The document consists of a computer quiz featuring 30 pictorial questions, primarily focusing on technological developments, influential people in the industry, and historical references. It covers topics such as keyboard design, programming languages, and significant contributions to technology, while also including identifying popular applications and companies. The quiz aims to engage users in a fun and informative manner regarding notable figures and innovations in computer science.

1. Computer Quiz
Mostly Pictoral – since I am lazy
A set of 30 questions

2. 1. Connect.

3. CODE Keyboard
1. Photo is of the CODE Keyboard Jeff Arwood recently designed
2. Photo is of WASD Keyboards who helped him build it.
3. Book from where the name of the keyboard is inspired.
4. Jeff Atwood’s Personal blog – coding horror

4. 2
“I was indoctrinated into the keyboard cult when I bought my first
computer. But I didn’t appreciate it. Few do. The world is awash in
terrible, crappy, no name how-cheap-can-we-make-it keyboards.
There are a few dozen better mechanical keyboard options out
there. I’ve owned and used at least six different expensive
mechanical keyboards, but I wasn’t satisfied with any of them,
either: they didn’t have backlighting, were ugly, had terrible
design, or were missing basic functions like media keys.”
Who said this?
I am lazy <= this is the hint

5. Jeff Atwood, founder StackOverflow

6. 3
ID the app

7. Tango

8. 4
Explain the
significance.

9. Google Palestine hacked

10. 5
In Mandarin, X has two interesting meanings, each highly
relevant to our mission. The primary meaning interested us
because it is used in an ancient Chinese proverb that describes
the X as the holder of precious things. It literally translates to
"gourd," and in ancient times, the X was hollowed out and used
to hold precious things. The secondary meaning is "interactive
recording."
What is X?

11. HULU

12. 6
The photograph was taken by the professional
photographer Charles O’Rear, a resident of St. Helena in Napa
County, for digital-design company HighTurn. O’Rear has also taken
photographs of Napa Valley for the May 1979 National Geographic
Magazine article Napa, Valley of the Vine. Why is this photograph
famous? Think Happiness.

13. Bliss, Windows XP Wallpaper

14. 7
Expand PASCAL – the programming language.

15. Pattern Analysis Statistical Modelling
and Computational Learning
(PASCAL)
:-D

16. 8
Another connect

17. Xiaomi
1. Photo is of Hugo Barra, who left Google (Android) to join Xiaomi in
August, 2013
2. Logo of Foxconn, Xiaomi’s products manufacturer.
3. Xiaomi is based in China

18. 9
ID the app

19. Repix

20. 10
This is a form of digital art, created through the use of raster
graphics software, where images are edited on the pixel level.
This term was coined by Adele Goldberg and Robert Flegal of
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1982. What is it?

21. Pixel Art

22. 11
Significance?

23. First known use of emoticons
:-) and :-(

24. 12
What is his most
invaluable contribution
to modern day
technology?

25. QWERTY Layout
He was also the man who invented the typewriter

26. 13
...a system, method and computer program product for providing links
to remotely located information in a network of remotely connected
computers. A uniform resource locator (URL) is registered with a server.
A shorthand link is associated with the registered URL. The associated
shorthand link and URL are logged in a registry database. When a
request is received for a shorthand link, the registry database is
searched for an associated URL. If the shorthand link is found to be
associated with an URL, the URL is fetched, otherwise an error message
is returned.
It is an early reference to what?

27. URL Shortener

28. 14
Which company’s one of the
earliest known ad is this?

29. Apple
:D

30. 15.
This is ‘An Open Letter to
Hobbyists’.
Who is its author?

31. Bill Gates

32. 16
This is a term that was coined by Professor Ted Rappaport in
1990 when he was a faculty member at Virginia Tech, and was
used to describe the Roanoke/Blacksburg, Virginia region and
the potential of research to create spin-out companies. This
term was later used as nickname to describe several regional
clusters of companies in the information technology sector, in
analogy to California's Silicon Valley.
What is this term?

33. Wireless Valley

34. 17
What is this type of art called?

35. ANSI Art

36. 18
What is its significance?

37. First known use of smileys

38. 19
Identify the service

39. Identi.ca

40. 20
Identify the Swedish telecommunication company

41. Telia Sonera

42. 21
What is the name of the phablet launched by MTV and Swipe
Telecom recently?

43. Slash

44. 22
This is a small island country in the Pacific. Every year it receives $4
million in royalty from different firms across the world for using its
country top level domain .tv. Identify the county

45. Tuvalu

46. 23
Twitter : Fail Whale :: X : Whale Fail
What is X?

47. Google Books

48. 24
Which company’s slogan is ‘The Front Page of the Internet’ ?

49. Reddit

50. 25
web.py
Connect

51. Aaron Swartz
1. He helped in creating the RSS
2. He also had significant contribution in Reddit
3. Along with Kevin Poulson he created Strongbox
4. He authored the web.py framework

52. 26
The .md extension is for which file format?

53. Markdown

54. 27
By what name do we know Stanford University Network better?

55. SUN Microsystems

56. 28
Who was the first person in India to make a mobile phone call?

57. Jyoti Basu, then CM of West Bengal

58. 29
Expand RISC.

59. Reduced Instruction Set Computing

60. 30
This company was founded in Japan in 1889 by Fusajiro
Yamauchi, it originally produced handmade hanafuda cards. Later
it developed into a very big electronics and gaming company.
Which company are we talking about?

61. Nintendo
Leave Luck to Heaven

62. That’s all Folks
By – Soham Banerjee