Quiz Club-IITK

Krishnan.T.S

EE,Mtech,2nd Year

Ques 1)

*)7th july 2005

England vs Australia,Headingley

Ans)

This was the first time that the Super Sub rule was introduced in the game.Vikram Solanki came in as a substitute for Simon Jones when England had to bat second.

Ques 2)

X did his Btech in Information Technology from IIT Kharagpur and his MBA from IIM-A. In the earlier days X had immense problems interacting with seniors who were not willing to accept his ideas. But in the year 2000 things changed when X’s idea of Y was accepted as an experimental project.

X was recently promoted from his position as an associate executive producer to the executive producer of Y.

Ans)

X:Raghuram(Raghu)

Y:MTV Roadies

Ques 3)

X Y Z

Hint:Short stories

Ans)

X:Rudyard Kipling

Y:Guy de Mauppasant

Z:O Henry

Ques 4)

X was born in India on 13th december 1968. X was schooled at the St.Joseph’s Boys high School in Bangalore. In 1985, he began his undergraduate education at the BITS in Pilani and was transferred to Caltech after two years at BITS. After graduating from Caltech, X went to Stanford University in 1989 to pursue his M.S in Electrical Engineering. At Stanford, he worked on Ultra Low Power VLSI Design.

X later joined a company called Y.Later X teamed up with Jack Smith, his colleague from Y.The two worked together on a project Z which was released on July 4th,1996

Ans)

X:Sabeer Bhatia

Y:Apple

Z:HoT MaiL

Ques 5)

X was a prominent English mathematician known for his work on Number theory and mathematical analysis.Y was another mathematician who worked on Number thory,infinite series and continued fractions.When X was once asked as to what was his greatest contribution in the field of mathematics,he said it was the discovery of Y.

A novel by David Leavitt describes X’s life and his relationship with Y.

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X:GH Hardy

Y:Srinivasa Ramanujam

Ques 6)

Ans)

Rainer Schuttler and Arnaud Clement

Ques 7)

In golf terminology,what do you call a hole which is played three strokes under par?

Ans)

Albatross

Ques 8)

X was born in Egypt in 1968 in a small town in the Nile delta, but moved with his family to Cairo at age 10. He studied architecture at Cairo University, and went to Hamburg Germany in 1992 to continue his studies. X enrolled in the urban planning at the Technical University of Hamburg where he remained a student until fall 1999. Later X spent some time in Y(country), including several months in late 1999 and early 2000 when he met top leaders including Z. X was recruited by Z for an important project.The following year X travelled to Spain to exchange information and discuss the final plots of the project.

Ans)

X:Mohammed Atta

Y:Afghanistan

Z:Osama Bin Laden

Ques 9)

What do the following latin phrases translate into?

a) Amor caecus est

b) Feliz ano novo

c) Non omne quod nitet aurum est

Ans)

a)Love is blind

b)Happy New Year

c)All that glitters is not gold

Ques 10)

X is a Turkish software engineer who obtained a B.Sc in Computer engineering from Bilkent Univ ,Ankara

And a Phd in Computer Science from Stanford University.

He is engaged to his boy friend Derek Holbrook.

X is known for his project Y which he launched in 2004.

What are we talking about?(identify X and the project)

Ans)

The founder of Orkut:

Orkut Buyukkokten

Ques 11)

Moving from left to right,who are the other two people to complete the list

Ans)

Ronaldo and Miroslav klose

Ques 12)“ Rules of the Garage: Believe you can change the

world. Work quickly, keep the tools unlocked, work whenever. Know when to work alone and when to work together. Share - tools, ideas. Trust your colleagues. No politics. No bureaucracy. (These are ridiculous in a garage.) The customer defines a job well done. Radical ideas are not bad ideas. Invent different ways of working. Make a contribution every day. If it doesn't contribute, it doesn't leave the garage. Believe that together we can do anything."

What are we talking about?

Ans)

These rules are that of the garage where Hewlett and Packard first started their company.

Ques 13)

For work on model checking with finite automata For the PCP theorem and its applications to

hardness of approximation,For proving that equivalence of deterministic

pushdown automata is decidableFor the AdaBoost algorithm For applications of topology to the theory of

distributed computingFor the foundational contribution to streaming

algorithmsFor the ????!!!

Ans)

AKS Primality test

Ques 14)

"I know it's as tough for my fans to handle my losses as it is for me. But let me point something out. I didn't leave my mom at the age of seven for nothing. I didn't spend six hours a day practising in the Florida sun at the age of nine for nothing.... I didn't sleep in little cots for three years, eating oatmeal out of a packet while playing in the middle of nowhere for nothing. All this has helped me build character and there's no better asset than being able to stand up for yourself”

Who said the famous lines?

Ans)

Maria Sharapova following her shocking 3rd round exit at the US open 2007 to 30th seeded Agnieszka Radwanska

Ques 15)

The 1936 Olympics final was watched by a crowd of 40,000 that included X.After the match ended X was supposed to have presented gold medals to the victorious team, but had left earlier, in frustration and in anger.

The next day, X asked to see Y. When he received this message, Y became very worried ,could not eat properly and spent a sleepless night.

In the morning Y went to meet X. X welcomed Y warmly in his private box and showed him his view of the stadium.

X asked Y what he did in his country(Y’s country).Y said that he was part of the army. To this,X offered Y a high post in the army of his country and asked Y to relocate to his country.

Y politely refused, saying that his family was well settled , and it would be difficult for him to relocate. X understood his position and ended the meeting.

Y is probably the first position to have met X personally.

Identify X and Y….

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X:Adolf Hitler

Y:Dhyanchand

Thank You