The document provides details of a quiz conducted as part of CSI Kerala State Student Convention on 15th September 2012. It contains 12 questions related to computer science, technology and notable people in the field. The questions cover a range topics including supercomputers, algorithms, software, mobile phones and more. Key people mentioned include Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Noam Chomsky and others.

1. As Part of CSI Kerala State Student Convention
15th September 2012
QuizMaster: Balanarayanan

2. Round 1
8 Questions
+15 for direct /10 for passed

3. 1)What is depicted in this xkcd
webcomic?

4. Travelling Salesman Problem

5. 2.
 In computer science and related disciplines,
considered harmful is a phrase popularly used in the
titles of diatribes and other critical essays. It was
popularized by Edsger Dijkstra's letter
“X Statement Considered Harmful,” published in
the March 1968 Communications of the ACM.
 What is X , a command/statement still used mostly by
beginners in C and ASM a lot ?

6.  GOTO statement

7. 3
 You might have seen the flag system used by ships
and dock men to signal each other.
 This is known by a particular name and this is said to
have inspired a concept in Operating systems
programming which has the same name and mostly
used as flags in IPC. What concept?

8.  Semaphores
 P();
 V();

9. 4
 X is an American linguist, philosopher, scientist, logician,
historian, political critic, and activist. He is an Institute
Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics &
Philosophy at MIT.
 In addition to his work in linguistics, he has written on war,
politics, and mass media, and is the author of over 100
books.
 Along with Marco Schützenberger (a doctor of medicine)
he formulated the X hierarchy in 1956 which became a
turning point in the field of theoretical computer science
and mathematics.
 Identify X

10.  Noam Chomsky (Chomsky Hierarchy)

11. 5
 400: Bad Request
Unauthorized
Payment Required
Forbidden
Method Not Allowed
Not Acceptable
Proxy Authentication Required
Request Timeout
Conflict
410: Gone
What is missing from the above list?

12. 404
 Error 400: Bad Request
Error 401: Unauthorized
Error 402 Payment Required
Error 403 Forbidden
Error 404 Not Found
Error 405 Method Not Allowed
Error 406 Not Acceptable
Error 407 Proxy Authentication Required
Error 408 Request Timeout
Error 409 Conflict
Error 410: Gone

13. 6
 Image of ?

14. 1st IC Made by Jack Kilbey

15. 7
 He is said to have taken inspiration from 1970 paper
written by Edgar F. Codd titled
“A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data
Banks”
He formed a company based on this idea named
Software Development Labs(SBL) and later changed
its name to Relational Software, Inc. (RSI).But today it
is knows by another name and he is 6th richest man on
the planet. Who is he and what's the company known
today as ?

16. Larry Ellison and Oracle

17. 8
 X is a software originally developed by Linus Torvalds
for Linux kernel development; it has since been
adopted by many other projects.
 Every X working directory is a full-
fledged repository with complete history and full
revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on
network access or a central server.
 What is X ? Used today by almost everyone developing
their programs in the open source domain ?

18. GIT

19. 5 Questions
+10 for each right answer
No Negatives
Write the answers down.

20. 1. Tech Specs of What?
 Weight : 30 elephants
 Power Consumption : 7.6MW
 Memory :1638 TB
 Clock 16.32 PFLOPS
 Home :Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
 OS :Red Hat Enterprise Linux
 Nodes :98000
 "3 billion people using a pocket calculator would have to
perform one million operations per second to reach
equivalent performance "

21. 2.Put Funda.

22. 3.Expand.

23. 4.
 X academy is non-profit educational organization
created in 2006 by Y X , a graduate of MIT and Harvard
Business School[and of Indian Origins].
 With the stated mission of "providing a high quality
education to anyone, anywhere", the website
supplies a free online collection of more than 3,300
micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube
 The concept was so revolutionary that it was funded by
many people and companies that included Bill Gates
and Google.

24. 5
 Nintendo Power listings (a magazine that listed the
high scores of various arcade games) refused to
publish the name of X citing the reason he has been on
top of the charts for Tetris high scores for quite a while.
 So X used a fake name (Evets Kainzow) to send his
scores to the magazine. Apart setting high scores on
tetris he’s more famous for co founding a company.
 Who is X ?

27. 1. Tech Specs of What?
 Weight : 30 elephants
 Power Consumption : 7.6MW
 Memory :1638 TB
 Clock 16.32 PFLOPS
 Home :Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
 OS :Red Hat Enterprise Linux
 Nodes :98000
 "3 billion people using a pocket calculator would have to
perform one million operations per second to reach
equivalent performance "

28. IBM Sequioa- Fastest Supercomputer

29. 2.Put Funda.

31. 3.Expand.

32. CAPTCHA
 Completely Automated Public Turing test to
tell Computers and Humans Apart

33. 4.
 X academy is non-profit educational organization
created in 2006 by Y X born a graduate of MIT and
Harvard Business School.
 With the stated mission of "providing a high quality
education to anyone, anywhere", the website
supplies a free online collection of more than 3,300
micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube
 The concept was so revolutionary that it was funded by
many people and companies that included Bill Gates
and Google.

36. Steve Wozniak(Apple Cofounder)

37. [Buzzer]
+5 for getting the connect
+5 each for identifying the images
-5 for wrongly identifying
No negatives for wrong connect

39.  Evan williams Cofounded the 3.

40.  df

41.  Paul Allen – cofounded MS
 MS – New Logo
 Surface – Tablet from MS

43.  Vinton Cerf – Chief Evangelist at Google
 [inventor of TCP/IP ]
 Visualization of PageRank Algorithm
 I/O – Annual Developer Conf

45.  Developers of Ubuntu
 Quantal Quetzal 12.04
Codename
 Mark Shuttleworth,CEO

46.  1111 1111
 0000 0000

47. FLOPS- Floating Point Instructions Per Second, CPU Speed Unit
MICKEY – Unit of Mouse Movement
Byte– Unit of Memory

48. 12 Questions
+15 for direct / 10 for passed

49. 1
 In 1973 a product was introduced which was then
popular by its acronym. The expansion to the acronym
is Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Convergence.
 What do we know this product today as ?

50.  DynaTAC – Worlds 1st mobile phone from
Motorola.

51. 2
 The United States Congress in 2002
passed a resolution [269] which gave
Antonio Meucci the original credits to
an invention that changed the world.
 He invented this in 1871 but couldn’t pay
the $10 annual patent fees after 1874.
 So in 1876 a patent was awarded to the
more famous inventor who is popularly
credited with the invention. Name the
inventor and invention.

52.  AG Bell and the Phone

53. 3
 Regenesis: How Synthetic
Biology Will Reinvent
Nature and Ourselves,
by George Church and Ed
Regis is the 1st book to achieve
what special feat ?

54.  The First book to encoded on a DNA. 70 Billion
copies were made !
 One Gram of DNA can hold 445 billion GB of Data !

55. 4
 Astro (1.0),
 Bender(1.1) and
 Cupcake(1.5)
were initial version codenames of what?

57. 5
 There’s a legend about a Hindu temple which contains a
large room with three time-worn posts in it surrounded by
64 golden disks. Brahmin priests, acting out the command
of an ancient prophecy, have been moving these disks, in
accordance with the rules of the puzzle, since that
time. According to the legend, when the last move of the
puzzle is completed, the world will end.
 If the legend were true, and if the priests were able to move
disks at a rate of one per second, using the smallest number
of moves, it would take them 264−1 seconds or roughly
585 billion years to finish.
 What puzzle are they trying to solve?

58.  Tower of Hanoi

59. 6
 Mars rover curiosity after landing was still for 4 days
(doing something specific) before going to explore the
surface.
 What activity lasted for 4 days and why ?

60.  Updating the firmware
 [It was preloaded only with firmware to land because
of the frugal 256MB RAM. The processor is 134Mhz
PowerPC machine for handling rough conditions]
 It took 4 days since each communication needed
about 8 minutes to complete due to the distance.

61. 7
 Logo Of ?

62.  Windows 1.0

63. 8
 Identify .

64.  Marissa Mayer – Google’s first
female engineer.
 Recently left the company to become
Yahoos CEO.

65. 9
 Here’s the line from Obama’s prepared remarks, as
given to the New York Times:
 “We believe that a little girl who’s offered an escape
from poverty by a great teacher or a grant for
college could become the founder of the next
Google.”
 However in his presidential post acceptance speech at
the democratic convention last week he modified the
sentence used another name instead of Google.
Which name?

66.  Steve Jobs

67. 10
 Shailesh Misra
 Chitra mittha
 Mansi Praveen
 Vinod Balakrishnan(TKMCE 1989 CSE)
 What's the name missing from the list/ Whats so
special about this list?

68.  Seetharaman Narayanan
 Indians On Photoshop Splash Screen

69. 11  Occasion?

70.  Alan Turing's Birthday

71. 12 Logo of ?

72. Google Drive
 New Cloud service from Google.