Finals-Brain Sparks 2015 The IT Quiz

Brain Sparks 2015The IT Quiz

Finals

MODERN CONVENT SCHOOL

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Mudit Nawani

Finalists

• Pragati Public School• Modern Convent School• N.K. Bagrodia Public School• Venkateshwar International School• DAV Public School• Shri Venkateshwar International School

FINAL ROUND

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List-UpDry Questions

Differential EquationsOutsourcingConnexions

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ROUNDS

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ROUND 1(LIST UP)

• Written Round• One Common List Head• You Need To Write Down Any 10 Elements • Marking Scheme: • 1 For Every correct entry• 150 Seconds To #List_Up

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Question

• Write down any 10 series’ names of :

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1. Seasons2. Rio3. Friends4. Space5. Star Wars6. Star Wars II7. Go!8. Epic9. Transformers10. Fight!11. Under Pigstruction

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ROUND 2 (Dry Questions)

• 20 Questions On The Go

• 20 Points each

• Infinite Bounce Rule Will Be Followed

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The X was the world's first commercial home video game console. It was first demonstrated in April,1972 and released in August of that year, predating the Atari Pong Home Consoles by three years. It is a digital video game console, though is often mistakenly believed to be analog, due to misunderstanding of its hardware design.

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Question 1Dry Questions Round

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Magnavox Odyssey

Answer 1

This is a product of the IT firm ‘Innovazion’.

According to the CEO. Gagneja, “by building this software, we wanted to... Congratulate the current government. We also want to pass a message to the government that the nation has high expectations from them.”

Which software is this?

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Dry Questions Round Answer 2

Namo Antivirus

X is the act of inserting oneself into the field of view, often in order to play a practical joke on the subjects. X has received significant coverage since 2009. X has been known to get global exposure mainly due to the band width and ease of dissemination afforded by the internet, and the abundance of smartphone cameras and other handheld devices. A number of websites include sections on them, or are entirely devoted to X.

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Photobombing

Answer 3

If your boss is angry at you for cyberslacking, what were you caught doing?

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Personal Activities On Company Internet During Working Hours

Answer 4

Which is the first Non-Nokia branded Lumia device?

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Microsoft Lumia 535

Answer 5

YouTube earlier was a 32-bit system The maximum value of a number in this system is 2,147,483,647. But as ‘Gangnam Style’ was gaining enormous popularity the view counter was increasing day-by-day and reaching close to this number. But before this video can reach the top mark YouTube changed itself to A 64-bit system where the maximum value is 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 which will take perhaps 4 billion years to reach this point!What would have had happened if Gangnam Style had reached 2,147,483,647 and another view was recorded?

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Any other view after 2,147,483,647 would have

rolled the counter down to -2,147,483,648.

The lowest 32-bit integer.

Answer 6

The landing page of the game shows an eight-armed woman, clad in red and resembling the powerful Hindu goddess Durga. Underneath her is a caption “A woman will give you strength, care and all the love you need, NOT dowry!”In the game, players strike target grooms who demand a large dowry. Each hit lowers the amount demanded. If the player manages to bring the dowry to zero they can proceed to the next level.What is the name of this game? Also name the creator.

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Shaadi.com

Answer 7

This movie’s website didn’t give any details on the storyline of the film. The site refreshes itself after fifteen minutes and irrespective of whichever section of the website you are on, it comes back to the home page after fifteen minutes.Which movie’s website is it?

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Ghajini

Answer 8

Red is a chaser, alternatively called shadow or blinky.Pink is an ambusher, also known as speedy or pinky.Cyan is fickle, nicknamed bashful or inky.Orange is stupid, a trait noticeable by his slow movement, and also referred as pokey or Clyde.They aren’t really very helpful when you meet them, nor are they useful in any way, except four times for about ten seconds. Collectively they are also called ‘ghosts’, ‘goblins’ or ‘octopi’.You have probably packed in at least a few hours with these guys.Where?

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Pac-Man

Answer 9

Which is the first mobile phone to have a button dedicated to WhatsApp?

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Nokia Asha 210

Answer 10

In June 2011, Shiv Nagar, named after the Hindu God Shiva, became X , after Y - an Indian e-commerce company had installed 15 hand pumps, so villagers no longer have to walk for miles to fetch drinking water. There was no source of potable water in the village before. The villagers voted to name their hamlet after Y to express their gratitude.Identify X and Y .

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X – Snapdeal NagarY – snapdeal.com

Answer 11

X originally had A .Org domain, but that was abandoned for good back in 2012.The site hopped from one domain to the next, covering .Sx (Sint Maarten), .Gy (Guyana), .Pe (Peru), and .Ac (Ascension Island) among others.Each time it felt threatened, the site would move again. It eventually came to rest at x.Se in April 2013.X please.

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The Pirate Bay

Answer 12

Which company is the following advertisement for?

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Dry Questions Round

Canon

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Hardware Technicians All Over The World Use A ‘Special’ Technique Termed As ‘Percussive Maintenance’.It is criticized by many, but has miraculously produced positive results in several documented cases.What Is It?

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To Hit Something Repeatedly Until It Starts Working

Answer 14

After the first round of reviews are out, it’s clear X got the right idea with the Y, a full-blown PC on a $150 HDMI stick that plugs into any monitor or HDTV with A free port. There’s plenty of demand for it, and lots of interest around the web in various forums and comment sections. It’s not so clear it’s a shoo-in purchase, though.The X’s Y will be available by maybe the first week of May or so.The $150 version has a quad-core X atom z3735f soc, 2GB RAM, and 32GB EMMC flash storage with Windows 8.1 preloaded. It measures just 0.5 by 4 by 1.5 inches (HWD) and weighs 1.9 ounces.X and Y please.

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Dry Questions Round

Intel Compute Stick


How has Chandauli, a village situated 150 miles from Delhi become the most talked about place in recent days?

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It is the first destination to be powered by Internet.Org in India

Answer 16

Xianren Bridge, also known as Fairy Bridge, is the world’s largest natural arch with a span of 400 feet or 120 meters.The bridge was unknown to the world for a long time, before it got discovered accidently.Who/what discovered it?

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Google Earth

Answer 17

How has Vishal Malhotra, a model from Delhi has become an over-night sensation and one of the most recognizable face in the past few days?

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Dry Questions Round

Mauka Mauka Ad


This gesture has been used by many a sportspersons, especially footballers, as a means to celebrate goals.But as a matter of fact, Google had patented this gesture. The patent was filed back in 2011If you make this gesture in front of an object it would trigger Glass to identify the content in front of it and post it up to a social network of your choice with ‘an indication that the image is liked’.Which gesture am I talking about?

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Heart Hand Gesture

Answer 19

What technology did Ben Stumpe develop in 1973 at CERN as a replacement for the various control knobs, buttons and switches present in his laboratory?

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Touchscreen

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ROUND 3

Differential Round

• Written Round • 8 Common, Visual Questions• 30 Points Each• Rule For Points Division 30/N• N=NO. Of Teams Getting The Right Answer

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Question 3

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BOSE noise cancelling headphones

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Bill Gates Ice Bucket Challenge Prototype

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Question 8

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Scores Please

ROUND 4 (OUTSOURCING)

• 12 Questions (2 Per Team)• Marking Scheme : 20/-10• Questions For One Would Be Selected By

Another Team.• Selections Starting From The Lowest Scoring

Team At The Moment.

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Q.1 Q.2 Q.3

Q.4 Q.5 Q.6

Q.7 Q.8 Q.9

Q.10 Q.11 Q.12

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ROUND 4 (OUTSOURCING)

This website was started in August, 2010 by Kunal Shah. After getting seed funding of an undisclosed amount from Tandon Group, members of the Mumbai and Sequoia Capital in 2010, the company secured a funding of Rs.20 Crores from Sequoia Capital. In November 2012, the company claimed to be doing business of Rs. 60 lakhs per day, translating to Rs.219 Crores in an year.The company currently has a patent pending status for its business model.Which website?

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Outsourcing Question 1

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Kavin Mittal, son of Sunil Bharti Mittal of Airtel, with his father’s financial backing, led a team that came up with a certain alternative product, which has proved to be quite popular among the tech savvy current generation India.What is the product he is behind?

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Morse code is a method of transmitting text information as dots and dashes, each character is represented by a unique sequence..--.-. (dot-dash-dash-dot-dash-dot)This sequence was added to the Morse code list in the Internet Era, and it was the first addition since World War I.What does it represent?

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The Idea For X Is Attributed To Manju Latha Kalanidhi, A 38-year-old Journalist Based In Hyderabad, India. She Considered Y Artificial And Wasteful Of Water, And Came Up With X As A Less Wasteful Alternative That Would Help Local Communities. It Started Off As A Facebook Page On August 23, 2014, And Within A Day, The Page Had 7000 Likes. On August 24, 2014, The Twitter Hash Tag #X Was First Used, And Within A Month, The Hash Tag Had Been Tweeted 11,000 Times. On August 25, The X Was Covered In Buzz Feed And Quartz, And Within A Few Days, It Had Received Coverage In The Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune, CNN, CNBC, Npr, Ndtv, Time, And Many Other News Websites.X Please.

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Rice Bucket Challenge

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When Steve Jobs Accused Bill Gates Of Stealing The GUI Concept From Apple, Gates Said “Well, Steve, I Think There’s More Than One Way Of Looking At It. I Think It’s More Like We Both Had This Rich Neighbor Named X And I Broke Into His House To Steal The T.V Set And Found Out That You Had Already Stolen It.”Who Was This Rich Neighbor X?

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Which Was The First Ever Android OS Enabled Mobile Phone?

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HTC Dream

BACK

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Usefulness of this app?

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BACK

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Claim to fame?

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He Is Carlos Ramirez. The Troll Face Creator

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Explain Funda

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6.5-Inch Full-HD (1080x1920) Display1.5Ghz Quad-Core MTK6589T Processor32GB Inbuilt Storage2GB RAM13-Megapixel Rear Camera5-Megapixel Front-facing CameraDual-Sim (GSM+GSM)Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean)

Specifications of which Indian phone?

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NAMO Smart Phone

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Claim to fame?

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Ericsson R380 – World’s first Smartphone

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The X effect occurs when a very popular website links to A smaller site, causing A massive increase in the traffic. This overloads the smaller site, causing it to slow down or even temporarily become unavailable. The name stems from the huge influx of web traffic that would result from the technology news site X linking to other websites.Identify x.

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ROUND 5 (CONNEXIONS)

• BUZZER ROUND!?• 10 Slides All On The Buzzer• Each Slide’s Elements Link Up To A Common

Connection• Marking Scheme: 15/-5 & 5/-5

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Connexions Question 1

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Connexions Answer 1

Partners of Internet.org

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Connexions Answer 2

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Connexions Answer 3

Flipkart

Micromax Canvas A1Karbonn Sparkle VSpice Dream Uno

Symphony Roar A50Mito ImpactEvercoss 1X

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Connexions Answer 4

Android One

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Connexions Answer 5

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• RPG• D

• Mercury• Eiffel• Swift• Rust• Cobra

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Connexions Answer 6

Compiled Programming Languages

They all need a startup

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Connexions Answer 7

Sequoia Capital

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Connexions Answer 8

Google top 10 searches, 2014

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Connexions Answer 10

Computer Virus

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Education

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