Small IT quiz @ NMAMIT,Nitte held on March 07,2012

1. CSI Quiz Finals

2. ROUND 1
● 12 Direct Questions.
● +10 for correct answer. +5 if its answered when
the question is passed.
● No negative marks.

3. ● ”Me at Zoo” was a title of video related to
something which went to become a big hit and
is wildly popular now-a-days. What organization
are we talking about here?
● Answer : YouTube
Question 1

4. ● If its PageRank for Google, what is called when
it comes to that of Facebook?
● Answer: EdgeRank
Question 2

5. ● Guy Fawkes, a rebel who tried to blow up
Palace of Westminster a few centuries earlier,
has suddenly become a cult hero for a
particular reason among an internet group. He
was depicted in Alan Moore's famous comic
series, which started in 1982, and in the
subsequent movie adaptation. Significant
People of which internet group associate with
him symbolically?
● Eg: Anonymous
Question 3

6. ● Analytical Engine and Differential Engine were
a contribution to the advancement of
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Computing in the early 18 century. Which
famous person is associated with the above
mentioned machines development?
● Answer: Charles Babbage
Question 4

7. ● Doom series, Wolfenstein 3D, Rage, Quake
and a number of other games which were
instrumental in the development of gaming,are
the games developed by which video
development company?
● Id Software
Question 5

8. ● Connect
Kodiak, Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther,
Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion
● Answer: Mac OS X versions
Question 6

9. ● BitTorrent Inc., made an demo about a new
concept- which was initially revealed at CES
2011- in Consumer Electronics Show 2012, on
which the pundits are betting huge as the next
revolutionary idea which will take the world by
storm in the next few years. What was the
demo about?
● Answer: Bit Torrent TV - TV's with Bit Torrent
Protocol Supports
Question 7

10. ● Tuvalu is a small Pacific country which earns
more than 20% of its national income through
Internet by selling their Country Level Domain?
What is their CLD?
● Answer: .tv
Question 8

11. ● The invention of Ethernet, the idea of GUI ,
Laser Printers, WYSIWYG editor, OOP
paradigm and a lot others have come out of this
institution located in California and was initially
a part of Xerox. By what name do we know this
place once headed by legends like Alan Kay?
● Answer: Palo Alto Research Centre
Question 9

12. ● What are the books whose content is originated
and developed from web blogs are called?
● Answer : Blook
Question 10

13. ● C-DAC, one of the very few Govt. Organization
involved in IT field, has the release of an
Operating System to its credit, which is
available in all the official languages if India?
What is its name?
● Answer: BOSS (Bharat Operating System
Solutions )
Question 11

14. ● Which award is referred as the ”Nobel Prize of
Computing” and awarded by ACM?
● Answer: Turing Award
Question 12

15. ROUND 2
● Identification of Image
● No Passing.
● +10 for correct answer.
● No negative.
●

16. ● What is the thing the iconic man holding on his
lap taken in this classic photograph by Norman
Seeff?
Question 2.1

17. ● Answer: original Apple Macintosh

18. ● This is a screenshot of Wired.com taken on
January 17,2012 – the day on which something
significant happened. What was it?
Question 2.2

19. ● Answer: Wired.com along with several other
websites such as Wikipedia,4chan,Mozilla
blacked out the websites as a mark of protest
against SOPA/PIPA.

20. ● Where would you see this ?
Question 2.3

21. ● Answer: Virwox – the world’s largest virtual
currency trading center.

22. ● 1 discovered this algorithm first. 2
independently discovered it again 27 years
later. 3 discovered it again 2 years later.
Which?
Question 2.4

23. ● Answer: 1. Vojtěch Jarník
● 2. Robert Prim
● 3.Edsger Dijkstra
● The DJP algorithm – more famously known
as the Prim’s Algorithm.

24. ● What is going on here?
Question 2.5

25. ● Answer: Angry Birds Theme Park in China

26. ● Identify the popular comic artist whose work
has a wide following.
Question 2.6

27. ● Answer: Randall Munroe of xkcd

28. ROUND 3
● If all the three variables(X,Y,Z) are identified,
then the team gets 20 points.
● If only one of them is answered, the team which
gets it right first get 5 points for each of the
answered variables.
● Negative Marking of -2.5 points for each
wrongly answered variable(X,Y,Z)

29. ● X, till a month ago was a tenured professor at
Stanford University, resigned to start Z, an
online learning university with a mission of
teaching hundreds of people online. X is also
famous for Y, which he did as a Google Project.
Id X,Y,Z
Question 3.1

30. ● X - Sebastian Thrun Y- Google self driving Car
Z - Udacity

31. ● X is a partner at Y, a famous VC fund along
with Z. X during his college days become
notoriously known for releasing the first worm
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which infected around 1/10 of the systems
connected to Internet at that time. Y's name is
taken from a popular term in Lambda Calculus,
a concept with minor following whereas Z has
studied Philosophy and Painting before
embarking on a project called Viaweb which
was sold to Yahoo in 1998.
Question 3.2

32. ● X- Robert Tappan Morris Y- Y Combinator Z -
Paul Graham

33. ● X was one of the people who founded a
blogging service which was bought by Y way
back in 2003. After this, X went on to develop
Z, now one among the most widely used
service in the Internet.
ID X,Y,Z
Question 3.3

34. ● X- Evan Williams
● Y – Google
● Z – Twitter

35. ● A was invented by B at MIT in 1958. One interesting,
almost core, feature of A, is its intensely recursive
nature. This recursion was to such an extreme that a
complete interpreter for A was written in A in “about a
page” of code!
● Fast forward to 1972. The setting is, of course, Xerox
PARC. C and ‘Dan’ were in discussion about powerful
programming languages. C, inspired by the one-page
nature of A, claimed that he could define the “most
powerful language in the world” in a page of code.
‘Dan’ bet him on it, and C eventually did come up with
the language Small Talk.
Question 3.4

36. ● X- Lisp
● Y - John McCarthy
● Z - Alan Kay and Dan Ingalls (any one)