This document appears to be a quiz on technology topics. It contains 20 multiple choice questions about inventions, companies, algorithms, and other aspects of tech history. The questions cover a range of topics including the first computer program ("Hello World"), smartphones, cryptocurrency, search engines, social media platforms, and more.

1. TECHNOPHILIA
THE TECH QUIZ
QuizMasters:
Kartik Madan
Sambhav Sharma
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3. RULES:
1. QUIZMASTER IS GOD.
2. FOR ANY FURTHER QUERIES REFER TO
RULE 1.
THERE ARE FIVE * MARKED QUESTIONS IN
THE QUIZ. TIES WILL BE RESOLVED ON THE
BASIS OF * MARKED QUESTIONS.
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4. Let’s Begin!
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5. Q1.
• Brian Kernighan wrote the first __________
program as part of the documentation for the
BCPL programming language.
• The code was used for early testing of the C
compiler and made it's way into Kernighan's and
• Ritchie's book. Later, it was one of the programs
used to test the C++ compiler.
• Today, it has become the standard first program
for new programmers. What is being referred to
here?
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6. Hello World
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7. Q2.
Identify the phone.
Its most noticeable
feature here is that it
has 2 batteries.

8. IPhone X
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9. Q3*.
• Before smart phones, there was a time when digital
diaries and advanced calculators were popular.
They could be used to store simple forms of data
and to perform calculations that students could
use while solving differential equations apart from
algebra and calculus capabilities.
• While advanced calculators were ‘allowed’ to be
taken into exam halls, many tests banned devices if
they had ______ _________, simply because
they fitted into the traditional definition of a
‘computer’.
• FITB
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10. QWERTY keyboards
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11. Q4.
• Just like its software, the X platform’s mascot is
also open source. This is why we’ve seen it
dressed up and restyled so many times over
without any backlash.
• The company’s little robot was designed with a
unisex-like tin can shaped body that takes cues
from the male and female icons found hanging
outside of restroom doors. It was created to be
sweet, simple and easily recognized and is often
referred to as Andy though it doesn’t have any
official name.
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12. Android
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13. Q5*.
• Stenotype is a specialized chorded
keyboard or typewriter used
by stenographers for shorthand use.
Stenographers need accuracy and speed while
typing. They have a specific set of letters from the
stenotype which have specific meaning. They type
that. But what if they make a mistake?
• They follow a certain practice to indicate the
mistake and correct it later on. This practice is
now used by almost all of us while texting.
• What is this practice?
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14. Adding ✱(asterisk) at the
end of the mistake
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15. Q6.
• Connect to an entity
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16. Uber
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17. Q7.
• Apple Inc. became the first US multinational to
reach a valuation of $ 1 trillion in August 2018,
followed by Amazon who reached the milestone a
month after Apple.
• These two companies, however, were preceded by
a Chinese company who achieved this feat way
back in 2007.
• Name the company who, shortly after reaching the
milestone, plummeted to a mere $ 260 billion by
the end of the following year(2008).
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18. PetroChina
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19. Q8.
• Only 21 million of these are believed to be
made, ever and according to estimates, the
last X will be created by the year 2140. X
has been touted as the world’s first in it’s
domain even though the actual idea was
first conceived and implemented in
1995.It was launched on January 3, 2009
by a pseudonym that goes by Y.
• ID X
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20. BitCoin
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21. Q9.
• X's rise to success was largely due to a patented
algorithm called Y that helps _____ web pages that
match a given search string. Previous keyword-based
methods of _________ search results, would ____
pages by how often the search terms occurred in the
page, or how strongly associated the search terms
were within each resulting page.
• The Y algorithm instead analyzes human- generated
links assuming that web pages linked from many
important pages are themselves likely to be important.
Y is thought to correlate well with human concepts of
importance.
• Which company's patented algorithm is being talked
about here? Also name the algorithm
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22. Google PageRank Algorithm
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23. Q 10.
Following are some definitions that came after
searching the word X on urban dictionary:
• Things that managed to get on adolescent girls’
beds, clothing, etc
• Premise of a shit movie of 2017
• A new language that will take over the world
• Wild animals commonly sighted on social media
sites and messaging chats
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24. Emoji
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25. Q 11.*
• Tirth Mehta, a 23-year-old from Bhuj, won the
bronze medal at the X event at the recently
concluded Asian Games, the lone Indian to take the
podium in the demonstration event. Here’s a small
excerpt from one of his interviews:
“The fact that we were staying at the athletes village,
with our contingent was symbolic for me,” says
Mehta. “I met Hima Das and Amit Panghal. They
were very excited to know that I won a medal by
playing _____ ____. Who would’ve thought, when
I started playing it, that I will win a medal at the
Asian Games?”
• What does Tirth play and what was the name of the
event?
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26. Video Games
eSport (Hearthstone)being the event
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27. Q12.
• X started as a part-time project by its founder to learn
coding while holding down a full-time marketing job.
The project, known as Burbn, was just an HTML5 app
that combined a mix of check-in and gaming functions
– think Foursquare meets Mafia Wars – in a single
app. Given the confusing functionality, users never
fully embraced the app.
• The key insight was to streamline the user experience
until all that was left was a lean photography app with
the ability to comment and like. This decision worked
way beyond his wildest dreams and in an instant, X
had more users than Burbn had acquired in more than
a year of work.
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28. Instagram
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29. Q13.
•FITB
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30. Cloud
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31. Q14.
• X is named after the Southern African
philosophy of the same name (literally, 'human-
ness'), which Canonical suggests can be loosely
translated as "humanity to others" or "I am what
I am because of who we all are".
• Desmond Tutu described the word X as – “A
person with X is open and available to others,
affirming of others, does not feel threatened, for
he or she has proper self-assurance that comes
from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater
whole.
• ID X
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32. Ubuntu
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33. Q15.
Connect:
•Mercedes
•MySQL
•Wendy’s
•Alltech
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34. Company names inspired by
the founder’s daughter
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35. Q16*.
• Made famous by social networking sites, X
featured in Time magazine’s Top 10
phenomenon in 2012. By 2013, X had become
so commonplace that it was decided to be
included in the Oxford Dictionary.
• In October 2015, Mastercard announced that it
is trying out a new technology that will help
online shoppers to authorize transactions using
X. They call it “Pay by X”.
• This usage of X is totally in a different context
than what it is known for. Id X
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36. Selfie
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37. Q17. ID THE BROWSER

38. GOOGLE CHROME

39. Q18.* ID THE COMPANY IN VIDEO

41. Q19.
• Drew Houston conceived the X concept after
repeatedly forgetting his USB flash drive while he
was a student at MIT. In a 2009 "Meet the Team"
post on the X blog, he wrote that existing services
at the time "suffered problems with
Internet latency, large files, bugs, or just made me
think too much".
• He began making something for his personal use,
but then realized that it could benefit others with
the same problems.
• What did he create?
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42. DropBox
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43. Q20.
• This photo (next slide) is titled “Jennifer in
Paradise” and it was snapped by John Knoll in
1987 on a secluded beach in the Bora Bora island.
The subject of this photo is John Knoll’s then
girlfriend Jennifer.
• At that time, the young couple worked together at
Industrial Light & Magic, Lucasfilm's special-
effects company, and were enjoying a well-earned
holiday after working on the film “Who Framed
Roger Rabbit”.
• In the world of technology, what is the
significance of this particular photo?
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45. First Photoshopped image
(John Knoll and his brother Thomas
Knoll created Photoshop. “Jennifer in
Paradise” became the first image to
demonstrate the software.)
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