sci-tech quiz prelims answers

IEEE PRESENTS Hosted by-Saqib JavedThe Sci-Tech

Quiz

PRELIMS ANSWERS

RULES20 questions in the prelims.No negatives.Ask for hints.In case of a tie, the team answering the first question in order wrong will be out.Top 8 teams in the finals!!

Q1. WHO HAS CO-AUTHORED THIS BOOK/WHICH COMPANY HAS HE FOUNDED?

REID HOFFMAN

Q2. If Google has Goggles , who owns “Point & Find”?

Q3. ID THE AUTHOR?

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Q5. WHICH PROJECT IS THIS? A portmanteau of the names Ian Murdock and Debra Lynn, Ian's then girlfriend and future wife.

Q6. GIMME XY?According to Robert Metcalfe (one of its initial developers), he devised the name in an early company memo as an endocentric compound of “lumiferous “ —the "substance" that was widely believed to be the medium through which electromagnetic radiation propagated in the late 19th century—and “Y", short for “_______". 

When the networking team would describe data flowing into the network infrastructure, they would routinely describe it as data packets going "up into the X".

ETHERNET!

Q7. WHAT IS THIS?

Q8. ID THE COMPANY? According to X’Ss CEO and founder Alex Gizis, back in 2009, the idea for the  product started when the development team was testing wireless networking hardware at an Army base. Their hardware technology was driving Humvees wirelessly over miles, but the team itself was juggling USB drives to sneaker net files between Windows laptops. For the next trip out, they brought a hardware _______, but the bulk of that extra gear, and the need to plug it in, became an issue. To address this need, they developed the original X application.

Q9. ID THE ORGANISATION. It is a non-profit organization that is responsible for coordinating the maintenance and methodologies of several databases, with unique identifiers, related to the namespaces of the Internet - and thereby, ensuring the network's stable and secure operation

Q10. CONNECT

• The computer room at King's College, Cambridge.• The University of Texas at Austin  has an honors computer science programme.• A Road in the Surrey Research Park and _________Way, part of the Manchester

inner ring road.• Carnegie Mellon University has a granite bench, situated in the Hornbostel Mall.• The largest conference hall at the Amsterdam Science Park.• Istanbul Bilgi University organizes an annual conference on the theory of

computation.• The University of Toronto developed a programming language in 1982.• The Faculty of Exact Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires has a computer laboratory.

Q11. THINK? Slang term used to describe any publication in its printed form when the same publication is available in a paperless version online.

DEAD TREE EDITION!

Q12. THIS PRODUCT HAS BEEN BRANDED AS WHAT?

Global printing and personal computer major HP Inc. on Thursday launched world’s thinnest HP ______ laptop – weighing 1.1 kg and as thin as an AAA-battery at just 10.4 mm with sixth generation Intel Core i5 and i7 processors.

The device packs in superb entertainment experience with full HD 13.3-inch diagonal edge-to-edge display and a lightning-fast solid-state drive (SSD) with storage up to 512GB with up to 8GB of memory.

Q13.WHAT’S BEEN SHOWN HERE?

 Sugars (shown red in this 3-D reconstruction) poking out from the shell of X could potentially help the new microscopy images of the _____ reveal a bumpy, golf ball‒shaped structure.

This gives a better determination of where it attacks.

ZIKA VIRUS.

Q14.WHAT’S BEEN EXPLAINED?

Harald Haas, who teaches at the University of Edinburgh in the UK, coined this term.

Q15. UNBELIEVABLE, ISN’T IT?

The algorithm behind MyShake, developed by a handful of Silicon Valley programmers, relies on the same technology smartphone gamers depend on to sense the phone's orientation, known as the accelerometer, in order to measure movement.

Tell me what’s the main purpose of the app?

DETECT EARTHQUAKES BEFORE!! Its inventors say the app, released by the University of California, Berkeley, could give early warning of a quake to populations without their own seismological instruments.

MyShake, available on Android, links users to become an all-in-one earthquake warning system; it records quake-type rumblings, ties a critical number of users to a location, and could eventually provide a countdown to the start of shaking.

Q16. ID THE COMPANY? Founded in 2002, it is one of China’s largest mobile phone manufacturers.

It was founded by Liu Lirong.

Q17. NAME THE PROJECT/THE TRAIN? Climate change has become a major issue across the world, and while efforts to combat global warming are underway globally, awareness about the subject is being spread among young minds in India by an innovative initiative called X.

A collaborative initiative of Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Environment and Railway Ministry, a spectacular and informative exhibition will be held in a train, which has covered over 1,22,000 km across the country, receiving more than 1.33 crore visitors at its 391 halts in 1,404 days, ever since it was flagged off in 2007.

X is a unique science exhibition mounted on a 16-coach AC train. It has been travelling across India successfully for the past seven years.

Q18. AD BY WHICH COMPANY?

Q19. AD BY WHICH COMPANY?

Q20. COMPLETE IT. EASY HAI!