A Tech Quiz as a part of our Computer Society fest. Prepared and conducted by Apratim Chandra Singh

1. Prelims

2. Rules
• 20 Questions in the prelims
• Name, Phone Number, College name on the
sheet.
• People caught using mobile phones during
the prelims will be made to watch
Messenger of God.
• There are two doors in this room, people
who are easily offended are free to leave
from either.
• “Never irritate a sleep deprived Quizmaster”

3. Aamir Khan when asked about the
Quiz
• I have not yet seen that quiz, but I have heard
a lot about it. And I have seen 2-3 slideshare
powerpoints of that. I am disturbed. It is a
very violent quiz.

4. Q1
• Urban Dictionary defines this term as “A
word Evolved by the late Tupac Shakur.
Commonly mistaken for a Criminal. X is the
opposite of someone having all he needs to
succeed. X is when you have nothing, and
succeed, when you have overcome all
obstacles to reach your aim.” Give X.

5. • Thug Life

6. Q2 – Identify the guy on the left.

7. Gabe Newell

8. Q3
• The name of this cigarette brand is so
named due to the colour of the tobacco used
in it. Manufactured by W.D & H.O Wills, its
recent product shares name with a line of
processors. Give the name of the brand and
the product
• #shadytech

9. • Gold Flake Quad Core

10. Q4
• This Assassin’s Creed comic strip is
imitating which iconic 90’s cartoon show ?
• (Image on next slide)

12. • Dexter’s Labotrary

13. Q5
• X is an Indian ************ cartoon character
and has earned a recognition as India's first
**** star The cartoon character was first
introduced by Deshmukh in March 2008. It
proved controversial in the conservative Indian
setting as soon as it was introduced. Some
critics felt it represented the face of new India's
ultra-liberal section.The X Movie was released
on May 2013; it deals with the subject of
internet censorship in a humorous way with X
as the heroine who saves the day.
Who is X ?

14. • Savita Bhabhi

15. Q6
• X is an American company best known for
manufacturing test and measurement devices such
as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and video and
mobile test protocol equipment. In November 2007,
Danaher Corporation acquired X as a subsidiary. The
company received a 2007 Technology & Engineering
Emmy Awards for compliance standards monitoring
systems for Advanced Television Systems Committee
(ATSC) standard and Digital Video Broadcasting
(DVB) transport streams. Several charities are or
were associated with X, including the X Foundation
and the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust in Vancouver,
Washington. It’s biggest consumers would be
Engineering and Science Colleges. Give X ?

16. • Tektronix

17. Q7
• X is the practice of consultancy firms recruiting information
technology workers in order to contract their services out on
short-term basis. Regarded as legitimate consultancy by both
the companies that practice it and by the people employed, X
is disparaged by those IT services companies that assert that
they provide real services (such as software development)
rather than the "sham" of merely farming out professionals
to overseas companies X in IT originated during 1993-1999
where there was huge demand for people
with mainframe, COBOL and related technology skills to
prevent systems being affected by the Y2K bug. Identify this
practice which sounds almost like an organ trade.

18. • Body Shopping

19. Q8

20. • Steve Ballmer

21. Q9 – This company has seen a surge
of almost 300% in its stocks. Why ?

22. • The Dress/Dressgate

23. Q10
• Which popular website was started by its
founder to help his niece in Mathematics
subject as she used to lived across the
country ?

24. • Khan Academy

25. Q11 – Which site ?

26. • Kama Sutra

27. Q12

28. • Book of Mozilla

29. Q13 – Who ?

30. • Uday Chopra

31. Q14
• The X effect is the tendency of a spell checker to suggest
or autocorrect with incorrect words to replace
misspelled words and words not in its dictionary. This
term refers to the unhyphenated English word
“cooperation” often being changed to “X” by older spell
checkers with dictionaries containing only the
hyphenated variant, “co-operation”.
• Other examples include replacement of “definately” with
“defiantly”, DeMecoRyans with “Demerol”, Voldemort
with “Voltmeter” and the MuttahidaQuami Movement
being replaced with “Muttonhead Quail Movement”.
• Give X

32. • Cupertino Effect

33. Q15
• God, grant me the serenity to accept the
pages I cannot edit,
• The courage to edit the pages I can,
• And the wisdom to know the difference.
• What is the name of the prayer?

34. • The Wiki Prayer

35. Q16 – These two people founded which
company ?

36. • King.com

37. Q-17
• X was the founder and chairman of Internet
Users Community of India (IUCI). He had
also played a major role in setting up
internet organizations like the Ethical
Hackers Association. He was one of the first
few Indians to own a website. However we
know him for a completely different reason.
Identify this insanely popular guy.

38. • Shammi Kapoor

39. Q18
• Catull is an old style serif typeface designed
by Gustav Jaeger for the Berthold foundry in
1982. What makes this one among the most
viewed fonts in the world ?

40. • Google logo

41. Q19 Some of the stories behind the
naming of this company. Which company
?
• X used to work at a California or Oregon farm
during the summer.
• X really liked the Beatles
• X was three months late filing a name for the
business, and he threatened to call his company
______ if his colleagues didn't suggest a better name
by 5 p.m.
• X wanted to distance the company from the cold,
unapproachable, complicated imagery created by
other computer companies at the time.

42. • Apple

43. Q20 – Connect. (Apart from the fact
they work in Bollywood)

44. • Servers of Slideshare.

45. Finals

46. Rules
• 26 Questions
• Infinite bounce and pounce
• +10/-10 on pounce and +10 on bounce
• “Never irritate a sleep deprived Quizmaster”

47. Q1
• X are frequently found in software releases. Sometimes
the documentation is omitted through simple oversight,
but X are often elements of the software not intended for
use by end users, but left available for use by the vendor
for software support and development.
• The usage of X was popularized by Microsoft’s responses
to bug reports for its first Word for Windows product,
giving rise to the popular phrase – “It’s not a bug; it’s an
X!”
• Ironically, X themselves have become a major feature of
computer games. Developers often include cheats and
other special features that are not explained in the
package material, but have become part of the ‘buzz’
about the game on the Internet and among gamers. What
is X ?

49. • Undocumented Features

50. Q2
• The first one used Baskerville Bold from September
to October 1998 but the new variation which
included an exclamation mark at the end with a
change in colors was intended to “bring back the
idea that ______ doesn’t follow the rules” lasted from
October 1998 - May 1999.
• The next variant lasted for 10 years and 11 months
(May 31, 1999 – May 5, 2010) and is still used on the
Picasa software and the Internet Explorer Gallery.
• The one currently in use has had minute changes in
position, color and shadows.
• What am I talking about?

52. • Google Logo

53. Q3 - What are these collectively known as?
Only a specific one-word answer will get you
points.

55. • Yoodles

56. Q4 – Connect the following games
• Pac-Man
• Tetris
• Another World
• Myst
• SimCity 2000
• vib-ribbon
• The Sims
• KatamariDamacy
• EVE Online
• Dwarf Fortress
• Portal
• flOw
• Passage
• Canabalt

58. • The above 14 video games are the only ones
to have been acquired by Museum of
Modern Art (MoMA) as part of their art
collection.

59. Q5
• X is an informal term used in software engineering for a method
of debugging code. The name is a reference to a story in the
book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a programmer would
carry around a X and debug their code by forcing themselves to
explain it, line-by-line, to X. Many other terms exist for this
technique, often involving different inanimate objects.
• Many programmers have had the experience of explaining a
programming problem to someone else, possibly even to
someone who knows nothing about programming, and then
hitting upon the solution in the process of explaining the
problem. In describing what the code is supposed to do and
observing what it actually does, any incongruity between these
two becomes apparent. By using an inanimate object, the
programmer can try to accomplish this without having to
involve another person. Give X.

61. • Rubber Duck Debugging

62. Q6 – Put Fundae

64. • Rule 34

65. Q7
• X (color) is a bright red with a slightly orange tinge. In
the spectrum of visible light, and on the
traditional color wheel, it is one-fourth of the way
between red and orange, slightly less orange
than vermilion.
• According to surveys in Europe and the United States,
X and other bright shades of red are the colors most
associated with courage, force, passion, heat, and
joy. In the Roman Catholic Church, scarlet is the color
worn by a cardinal, and is associated with the blood of
Christ and the Christian martyrs, and with sacrifice.
However we know this color for an infamous reason.
Give me the funda.

67. • Scarlet Collar Worker – Female Sex Workers

68. Q8 – Excerpt from which book.
• 1.Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.
2. Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear
them.
3. When in another’s lair, show him respect or else do not go there.
4. If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.
5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.
6. Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the
other person and he cries out to be relieved.
7. Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to
obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it
with success, you will lose all you have obtained.
8. Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.
9. Do not harm little children.
10. Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.
11. When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask
him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

70. • The Satanic Bible

71. Q9
• The Industrial design (Product Design) of
this device were done by Professor A G Rao
and Professor Ravi Poovaiah both faculty
members at the Industrial Design Centre,
IIT Bombay. The electronics of the device
was done by ECIL, HYDERABAD. These
devices were subject of various
controversies yet they are in use. Which
device am I talking about which have been
in news recently ?

73. • Electronic Voting Machines

74. Q10 – What is the claim to fame of
this episode ?
• Synopsis of Modern Family “Connection Lost”
• “Claire's computer becomes the hub of all the
family's activities when she gets stuck at the
airport and is desperate to reach Haley after a
big fight. After FaceTiming with Phil and the
rest of the family to help track her down, Claire
quickly turns to online snooping which
inevitably becomes disturbing real quick and
everyone gets sucked into the online drama.”

76. • Shot entirely on iPhone and iPad

77. Q11
• This is a product of the IT firm 'Innovazion'.
According to the CEO Gagneja, "By building
this software, we wanted to...congratulate
the current government. We also want to
pass a message to the government that the
nation has high expectations from them.“
Which software is this?

79. • NaMo Anti-Virus.

80. Q12
• He was initially a firm believer of communism
but an interesting incident changed his life
which led him to become a capitalist & an
entrepreneur. During a foreign visit, for having
talked against the Bulgarian govt with a co-
passenger in train, he was jailed for 4 days
without food but later released because he was
from India (which was a friendly country to
them). This changed his life, he gave up the
idea of communism and decided to create jobs
in India. Thats how the story of his
entrepreneurship started. Which iconic person
am I talking about ?

82. • NR Narayana Murthy

83. Q13
The "Moon Stage Theme" is a piece of
music from the X NES video game
composed by Hiroshige Tonomura. It is
the background music for the fifth stage of
the game, which is set on the Moon. The
“Moon Theme” background music has
enjoyed a cult-like status in recent years.
Identify the Game.

85. • Duck Tales

86. Q14
• The reason for this is attributed to the perfectionist
characteristic of Jobs. When Steve Jobs orchestrated
the launch event of iPhone during Macworld 2007, it
was a presentation on stage carried out by Jobs for
more than an hour. During such keynote he starts
with some introductory slides, company sales-
report and in the middle of keynote, generally
launches a new product with ads on the big screen
on stage. He wanted all the things to be in sync as
per his calculations thus he asked his design team to
tweak every minute detail in order to match his
plan, this led to a common practice which can even
be seen in latest product release. What practice ?

89. Q15 – Which epic search engine ?

91. • Koogle

92. Q16
• This piece of music is titled as “Hello
World!”. Why it is important in the history of
technology or what importance does this
piece of music have?

94. • Considered the first work to be composed
by a computer without any human
intervention by Iamus computer located in
Spain.

95. Q17
• How has Vishal Malhotra, a model from
Delhi has become an over-night sensation
and one of the most recognisable face in the
past few days ?

98. Q18
• How has Chandauli, a village situated 150
miles from Delhi become one of the most
talked about place in the recent days ?

100. • First destination to be powered by
Internet.org in India

101. Q19
• The X is famous for being the first
commercially successful typewriter. During its
development, the typewriter evolved from a
crude curiosity into a practical device, the basic
form of which became the industry standard.
The machine incorporated fundamental
typewriter design, including a cylindrical
platen and a four rowed QWERTY keyboard.
• Identify this famous typewriter which paved
the way for the entrance of women into the
clerical work force.

104. • Sholes and Glidden Typewriter OR Remington
No. 1

105. Q20 – Connect the following.
• Saint Barthelemy
• Bouvet Island
• Czechoslovakia
• East Germany
• Western Sahara
• Great Britain
• Saint Martin
• Saint Pierre and Miquelon
• Svalbard and Jan Mayen
• Somalia
• Chinese Taipei
• United States Minor Outlying Islands
• Yugoslavia
• Mayotte
• Zaire

107. • All of the above countries or regions have
Unused/Phased out or retired Domain names

108. Q21
• XY (two-word term) is the observation that the
intrinsic rate of human performance is exponential.
Named after X, whose work in augmenting human
performance was explicitly based on the realization
that although we make use of technology, the ability
to improve on improvements resides entirely within
the human sphere.
• In discussing the exponential nature of Moore’s Law,
Gordon Moore locates the root of his inspiration in
X’s observations on the propensity of humans to
envision and achieve scale, and its non-linear effects.
• Give XY.

110. • Engelbart’s Law

111. Q22
• X was a problem faced in the 1960s by computer engineers. Engineers
were unable to increase the performance of their designs due to the
huge number of components involved.
• In theory, every component needed to be wired to every other
component (or at least many other components), and were typically
strung andsoldered by hand. In order to improve performance, more
components would be needed, and it seemed that future designs would
consist almost entirely of wiring.
• The term was first used by Jack Morton, the Vice President of Bell
Labs in 1957 in a paper celebrating the 10th anniversary of the
invention of the transistor.
• Jack Kilby worked on the problem of X and finally came to the
conclusion that manufacturing the circuit components en masse in a
single piece of semiconductor material could provide a solution, and
hence giving birth to modern electronics and technology as we know it.
• Give X.

113. • Tyranny of Numbers

114. Q23
• X is a programming language consisting of
only eight simple commands and an
instruction pointer. Designed to amuse
programmers, X was created in 1993 by
Urban Miller. What programming language
X ?

116. • Brain Fuck

117. Q24
• _____ is a magic word from the Colossal Cave Adventure
computer game, in which if the player typed _____ he/she could
move instantly between two otherwise distant points. As
Colossal Cave Adventurewas the first adventure game and the
first interactive fiction, hundreds of games included responses to
_____ in tribute.
• Though the origin is debatable, the mnemonic _____ has long
been taught by math teachers to remember the process for cross
products.
• The most famous use of this magic word was in the form of an
easter egg in Minesweeper in the older version of Windows.
• What is this magic word which has been used in countless
number of video games as a cheat code ?

119. • Xyzzy

120. Q25
• The idea of X came to Bob Brown after
watching his first talkie (movie with sound). In
1930, he wrote a book on this idea and titled it
The Readies, playing off the idea of a talkie.
• The inventor of the first X is not agreed upon.
• Robert Busa (late 1940s), Angela Ruiz Robles
(1949), Doug Engelbart and Andries van Dam
(1960s) and Michael S. Hart (1971) all are
disputed to be the inventors of X.
• What is X? What am I talking about?

122. • E-book/Digital book/ Electronic Book

123. Q26
• The Trabb Pardo-Knuth algorithm is a program
introduced by Donal Knuth and Luis Trabb Pardo to
illustrate the evolution of computer languages.
• In their 1977 work "The Early Development of
Programming Languages", Trabb Pardo and Knuth
introduced a trivial program that involved arrays,
indexing,
mathematicalfunctions, subroutines, I/O, conditionals an
d iteration. They then wrote implementations of the
algorithm in several early programming languages to
show how such concepts were expressed.
• What is the most famous example of the Trabb Pardo-
Knuth Algorithm?

125. • Hello World Program