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Amity School of

Engineering and Technology

Annual Cultural and Technical Fest 2011

The Software Engineering Club

presents



The Online Quiz’ 11

It’s time to throw yourselves out there in the open and pit your gray cells against the best minds

out there.

Send in your answers along with your name, contact number, email id,

college, batch and branch of study to: [email protected]

Rules:

• Two sets will be put up. The deadline for each set will be 24 hours from the time it is put up on

the website.

• Individual Participation: One participant per one entry. Also, only one entry per one participant

(the first entry will be considered in case of multiple entries).

• Theparticipants need to be college students.

• Deadlines will haveto be strictly adhered to.

• Theteams shall be awarded points based on the followinggradingscheme:

i) Questions shall carrydifferent points based on the difficulty level.

ii) Points foreach question will be indicated in the question files.iii) Partially correctanswers would notfetch any points.

iv) The teams shall be rewarded withbonus points in just1 case:

a. If a team gets all theanswers correct, they will be awarded 50 bonuspoints.

• Ties will be untied by the quality of answers and the time of submission.




Each question carries 10 points, except for

the star (*) marked questions, which carry

20 points.

Winners will be announced soon..




Q1. Find the common link.

Ans:

Steve Jobs

- He worked with theHewlett-Packard Company

as a summer employee.

-He traveled to India in

search of spiritual

enlightenment and came

back a Buddhist.

- Jobs also served as chief executive of Pixar

Animation Studios.

-He was credited in the

1995 movie Toy Story as

an executive producer




Q2. Find the common link. *Ans: AccentureAccenture originated as the business and technology consulting division of accounting

firm Arthur Andersen. The picture is of Arthur Andersen. GE asked Arthur Andersen to

automate payroll processing and manufacturing at GE's Appliance Park facility near

Louisville, Kentucky. Arthur Andersen recommended installation of a UNIVAC I computer

and printer. The logos belong to the companies- Coritel BPM, and Avanade, which are

all subsidiaries of Accenture.On July 19, 2001, Accenture offered initial public offering (IPO) in New York Stock

Exchange (NYSE); Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley served as its lead underwriters

The last picture depicts the Rotis Semi Sans font, which is the typeface used in the

Accenture word mark.




This programming language was

developed way back in late 1970’s. it

is known for its minimalistic use of

the reserved words (only six of them)

being used as keywords. It was

developed in Palo Alto at one of the

prime centers of its major contributor

company. It is highly simple to learn

and implement. It implements one

feature of java language even moreefficiently than the java language.

[Hint: See the picture attached]

Q3.

Ans: Language is Smalltalk. Picture is of Alan Kay. He designed

most of the early Smalltalk versions.




Q4. Connect the following images. *

Ans: Cheat codes for Age of Empire II:

Polo, Robin Hood, Lumberjack, torpedo,

rock on, Natural Wonders




This is a highly controversial ad

of which technology company?Q5.

Ans: Intel

Explanation -

Controversial due to

Afro-American

athletes bowing to a

white male




Connect the following images.Q6.Ans: Google Doodles, images that have been used in place of

the Google Logo on the webpage.




A company X started in Sep 2008 with Rs.1 lakh

which went on to buy stakes in company Y worth

380 crore within three months . It has been in newsrecently for its alleged connections with a

renowned Indian politician Z.

Name X, Y, and Z.

Q7.

Answer:

X: Genex Exim Ventures

Y: Swan Telecom

Z: M Karunaniidhi




What is the significance of this book?Q8.

Ans:

First book sold on amazon.com




Identify the missing 2 links to this image.Q9.

Answer - leopard,

snow leopard

Explanation -Mac OS

names




What is this? Where would you see it?Q10.

The Dream Device (PASIV) from the movie Inception




A worldwide technology company, which provides

visualization solutions for various sectors like defence,

education, infrastructure etc. One of the service partners

of London 2012 Olympics. One of its significant productsis LED made walls for rear end projection.

Name the company.

Ans: Barco

Q11.




Find the common link. *Q12.

Answer –

Seqouia capital

Explanation -all

companies funded by

Seqouia capital, tree

denotes funding/

money tree




Which company should replace the

question mark. [Hint: think sports] *Q13.

Answer - mahindra satyam

There is a Map of Africa and a

picture of C. Ronaldo, which

implies it’s related to the Fifa

World Cup 2010.

Marfrig was an official

Sponsor of the World Cup.

Mahindra Satyam was the

official IT sponsor.




To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of a

Software, this game (see picture) launched in 2009.

Identify both the software and the game.

Q14.

Answer:

Software- Corel Draw

Game- Balloon Racer




Connect the following images. *Q15.

Answer- SAP

SAP was founded in June 1972 by

five former IBM engineers

in Mannheim, Baden-

Württemberg, Germany.

SAP's products focus on Enterprise

Resource Planning (ERP).TechniData is a 100% subsidiary of

SAP AG




He was born in Finland. He has the rank

of second lieutenant in the army. He is

one of the top contributors in the

Software industry in the field of open

source. A whole series of software have

been named and given a generic name

after him. He was offered shares by a few

software companies before they went

public. Now he is very rich (but don’t

check the Forbes list, he won’t be there).

Who is he? [Hint: See picture attached]

Q16.

Answer: Linus Tarvolds

The picture is that of the Git Logo. Git (distributed revision control

system) was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux

kernel development.





Answer- Mobile Number Portability

Explanation -Kapil Sibbal Launched the MNP program in India,

Telcordia is the company in charge of MNP, UK was the first to

implement MNP.




What do the following images represent?Q18.

Answer- wiki projects / sites [other options have also been accepted]

logos of wikiquote, wikispecies, wikiradio, wikibooks, wiki commons, wiki

news and wiki source




What are we talking about? Connect.Q19.

Answer - Operation Payback

Explanation - Operation Payback is a coordinated, decentralized group

of attacks on opponents of internet piracy by internet activists.

- Operation Avenge Assange




123456, THX1138, arsenal,

NCC1701, CHELSEA, trustno1 ..

What are they??

Q20.

Answer- Passwords banned by Twitter



The Online Quiz’ 11The Online Quiz’ 11

The company whose name

originated from a river’s name is

facing a tough time in the market.

The CEO of the company was

formerly the COO of Juniper

networks and has also worked withMicrosoft. Name the company and

the CEO? [Hint: See the picture

attached]

Q21.

Answer- Nokia; Stephen Elop





Answer- NandanNilekani

Explanation-UID Project is being led by him (pic 1)

The second picture was a part of the Wharton Infosys Award.

He has been extensively quoted in Thomas Friedman's book The World is Flat (Pic 3)

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