$RI$TI 2K15 - TECH QUIZ (Prelims)

Every team must submit their response sheet within 20 minutes. Starred
questions are worth 3 points each while the rest are valued with 1 point each.
Max marks = 30. Only 6 teams will move on to the finals. No extra sheet will be
provided.
Q1) If it is PLUS ONE from Google, what is it on Facebook?
Like
Q2) The blue Twitter bird is named after which basketball player?
Larry Bird
Q3) Which company was originally called Galvin Manufacturing Corporation?
Motorola
Q4) Which company logo consisted of 8 Us?
Sun Microsystems
Q5) In any Computer language, what would be the correct term for half a byte?
Nibble
Q6) Lisa was the first PC with a GUI, released in 1983 by IBM. Am i serious or
joking?
Joke
*Q7) Which Indian masterminded the architecture of Intel Pentium processor?
Vinod Dham
Q8) Rise of the Nations is a real time strategy game by which company?
Microsoft
Q9) 1080p, 720p and 480p are some of the standard video definitions. What
does the 'p'
stand for - (Progressive Swipe/Progressive Scan/Progressive
Seal/Progressive Tile)?
P. Scan
Q10) I am referred to as the official mascot of Java. Who am I?
Duke

Q11) For those who Do. is the new tagline of which company?
Lenovo
*Q12) Which operating system did Apples first series of PDA, Message Pad use (Newton OS/Edison OS/Einstein OS/Tesla OS)?
Newton OS
Q13) Connect: Tesla, Tegra, Quadro, nForce.
All are Nvidia products

P.T.O.
Q14) How is The Bell Telephone Company set up by Alexander Graham Bell
known
more famously today?
AT&T Bell Lab
Q15) Sun Microsystems is now owned by __________.
Oracle
*Q16) Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes were two of the four founders of
this giant in 2004. Which company am i talking about?
FB
Q17) ______ is a penguin character and is the mascot of ______ Kernel.
Tux, Linux
*Q18) Name the new decision-making site that gets smarter the more its used,
launched by Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr.
Hunch.com
*Q19) What did this famous person invent?

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Mouse(Douglas Engelbart)

Q20) Identify him.

__________

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Sundar Pichai

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