IEEE Sci-Tech quiz at MNNIT Allahabad.

1. IEEE PRESENTS Hosted by-
Saqib Javed
The Sci-Tech

2. PRELIMS
ANSWERS

3. RULES
20 questions in the prelims.
No negatives.
Ask for hints.
In case of a tie, the team answering the first question in order wrong
will be out.
Top 8 teams in the finals!!

4. Q1. WHO HAS CO-
AUTHORED THIS
BOOK/WHICH COMPANY
HAS HE FOUNDED?

5. REID HOFFMAN

6. Q2.
If Google has Goggles , who owns “Point & Find”?

8. Q3. ID THE AUTHOR?

10. Q4.

12. Q5. WHICH PROJECT IS THIS?
A portmanteau of the names Ian Murdock and Debra Lynn, Ian's then
girlfriend and future wife.

14. Q6. GIMME XY?
According to Robert Metcalfe (one of its initial developers), he devised
the name in an early company memo as an endocentric compound of
“lumiferous “ —the "substance" that was widely believed to be the
medium through which electromagnetic radiation propagated in the
late 19th century—and “Y", short for “_______".
When the networking team would describe data flowing into the
network infrastructure, they would routinely describe it as data
packets going "up into the X".

15. ETHERNET!

16. Q7. WHAT IS THIS?

18. Q8. ID THE COMPANY?
According to X’Ss CEO and founder Alex Gizis, back in 2009, the idea
for the product started when the development team was testing
wireless networking hardware at an Army base. Their hardware
technology was driving Humvees wirelessly over miles, but the team
itself was juggling USB drives to sneaker net files between Windows
laptops. For the next trip out, they brought a hardware _______, but
the bulk of that extra gear, and the need to plug it in, became an
issue. To address this need, they developed the original X application.

20. Q9. ID THE ORGANISATION.
It is a non-profit organization that is responsible for coordinating
the maintenance and methodologies of several databases, with
unique identifiers, related to the namespaces of the Internet - and
thereby, ensuring the network's stable and secure operation

22. Q10. CONNECT
• The computer room at King's College, Cambridge.
• The University of Texas at Austin has an honors computer science programme.
• A Road in the Surrey Research Park and _________Way, part of the Manchester
inner ring road.
• Carnegie Mellon University has a granite bench, situated in the Hornbostel Mall.
• The largest conference hall at the Amsterdam Science Park.
• Istanbul Bilgi University organizes an annual conference on the theory of
computation.
• The University of Toronto developed a programming language in 1982.
• The Faculty of Exact Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires has a computer
laboratory.

24. Q11. THINK?
Slang term used to describe any publication in its printed form when
the same publication is available in a paperless version online.

25. DEAD TREE EDITION!

26. Q12. THIS PRODUCT HAS BEEN
BRANDED AS WHAT?
Global printing and personal
computer major HP Inc. on
Thursday launched world’s
thinnest HP ______ laptop –
weighing 1.1 kg and as thin as an
AAA-battery at just 10.4 mm with
sixth generation Intel Core i5 and
i7 processors.
The device packs in superb
entertainment experience with full
HD 13.3-inch diagonal edge-to-
edge display and a lightning-fast
solid-state drive (SSD) with storage
up to 512GB with up to 8GB of

28. Q13.WHAT’S BEEN SHOWN HERE?
Sugars (shown red in this
3-D reconstruction) poking
out from the shell of X could
potentially help the new
microscopy images of the
_____ reveal a bumpy, golf
ball‒shaped structure.
This gives a better
determination of where it
attacks.

29. ZIKA VIRUS.

30. Q14.WHAT’S BEEN EXPLAINED?
Harald Haas,
who teaches
at
the University
of
Edinburgh in
the UK,
coined this

32. Q15. UNBELIEVABLE, ISN’T IT?
The algorithm behind
MyShake, developed by a
handful of Silicon Valley
programmers, relies on the
same technology
smartphone gamers depend
on to sense the phone's
orientation, known as the
accelerometer, in order to
measure movement.
Tell me what’s the main
purpose of the app?

33. DETECT EARTHQUAKES BEFORE!!
Its inventors say the app, released by the University of California,
Berkeley, could give early warning of a quake to populations without
their own seismological instruments.
MyShake, available on Android, links users to become an all-in-one
earthquake warning system; it records quake-type rumblings, ties a
critical number of users to a location, and could eventually provide a
countdown to the start of shaking.

34. Q16. ID THE COMPANY?
Founded in 2002, it is one of China’s largest mobile phone
manufacturers.
It was founded by Liu Lirong.

36. Q17. NAME THE PROJECT/THE
TRAIN?
Climate change has become a major issue across the world, and while
efforts to combat global warming are underway globally, awareness
about the subject is being spread among young minds in India by an
innovative initiative called X.
A collaborative initiative of Department of Science and Technology,
Ministry of Environment and Railway Ministry, a spectacular and
informative exhibition will be held in a train, which has covered over
1,22,000 km across the country, receiving more than 1.33 crore
visitors at its 391 halts in 1,404 days, ever since it was flagged off in
2007.
X is a unique science exhibition mounted on a 16-coach AC train. It
has been travelling across India successfully for the past seven years.

38. Q18. AD BY WHICH COMPANY?

40. Q19. AD BY WHICH COMPANY?

42. Q20. COMPLETE IT. EASY HAI!