TechEvince 2.0 Biz-Internet-Tech Quiz PRELIMS IIT Guwahati 2015

TechEvince 2.0 Biz-
Internet-Tech Quiz
ANSWERS
Quiz Masters:
Kumar Abhishek
Avaneesh Reddy

• There are 25 questions in this round.
• The answers to the questions must be written
down.
• The scoring scheme is +1/0.
• In case of a tie, sudden death will be used to
resolve the tie.
• And as usual, the QM’s decision is final and
binding.

Q. 1.
Me at the zoo was the first item to be uploaded to the website X. It was
uploaded by the Y, co-founder of X.
X has now grown to be one of the busiest websites in the world with
over a billion users.
Give X and Y. (NO PART POINTS)

Q. 2.
Whose tweets have been shown here?

Brian Acton, the co-founder of Whatsapp.

Q. 3.
Declared the world's largest personal computer vendor by unit sales in
2014, X was founded in 1984 in Beijing, China as Legend Holdings
Limited. Each of the 11 co-founders were engineers in the Institute of
Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. X acquired
IBM’s PC business in 2005, including the Y laptop and tablet lines for
$1.75 billion, making it the then third-largest computer maker worldwide
by volume.
Y laptops have been used in space and is the only laptop to be certified
for use on the International Space Station (ISS).
Give me X and Y. (PART POINTS)

Q. 4.
The 2014 book "What If?" is a collection of interesting questions and
answers posted to a popular blog. In this column, the blog's owner tries
to provide scientifically valid answers to strange questions, such as
"What if everyone actually had just one soul mate - one random person
somewhere in the world? Could they ever meet?”
This is what the author has to say about himself:
“I'm just this guy, you know? I'm a CNU graduate with a degree in physics. Before starting
_____, I worked on robots at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia. As of June 2007
I live in Massachusetts. In my spare time I climb things, open strange doors, and go to goth
clubs dressed as a frat guy so I can stand around and look terribly uncomfortable. At frat
parties I do the same thing, but the other way around.
Who is the author and what popular website does he run? ( NO PART
POINTS)

Q. 5.
In an article titled “Why X is interesting again - very?”, the following
were the key points mentioned that make X “interesting again”:
● X is going to put all their apps on the Samsung Galaxy S6 for free.
● X is going to invest in Cyanogen, Android’s open source
fork/competitor.
● X’s cloud computing unit is giving startups from YCombinator
$500,000 in cloud computing.
● X bought Sunrise, a beloved Silicon Valley calendar software and
arguably the best calendar App in the world.
Identify X.

Q. 6.
X is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person
within a culture. A X acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols,
or practices that can be transmitted from one mind to another through
writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a
mimicked theme. Supporters of the concept regard X as cultural
analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to
selective pressures.
The term X was coined by British evolutionary biologist Richard
Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene (1976) as a concept for
discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas
and cultural phenomena.
What is the term X?

Q. 7.
X is a music video portal. It is a joint venture between Sony Music
Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Abu Dhabi Media.
It is a service available only to users from the Australia, Brazil, Canada,
France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand,
Poland, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States currently on
www.X.com
For international users, X has set up channels on YouTube which give
licensed content from 3 of the big 4 record labels i.e. Sony Music ,
Universal and EMI.
Identify X.

Q. 8.
Dilbert is an American comic strip written and illustrated by the famous
American cartoonist, Scott Adams. Described as "the stereotype of the
cerebral Indian passed into popular culture“ and as the "first Indian
comic character to win hearts globally“, Asok is an Indian character in
the Dilbert comic strip.
What has been blanked out? (Images on the next slide)

Asok is an intern and is a graduate of the Indian
Institute of Technology, or as Asok likes to call it,
“the most challenging university on the planet.”

Q. 9.
GPS is owned by the USA. Similar technologies are currently being
developed by China (COMPASS), EU (GALILEO), India (IRNSS).
However, under Vladimir Putin, Russia extensively spent on developing
its own navigational technology. Like GPS, this technology X is also
free for civilian use, and most modern day smartphones employ both
GPS as well as X, for a faster position lock.
What is X?

“Globalnaya navigatsionnaya sputnikovaya sistema"
or "Global Navigation Satellite System”

Q. 10.
Vincent Connare designed X in 1995 while working at Microsoft for
Microsoft Bob, a comic software package designed primarily for young
users. Ever since, X has become one of the most popular and most
maligned _____ of our time.
What is X?
Additional content on the next slide.

Q. 11.
Christos Papadimitriou is a professor in EECS at University of
California, Berkeley.
He co-authored a paper, "Bounds for Sorting by Prefix Reversal," with
X, while X was studying at Harvard. This is what he thought of X.
“When I was an assistant professor at Harvard, X was a junior. My girlfriend back then said that I
had told her: "There's this undergrad at school who is the smartest person I've ever met."
That semester, X was fascinated with a math problem called pancake sorting: How can you sort a
list of numbers, say 3-4-2-1-5, by flipping prefixes of the list? You can flip the first two numbers to
get 4-3-2-1-5, and the first four to finish it off: 1-2-3-4-5. Just two flips. But for a list of n numbers,
nobody knew how to do it with fewer than 2n flips.
X came to me with an idea for doing it with only 1.67n flips. We proved his algorithm correct, and
we proved a lower bound—it cannot be done faster than 1.06n flips. We held the record in
pancake sorting for decades. It was a silly problem back then, but it became important, because
human chromosomes mutate this way.

Two years later, I called to tell him our paper had been accepted to a fine math journal. He
sounded eminently disinterested. He had moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico to run a small
company writing code for microprocessors, of all things. I remember thinking: "Such a brilliant kid.
What a waste.“
Identify X.

Q. 12.
X was a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, and an
early advisor and supporter of companies like Google and PayPal, and
a special advisor to Sequioa Capital. X was awarded with the Godel
Prize in 2001.
X co-authored an influential early paper on Google’s PageRank
algorithm. After his death in 2009, Google co-founder Sergey Brin
wrote a blog post titled “Remembering X”,
“.....Later, when Larry and I began to work together on the research that would lead to
Google, X was there to support us and guide us through challenges, both technical and
organizational.
Eventually, as Google emerged from Stanford, X remained a friend and advisor as he has
with many people and startups since. Of all the faculty at Stanford, it is with X that I
have stayed the closest and I will miss him dearly. Yet his legacy and personality live on
in the students, projects, and companies he has touched. Today, whenever you use a
piece of technology, there is a good chance a little bit of X is behind it.”

After his death in 2009, X’s family donated US$ 1.5 million to X’s alma
mater IIT Kanpur. A building has been constructed and named in his
honor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department of IIT
Kanpur.
Identify X.

Q. 13.
Charles H. Duell resigned from his post as the commissioner for US
patents in 1899. Although most of us may not remember him, we know the
reason he gave for his resignation. The reason was dependent on the job
that he did before resigning.
What was the reason he gave (which is now quoted widely)?

“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”

Q. 14.
These 4 gentlemen are celebrating something. What?

The book “Introduction to Algorithms” by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest,
and Stein sold 500,000 copies.

Q. 15.
In order to challenge Apple’s smartwatch, Intel Corp announced on
March 19, 2015 that it is going to team up with X, the largest watch
manufacturer of the French multinational luxury goods conglomerate
Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (better known as LVMH).
The watch manufacturing subsidiaries of LVMH include Bulgari,
Chaumet, Hublot, Zenith and X.
Give me X.

Q. 16.
X-coin is a lite-coin derived cryptocurrency.
It was created by programmer and former IBM engineer Billy Markus of
Portland, Oregon, to reach a wide audience and avoid getting involved
with the controversial history behind Bitcoin. Unlike deflationary
cryptocurrencies (like Bitcoin), there is no limit to how many X-coins
can be produced. This puts X-coin in the same league as other
inflationary coins.
Its mascot is a Shiba Inu dog character which is famous in its own
right.
Identify X-coin.

Q. 17.
X is a fruit-flavored drink. Originally formulated by General Foods
Corporation food scientist William A. Mitchell in 1957, it was first
marketed in powdered form in 1959.
Sales of X were poor until NASA used it on John Glenn's Mercury
flight, and subsequent Gemini missions. Since then, it was closely
associated with the U.S. manned spaceflight program, leading to the
misconception that X was invented for the space program.
Identify the drink X.

Q. 18.
The X project began as an experimental branch of the Y project by
Dave Hyatt, Joe Hewitt and Blake Ross. They believed the commercial
requirements of Netscape's sponsorship and developer-driven feature
creep compromised the utility of the Y browser.
The X project was initially called Phoenix, which carried the implication
of the mythical firebird that rose triumphantly from the ashes of its dead
predecessor, an apt name suggesting the rise from the "ashes" of
Netscape Navigator after it had been killed off by Microsoft's Internet
Explorer in the “first browser war".
In March 2015, X introduced a new free video chat service Y integrated
within the browser, which experts hailed as one of the easiest to use.
Give me X and Z.

X : Firefox
Y : Mozilla
Z : Firefox Hello

Q. 19.
One of the founders of the company X was Padmshree recipient N.N
Mohan. His son Col. V.R. Mohan took over the company in 1969.
While on a trip to Europe, Col. Mohan discovered that the monasteries
there had perfected the art of making Y.
Hence, on his return to India, he launched the brand X, and named it in
honor of the priests in those monasteries. The rest, as they say, is
history…
Identify X.

Q. 20.
A Twitter battle ensued between Amazon India and Flipkart, when X tweeted an
Imgur image. The blacked out regions are X’s account. Give me X.

Q. 21.
The idea X was conceived by Nick Woodman in 2002, during a surf trip
to Australia. He wanted to capture quality action photos of his surfing,
but could not because amateur photographers could not get close
enough or obtain quality equipment at accessible prices. His desire for
a camera system that could capture the professional angles inspired
the name of X.
In 2004, the first camera was released. X’s cameras are compact,
lightweight, rugged, and are wearable or mountable on vehicles.
Give me X.

Q. 22.
In July 1945, two young brothers P.P Chhabria and K.P Chhabria came
to Pune from Karachi in search of a livelihood and within six months set
up a small shop selling electrical cables.
The brand X was born from "Fine" & "Flexibles" and "O" with an electric
arc across it - signifying the electrical cable business the company was.
Identify the company X.

Q. 23.
This is the old Facebook. Identify the person on the top left side of the page.

Q. 24.
What has been blanked out?

Q. 25.
Founded in 1937, Y leads the Indian snack market. Y's revenues for
2013-14, at Rs 3,500 crore, is more than the combined revenue of
Domino's (Rs 1,733 crore) and McDonald's (Rs 1,390 crore; adding
toplines of the two separate operations in India), and is almost thrice
that of the popular two-minute snack, Maggi, which netted a revenue of
Rs 1,200 crore.
Although a national brand, the business is broken into three distinct
geography-based entities: Y Manufacturing (North India), Y Foods
(West and South India) and Y _____ (East India).
Give me Y and the blank. (PARTIAL POINTS)

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