This document appears to be a quiz about information technology topics. It contains 6 rounds of multiple choice or short answer questions on topics like game engines, internet companies, logos, and technology advertisements. The questions cover a wide range of IT topics and history. The format provides points for correct answers and allows teams to compete directly against each other.
Introduction to a tech quiz with various rounds and scoring rules. First round focused on IT trivia with questions about games, entrepreneurs, and tech definitions. Scores are given based on correct answers.
Second round featuring historical tech facts, including the origins of Bluetooth and Adobe, and key phrases like '404: file not found'.
Third round where participants identify technologies and brands through images and logos, including Apple and Xerox.
Fourth round involving connections between terms and brands, emphasizing related products and historical context.Fifth round involves answering questions based on advertisements and product campaigns, like Apple and Google.
Q4)On 21 March2005, _______founded
______Limited, a Hong Kong-based file
hosting and sharing business that
eventually became the 13th most popular
site on the internet with over 150
employees, US$175 million revenues, 50
million visitors daily.
Q5)
A __________is atype of a contest for
finding a Google search query consisting
of exactly two words without quotation
marks, that returns exactly one hit.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR ROUND2
Direct Question =+20 and -10
Pass Question = +10 and -5
Time Limit = 1 minute
22.
Q1)Ericsson, A Denmarkbased
company started working on a device
which establishes radio links between
portable devices. Jim Kardman named
the technology _____________ after
the 10th century Viking king Harold
Blatand who liked eating Blueberries.
What is the name of the technology?
When the Internetwas still very
much under the spell of bare Unix
shells and Gopher, an ambitious
group of scientists at CERN started
working on the World Wide Web.
In an office on the fourth floor they
placed the World Wide Web's
central database. Some faulty
requests were answered with a
standard message: “___________”
The company namecomes from the name
of a stream originating on Black Mountain
in Santa Clara County, California, United
States, which ran behind the houses of
John Warnock and Charles Geschke, the
founders of this company. Which
company am I talking about?
30.
Answer:
Adobe. The name of the stream is Adobe
Creek.
31.
Harvey Ball, co-ownerof an advertising
and public relations firm designed the
_______in 1964 to help ease the
acrimonious aftermath following the
merger of two insurance companies:
State Mutual Life Assurance Company.
State Mutual planned up a “friendship
campaign” to get employees to smile
whenever they answered the phone,
paid a claim, or typed a report. What is
it that he designed?
Alone in aroom in his home in
Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm
Hillebrand sat at his
typewriter, tapping out random
sentences and questions on a
sheet of paper. What standard
did this lead to?
36.
Answer:
Hillebrand's magic numberset
the standard for one of today's
most popular forms of digital
communication: text messaging.
160 Characters.
Answer:
The doodle thatGoogle India put on its
home page to celebrate Children's Day,
the birthday of the first Indian Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, was created
by Varsha Gupta, a Class III student from
Ryan International School, Greater
Noida. Varsha was chosen as the winner
of this year's Doodle 4 Google
competition organised by Google.
Answer:
Snapdeal has adopteda remote village in
Uttar Pradesh and enabled clean drinking
water facilities for its people by installing
manual pumps. To show their gratitude,
the village’s residents have decided to
rename their village to Snapdeal.com
Nagar, actually taking the company by
surprise.
Answer:
Apple is buildingwhat is sure to be the
coolest office building ever in Cuptertino,
CA Known as “Apple Campus 2″ to the city,
the project will be built on a 175 acre area
The total building will be approximately 2.8
million square feet, will feature a 1,000 seat
auditorium, a fitness center, 300,000 square
feet of research facilities, a power plant, and
underground parking. What you really need
to see is what it looks like: a giant, flying
saucer-like loop.
63.
What is thename of this Nobel
Laureate who had a cameo appearance
as himself in "The Terminator
Decoupling", episode 17 of the second
season of The Big Bang Theory.
Answer:
PiratesOf Silicon Valley
2) Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs
3) Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates
4) Fire in The Valley(The book on which the
movie is based.)
5) Joey Slotnick as Steve Wozniak
Instructions
5 common questionsfor all teams.
Each team writes the answer on paper.
If 1 team gets the answer right they get 25 points.
If 2 teams get the answer right both get 20 points
each
If 3 teams get the answer right all three get 15
points each
If 4 teams get the answer right all four get 10
points.
If all 5 teams get the answer right 5 points for all
teams.
Instructions:
Maximum Of10 Questions for each
team.
Time Limit: 1 Minute.
No negetive.
+5 for each right answer.
If you do not know the answer, say pass.
105.
In 1991, asmall group of engineers
called the "Green Team" believed
that the next wave in computing
was the union of digital consumer
devices and computers. Led by
James Gosling, the team worked
around the clock and created the
programming language that would
revolutionize our world. What did
they create?