1. The document provides trivia questions about various technologies, companies, and products. It asks the reader to identify or name things based on descriptions. 2. Some of the topics covered include the Vine video sharing app (now defunct), the Microsoft Band wearable, Candy Crush candies, the iPod click wheel, the Indiegogo crowdfunding platform, the Project Jatan digital museum collection software, and the Klout social media influence scoring platform. 3. The questions help test knowledge of past and present digital services, devices, and trends.

1. Q TECHNOLOGICO
Prelims - Answers

2. Lets start easy…
Identify this person.
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3. Richard Stallman

4. X started as a free video sharing app for iOS on
January 24th, 2013. A unique feature of the app
is that the camera records only while the
screen is being touched.
In January 2015, Carolyn Penner announced a
new version for kids called “X kids” saying “The
idea came about during an office conversation
in early January. One of my colleagues was
talking about how much his two-year-old
daughter loves X- he said he wished there was
a separate app she could use to more easily
watch posts that are appropriate for kids,”
What is this service X?
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5. Vine, Vine kids. Owned by Twitter.

6. Name this wearable.
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7. Microsoft Band

8. 1. Red jelly bean
2. Orange lozenge
3. Yellow lemon drop
4. Green chiclet
5. Blue lollipop
6. Purple cluster
What am I talking about?
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9. Candy Crush Candies

10. The image here displays the internal
structure of which iconic component?
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11. iPod click wheel

12. If you go to the “about-us” of this website you will
see this:
“X is a way for people all over the world to join
forces to make ideas happen. Since 2008, millions
of contributors have empowered hundreds of
thousands of inventors, musicians, do-gooders,
filmmakers—and other game-changers—to bring
big dreams to life.”
The website changed its logo to feature a different
X campaign each time someone visits the site.
What is X?
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13. Indiegogo

14. In 2014, C-DAC started a digital collection
management system, exclusively designed for
museums. Using this software, the antiquities
kept in the museums can be seen online in a
360 degree panoramic view, 3D models, audio
and video clips.
It will be very useful in schools. Teachers will be
able to teach history lessons to the students in
a more systematic way by showing images of
the antiquities and their detailed descriptions
related to the chapter. Name the software.
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15. Project Jatan

16. This luxury smart bracelet called “MICA” was
launched in September 2014 by which tech giant?
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17. Intel

18. Felix Arvid Url Kjellberg is a YouTuber more
popularly known as PewDiePie. He has the
most subscribed channel on YouTube where he
makes videos of himself playing games.
Recently he was annoyed by Y’s launch of
“Creator’s Program” to share YouTube
revenues. This scheme requires YouTube
creators to register with Y, agree to it collecting
the ad revenues from their entire channels or
from specific videos, and include a disclosure
message within each video
He went on to describe the Y’s Creators
Program as “a slap in the face”. Id Y.
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19. Nintendo

20. “X is a website and mobile app that uses social
media analytics to rank its users according to
online social influence via the “X Score", which is
a numerical value between 1 and 100. In
determining the user score, X measures the size
of a user's social media network and correlates
the content created to measure how other users
interact with that content. X launched in 2008.”
Above is the Wikipedia description of what?
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21. Klout and hence the “Klout score”

22. X is an Indian manufacturing
company that produces
various IT products, founded
in Mumbai by Milind Shah.
They make a range of low
cost tablet devices by the
name IRA
The company was also the
second lowest bidder for the
Aakash project where they
lost to DataWind. Id X.
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23. Wishtel

24. Mobil was one of the first to adopt this technology.
Nowadays major financial entities are offering
contactless payment that uses this technology.
What is this technology called?
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25. RFID or Radio Frequency
Identification

26. What are they making fun of?
What’s the blanked out hashtag?
(no part points)
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27. iphone 6 and #Bendgate

28. The left side of the X India logo resembles the
famed Ashoka Chakra, that also appears on
the Indian national flag, while its right half is a
depiction of a compact disc. The combination
of both symbols is intended to draw attention
to its similarity with political freedom. What is
X?
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29. FSF (Free Software Foundation)
India

30. Which hit game?
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31. Minecraft