Open Day IT Talent Contest -2014

Quiz Show
Hosted by
Department of Information Systems

CEMIS
University of Nizwa

Rules and Regulations for the Quiz Finals

There are 7 Rounds in total.

Each Team will get One Direct Question in each round from Round 1-6, each
correct answer will be awarded with 10 Marks.
The 1 st Question of each Round from Round 1-3 will be asked to Team
Windows, Team MAC etc. successively and Round 4-6 in Reverse Order.
The Last Round(Round 7) will be a Rapid Fire Round where each team will
get 5 Questions to answer with in 1 Minute Time. Questions will not be
passed.
Questions of Round 1, 4 and 5 will be passed to the next team if they
either do not know the answer or given Wrong answer, and the adjacent
team giving the Correct answer for the passed Question will be awarded 5
Marks and so on.
If all the TEAMS fail to give the Correct answer , the Question will be passed
to the Student audience and a surprise GIFT will be awarded for the
student who answer it correctly.
In case of a TIE, a TIE - Breaker Question will be asked and Which-ever the
Team answers correctly after raising the hands for the first time will be
the Winner. The same procedure will be adopted for finding the Runner-Up.

Quiz Masters DECISION WILL BE THE FINAL.

OPEN DAY IT Talent Contest -2014

Quiz Show
Participating Teams
Team Windows
Team MAC
Team Android
Team Linux

WARM UP ROUND
(The Questions will
not be Marked)

Q1.The Web camera is an ____

Device
a) Output
b) Input
c) Soft
d) Costly

Ans: Input

Q2. Identify the famous Personality,

who designed the very famous Google Search Engine?
a) James Oscar
b) Bill Gates
c) Larry Page
d) Linus Torvalds

Ans: Larry Page

Q3. What does the acronym TCP stands for?

a) Transmission Control Protocol
b) Transmit Confess Prototype
c) Transfer Control Protocol
d) Transit Contribute Path

Ans: Transfer Control Protocol

Q4. What is the most suitable term

used for moving from One website to other and so on without a clear aim?
a) Chatting
b) Surfing
c) Browsing
d) Uploading

Ans: Surfing

ROUND - 1
( Know Your Hardware )

(Pass Question Round)

Q1. Identify the device? (Team Windows)

Ans: Light Pen / Digital Pen / Touch

pen

Q2. Name the device?

Ans: Blu-Ray Disc

Q3. Identify the device?

Ans: ROM BIOS CHIP

Q4. Identify the device?

Ans: Multiple Card Reader

EQ5. Name the device?

Ans: RAM CHIP

AQ1. Identify the device?

Ans: Plotter

ROUND - 2
( Know Your Logic )
(Multiple Choice Round)

Q1. Read the Simple VB Code, What

will happen if you execute this code
in blue colour? (Team MAC)
dim f as Form
for each f in forms
unload F
next
end

a) download f
b) Upload f
c) Unload all VB forms
d) Display a message next

Ans: Unload all VB forms

Q2. Read the Simple VB Code, What

will happen if you execute this code
in blue colour?
Private Sub cmdAdd_Click()
MsgBox("Do you want to Win this QUIZ")
End Sub

a) Will end the subject

b) Will display "Do you want to Win this QUIZ"
c) Will display a Message Box "Do you want to Win this QUIZ"
d) Display a message End Sub

Ans: Will display a Message Box "Do you want to Win

this QUIZ"

Q3. Read the flow chart, What will be

the Print message if the input given was
temp = -32?

a) Above Freezing
b) Below Freezing
c) Middle of Freezing
d) End

Ans: Below Freezing

Q4. Read the flow chart, What will be

the Print value of mul if the input
given was s = -7 ?
a) 49
b) 14
c) -49
d) s2

Ans: 49

EQ5. Read the flow chart, What will be

the Print value of cube if the input
given was t = -3 ?
a) 27
b) 14
c) -27
d) t3

Ans: -27

AQ2. Identify the software from the famous IT Logo ?

Ans: Sun Java

ROUND - 3
( Know IT Legends )
(Multiple Choice Round)

Q1. Identify the famous Personality,

who is known as the father of World Wide Web? (Team Android)
a) James Google
b) Bill Gates
c) Larry Page
d) Tim Berners-Lee

Ans: Tim Berners-Lee

Q2. He is best known as one of five

co-founders of the social networking site Facebook. Who is he?
a) Mark Twain
b) Mark Zuckerberg
c) Mark Antony
d) Stephan Edburg

Ans: Mark Zuckerberg

Q3. He is a MVP(Microsoft Most

Valuable Professional) and one of the
eminent IT Personalities of Oman. Who is he?
a) Dr. Omar Sultan Al Ruzaiqi
b) Tariq Hilal Al Barwani
c) Dr. Ibrahim Al Khanjari
d) Eng. Ahmed Bin Hassan Al-Dheeb

Ans: Tariq Hilal Al Barwani

Q4. He is the CEO (Chief Executive

officer) of Information Technology Authority (ITA), Oman . Who is he?
a) Dr. Salim Sultan Al Ruzaiqi
b) Dr. Muneer Al Hadrami
c) Dr. Ibrahim Al Yamadi
d) Dr. Said Al Harthy

Ans: Dr. Salim Sultan Al Ruzaiqi

EQ5. Identify the famous Personality,

who is known as the father of Apple Products and the founder CEO of Apple Inc.?
a) Charles Babbage
b) Steve Hokkins
c) Steve Jobs
d) Stephan Edburg

Ans: Steve Jobs

AQ3. Identify the famous IT Company

Logo ?

Ans: CISCO Inc.

ROUND - 4
( Know Your Network )

(Pass Question Round)

Q1. What does VLAN Stands for?

(Team UNIX)

Ans: VIRTUAL Local Area Network

Q2. Identify the Network hardware part?

Ans: Fiber Optic Cable

Q3. What does the letter

A Stands for in ADSL?

Ans: Asymmetric

Q4. What does the letter

IP Stands for ?

Ans: Internet Protocol

EQ5. Identify the Network hardware part?

Ans: Coaxial Cable

AQ4. Identify the software

from the famous IT Logo ?

Ans: MS PROJECT 2010

ROUND - 5
( Know Your Web )

(Pass Question Round)

Q1. Which is the default Browser software coming with Mac OS X ?

(Team Linux )

Ans: Safari

Q2. AJAX is the art of exchanging data with a server, and updating
parts of a web page - without reloading the whole page, Expand AJAX ?

Ans: Asynchronous JavaScript and

XML

Q3. I am a Simple Text file that a Web server stores on your hard disk
to manage your session when you browse a Website, Who am I?

Ans: Cookie

Q4. WiMax is a famous broadband technology introduced by Nawras

in Oman, Expand WiMax?

Ans:

Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access

EQ5. XML is designed to be self-descriptive for Web development, Expand

XML?

Ans: Extended Markup Language

AQ5. Identify the software

from the famous IT Logo ?

Ans: MS Visual Studio 2010

ROUND - 6
( Know Your Past )

(Multiple Choice Round)

Q1. Who was the first High-Level Language Programmer? (Team Windows)
a) Elizabeth Craig
b) Ada Lovelace
c) Scott Macnealy
d) Susan Thomb

Ans: Ada Lovelace

Q2. I am an American programmer, inventor, business magnate and philanthropist who Co-founded Microsoft, the worlds largest personal-computer software Company, Who am I?
a) Charles Babbage
b) John Balmer
c) Henry Richardson
d) Bill Gates

Ans: Bill Gates

Q3. Who designed the C-Programming Language ?

a) Dennis Ritchie
b) Mark Zuckerberg
c) Daniel Morrison
d) Stephan Peterson

Ans: Dennis Ritchie

Q4. What was the Code name of the First Version of the Android OS 1.5 Software?
a) Android Gingerbread
b) Android Cupcake
c) Android Jelly Bean
d) Android Icecream Sandwich

Ans: Android Cupcake

Q5. Which is the first Commercially manufactured Microprocessor Chip?

a) Motorolla 8008
b) Intel 8008
c) Intel 4004
d) AMD 4002

Ans: Intel 4004

AQ6. Identify the software

from the famous IT Logo ?

Ans: MATLAB

ROUND - 7
( Rapid Fire Round )

( Time Limit: 1 Minute, Say Pass if you dont know the answer )

(Rapid Fire - Team Windows)

Q1. Which is the default Browser software
coming with Windows? Ans: Internet Explorer
Q2. Which state of USA is known as the IT valley?
Ans: California

Q3. What does TB stands for?

Ans: Tera Byte

Q4. What does USB stands for?

Ans: Universal Serial Bus

Q5. What is the capacity of a 3.5 Floppy Disk?

Ans: 1.44 MB

(Rapid Fire - Team MAC)

Q1. Which Operating system is running on
Ans: IOS 6
Iphone-5 ?
Q2. Where is the Knowledge Oasis Muscat(KOM)building
situated?

Ans: Al-Khoud

Q3. What does GB stands for?

Ans: Giga Byte

Q4. What does HDD stands for?

Ans: Hard Disk Drive

Q5. What is the capacity of Single Layer DVD?

Ans: 4.7 GB

(Rapid Fire - Team Android)

Q1. Which Android Operation System is
running on Samsung S3 Mobile Phone ?
Ans: Android Jelly Bean

Q2. What is the name of the MS Office Suite coming along with Windows

Ans: MS Office 360

8?

Q3. What does EB stands for?

Ans: Exa Byte

Q4. What does WAN stands for?

Ans: Wide Area Network

Q5. What is the capacity of a Single Layer Blu-Ray Disc?

Ans: 25 GB

(Rapid Fire - Team Linux)

Q1. Who designed UNIX Operating System?
Ans: Ken Thompson

Q2. Name the famous Russian Anti-Virus

Software?

Ans: Kaspersky

Q3. What does MB stands for?

Ans: Mega Byte

Q4. What does PnP stands for?

Ans: Plug and Play

Q5. How Many years can a M-Disc hold the data ?

Ans: 1000 Years

AQ7. Identify the software

from the famous IT Logo ?

Ans: Adobe Flash

TIE BREAKER ROUND

( Raise

Your HANDS FIRST to Answer )

Tie Breaker ROUND

Q1. What does HTTP Stands for?
Ans: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

Q2. What does BIOS Stands for?

Ans: Basic Input Output System

Q3. What does a Combination of 4 Bits known as?

Ans: Nibble

Q4. What does DVD stands for?

Ans: Digital Versatile /Video Disk

Q5. What is the capacity of a Dual Layer Blu-Ray Disk ?

Ans: 50 GB

Thank you
One and All