Bosco Bit 2018 IT Quiz (Prelims+Finals)

BOSCO BIT 2018
IT QUIZ
•FIRST ROUND IS THE PRELIMINARY
ROUND
•TOP 8 TEAMS QUALIFY FOR THE NEXT
ROUND
•HIGHEST SCORE WAS 23.5 WITH ALL 5
STARS AND CUTOFF WAS 13.
•QUIZMASTER IS GAWD.

PRELIMINARY ROUND
•QUESTIONS WILL FOLLOW A-Z PATTERN
•QUESTIONS B, G, L, Q, V ARE STARRED
• THE TEAM BESIDE YOU HAS WRITTEN
WRONG ANSWER. PLEASE DON’T COPY
•NO NEGATIVE MARKING.(YOLO)

A.
X Inc. is an American multinational
technology company headquartered in
Cupertino, California, that designs,
develops, and sells consumer electronics,
computer software, and online services.
X is also is a sweet, edible fruit produced by
the Malus pumila tree.
ID X

B.
X is an American video game developer and publisher based
In Irvine, California and is a subsidiary of the American
company
Activision.
The company was founded on February 8, 1991 under the
name Silicon & Synapse, Inc
This company has developed games like Diablo, World of
Warcraft,
Hearthstone, etc. ID X

C.
By definition the job of a _X_ _Y_ is
actively
creating and publishing original X to an
audience on one or more media platforms.
Though not considered as an actual job in
the
past in recent times this job has emerged as
a
trending one.

D.
What is the term or word used for a
clause
associated with software products that
states,
“The vendor is not responsible for any
loss due
to use of this product.”

F.
It is a set of related programs located at a
network gateway server that protects the
resources of a private network from users
of
other networks. What are we describing.
Some people also also like to turn this off
as it
interferes with particular softwares meant
for
Piracy.

E.
This person is a South African-born
American
entrepreneur and businessman who
founded
X.com in 1999(which we now know as
PayPal).
He became a multimillionaire in his late 20s
when he sold his startup company, Zip2, to
a

G.
Founded as Woodman Labs, the
company
eventually focused on the connected
sport
genre, also developing a quadcopter
drone,
Karma, released in October 2016.
Which company?

H.
Outlook.com is web-based suite of web__,
contacts, tasks, and calendaring services
from
Microsoft. One of the world’s first web__
services, it was founded in 1996 as X__ by
Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith in Mountain
View
California, and headquartered in Sunnyvale.

I.(answer is not IBM)
X: “Think big.” Although “think big” has
been a popular phrase for decades, it
describes X theatres perfectly. With their
large, rounded screens, X makes theatre
screens bigger. Their slogan is the perfect
reflection of their product.
X is a motion picture film format and a set
of cinema projection standards developed
in Canada. ID X

J.
Originated as controls for aircraft ailerons and elevators,
these were first known to have been used as such on Louis
Bleriot’s Bleriot VIII aircraft of 1908, in combination with
a foot operated rudder bar for the yaw control surface on
the tail.
It’s current name is thought to originate with early 20th
century French pilot Robert Esnault-Pelterie who went to
learn to fly at Bleriot’s school.

K.
Wpm or Cpm (not measurement of ionizing
radiation) are the basic units of an activity which
even the Guinness Book of World Records
recognizes.
In 1985 Barbara Blackburn became listed in The
Guinness Book of World Records for this activity
and was able to manage an average of 150 wpm
over the course of 50 minutes.
This activity involves what peripheral.

L.
This innovation was conceived by Bronte EcKermann, an
Australian mechanical industrial designer, and created by
South Australian manufacturer Zing International.
'Well, this is a very costly system. The entire set-up during
a match costs US$ 40,000 (Rs 25 lakh approx), so I don't
allow the players to take it out during any celebrations. But
I know Dhoni loves keeping a souvenir. If India can
win the final, I might get into some arrangement with
Dhoni,’

N.
This company was formed in 2010 by Keyhole Inc
founder John
Hank.
Mainly known for developing augmented reality mobile
games, In
2012 it released ‘Ingress’ which went on to win to be the
winner
of the Grand Prize at the 2015 Japanese Media Arts
Festival.
This company has also developed another mobile game
in 2016

O.
Hello,
I’m X.
You may not know me but 13 years ago I started a social network
called X.com while I was working as an engineer at Google. I'm the
guy X.com was named after. In 2014 when Google announced that X
would be shutting down, it was a sad moment for us. X had become
a community of over 300 million people and was such an amazing
adventure for all of us. Nobody wanted to lose what we had created
together. We met amazing new people. We went on dates. We found
new jobs. We even got married and had kids because of X. We made
it happen, together.

Q.
This specific arrangement of characters was
designed by Christopher Sholes, the inventor of
the typewriter. According to popular myth,
Sholes arranged the keys in their odd fashion to
prevent jamming on mechanical typewriters by
separating commonly used letter combinations.
This arrangement is now used worldwide.

R.
Because pixels took a long time to change, fast
moving images looked fuzzy and produced a ghastly
trail behind them. At 60 Hz, the monitor was
receiving a new frame every 16ms; and with a ___
___ of 15ms, the next frame was starting only 1ms
after the previous one had been fully displayed.
Games tended to slush together during movement,
so gamers would avoid LCDs, even while offices and
schools flocked to them for their smaller footprint.
In general if you are not gaming, 60 Hz is fine. If you
are gaming, you want the highest ___ ___ and the
lower response time you can afford.

S.
The first of this version was created with the first
interactive computers around 1960.
The support of this was added to Android 4.0(Ice
Cream Sandwich). In older versions, some
devices
supported this functionality with one of the
following
combinations:
Press and hold Home+Power
Press and hold Back+Power
Press and hold Back and double tap Home

T.
What is this key called ‘~’

U.
This command is a valuable feature supporte
by many software products. It lets you try
unknown commands with less risk. Also, if
you accidently press the wrong function key,
you
don’t need to worry.

V.
Tech Convo is a Tech Startup social
network dedicated to sports. Its built
for the fans to convo with one another
and consume the best of all sports. It
has been backed by prominent sports
stars globally.
Who formed the Startup?

W.
The terms Internet and __ __ __ are often
used without much distinction. However, the
two are not the same.
The Internet is a global system of
interconnected computer networks. In
contrast, the __ __ __ is a global connection
of documents and other resources, linked by
hyperlinks and URls. Its resources are
generally accessed using HTTP, which is one
of the many internet communication
protocols.

Y.
YouTube, LLC is an American video-
sharing website headquartered in San
Bruno, California.
Since YouTube is banned in China what
is its counterpart there known as?

Z.
Identify this Viner turned YouTuber. He is
known for his Magic tricks.

1.
• Myspace was launched in August 2003 from Beverly
Hills, California.From 2005 until early 2008, Myspace
was the most visited social networking site in the world,
attracting 75.9 million unique visitors a month at
its 2008 peak. Myspace slowly lost it’s popularity with the
coming and rise of Facebook.
• In recent years Myspace is gaining popularity and has
attributed that to a particular trend. In this trend people
from all over the world share and look back fondly on
some of their favorite memories.
• Identify the trend.

2.
• Andrey Ternovskiy was a 17-year-old high-school
student in Moscow . He created X (a website)
• He says the concept arose from video chats he
used to have with friends on Skype, and that he
wrote the first version of X in "two days and two
nights"
• The Chainsmokers ,an American DJ and
production duo consisting of Alex Pall and Andrew
Taggart are rumoured to have met on X.
• Identify X.

3.
• Founded by Sean Rad, Jonathan Badeen, and Justin
Mateen, X won TeenCrunch's Crunchie Award for
"Best New Startup of 2013".In March 2013, when the
app was still used only in some localities, social media
director Alexa Mateen, who spearheaded X's
expansion onto college campuses, stated that the app
was intended to be a "chance to meet people you
wouldn't normally meet“
• X’s dictionary meaning is – A dry, flammable material,
such as wood or paper, used for lighting a fire.
• Identify X.

4.
• Red Star 3.0 OS has the usual widgets: the
Naenara browser, email, a calendar and time
zone settings, even "kPhoto" (with an icon
that looks a lot like iPhoto).
• Older versions featured a Windows XP user
interface but it now it has a Mac design, right
down to the "spinning beach ball" wait icon.
• Ironically to it’s Americanised design it is only
used in one country in the world. Name the
country.

5.
• X is the name of a software voicebank developed
by Crypton Future Media .
• X is a 16-year-old girl with long, turquoise twintails.
She uses Yamaha’s singing synthesizing
technologies.
• X’s personification has been marketed as a virtual
idol and has performed at concerts onstage as an
animated projection (rear cast projection on a
specially coated glass screen).
• Identify X .

6.
• Ben , Pierre, Angela , Ginger and Hank
are the friends of which character of a
popular application .

7.
• In January 1996, O'Rear was driving through
Napa and Sonoma counties in California and
photographed a green, lush hillside on the
side of the highway12/121. O'Rear took the
photograph with a hand-held medium-format
Mamiya RZ67 camera.
• He submitted the photo to Westlight, which
later merged with Corbis.
• Which iconic photograph is being talked
about here? We all have seen it.

Windows XP default Wallpaper “Bliss”

8.
• X is a unit of measurement for the speed and
movement direction of a computer mouse.
The speed of the mouse is the ratio between
how many pixels the cursor moves on the
screen and how many centimeters you move
the mouse on the mouse pad.
• One X is approximately 1/200th of an inch.
• Identify X

1.
• Identify the theme of the Music video.
Brownie points for guessing the band.

2.
• This song was released by Sony; identify it
and tell it’s significance.

Daddy’s car- The first song written
and composed by an A.I.

3.
• This is the trailer to the sequel of which
famous game. Name the sequel too.

Road Rash.
The sequel is Road Redemption .

4.
• Identify the song and the person singing it
.

Pewdiepie singing Take on me at
E3.

5.
• Bill Gates is talking about someone in this
audio. Who is it ?

6.
• Where else will you hear this song ?

Samsung Galaxy Note 9 advertisement.

7.
• Identify the google doodle (in the next slide)
• He has been the second most-translated
author in the world since 1979, ranking
between Agatha Christie and William
Shakespeare.
• He has sometimes been called the Father of
Science Fiction, a title that has also been
given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback

8.
• Kyle Craven (born 10 August 1989), is commonly known by his Internet
nickname. He is an American Internet celebrity known for his ubiquitous photo
posted on Reddit in 2012, which quickly became a popular Internet meme.
• Craven's popularity originated from his intentionally "ridiculous" high school
yearbook photo posted to the social news website Reddit by his friend Ian
Davies on January 24, 2012 at 2:15 UTC. Craven and Davies both attended
Archbishop Hoban High School in Akron, Ohio.
• The photo quickly became a popular image macro on social media networks
like Facebook and Twitter, depicting "a guy who can’t catch a break, a symbol
for a stroke of hilarious bad luck" and was turned into T-shirts, stuffed animals
and novelty items sold by Walmart and Hot Topic. Volkswagen and other
companies paid to use his picture in their advertising campaigns. Craven stated
that he rubbed his face to redden it and adopted an obnoxious smile. Craven
works for his father's construction business building churches.
• In October of 2018, Craven did a series of advertisements for McDonald's
featuring the his character, which were featured on YouTube and Reddit.

• Here is a picture of Kyle.

• List the top 10 most subscribed YouTube
channels in ascending order.

1. PewDiePie[5] N/A[6][7]
English 66 Comedy
2. T-Series[8] T-Series[9] Hindi 65 Music
3. Justin Bieber[10] N/A[B][11]
English
41
Entertainment
4.
Canal
KondZilla[12] ONErpm[13] Portuguese Music
5.
5-Minute
Crafts[14]
Channel
Frederator[15]
English
36 How-to
6. Dude Perfect[16] N/A[17]
35 Sports
7.
HolaSoyGerma
n.[18]
HolaSoyGerma
n.[19] Spanish
34
Entertainment
8. Ed Sheeran[20] N/A[21]
English
Music
9. WWE[22] WWE[23] Sports
10. SET India[24] SET[25] Hindi 33 Shows

+50/-40 +5/-10
• X is widely considered to be the first of its kind. It was created
in 1968 by computer scientist Ivan Sutherland with the help of
his student Bob Sproull. He termed it as the “ the ultimate
display “
• X is frequently used in allusion to Dionysius II of Syracuse’s
tale, epitomizing the imminent and ever-present peril faced by
those in positions of power.
• In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer refers to X, which the
knight describes to hang over Conquest.
• The American president John F. Kennedy compared the
omnipresent threat of nuclear annihilation to X hanging over
the people of the world.
• Identify X.

+40/-30 +5/-10
• As a head-mounted display (HMD) designer at the University
of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies,
Palmer Luckey earned a reputation for having the largest
personal collection of HMDs in the world, and was a longtime
moderator in Meant to be Seen (MTBS)'s discussion forums.
• Through MTBS's forums, Palmer developed the idea of
creating a new head-mounted display that was both more
effective than what is currently on the market, and
inexpensive for gamers. To develop the new product, Luckey
founded X.
• In March 2014, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg agreed
to acquire X for US$2.3 billion in cash and stock.
• Identify X.

+30/-20 +5/-10
• X was first released in the U.S.A. and grossed over $460
million worldwide. It was well-received by critics and won
four Academy Awards .
• Reviewers praised X for its innovative visual effects,
cinematography and entertainment value. X has since
appeared in lists of the greatest science fiction films ,and , in
2012, was added to the National Film Registry for
preservation.
• A scene from X know as the ‘Bullet time sequence’ has been
parodied and redone in countless movies. The film is an
example of the cyberpunk subgenre. It contains numerous
references to philosophical and religious ideas, and pays
homage to texts such as Plato’s Allegory of the
Cave, and Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
• Identify X .

+20/-10 +5/-10
• The following are examples of ?
• Passive aggressive
• Open secret
• Big baby
• Act naturally
• Original copy

+10/-5 +10/-5
• X is the nickname given to a depiction of a
character from the Sonic franchise created
by YouTuber Gregzilla, which is often used as an
avatar by players in the multiplayer game Y.
• X is associated with the expression "do you know
the way", which is typically spoken in a mock
African accent and phonetically spelled as "do you
know de wey." Along with the question in hand X
will start making "spitting" sounds, followed by a
"mob like" mentality. Unsuspecting users fall victim
to X’s "promise" of showing "de wey". Only
followed by a mass trolling.
• Identify X and Y.

X- Ugandan Knuckles
Y- VR Chat

The connect is- Virtual Reality

Graphs of the number of subscribers on
Pewdiepie’s channel versus T-Series’ channel

2.
• X (also called Grande Valse) is a phrase
from a composition for solo guitar, Gran
Vals, by the Spanish classical guitarist and
composer Francisco Tárrega, written in
1902.
• It has been the tune of Y since the 1990s
and has become a cult classic.
• Identify X and Y.

3.
• Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich shelled out
an astronomical $168 million (840 crore ) to buy
the 405-feet-long X designed by architect Frank
Mulder. X is the last word in luxury as it hosts a
helicopter pad, retractable glass elevator, spa,
office area, movie theater, jetstream swimming
pool, gym, eight guest cabins, children’s cabin, 10
multilevel VIP suites, and a 3,000 sq. ft. master
suite.
• This transaction was historic for a particular
reason.
• State the reason and identify X.

X- Gigayatch. Costliest item ever
sold on eBay and the internet.

4.
• This domain extension has existed since 1997. It
was first registered in 1998, when Levi Strauss &
Co. registered the domain.
• It is assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory
and is administered by the Internet Computer
Bureau, a domain name registry company based in
the United Kingdom.
• Nowadays the extension is a genre that means
arena based mass multiplayer real time games. Most
of them also have a mechanic where you evolve in
some way during the game.

5.
• This game developed by Riot Games and
released on October 27, 2009 was inspired by
DOTA (Defense of the Ancients).
• American pop rock band, Imagine Dragons had
specially composed a song “Warriors” which
debuted on the game’s 2014 World
Championship music video.
• We have all used or at least heard this game’s
abbreviated form in our day to day lives.

6.
• In 2008, a study carried out by the telecommunications
arm of the Royal Mail found that X became a slang
synonym for "clueless" in the UK.
Slang lexicographer Jonathon Green said that X as
a slang term had been driven by the "influence of
technology" and young people, but at the time, such
usage was relatively confined to London
• X error message is a Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
standard response code, in computer network
communications, to indicate that the client was able to
communicate with a given server, but the server could
not find what was requested.
• It is one of the most recognizable errors in the World
Wide Web

8.
The Following are types of X
• Static
• Dynamic
• Synchronous Dynamic
• Double Data Rate Version 3
• Single Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic
• Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic
X is also the name of a multiple Grammy
winning album by Daft Punk. Identify X.

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