
Ans: 1939

(b) Expand IRC
Ans: Internet Relay Chat

(c ) Who is the Chairman of Intel?
Ans: Craig Barrett

(d) How do we more commonly know Sub-7?
Ans: Trojan Horse
PIC: David Filo, co-founder of YAHOO!

V Rapid Fire
In this round, each team was asked a set of 5 questions to be answered in 1 minute. Correct answer carries +10 and incorrect answers fetch –5. No passed questions to other teams. If a question is not attempted no marks are deducted. Could jot down only 2 sets of questions.

1) (a) Who was the inventor of RAM?
Ans: Robert Dennard

(b) Expand USB.
Ans: Universal Serial Bus

(c ) What are the maximum number of programs that can be simultaneously processed on a Fireware?
Ans: 63

(d) What is the DOS kernel?
Ans: COMMAND.com

(e) Who invented the Hypertext?
Ans: Tim Berners Lee

2)
(a) What is the computer which is linked to a spammer parent who controls the computer to send out spam called?
Ans: Zombie

(b) How many softwares can a USB simultaneously run?
Ans: 127

(c ) Who was the inventor of the E-Mail?
Ans: Ray Tomlinson

(d) Who invented the transistor?
Ans: Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley

(e) Who was the inventor of the IC?Ans: Jack Kilby