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Praxis Valley & Delphi’ Quiz

Praxis Valley & Delphi’ Quiz. Finals August 10,2012 Two Rounds, Infinite Bounce 24 Questions. Quiz Masters : Sankha Ashish Vignesh Research Team : Sharath Ghosh (PGP 2010-12) Sankha Spandan Vignesh. Round 1 Clockwise 12 Questions. 1.

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Praxis Valley & Delphi’ Quiz

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  1. Praxis Valley & Delphi’ Quiz Finals August 10,2012 Two Rounds, Infinite Bounce 24 Questions

  2. Quiz Masters : Sankha Ashish Vignesh Research Team : SharathGhosh(PGP 2010-12) Sankha Spandan Vignesh

  3. Round 1 Clockwise 12 Questions

  4. 1 My founder was brought up by foster parents and started with a small capital and made set-top boxes for TVs I was so named because my founder had worked on a project of the same name for the CIA My founder is one of the richest men in the world and his yacht is called “The Rising Sun.”

  5. Oracle

  6. 2) This is the cover page of the newsletter of famous club. Identify the club.

  7. Homebrew computer club

  8. 3) Connect

  9. Audio is the evolution of Microsoft start up tune. Composed by Brian Eno in the picture. Interestingly, He did it with a Macintosh

  10. 4) Identify the logo

  11. Ning

  12. 5) Connect

  13. Apple’ Ipad & Iphone are banned in Israel & Princenton University. Ban was lifted in Israel later.

  14. 6 Tegic based in Seattle, Washington, United States was acquired by AOL on December 3, 1999, and was later acquired by Nuance Communications and then it ceased to exist as a separate company What did Tegic develop that has become an almost ubiquitous tool?

  15. T9 Dictionary in mobiles

  16. 7 ) What is Phishing?

  17. To acquire information (and sometimes, indirectly, money) such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by acting as a trustworthy entity.

  18. Ray Tomilson worked at  Bolt Bernek and Newman(BBN)- the company that closely worked with the US Defence. He took 30 -40 seconds to develop what that has become so important in the world of IT? 8

  19. @ symbol in the Mail

  20. 9 In 1983, the subscribers of PC World received a free demo floppy with the magazine. This was probably the first time in history that a magazine featured a floppy bind in. Now a days this practice is pretty common with magazines giving away CDs instead of floppies. What product was introduced to the subscribers via that floppy?

  21. MS word

  22. 10) The following formula is used by X, a very popular website, to rate a certain something. X was started in the year 1990 and was acquired by amazon.com in 1998. Identify X

  23. IMDB

  24. 11) Identify X, the Guys  Ronald Wayne said, “ I felt ‘X ‘would be successful, but at the same time there would be bumps along the way and I couldn't risk it. I had already had a rather unfortunate business experience before. I was getting too old and those two were whirlwinds. It was like having a tiger by the tail and I couldn't keep up with these guys."

  25. Apple, Steve Jobs & Steve Woznaik

  26. 12) Connect 1. 3. 2.

  27. Hawkeye Technology Jeremy Reener who played Hwakeye in Avenger Stan Lee was the creator of Hawkeye Roke is the company that came up with the Hawkeye Technology

  28. Round 2 Anti – Clockwise 12 Questions

  29. 1) What are all these?

  30. Biblical Illusions of - Partition of Red Sea - Crucification -

  31. 2) Time Magazine noted ‘X’ as one of the 25 best blogs in 2009, and has been described as "one stop shop" for social media. As of March 2012, it has over 2,775,000 Twitter followers and over 838,400 fans on Facebook. Identify X

  32. Mashable

  33. 3) Connect

  34. Avatar - Avatar was first mentioned in the novel Snow Crash - Titanic directed by James Cameroon who directed Avatar - Ten Avatars of Lord Krishna

  35. 4) Identify the Voice

  36. Steve Ballmer

  37. 5) Identify

  38. 6) Fill the blank

  39. 7) Name the company Their very first financially successful product was audio oscillator . Eight Model 200B oscillators were bought by this company’s one of the earliest customer who were the producers of ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ to use in Fantasound surround systems installed in theatres for the movie ‘Fantasia’.

  40. Hp

  41. 8) What does this picture signify?

  42. Word Cloud comparison of state of union speeches of George Bush & Barack Obama

  43. 9) What is the significance of this numbers?

  44. Nadia Comaneci scored a perfect ten & the scored board failed to read.

  45. 10) Fill the blanks “I'm a little intoxicated. I'm not gonna lie. So what, it's not even 10 p.m. and it's a Tuesday night. The Kirklan _________ is open on my desktop and some of these people have pretty horrendous ___________ pics. Billy Olsen, sitting here, had the idea of putting some of the pictures next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on whose hotter. Good call, Mr. Olsen”

  46. Facebook

  47. 11 My 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” And the Servers which host me are situated in Stockholm which are Nuclear Attack Proof.

  48. Wikileaks

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