TechnIQ Prelims - Tech Quiz for IETE, DJSCoE

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PRELIMS25 QuestionsA point for each question, unless deemed otherwise by moi. Half points, wherever applicable.Questions 5,10,15, 20 and 25 are starred and will be used to break ties.Last name rule applies, unless specified.No negatives, so please feel free to guess.Credits to Tech Gawd Apratim Charas Singh and Tech dud Soham Panda for a couple of questions.Chop Chop!

TechnIQ23rd March 2017Snehashis Panda

QUESTION 1 Portrayed by Carrie Ann Moss in the movies and Jennifer Hale in the games, this character is from the landmark Matrix series by the Wachowski bros.At the beginning of the series, she is first mate on Morpheus'Nebuchadnezzarand serves mainly as a go-between for him and the individuals he wishes to free from the Matrix. As the series progresses, her primary importance as a character becomes her close relationship withNeo. She is skilled with computers, at operating vehicles both inside and outside the Matrix, and in martial arts.As she guides Neo to salvation and his apparent death in the first movie, her name comes to light, quite fittingly.What is she appropriately named?



QUESTION 2TheBowen knot(also known as theheraldic knotin symbolism) is not a trueknot, but is rather aheraldic knot. It is named after theWelshmanJames Bowenand is also calledtrue lovers knot.It consists of a rope in the form of a continuous loop laid out as an upright square shape with loops at each of the four corners. Since the rope is not actually knotted, it would intopologicalterms be considered anunknotWhere would you see the most famous example of this knot?


QUESTION 3"At the age of 22, I fell in love with my boss, she begins , "At the age of 24, I learned the devastating consequences.... Now I admit I made mistakes especially wearing that beret but the attention and judgment that I received not the story, but that Ipersonallyreceived was unprecedented, she continued. I was branded as a tramp, tart, slut, whore, bimbo and, of course, that woman. I was known by many, but actually known by few. I get it. It was easy to forget that woman was dimensional and had a soul.These are the words of someone in 2015, who is often referred to as Patient Zero of Online Cyberbullying, as consequence of something that occurred 20 years ago. Who is this (in)famous survivor?


QUESTION 4Deriving itself from the Greek word for movement, this brand name is used to describe elastic therapeutictape, which is an elastic cotton strip with an acrylic adhesive that is used with the intent of treating pain and disability from athletic injuries.

What is it called?



QUESTION 5*TheClay Sanskrit Libraryis a series of books published byNew York University Pressand the JJC Foundation. Each work features the text in its original language (transliteratedSanskrit) on the left-hand page, with itsEnglishtranslation on the right. The series was inspired by theLoeb Classical Library,and its volumes are bound in teal cloth.Sheldon Pollock was one of the chief editors of the same till 2010, when he was appointed as the head of a parallel organization based in India, associated with a name which is synonymous to the Indian Tech scene.What did Pollock go on to head?


QUESTION 6The functional component of this particular trope was invented by Albert C. Carter, inspired by aspirit writingdevice used by his mother, Mary, a Cincinnaticlairvoyant. When Carter approached store owner Max Levinson about stocking the device, Levinson called in his brother-in-law Abe Bookman, a graduate ofOhio Mechanics Institute. In 1944, Carter filed for a patentfor the cylindrical device, assigning it in 1946 to Bookman, Levinson, and another partner in what came to be Alabe Crafts, Inc. (Albert andAbe). Alabe marketed and sold the cylinder as The Syco-Seer. Carter died sometime before the patent was granted in 1948. Bookman made improvements to The Syco-Seer, and in 1948, it was encased in crystal. Though unsuccessful, the revamped product caught the attention of Chicago'sBrunswick Billiards who commissioned the form which know it popularly as.What?


QUESTION 7In July 2015, a completely legal purchase on the iTunes store by one Artem Vaulin led to one of the biggest landslides in the history of the Internet, something that got his gluteus maximus kicked big time.Just tell me what followed.


QUESTION 8Such Craze. Much wow. Whats happening here?Image Follows.



QUESTION 9Heres an actual Meme question though.This, now iconic, non-plussed reaction occurred when the person in question was explaining how Sir Isaac Newton invented calculus before his 26th birthday.The reaction and the gaping, open mouth are now an integral part of meme-lore.Who and what image resulted as a consequence of all of the above?


QUESTION 10*X is a globalcompetitive programmingplatform which supports over 50 programming languages and has a large community of programmers that helps students and professionals test and improve their coding skills.Its objective is to provide a platform for practice, competition and improvement for both students and professional software developers.Apart from this, it aims to reach out to students while they are young and inculcate a culture of programming in India.Now, X is a direct subsidiary of Y, an Internetdomain name registrarcompany founded in 1998 byBhavin TurakhiaandDivyank Turakhiawho was instrumental in the adoption of the seventy-day grace period for businesses concerned with the registry of IANA and ICANN. Y was majorly in the news for the sale of media.net to a Chinese consortium last year, for over 900 million USDJust gimme X and Y.


QUESTION 11Christopher Welch was an American actor who died due to complications of canceron December 2, 2013, at a hospital inSanta Monica, California.Apart from cameos in Law and Order, The Sopranos and roles in the 2008 filmsWhat Just Happened,Vicky Cristina Barcelona, andSynecdoche, New York, his major C2F was a role he portrayed in a TV series, right before his untimely death.This also led to the on screen death of the character he was playing.Which character/TV series and who is the supposed inspiration for the same?



QUESTION 12Busting a common perception, apart from the most famous instance, there were at least two other similar efforts:Tom Cranston and Fred Longstaff, working for Canada's Ferranti-Packard in 1952Ralph Benjamin, working for the UK Navy in the early 1960s

Both efforts were military projects that ended up classified, which explains why they were dead ends. Also while these instances used rubber trackballs, the most famous instance made use of bulky wheels.

What is the popular instance and who was behind it?


QUESTION 13Who is being parodied in the Simpsons?


QUESTION 14Pl Spilling is a Norwegian computer pioneer whose early interest in computer networking resulted in Norway getting the first ARPANET node outside of the United States, in 1973. Fifteen years later, the nascent Internet saw its first widespread infection by self-replicating code: Morris, a worm that could install multiple copies of itself on the same computer, causing infected systems to grind to a halt. As the Morris worm began to spread in the United States, Spilling's American colleagues called to warn him; faced with a threat to his nation's entire network of computers, he acted quickly anddisconnected Norway from the rest of the Internet.

What did Spillings quick response entail?


QUESTION 15*Apart from being a polymath and exceptionally good at her primary job, this lady was friends with George Antheil, an avante-garde composer with similarly broad interests (he wrote a book on endocrinology). Together, during World War II, the two of thempatented a technologythat would allow radio signals to torpedos to hop from frequency to frequency and avoid being jammed. The Navy rejected it at the time, but took it up 20 years later during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the patent figured into the development of numerous broadcast standards, including Wi-Fi.Name this iconic superstar.


QUESTION 16The Samung S8 has a new AI assistant, ready to rival the Siris and Cortanas of the world.Instead of working like a voice activated search engine, its designed to actually make your phone easier to use by understanding whats on your screen and anticipating your needs.What is the name of this assistant, something that would remind you of a famous brief, consoling message believed to have been written byPresidentAbraham Lincolnin November 1864 to a widow, who was thought to have lost five sons in theUnion Armyduring theAmerican Civil War.


QUESTION 17Thomas Cormen is a Full Professor ofcomputer scienceatDartmouth Collegeand former Chair of the Dartmouth College Department of Computer Science. Between 2004 and 2008 he directed the Dartmouth College Writing Program.A Quora celeb over the past few answers, hes one of the most popular profs across the globe.However, his most famous contribution to this quiz came as a part of a quartet, sometime around 1990 and has since, been a regular amongst the masses.What are we talking about?


QUESTION 18TheInternet Partyis a political party in New Zealand promoting Internet freedom and privacy which contested the 2014 New Zealand elections under an electoral alliance with theMana Movementbut failed to win any seats in theHouse of Representatives of New Zealand.The Internet Party became a registered political party on 13 May 2014having started to sign up members on 27 March 2014,the first to do so in New Zealand through the use of a phone app.All of this fame, was courtesy the infamy of one of NZs bad boys, someone who had blown up in 2005 as the man behind Megaupload.com.Who is this Kiwi kid?


QUESTION 19This is a famous Intel ad from 2009 and led to the man in question, finally receiving his deserved 15 minutes of fame.Who/What is he the co-inventor of?


QUESTION 20*This novel was written shortly after two pivotal events of the 1970s, the resignation ofRichard Nixonand the overthrow of the Chilean PresidentSalvador Allende, which are cited in the novel as examples, in Nixon's case, of a failed attempt byorganised crimeto suborn the Presidency, and in the second, of the consequences of working against multinational commercial interests.Most of the characters live with the feeling that their lives could be turned upside down in an instant because of someone breaking into the data held on the network.It is notable for its hero's use of computer hacking skills to escape pursuit in adystopianfuture, and for the coining of the word ____" to describe a program that propagates itself through acomputer network.

Name the landmark book/author and gimme the good word while youre at it.


QUESTION 21At the51st Grammy Awardsin early 2009, the bandDeath Cab for Cutiemade an appearance wearing blue ribbons to protest against it.Jay-Ztitled the lead single of his albumThe Blueprint 3as "D.O.A. (Death of _________)Christina Aguileraappeared in public in Los Angeles on August 10, 2009 wearing a T-shirt that read _________ is for Pussies".What were they protesting against?


QUESTION 22Google Now has a brand integration with a certain franchise which lets you turn on/off your flashlight.What are the appropriate voice commands?


QUESTION 23A mid-sized Korean semiconductor firm named DI Corp that makes products named Monitoring Burn-in Tester and Wafer Test Board had consistently lost money for four quarters in 2011-12. In a few weeks around October 2012 however, the firm, headed by Park Won-ho saw its share price shoot up nearly three times its original value, from 2,000 to 5,700 Korean won. Why?


QUESTION 24James Lovine is best known as the co-founder ofInterscope RecordsandchairmanofInterscope Geffen A&M.At a time when ovine perceived two key problems in the music industry: the impact ofpiracyon music sales and the substandard audio quality provided byApple's plastic earbuds. Lovine later recalled that X said to him: "Man, it's one thing that people steal my music. It's another thing to destroy the feeling of what I've worked on.This spurred Lovine to collaborate with X in what is now an iconic partnership, though the usage of the word iconic here is debatable, if you ask me.What is this joint collaboration and who is X?


QUESTION 25*This a fan made parody of an iconic commercial. Which one?


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QUESTION 1 Portrayed by Carrie Ann Moss in the movies and Jennifer Hale in the games, this character is from the landmark Matrix series by the Wachowski bros.At the beginning of the series, she is first mate on Morpheus'Nebuchadnezzarand serves mainly as a go-between for him and the individuals he wishes to free from the Matrix. As the series progresses, her primary importance as a character becomes her close relationship withNeo. She is skilled with computers, at operating vehicles both inside and outside the Matrix, and in martial arts.As she guides Neo to salvation and his apparent death in the first movie, her name comes to light, quite fittingly.What is she appropriately named?



ANSWER


QUESTION 2TheBowen knot(also known as theheraldic knotin symbolism) is not a trueknot, but is rather aheraldic knot. It is named after theWelshmanJames Bowenand is also calledtrue lovers knot.It consists of a rope in the form of a continuous loop laid out as an upright square shape with loops at each of the four corners. Since the rope is not actually knotted, it would intopologicalterms be considered anunknotWhere would you see the most famous example of this knot?


ANSWER


QUESTION 3"At the age of 22, I fell in love with my boss, she begins , "At the age of 24, I learned the devastating consequences.... Now I admit I made mistakes especially wearing that beret but the attention and judgment that I received not the story, but that Ipersonallyreceived was unprecedented, she continued. I was branded as a tramp, tart, slut, whore, bimbo and, of course, that woman. I was known by many, but actually known by few. I get it. It was easy to forget that woman was dimensional and had a soul.These are the words of someone in 2015, who is often referred to as Patient Zero of Online Cyberbullying, as consequence of something that occurred 20 years ago. Who is this (in)famous survivor?


ANSWERMonica Lewinsky


QUESTION 4Deriving itself from the Greek word for movement, this brand name is used to describe elastic therapeutictape, which is an elastic cotton strip with an acrylic adhesive that is used with the intent of treating pain and disability from athletic injuries.

What is it called?



ANSWERKinesio tape


QUESTION 5*TheClay Sanskrit Libraryis a series of books published byNew York University Pressand the JJC Foundation. Each work features the text in its original language (transliteratedSanskrit) on the left-hand page, with itsEnglishtranslation on the right. The series was inspired by theLoeb Classical Library,and its volumes are bound in teal cloth.Sheldon Pollock was one of the chief editors of the same till 2010, when he was appointed as the head of a parallel organization based in India, associated with a name which is synonymous to the Indian Tech scene.What did Pollock go on to head?


ANSWERThe Murty Classical library


QUESTION 6The functional component of this particular trope was invented by Albert C. Carter, inspired by aspirit writingdevice used by his mother, Mary, a Cincinnaticlairvoyant. When Carter approached store owner Max Levinson about stocking the device, Levinson called in his brother-in-law Abe Bookman, a graduate ofOhio Mechanics Institute. In 1944, Carter filed for a patentfor the cylindrical device, assigning it in 1946 to Bookman, Levinson, and another partner in what came to be Alabe Crafts, Inc. (Albert andAbe). Alabe marketed and sold the cylinder as The Syco-Seer. Carter died sometime before the patent was granted in 1948. Bookman made improvements to The Syco-Seer, and in 1948, it was encased in crystal. Though unsuccessful, the revamped product caught the attention of Chicago'sBrunswick Billiards who commissioned the form which know it popularly as.What?


ANSWERMagic 8 Ball


QUESTION 7In July 2015, a completely legal purchase on the iTunes store by one Artem Vaulin led to one of the biggest landslides in the history of the Internet, something that got his gluteus maximus kicked big time.Just tell me what followed.


ANSWERKickass torrents got shut down


QUESTION 8Such Craze. Much wow. Whats happening here?Image Follows.



ANSWERSnapchat Spectacles being distributed


QUESTION 9Heres an actual Meme question though.This, now iconic, non-plussed reaction occurred when the person in question was explaining how Sir Isaac Newton invented calculus before his 26th birthday.The reaction and the gaping, open mouth are now an integral part of meme-lore.Who and what image resulted as a consequence of all of the above?


ANSWERNeil De Grass Tyson


QUESTION 10*X is a globalcompetitive programmingplatform which supports over 50 programming languages and has a large community of programmers that helps students and professionals test and improve their coding skills.Its objective is to provide a platform for practice, competition and improvement for both students and professional software developers.Apart from this, it aims to reach out to students while they are young and inculcate a culture of programming in India.Now, X is a direct subsidiary of Y, an Internetdomain name registrarcompany founded in 1998 byBhavin TurakhiaandDivyank Turakhiawho was instrumental in the adoption of the seventy-day grace period for businesses concerned with the registry of IANA and ICANN. Y was majorly in the news for the sale of media.net to a Chinese consortium last year, for over 900 million USDJust gimme X and Y.


ANSWERCodechefDirecti


QUESTION 11Christopher Welch was an American actor who died due to complications of canceron December 2, 2013, at a hospital inSanta Monica, California.Apart from cameos in Law and Order, The Sopranos and roles in the 2008 filmsWhat Just Happened,Vicky Cristina Barcelona, andSynecdoche, New York, his major C2F was a role he portrayed in a TV series, right before his untimely death.This also led to the on screen death of the character he was playing.Which character/TV series and who is the supposed inspiration for the same?



ANSWERPeter Gregory, based on Peter Thiel


QUESTION 12Busting a common perception, apart from the most famous instance, there were at least two other similar efforts:Tom Cranston and Fred Longstaff, working for Canada's Ferranti-Packard in 1952Ralph Benjamin, working for the UK Navy in the early 1960s

Both efforts were military projects that ended up classified, which explains why they were dead ends. Also while these instances used rubber trackballs, the most famous instance made use of bulky wheels.

What is the popular instance and who was behind it?


ANSWERDouglas Engelbert and the Mouse


QUESTION 13Who is being parodied in the Simpsons?


ANSWERMark Cuban


QUESTION 14Pl Spilling is a Norwegian computer pioneer whose early interest in computer networking resulted in Norway getting the first ARPANET node outside of the United States, in 1973. Fifteen years later, the nascent Internet saw its first widespread infection by self-replicating code: Morris, a worm that could install multiple copies of itself on the same computer, causing infected systems to grind to a halt. As the Morris worm began to spread in the United States, Spilling's American colleagues called to warn him; faced with a threat to his nation's entire network of computers, he acted quickly anddisconnected Norway from the rest of the Internet.

What did Spillings quick response entail?


ANSWERDisconnected the cable


QUESTION 15*Apart from being a polymath and exceptionally good at her primary job, this lady was friends with George Antheil, an avante-garde composer with similarly broad interests (he wrote a book on endocrinology). Together, during World War II, the two of thempatented a technologythat would allow radio signals to torpedos to hop from frequency to frequency and avoid being jammed. The Navy rejected it at the time, but took it up 20 years later during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the patent figured into the development of numerous broadcast standards, including Wi-Fi.Name this iconic superstar.


ANSWERHedy Lamarr


QUESTION 16The Samung S8 has a new AI assistant, ready to rival the Siris and Cortanas of the world.Instead of working like a voice activated search engine, its designed to actually make your phone easier to use by understanding whats on your screen and anticipating your needs.What is the name of this assistant, something that would remind you of a famous brief, consoling message believed to have been written byPresidentAbraham Lincolnin November 1864 to a widow, who was thought to have lost five sons in theUnion Armyduring theAmerican Civil War.


ANSWERBixby


QUESTION 17Thomas Cormen is a Full Professor ofcomputer scienceatDartmouth Collegeand former Chair of the Dartmouth College Department of Computer Science. Between 2004 and 2008 he directed the Dartmouth College Writing Program.A Quora celeb over the past few answers, hes one of the most popular profs across the globe.However, his most famous contribution to this quiz came as a part of a quartet, sometime around 1990 and has since, been a regular amongst the masses.What are we talking about?


ANSWERIntro to Algorithms by CLRS


QUESTION 18TheInternet Partyis a political party in New Zealand promoting Internet freedom and privacy which contested the 2014 New Zealand elections under an electoral alliance with theMana Movementbut failed to win any seats in theHouse of Representatives of New Zealand.The Internet Party became a registered political party on 13 May 2014having started to sign up members on 27 March 2014,the first to do so in New Zealand through the use of a phone app.All of this fame, was courtesy the infamy of one of NZs bad boys, someone who had blown up in 2005 as the man behind Megaupload.com.Who is this Kiwi kid?


ANSWERKim Dotcom


QUESTION 19This is a famous Intel ad from 2009 and led to the man in question, finally receiving his deserved 15 minutes of fame.Who/What is he the co-inventor of?


ANSWERAjay Bhatt, the USB


QUESTION 20*This novel was written shortly after two pivotal events of the 1970s, the resignation ofRichard Nixonand the overthrow of the Chilean PresidentSalvador Allende, which are cited in the novel as examples, in Nixon's case, of a failed attempt byorganised crimeto suborn the Presidency, and in the second, of the consequences of working against multinational commercial interests.Most of the characters live with the feeling that their lives could be turned upside down in an instant because of someone breaking into the data held on the network.It is notable for its hero's use of computer hacking skills to escape pursuit in adystopianfuture, and for the coining of the word ____" to describe a program that propagates itself through acomputer network.

Name the landmark book/author and gimme the good word while youre at it.


ANSWERShockwave Rider by John BrunnerWorm


QUESTION 21At the51st Grammy Awardsin early 2009, the bandDeath Cab for Cutiemade an appearance wearing blue ribbons to protest against it.Jay-Ztitled the lead single of his albumThe Blueprint 3as "D.O.A. (Death of _________)Christina Aguileraappeared in public in Los Angeles on August 10, 2009 wearing a T-shirt that read _________ is for Pussies".What were they protesting against?


ANSWERAutotune


QUESTION 22Google Now has a brand integration with a certain franchise which lets you turn on/off your flashlight.What are the appropriate voice commands?


ANSWERLumos and Nox


QUESTION 23A mid-sized Korean semiconductor firm named DI Corp that makes products named Monitoring Burn-in Tester and Wafer Test Board had consistently lost money for four quarters in 2011-12. In a few weeks around October 2012 however, the firm, headed by Park Won-ho saw its share price shoot up nearly three times its original value, from 2,000 to 5,700 Korean won. Why?


ANSWERPSYs Dad wns the company and it shone courtesy Gangnam Styles popularity


QUESTION 24James Lovine is best known as the co-founder ofInterscope RecordsandchairmanofInterscope Geffen A&M.At a time when ovine perceived two key problems in the music industry: the impact ofpiracyon music sales and the substandard audio quality provided byApple's plastic earbuds. Lovine later recalled that X said to him: "Man, it's one thing that people steal my music. It's another thing to destroy the feeling of what I've worked on.This spurred Lovine to collaborate with X in what is now an iconic partnership, though the usage of the word iconic here is debatable, if you ask me.What is this joint collaboration and who is X?


ANSWERBeats by Dr Dre


QUESTION 25*This a fan made parody of an iconic commercial. Which one?


ANSWERApple 1984


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TechnIQ Prelims - Tech Quiz for IETE, DJSCoE