1. Qu33k
NOR AGAIN IS THERE ANYONE WHO LOVES OR PURSUES
OR DESIRES TO OBTAIN PAIN OF ITSELF, BECAUSE IT IS
PAIN, BUT OCCASIONALLY CIRCUMSTANCES OCCUR IN
WHICH TOIL AND PAIN CAN PROCURE HIM SOME GREAT
PLEASURE.
2. The Quiz will be in infinite bounce format, unless
specified otherwise
Do not pay much attention to the text on the
previous slide-unlike most of the other quizzes it
is only relevant as a placeholder text*-and not as
any hint to an answer
*IT IS ACTUALLY THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF LOREM IPSUM – THE DEFAULT
PLACEHOLDER TEXT
6. This is a social news website, and calls itself
the voice of the internet.
Users can vote on links that they like or dislike
and help decide what’s popular, or submit their
own.
8. The company’s mascot(Y),a mushroom is quite a
celebrity in Japan. He is even the hero of a
Nintendo DS game As one type of advertising
method, there are many types of Y such as
mother and father, which symbolize the plans that
X(the company) offers.
12. This company was founded as
Jomax Technologies in 1997. It’s
in-house produced ads, are termed
“fun, edgy and a bit
inappropriate” by Bob Parsons, the
CEO.
14. In June 1984, Alexey Pajitnov created X while
working for the Soviet Academy of Sciences at
their Computer Center in Moscow. X’s name
was derived from the combination of Greek
numerical prefix for 4 and tennis, Pajitnov’s
favourite sport.
16. Since 2000, this company’s logotype is an
arrow leading from A to Z, representing
customer satisfaction (as it forms a smile); a
goal was to have every product in the
alphabet
19. iPad : Fujitsu :: iPhone : Cisco
iPad was previously registered by Fujitsu and
iPhone by Cisco
20. Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh
and steel, I come from ______, the new home of Mind. On
behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone.
You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where
we gather.
We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have
one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with
which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social
space we are building to be naturally independent of the
tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to
rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we
have true reason to fear.
21. That was the first paragraph of The Declaration of
Independence of Cyberspace
22. Googlewhack refers to a certain contest.
The term Googlewhack first appeared on the web at
UnBlinking on 8 January 2002. The Whack Stack, at
googlewhack.com was created.
Out of the 6,36,000 successfully submitted entries, few are :
counterprogramed oscar
narrowcaster redos
logocentrist birdies
werewolfs combustibly
23. It is the process of using two dictionary words such that the
search returns only one result. Such a search is called a
‘whack’
24. The Golden Shield Project is a surveillance project operated by
the Ministry of Public Security division of the government of
___. The project started in 1998 and began operations in
November 2003. How do we know it better/What is its
significance ?
28. Originally the project A started as an academic project, in
1996. It was intended to consist of a client and server to
stream videos across a campus network.
Now widely used, the icon of this software changes to one
wearing a Santa hat over the Christmas period.
30. They came in low with $160 million, so I came in at $700
million! And when they said: 'That's ridiculous! Are you out of
your mind,' I knew it was just a ploy."
… and A's representatives kept walking out. Or rather storming.
And shouting and swearing and hurling insults. But the B team
had been warned of A's tactics. "It was like a record being
played, which we thought was pretty funny. It gave us a real
sense of strength." At $350 million, B's investors agreed: Sell. I
returned to the table, alone, and once more said: "No." The
contract was inked on Dec. 30, 1997, my 29th birthday. The
price: some three million A shares - worth $400 million at the
time.
31. A- Microsoft
B – Hotmail
This is Sabeer Bhatia’s account of how hotmail was sold
32. David Bradley : I may have invented it, but I think Bill (Gates)
made it famous
it is also sometimes referred to as The Three Finger Salute.
What?
34. Identify the company
In 1969, Neil Armstrong spoke the famous words "one small
step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" from the moon on
one of this company’s product
In 1974, its TV business was sold to the parent company of
Panasonic
In 1983, the firm made history when the its DynaTAC 8000X
was approved to become the world’s first commercial cellular
device
36. Nuance Communications is a multinational computer software
tech corporation providing speech and imaging applications.
In 2007, it acquired Tegic – from AOL. Tegic developed
something that many of us use everyday.
40. Companies across the world experienced slight drops in
productivity due to A, though the reported $120 million total
loss "spread out across the entire world isn't a huge loss,
comparatively speaking". Some organizations even temporarily
blocked B's website from workplace computers on the Friday it
was uploaded, particularly where it violated regulations
against recreational games
Identify A and B
43. Companies founded by Bill Gates
Traf –O- Data – what actually turned into Microsoft
Corbis – A media repository
and BgC3 = Bill Gates Catalyst, 3 = third location beyond
MS and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
54. 1978 poster to explain something
If it’s there and you can see it—it’s
real
If it’s not there and you can see it—it’s
virtual
If it’s there and you can’t see it—it’s
transparent
If it’s not there and you can’t see it—
you erased it!
56. This is a 1975 patent drawing. Quite a revolutionary
product. But the inventor was initially unable to
properly monetise his idea. But later, giants like
Toshiba had to pay him a substantial amount for
patent infringement.
Who is the inventor? He is famous in India for various
other reasons as well.
57. Sam Pitroda. He is widely considered to have been
responsible for India’s tech and communications
revolutions
58. This term in the IT sector refers to
people who have been laid off from a
multinational because their job has
been moved to India?
60. The cover of Coldplay’s album X&Y.
The artwork for X&Y was designed by graphic design duo
Tappin Gofton, formed by Mark Tappin and Simon Gofton. The
image, which is visualized through a combination of colours
and blocks, is a graphical representation of an early form of
telegraph communication using a series of ones and zeros to
communicate. The code was developed by in the 1870s, and
was a widely used method of terrestrial and telegraph
communication.
What code?
61. Baudot, a character set predating ASCII. The
symbol rate measurement, known as Baud is
derived from the same name
62. This is the ‘Kill Screen’ of Pac-Man.
What actually is a Kill Screen / How is it
caused ?
63. The internal level counter is stored in a
single byte. When it reaches 255, the
value rolls over to zero. The screen is
obscured, making the level unwinnable
64. Originally launched in 1993 as as IRC
bot, this website’s extraordinary
growth in the 1990s made it an
attractive site. Satyam took a 25%
stake in the company. It was bought
over by a huge sports tv network. It
receives over 7 million hits daily on
average and records in excess of 250
million pageviews per month
66. X is a documentary about three computer addicts
who redefined the world of media distribution
with their hobby homepage Y. How did Tiamo, a
beer crazy hardware fanatic, Brokep a tree
hugging eco activist and Anakata – a paranoid
hacker libertarian – get the White House to
threaten the Swedish government with trade
sanctions? X explores what Hollywood’s most
hated pirates go through on a personal level.
Id X and Y
76. (1)Bill Gates
(2)Guilty Spark
(3)Ranbir Kapoor
Connect: Halo.
(1)is the owner of the publishers of Halo.
(2)is a Halo character.
(3) Ranbir Kapoor stars as a Halo game
developer in Bachna ae Haseeno
