A computer science and tech quiz for the geeks. Hope you enjoy. This was conducted as a tribute to the coding legend of NIT Jamshedpur, Shubham Vishwakarma who is no more amongst us.

3. RULES
• A TEAM OF MAXIMUM 2 MEMBERS.
• MENTION YOUR TEAM NAME, MEMBER’S NAME AND CONTACT NO.
• TOP 8 TEAMS WILL QUALIFY FOR THE FINALS.
• 18 QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW.
• NO NEGATIVE MARKING 
• QUESTION NUMBER IN THE MULTIPLES OF 3 ARE (*) MARKED AND WILL BE USED
TO RESOLVE TIES.
• WRITE YOUR ANSWERS LEGIBLY AND IN CORRECT SPELLINGS AS MUCH AS
POSSIBLE.

5. 1.
What is the username of Shubham
Vishwakarma on online coding platform,
www.codechef.com ?

6. 2.
Founded by Brendan Alper , X is a
dating app that matches you with
other users based on things you both
dislike. Founded in January 2017, this
app has amassed about 200,000 users
in the US and abroad and it's the No. 1
lifestyle app in Germany right now as
reported by X. Instead of focusing
only on what you like, it also wants to
know what you despise.

7. *3.
Written in C and assembly language, X is a family
of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems. It’s
development started in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center
by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and others. Initially intended for use
inside the Bell System, AT&T licensed X to outside parties from the late
1970s, leading to a variety of both academic and commercial variants
of X from vendors such as the University of California, Microsoft, IBM
and Sun Microsystems.

8. 4. You must have been a X client too !!
Created by programmer Bram Cohen, in April 2001, X is a
communication protocol of peer-to-peer file sharing which is
used to distribute data and electronic files over the Internet. X is
one of the most common protocols for transferring large files.
The FBI has recently been using X clients, specifically modified
for law enforcement purposes, to track down people who share
child porn and prosecute them.

9. 5. WHICH BANK ?
“We have developed this robot in India and have
named it IRA which means Intelligent Robotic
Assistant and are planning to use it for smoother
customer service, marketing, employee assistance
and also process automation,” said Nitin Chugh,
country head, digital banking, X Bank. “As of now,
we have only a single robot which we could install
at a branch in Mumbai to check how customers
react to it.” This announcement was made in
January 2017. Which private sector bank?

10. *6. ID

11. 7. Which famous problem ?

12. 8. Trending these days….
X, legally known as Telefônica Brasil, is the
largest telecommunications company in Brazil. It is
headquartered in São Paulo. The company was originally
formed as part of Telebrás, the state-owned
telecom monopoly at the time. In 1998, Telebrás was demerged
and privatized, with Telefónica taking Telesp.
X shares its name with another multinational technology
company whose products have gained foothold in recent days
in the Indian market.

13. *9. Most famous contribution of this quartet ?

14. 10. WHAT ?

15. 11. ID X
Founded in November 2012 by Indian Institute
of Technology Roorkee alumnus Sachin Gupta
and Vivek Prakash, X is a startup technology
company based in Bangalore, that provides
recruitment solutions. It was a finalist in the
2014 Seedstars World startup competition held
in Geneva, Switzerland. It has a competitive
programming platform which supports over
thirty two programming languages.

16. *12. CONNECT

17. 13. GIVE X
X are installable enhancements to the Mozilla Foundation's projects,
including Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and Sunbird. X allow
users to add or augment application features, use themes to their
liking, and handle new types of content. There are three major
categories of X: "Extensions", "Themes", and "Plugins".
Formerly, Mozilla X was known as Mozilla Update.

18. 14. ID X
In March 2017, X launched its new range of
perfumes Threat de Toilette. Following are the
scents in this range :
• Ransom
• Mal-wear
• Social Enginoir
• Phish

19. *15. ID X
Echo is a smart speaker developed by X. It features a cylindrical 360-
degree omni-directional speaker powered by a virtual assistant. This
talkative AI assistant lets Echo owners order dinner, check the weather,
turn on the lights, adjust your thermostat, get travel updates on your
commute, call a cab, and more, using only your voice. X promotes the
smart speaker with the tagline, Just Ask.
Couple of days back, X announced new features added to Echo which
involves spoken instructions to teach people a wide range of first-aid
treatments, including how to deal with a severe bleed, a burn and a
seizure.

20. 16.

21. 17. ID X
Elliot Alderson is a young man living in New York City, who works at the
cyber security company Allsafe as a security engineer. Constantly
struggling with social anxiety disorder, dissociative identity
disorder and clinical depression, Elliot's thought process seems heavily
influenced by paranoia and delusion. He connects to people
by hacking them, which often leads him to act as a cyber-vigilante. He is
recruited by a mysterious insurrectionary anarchist known as X and joins
his team of hacktivists known as fsociety.

22. *18. CONNECT

25. 1.
What is the username of Shubham
Vishwakarma on online coding platform,
www.codechef.com ?

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27. 2.
Founded by Brendan Alper , X is a
dating app that matches you with
other users based on things you both
dislike. Founded in January 2017, this
app has amassed about 200,000 users
in the US and abroad and it's the No. 1
lifestyle app in Germany right now as
reported by X. Instead of focusing
only on what you like, it also wants to
know what you despise.

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29. *3.
Written in C and assembly language, X is a family
of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems. It’s
development started in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center
by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and others. Initially intended for use
inside the Bell System, AT&T licensed X to outside parties from the late
1970s, leading to a variety of both academic and commercial variants
of X from vendors such as the University of California, Microsoft, IBM
and Sun Microsystems.

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31. 4. You must have been a X client too !!
Created by programmer Bram Cohen, in April 2001, X is a
communication protocol of peer-to-peer file sharing which is
used to distribute data and electronic files over the Internet. X is
one of the most common protocols for transferring large files.
The FBI has recently been using X clients, specifically modified
for law enforcement purposes, to track down people who share
child porn and prosecute them.

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33. 5. WHICH BANK ?
“We have developed this robot in India and have
named it IRA which means Intelligent Robotic
Assistant and are planning to use it for smoother
customer service, marketing, employee assistance
and also process automation,” said Nitin Chugh,
country head, digital banking, X Bank. “As of now,
we have only a single robot which we could install
at a branch in Mumbai to check how customers
react to it.” This announcement was made in
January 2017. Which private sector bank?

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39. 8. Trending these days….
X, legally known as Telefônica Brasil, is the
largest telecommunications company in Brazil. It is
headquartered in São Paulo. The company was originally
formed as part of Telebrás, the state-owned
telecom monopoly at the time. In 1998, Telebrás was demerged
and privatized, with Telefónica taking Telesp.
X shares its name with another multinational technology
company whose products have gained foothold in recent days
in the Indian market.

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41. *9. Most famous contribution of this quartet ?

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43. 10. WHAT ?

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45. 11. ID X
Founded in November 2012 by Indian Institute
of Technology Roorkee alumnus Sachin Gupta
and Vivek Prakash, X is a startup technology
company based in Bangalore, that provides
recruitment solutions. It was a finalist in the
2014 Seedstars World startup competition held
in Geneva, Switzerland. It has a competitive
programming platform which supports over
thirty two programming languages.

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47. *12. CONNECT

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49. 13. GIVE X
X are installable enhancements to the Mozilla Foundation's projects,
including Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and Sunbird. X allow
users to add or augment application features, use themes to their
liking, and handle new types of content. There are three major
categories of X: "Extensions", "Themes", and "Plugins".
Formerly, Mozilla X was known as Mozilla Update.

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51. 14. ID X
In March 2017, X launched its new range of
perfumes Threat de Toilette. Following are the
scents in this range :
• Ransom
• Mal-wear
• Social Enginoir
• Phish

52. S
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53. *15. ID X
Echo is a smart speaker developed by X. It features a cylindrical 360-
degree omni-directional speaker powered by a virtual assistant. This
talkative AI assistant lets Echo owners order dinner, check the weather,
turn on the lights, adjust your thermostat, get travel updates on your
commute, call a cab, and more, using only your voice. X promotes the
smart speaker with the tagline, Just Ask.
Couple of days back, X announced new features added to Echo which
involves spoken instructions to teach people a wide range of first-aid
treatments, including how to deal with a severe bleed, a burn and a
seizure.

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57. 17. ID X
Elliot Alderson is a young man living in New York City, who works at the
cyber security company Allsafe as a security engineer. Constantly
struggling with social anxiety disorder, dissociative identity
disorder and clinical depression, Elliot's thought process seems heavily
influenced by paranoia and delusion. He connects to people
by hacking them, which often leads him to act as a cyber-vigilante. He is
recruited by a mysterious insurrectionary anarchist known as X and joins
his team of hacktivists known as fsociety.

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59. *18. CONNECT

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