Tech quiz 1

Tech quizBy:-Shubhonil ChatterjeeMechanical(2nd year)

•Quiz contains 20 questions.•Direct- +10/0•Pass-+5/0•Pounce-+20/-10

•1.Nathaniel Baldwin created what in his kitchen and then sold his creation to the United States Navy? It is one of the most common products in use today , everybody uses it

•Ans:Earphones

•2. what occasion and its claim to fame?

•Ans: Burning man festival•First google doodle ever

•3.nexGTv is a mobile application,which  provides access to live TV channels and video on demand on handsets. This app allowed people to watch videos of one of the largest events in human history this year. Which event ?

•Ans:Maha Kumbh Mela

•4.Featured on apple’s website in january 2009, for having created great music through his imacs.X has been interviewed for the company’s final cut studio software and his album had topped all the international charts that January, 1 year later another album of X topped itunes charts. First of its kind to do that. Who is X?

•Ans:A R Rahman

•5.Usually,large corporations keep acquiring whatever company that they think is a competition to their business. They keep eating whatever comes in their way. What term , coined by Namco Inc., is used to describe this strategy?

•Pacman strategy.

•6.X coined a new type of journalism: “ScientificJournalism”. We work with other media outletsto bring people the news, but also to prove it is true. Scientific journalism allows you to read a news story, then to click online to see the original document it is based on. That way you can judge for yourself: Is the story true? Did the journalist report it accurately ? Id X.

•Julian Assange

•7.X started off as a Rubber Products Companyand a Cable Works Company.Soon thereafter it established a groundwoodpulp mill and started manufacturing paper.Later it added electricity generation to itsbusiness activities.Today it is the largest company of Y and plays avery important role in the economy of thiscountry Y.IDENTIFY X and Y

•X-NOKIAY-FINLAND

•8.A X is a performance or luxury automobile capable of high speed or spirited long-distance driving. The most common format is a two-door coupé with either a two-seat or a 2+2 arrangement.

•The term is a tribute to the tradition of the grand tour, used to represent automobiles regarded as automobiles, able to make long-distance, high-speed journeys in both comfort and style.

•Grand tourismo.

• 9.this film contains numerous references to apple computers: when _____ is fully charged by the sun, he makes the same bootup sound that most of apple macintosh computers have made since circa 1996._____ watches his favourite movie every night on the screen of an ipod. The villainous___’s voice is provided by apple’s text- to –speech system,macintalk.____’s sleek design as an evolution of ____’s parrells the sleek imac design having evolved from boxy apple Iie which film?

•Wall e

•10.What was “ jerry and davids guides to worldwide web”and was renamed on april 1994?

•Yahoo!!

11.One of Apple's biggest announcements earlier this week was X, a new system that allows owners of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus to pay for stuff in the real world by holding their phones up to checkout readers (it uses NFC technology).

•Apple pay

12.X , a 16-year-old from Panipat, has entered the Google's Global Science Fair as the only finalist from Asia this year for developing a device that helps people with developmental disabilities, like Locked-In Syndrome and ALS, communicate, using only their breath.

The device, called 'TALK', uses signals from a person's breath via Morse code, picked up by a sensor, and then converts them into speech. X, student of DAV International School, Panipat, says the device even allows almost entirely speech impaired and paralyzed people to communicate like never before.

Claiming to have built the world's fastest and cheapest Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) device, a kind used by physicist Stephen Hawking, X says it is not possible for all those who have motor-neuro disabilities to afford an AAC device that costs $7,000 (Rs 4.26 lakh).

•Arsh Shah Dilbagi

• 13.X was showing off a wheelchair. The chipset maker revealed its connected wheelchair , complete with endorsement from one of the world's greatest living scientists, Dr. Stephen Hawking. The wheelchair is being created by X’s internet of things department, and is designed to take biometric information from the user and display it on touch screens.

• The device is capable of measuring the health of the user, including body temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure, in addition to the status of the wheelchair itself. It also allows people to quickly judge the wheelchair accessibility of places they visit

•Intel

• 14. X is a sandbox indie game originally created by Swedish programmer Markus "Notch" Persson and later developed and published by Mojang.

• Recently acquired by microsoft.• X is  game that has no specific goals for the player

to accomplish. The game world is essentially composed of rough 3D objects—mainly cubes—that are arranged in a fixed grid pattern and represent different materials, such as dirt, stone, various ores, water, and tree trunks.

•Minecraft

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•beats

•16.The name X is Norwegian, meaning "beautiful woman who leads you to victory", and comes from the intended name for the original developer's first child.

•Y had announced that their software would be available for BlackBerry and for phones running Android, but all development efforts for non-Apple platforms were cancelled after the acquisition by Apple

•X-siri•Y-siri inc

•17.Game made in 1984 by  Alexey Pajitnov. (soviet union) on commodore 64 (IBM pc)

•Released Game Boy, Game Boy Color, NES, Mobile Phone later

•143 million copies sold .largest selling game ever.

•Tagline : from russia with fun!!

•Tetris

• 18.X was originally a self-published official gaming magazine created by Satoshi Tajiri, and Ken Sugimori in the 1980s. Tajiri wrote and edited the text and Sugimori illustrated. On April 26, 1989, Tajiri and Sugimori started a video game development company with the same name. One of X first games was Famicom action/puzzle game Quinty, which was released in North America as Mendel Palace. Its most popular series Y based on super popular cartoon , the romanized contraction of the Japanese brand  is published by Nintendo in Japan, North America and Europe.[7]

•X-game freak•Y-pokemon

• 19.X has been praised for its successful combination of addictive gameplay, comical style, and low price. Its popularity led to versions of it being created for personal computers and gaming consoles, a market for merchandise featuring its characters, spin-offs and television series based on the franchise, and even long-term plans for a feature film. With 2 billion downloads across all platforms and including both regular and special editions, the franchise has become the highest downloaded freemium game of all time.

•  Finnish computer game developer developed X

•Angry birds and rovio entertainment

• 20.Xis a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, under the slogan: "Ideas Worth Spreading".

• X was founded in 1984 as a one-off event. The annual conference began in 1990, in Monterey, California. X's early emphasis was technology and design, consistent with its origins in the Silicon Valley.

• The speakers are given a maximum of 18 minutes to present their ideas in the most innovative and engaging ways they can. Past presenters include Bill Clinton, Jane Goodall, Malcolm Gladwell, Al Gore, Gordon Brown, Richard Dawkins, Bill Gates, Bono, Mike Rowe, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and many Nobel Prize winners.

•TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design)

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•The logo of X, an hourglass with one globe leaking to the second.

•Slogan -We open governments.•According to the founder of X, its goal is

"to bring important news and information to the public... One of our most important activities is to publish original source material alongside our news stories so readers and historians alike can see evidence of the truth

•wikileaks

•The Codex Leicester (also briefly known as Codex Hammer) is a collection of largely scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci. Who purchased it in 1994 for 30.8 Million $ making it the costliest book ever?

•Bill gates

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•1.Which famous company’s logo is called Larry the bird?

•Twitter

•3.The recent Indian ecommerce website- Junglee.com is by which online giant?

•Ans:Amazon

•4.What is Samsung's answer to Siri ?

•Ans: S Voice

•5.In the world of books what is the full form of ISBN ?

•Ans:International Standard Book Number

•7.Which celebrity became the first Indian to cross 1 million follower mark on Twitter ?

•Ans:A R Rahman

•8.What is david and jerrys first guide to world wide web known as?

•Yahoo