Eratos - The Tech Quiz Answers

Researched and Hosted BY – Sanchit Bansal

RULES

• 20 Questions, No bullshit rounds , No googling .JUST PURE QUIZZING

• Answer them in 20 minutes .• Winner gets technomat.es

ownership for 1 month.• Quizmaster’s Decision is final.• Incase of Tie , the Guy with Most

Upvotes on Quora wins .

Q 1 . IDentify

• The “Something “ is not a Personal Computer in the conventional "PC" sense and is a empowering device.

• The “Something “ on the other hand, is based on The Linux Kernel version 2.4 . It has been ported to this “Something”.

• A very important feature of the “Something” is the SmartCard.

• “Something is An Indian Device”.

Simputer

"THE ________- LICENSE" (Revision 42):<phk@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote this file. As long as you retain this notice you can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a ____ in return Poul-Henning Kamp

2. What is blanked out in the following license?

Beerware

Q 3. What is Her Claim to Fame ?

Shafi goldwasser Winner of turing award 2012

+.5 for only name +1 for claim to fame

Q 4 . Who ?

• X is one of the survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. He briefly worked as a taxi driver and later on started Y Typewriter Repairing Company. Give X and Y.

Jack Tramiel ,Commodore

Q 5 . What ?

• What was created by Le-chen wang • It was modified and translated to intel

mnemonics by some other guy .• He was urged to create the standard by Bob

Albrecht of the Homebrew Computer Club.

Tiny basic

6. Connect to a Personality

SUNNY LEONNE IS NOT CORRECT

• ROTI + Kapda ( pata hai pehanti nhi hai :P ) + rubber BAND + Width = ROTI KAPDA AUR BANDWIDTH = Deewang mehta

Take a Bow

No one got it .

Q 7

• According to Uncyclopedia ,This character in the game Street Fighter and GTA SanAndreas.

• X has a striking resemblance to the character Smeagol(Gollum) in the movie Lord Of The Rings.

• Which very popular Indian am I talking about ?

Mahatma Gandhi

8. ID the assosiated with this logo?

Tencent

• “ If I ran the zoo “ is in a tech quiz why ?

Nerd was coined there

Q -10 . Recently a lot in the News

• As of July 2011, the company has raised $119.8 million in venture funding from Y Combinator, Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, DST Global Solutions, General Catalyst Partners .Which website are we talking about ?

Has been asked in tcs prelims too :P

Airbnb.com

11 . Which company launched this

Coast by Opera

12 . Acha question hai

• Lawsuits to aaj kal aam baat ho gyi hai Apple was forced to pay $21 million to the Swiss Railways. Why?

for the clock Copying in the ipad

13. ?

• X was co-founded by Brian Wong, Courtney Guertin and Amadeus Demarzi in 2010

Kiip

14 . Who ?

• X was working on a new mobile startup called Jelly.

• X is a well known tech Entrepreneur ?

Biz stone

• This device was found for operating aircrafts and elevators. Later Ralph Bear used it for another purpose for first time. Identify the device! ?

Joystick :D

16 . Who’s Show is Over ?

Turntable.fm

ID this Serivce By Google

Helpouts

Q 18 ID the guy ( in right) ?

Josen Rosenstein

• X . is an Internet company operating a website with local search content including business listings, directory information, and user generated reviews.

• X was recently in news for fake reviews .

ID X ?

Yelp.com

Q 20 What ?

• Bret Taylor is X . X is a EX facebook CTO .• X Launches Y word processor.• Whats Y ?

Quip

Q 42• California's governor has chosen a day to dub

as X Day: Oct. 16, the same date Y will hold a memorial at Stanford University.Id X and Y

Steve jobs and Y is apple