The Quizzardo IT Quiz

Prelims

BY ADITTHYA RAMAKRISHNAN & SYED MURTUZA HASHMI

Answers

Finalists

RithwikPrempalViditKamalSarthakAviralRishiAnd *drumroll*-Athith(His Entry Was the

Best in my opinion)

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1.Reference to Whom?

Steve Jobs

(When Steve Jobs’ fans organize a quiz, a Question about him is bound to be

there !!)

2.Who is he?(Name the animal for bonus points)

Justin Frankel and Mike the llama

3.Connect And Explain

Obama’s Ads in The Xbox 360 version of Burnout paradise.First time In-Game adverts

were used for election campaigns in the US

4. Which two gentlemen went to this event and notified everyone in the world about their absence by doing something

creative?

Sergey And Larry

(Aviral’s Most Favorite personalities in the silicon valley)

5.Connect

facebook

In case you saw golmaal 3 you would easily get the answer(the dog was

called facebook)We are all Khalid saeed was a fb group

moderated by wael ghonim which brought about the Egypt uprisings

The logo of alpha epsilon pi,the Jewish fraternity which mark zuckerberg

belonged to.

6.Connect

Click For Song

Nintendo

Hanafuda cards which nintendo originally madeMario segale,the landlord after whom our “Mario”

was named.Gamefreak logo(they make all those pokemon

games for us)Gameboy micro picThe song “love the way you lie” contains a

reference to nintendo (eminem says “Life’s no nintendo game”)

7.Transformation from what to what?

Pacman to rage guy

He says FFFFFUUUUU in the last panel(I personally like this comic)

8.Simple one-Who’s Tragic Death?(no body wanted him to live anyway!)

*sad music*…ie6

Yep…you heard it right, some guys held a funeral for ie6 in 2010

9.Simple one, Who is this gentleman?

TK Kurien…new CEO of Wipro(the logo in the

background)

10.What TWO words can you think of ?

Google Goggles!!

11.What makes him smile?

Toru reportedly created pacman (puck man) by

getting inspiration from a pizza missing a slice

12. The pic here displays the internal structure of

which intuitive

component?

The iPod Clickwheel

13.Who is this age old Chinese emperor?(Name Him)

Slightly misleading question..

Its Mike The Android

14.-ID X X has been nominated for the Nobel Peace

Prize Twice~240 nominations in both 2010 & 2011

But X hasn't Been awarded yet, as no one knows who should be given the prize(?)

X has instilled the feeling of right to freedom of speech & right to information in humans for the past 10 years and continues to do so.

X has also overthrown many governments ID X(Also ,in case X wins the Nobel, Who

deserves to accept it and why?)

The internet and the next part can vary…its all

opinionAccording to me it should be tim berners

lee.i’ve given points to other answers if the reason is apt.

P.S. its not wikileaks

15.Connect

Fuzzy logic

LIFE is an institute researching fuzzy logic

The comic represents the benefits of using fuzzy logic

The graph represents fuzzy logic temperature

A washing machine which uses “fuzzy logic tech”

16. Old And new Logos of what?

MS office for Mac 2008 and 2011

17.Identify the Country

bit.ly, the default URL shortening service used by

Twitter pays an annual fee of $ 75 to the government of which

country for using something that belongs to this country?

Libya

18.A 55Kg Laddu Was Given To Lord Venkateshwara at Tirupathi to solve a problem

which was to occur at the start of this millennium. what problem?

Y2K

19.The lady there, is making that man dance to A Bollywood Number. Who are

they?

Evan Williams and Mallika Sherawat

She was the First Asian to get into the Twitter HQ

20. Comparison of What ?

IBM Watson And Wolfram Alpha

21.What’s So Special?

Search engine Tailor-made for Muslims

22. Id or Whats the Significance?(clue in the pic)

Odyssey, The First Home Gaming Console

23.Connect

Alan TuringEnigma wiring, Gordon brown(he made a public apology to Turing for bad treatment

after the war because he was gay),Colossus,computer devved by Turing and his team to break the German enigma code, snow white –Turing’s fav movie.he killed himself is a similar way(eating a

poison coated apple)

24. Cyrix Corp.’s HQ has this tombstone, What is inscribed on the stone?

Intel inside!

Pum…..pum pum pum pum

25. ID X&Y

X is named after Y's daughter (its not a reference to himself as the name may otherwise indicate). X was created at

the company which was founded by Y, now a subsidiary of Oracle. X is used by several large sites like Flickr, Wikipedia, Google, YouTube and Facebook. X's logo

is a dolphin.(ID X. Extra points for Y)

Y-Mike Widenius X-MySQL

Seriously, Who would have a daughter named “MY”?

Bonus Question

Fortran prolog simul

a

Group 1

Group 2

C

By looking at them, what can you hypothesize about the

languages?

Be imaginative

No points for this question. It’ll be used to resolve ties, if any, by awarding an extra STAR to those who get it right.

Facial Hair is directly proportional to language

Success

Compare the images and the popularity of the languages to verify the above

statement

Scores(score/Star points) Prempal-22.5/3 Kapinjal-11/2.5 Amritanjan-5/1 Kamal rathi -20.5/1 Rithwik-24.5/4 Shiv Narang-5/1 Subham agarwal-16/2 Yash-17.5/2

Gautam-16/2 Anshul-16.5/3 Vidit-21/2 Sachin-9.5/3 Naman-10.5/0 Sarthak-20/4 Aviral-22/2 Rishi-20.5/3 Rabi sankar-18/4 Abhinav-11/1 Athith-22/3 Ambarish-11/1 Atharv-5/0 Tejas-15/3

That’s all folks!