Amity School of Engineering and Technology

Annual Cultural and Technical Fest 2011

The Software Engineering Club presents

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Its time to throw yourselves out there in the open and pit your gray cells against the best minds out there.

Send in your answers along with your name, contact number, email id, college, batch and branch of study to: theonlinequiz.act2011@gmail.com
Rules: Two sets will be put up. The deadline for each set will be 24 hours from the time it is put up on the website. Individual Participation: One participant per one entry. Also, only one entry per one participant (the first entry will be considered in case of multiple entries). The participants need to be college students. Deadlines will have to be strictly adhered to. The teams shall be awarded points based on the following grading scheme: i) Questions shall carry different points based on the difficulty level. ii) Points for each question will be indicated in the question files. iii) Partially correct answers would not fetch any points. iv) The teams shall be rewarded with bonus points in just 1 case: If a team gets all the answers correct, they will be awarded 50 bonus points. Ties will be untied by the quality of answers and the time of submission.

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Each question carries 10 points, except for the star (*) marked questions, which carry 20 points.

Winners will be announced soon..

The Online Quiz 11 Q1. Find the common link.

Ans: Steve Jobs - He worked with the Hewlett-Packard Company as a summer employee. -He traveled to India in search of spiritual enlightenment and came back a Buddhist. - Jobs also served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios. -He was credited in the 1995 movie Toy Story as an executive producer

The Online Quiz 11 Q2. Find the common link. *

Ans: Accenture
Accenture originated as the business and technology consulting division of accounting firm Arthur Andersen. The picture is of Arthur Andersen. GE asked Arthur Andersen to automate payroll processing and manufacturing at GE's Appliance Park facility near Louisville, Kentucky. Arthur Andersen recommended installation of a UNIVAC I computer and printer. The logos belong to the companies- Coritel BPM, and Avanade, which are all subsidiaries of Accenture. On July 19, 2001, Accenture offered initial public offering (IPO) in New York Stock Exchange (NYSE); Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley served as its lead underwriters The last picture depicts the Rotis Semi Sans font, which is the typeface used in the Accenture word mark.

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Q3.

This programming language was developed way back in late 1970s. it is known for its minimalistic use of the reserved words (only six of them) being used as keywords. It was developed in Palo Alto at one of the prime centers of its major contributor company. It is highly simple to learn and implement. It implements one feature of java language even more efficiently than the java language. [Hint: See the picture attached]

Ans: Language is Smalltalk. Picture is of Alan Kay. He designed most of the early Smalltalk versions.

The Online Quiz 11 Q4. Connect the following images. *

Ans: Cheat codes for Age of Empire II: Polo, Robin Hood, Lumberjack, torpedo, rock on, Natural Wonders

The Online Quiz 11 Q5. This is a highly controversial ad of which technology company?
Ans: Intel Explanation Controversial due to Afro-American athletes bowing to a white male

The Online Quiz 11 Q6. Connect the following images.

Ans: Google Doodles, images that have been used in place of the Google Logo on the webpage.

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Q7.

A company X started in Sep 2008 with Rs.1 lakh which went on to buy stakes in company Y worth 380 crore within three months . It has been in news recently for its alleged connections with a renowned Indian politician Z. Name X, Y, and Z.
Answer: X: Genex Exim Ventures Y: Swan Telecom Z: M Karunaniidhi

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Q8.

What is the significance of this book?

Ans: First book sold on amazon.com

The Online Quiz 11 Q9. Identify the missing 2 links to this image.
Answer - leopard, snow leopard Explanation - Mac OS names

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Q10.

What is this? Where would you see it?

The Dream Device (PASIV) from the movie Inception

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Q11.

A worldwide technology company, which provides visualization solutions for various sectors like defence, education, infrastructure etc. One of the service partners of London 2012 Olympics. One of its significant products is LED made walls for rear end projection. Name the company.

Ans: Barco

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Q12.

Find the common link. *

Answer Seqouia capital Explanation - all companies funded by Seqouia capital, tree denotes funding/ money tree

The Online Quiz 11 Q13. Which company should replace the question mark. [Hint: think sports] *
Answer - mahindra satyam There is a Map of Africa and a picture of C. Ronaldo, which implies its related to the Fifa World Cup 2010. Marfrig was an official Sponsor of the World Cup. Mahindra Satyam was the official IT sponsor.

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To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of a Software, this game (see picture) launched in 2009. Identify both the software and the game.
Answer: Software- Corel Draw Game- Balloon Racer

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The Online Quiz 11 Q15. Connect the following images. *

Answer- SAP SAP was founded in June 1972 by five former IBM engineers in Mannheim, BadenWrttemberg, Germany. SAP's products focus on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). TechniData is a 100% subsidiary of SAP AG

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He was born in Finland. He has the rank of second lieutenant in the army. He is one of the top contributors in the Software industry in the field of open source. A whole series of software have been named and given a generic name after him. He was offered shares by a few software companies before they went public. Now he is very rich (but dont check the Forbes list, he wont be there). Who is he? [Hint: See picture attached]
Answer: Linus Tarvolds The picture is that of the Git Logo. Git (distributed revision control system) was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development.

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Q17.

Connect the following images. *

Answer- Mobile Number Portability Explanation - Kapil Sibbal Launched the MNP program in India, Telcordia is the company in charge of MNP, UK was the first to implement MNP.

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Q18.

What do the following images represent?

Answer- wiki projects / sites [other options have also been accepted] logos of wikiquote, wikispecies, wikiradio, wikibooks, wiki commons, wiki news and wiki source

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Q19.

What are we talking about? Connect.

Answer - Operation Payback Explanation - Operation Payback is a coordinated, decentralized group of attacks on opponents of internet piracy by internet activists. - Operation Avenge Assange

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Q20.

123456, THX1138, arsenal, NCC1701, CHELSEA, trustno1 .. What are they??

Answer- Passwords banned by Twitter

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The company whose name originated from a rivers name is facing a tough time in the market. The CEO of the company was formerly the COO of Juniper networks and has also worked with Microsoft. Name the company and the CEO? [Hint: See the picture attached]

Answer- Nokia; Stephen Elop

The Online Quiz 11 Q22. Connect the following images. *

Answer- Nandan Nilekani Explanation- UID Project is being led by him (pic 1) The second picture was a part of the Wharton Infosys Award. He has been extensively quoted in Thomas Friedman's book The World is Flat (Pic 3)