IT@Cutting Edge 2017 Senior Quiz Prelims
We are presenting the prelim questions of IT @ Cutting Edge (Inter DPS annual techfest). The competition was hosted by DPS RK Puram.
IT@Cutting Edge 2017 Senior Quiz Prelims Questions and Answers
1. In 2016, Trump called for consumers to boycott X's products until such time that 'X gives cellphone info to authorities regarding radical islamic terrorist couple from Cal'. ID X and what is being spoken about.
Ans: Apple
2. X is an American supermarket chain exclusively featuring foods without artificial preservatives, colors, flavors, sweetners, and hydrogenated fats. X's relevance in the tech world was highlightes on 16th June, 2017 when Y announced its acquisition of X was $13.7 billion. ID X and Y.
Ans: X- Wholefoods , Y- Amazon
3. Which search engine is named after a PG Wodehouse literary character?
Ans: Ask Jeeves
4. This British Indian Ocean territory ccTLD is one of the most aought after in recent times. ID.
Ans: .io
5. Grace Hoppper is one of the most celebrated women in the history of technology. While working on the Harvard Mark II computer one noght, the machine conked out and the crew began lookin for a problem. They found a moth that had been smashed by one of the electrochemical layers and this incident popularized a term in programming that has been used ever since. What was the term?
Ans: Bug
6. Back in 2005, X, an IIT Delhi graduate had conceived the idea of online food ordering and tried to bring it to life with his startup Foodlet. After working for around a year on the idea, X decided to end its operations because of the lack of resources. However, X went on to start one of the most successful tech companies in India. Who is X, and what is his company called?
Ans: Deepinder Goyal, Zomato
7. Developed at SRI International and ass an offshot of the CALO project at DARPA, X used Nuance's speech recognition. What is X?
Ans: Siri
8. "Redstone 3 and the death of X after 32 years". Later revealed that it was only going to the Windows Store as a free app and won't be bundled with the OS. Identify X. Its replacement is X 3D.
Ans: Paint
9. Which company is headquartered at 100, Disk Drive?
Ans: Seagate
10. On 24 July 2017, a federal judge ordered Apple to pay X $506 million for infringing upon that patent. The foundation sued the tech giant in 2014, arguing that Apple used its technology without licensing it in its A7, A8 and A8X processing chips, which power iPhone and iPads. The following year, a Wisconsin jury found that Apple indeed infringed upon the patent and said that the company should pay $234 million in damages. Identify X.
Ans: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
11. X is an online education platform redefining the digital learning experience by bringing world-class experts and renowned instructors to students globally through a platform meant to distill knowledge and create meaningful experiences through online video. The teachers include Gordon Ramsay, deadmau5, Han Zimmer, Shonda Rhimes, Aaron Sorkin and Serena Williams. ID X.
Ans: MasterClass
12. Which company has in-house software called Marionette which refers to puppets controlled by strings?
Ans: Pixar
13. After shutting down the r/Pizzagate subreddit that was proliferating conspiracy theories, X became the subject of abuse at the hands of Donal Trump supporters, began tagging Huffman in abusive posts - X later said he was being called a pedophile by users on that subreddit. But those users began noticing that their comments had been altered, and it quickly came to light that it was X himself who had changed them - a sin on a website that traffics in being something of a free-speech forum for all users. Identify X.
Ans: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman
14. In an apparent effort to showcase defiance, Spotify recently launched an intitiative entitled "I'm with the _______." The project features music and videos from artists from certain specific countries that have been affected by a recent political decision. What is unique about this Spotify original playlist?
Ans: “I’m with the banned,” a new visual and audio project highlighting artists from Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Yemen, and Iran — the six Muslim-majority countries included on Trump’s travel ban.
15. In 2006, a former X employee revealed what many people had suspected for a long time: the Bush administration was using the web to spy on Americans. X had set up a secret room at its San Francisco facilities where the government -- without obtaining a search warrant -- collected and monitored internet traffic belonging to individual Americans. The Electronic Frontiers Foundation filled suit against X and in 2008 filed a complaint against US president George Bush.. Congress later passed a bill that exemped comapnies like X from these kind of lawsuits. EFF says it will continue to fight to stop the National Security Agency's "massive program of illegal dragnet surveillance of domestic communications." Identify X.
Ans:
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Identify this woman named 11th most powerful women in the world by Forbes in 2016.
Ans: Ginni Rometty
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19. [Picture of first Google Doodle]
This is the first Google Doodle. To whom was it dedicated?
Ans: Isaac Newton
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