2. QUEST MANIA RULES
A team shall consist of max two students.
The decision of the quiz-master will be final and will
not be subjected to any change.
Participants shall not be allowed to use mobile or
other electronic instruments.
Questions shall be in the form of multiple choice,
statement, Visuals, Specific-answer question etc.
4. Rules FOR ROUND 1
Two questions for each team
Each question carries 10 marks
-5 marks for wrong answer
If passed then no marks will be given
+5 marks to the next team who answers correctly
-5 marks to the next team who answers wrong
6. QUESTION 1
The founder of this company initially hacked
into the protected areas of Harvard's
computer network and copied the students
directory with photos and information. He
was charged for the breach of security and
faced expulsion.
Later on his company grew multifold and
dropped “The” from its name after
purchasing the new domain in 2005 for US$
200,000.
Name this company.
11. QUESTION 1
This is a kind of Internet-based
functionality that provides shared
processing resources and data to
computers and other devices on
demand. It is a model for enabling
global, on-demand access to a
shared pool of configurable
computing resources.
Name the technology !!!
13. QUESTION 2
Who won the Turing award in 2015 ?
1. Martin E. Hellman & Whitfield
Diffie
2. Silvio Micali &Shafi Goldwasser
3. Leslie Lamport
4. Michael Stonebraker
16. QUESTION 1
This person graduated from
Cambridge and was a leading
participant in the breaking of
German ciphers during the World
war 2 .
He was found dead and cause of
death was cyanide poisoning and an
apple was discovered half-eaten
beside his bed.
Name the personality !!
21. QUESTION 1
Ericsson, A Denmark based company
started working on a device which
establishes radio links between portable
devices . Jim Kardman named the
technology ______ after the 10th
century Viking king Harold Blatand
who liked eating Blueberries. What is
the name of technology?
23. QUESTION 2
To resolve thrashing due to
excessive paging
1. Increase the amount of RAM in
the computer.
2.Decrease the number of
programs being run on the
computer.
3.Replace programs that are
memory-heavy with equivalents
that use less memory.
4. all of above.
26. QUESTION 1
The themes in this game are
borrowed from the major film
Scarface and blow, along with the
hit 1980s television series Miami
Vice .Which game are we talking
about?
28. QUESTION 2
If the wait for graph contains a cycle :
a) then a deadlock does not exist
b) then a deadlock exists
c) then the system is in a safe state
d) either b or c
31. QUESTION 1
The company name comes from the
name of a stream originating on Black
Mountain in Santa Clara County,
California, United States, which ran
behind the houses of John Warnock and
Charles Geschke, the founders of this
company. Which company am I talking
about?
41. QUESTION 2
With which one of the following
would you associate this guy?
1. Dell Computers
2. Sony PlayStation 4
3. Microsoft XBOX ONE
4. Microsoft Kinect
46. QUESTION 2
He is an Indian-American
computer architect who
helped develop USB. Who is
he?
1. Vinod Bhatia
2.Ajay Bhatt
3.Vijay Bhatkar
4.Vinod Dham
56. QUESTION 2
An Indian business executive
who is the CEO and managing
director of Tata Consultancy
Services.
1.Naresh Goyal
2.Lalit Suri
3.Kushal Pal Singh
4.Natarajan Chandrasekaran
62. ANSWER
COAXIAL CABLE
(transmission line for radio frequency signals.
Its applications include feedlines connecting
radio transmitters and receivers with their
antennas, computer network (Internet)
connections, digital audio (S/PDIF), and
distributing cable television signals)
64. QUESTION 1
This 9 year old CEO is an international
expert on hacking and cyber security.
1.Larry Ellison
2.Larry Page
3. Reuben Paul
4.David Ogilvy
109. Rules FOR ROUND 4
Total 5 questions
Correct answer 10 points
Wrong answer -5 points.
Team who picks the flashcard first will
get to answer.
No pass
110. QUESTION 1
The name of the
programming language
recently introduced by
Apple is _____.
111. QUESTION 2
Which Chinese mobile
brand was accused of
stealing data from the
user’s handsets and
transmitting it to their
servers back in China in
year 2014.