tech it out (tech quiz) prelims

PRELIMS

RULES:• 20 questions• +1 for each correct answer• No negative marking• No use of electronic gadgets “LET’S ROLL”

QUES 1 : Id the programming language

ANSWER

QUES 2:

(1)________________has established itself as a dynamic and respected international institution of higher education in just 31 years. It is the only University in Cyprus with a system of three campuses in the major cities of Nicosia, Limassol and Larnaca. In late 2013 it became the first university in the world to accept (2)_______. (2)________has drawn the support of a few politicians, notably U.S. Presidential candidate Rand Paul.

ANSWER

(1) The University of Nicosia(2) Bitcoins

QUES 3:(1)________ announced that it will acquire (2)____________, the company behind mobile hits Candy Crush Saga and Bubble Witch Saga, in a $5.9 billion deal. The acquisition of (2)_________ will make (1)_____________one of the largest global entertainment networks with over half a billion combined monthly active users in 196 countries.

ANSWER

(1) Activision Blizzard(2) King Digital Entertainment

QUES 4: Connect

ANSWER

valve corporation

(1)_______ the Chinese travel booking site valued at over $10 billion, has taken a big step in India after it agreed to invest $180 million in (2)__________, a fellow booking service that covers flights, hotels and bus ticketing.The investment is in convertible bonds but (2)_________, a 15-year-old company that is listed on the Nasdaq, will allow (1)_____ to own up to 26.6 percent of its existing shareholding.

QUES 5:

ANSWER(1) Ctrip(2) MakeMyTrip

QUES 6:

“Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. YUCK. Nobody wants a stylus”-by (1)__________The organization that this person belonged to is now selling their own stylus with the name (2)___________.

ANSWER (1) STEVE JOBS(2) APPLE PENCIL

QUES 7: ID

ANSWER

Facebook

QUES 8:

The first few hundred web sites began in 1993 and most of them were at colleges, but long before most of them existed came _______. The first search engine created was _______, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal._______ helped solve the data scatter problem by combining a script-based data gatherer with a regular expression matcher for retrieving file names matching a user query.

ANSWER

ARCHIE

A group of twelve students from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay founded ___________ in June 2012, currently having nine founders. The company bought the domain _______ and the telephone number 03-333-333-333 in September 2013 for a total of $10m. _________ acquired real estate discussion forum, Indian Real Estate Forum (IREF), for $1.2 Million and Realty BI, a risk assessment firm for realty projects, for $2 Million it also acquired HomeBuy360, a cloud-based sales lifecycle management platform, for $2 million.

QUES 9:

ANSWER

HOUSING.COM

QUES 10: ID THE COMPANY

ANSWER

UBER

Material Design (codenamed ___________) is a design language developed by Google. Expanding upon the "card" motifs that debuted in Google Now, Material Design makes more liberal use of grid-based layouts, responsive animations and transitions, padding, and depth effects such as lighting and shadows. Designer Matías Duarte explained that, "unlike real paper, our digital material can expand and reform intelligently. Material has physical surfaces and edges. Seams and shadows provide meaning about what you can touch."

QUES 11:

ANSWER

QUANTUM PAPER

QUES 12:

________ has officially announced its entry into India and 129 other markets in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. With the move, CEO Reed Hastings said during his CES keynote address on Wednesday, _______ is now available in "all major countries" of the world "except China", something he hopes will change soon.

ANSWER

NETFLIX

QUES 13 : Expand

1. LTE2. MMORPG3. ARPANET4. MIDI5. FLAC

ANSWER

1) Long-Term Evolution2) Massively multiplayer online role-playing

game3) Advanced Research Projects Agency Network4) Musical Instrument Digital Interface5) Free Lossless Audio Codec

QUES 14: GUESS WHO?

ANSWER

hugo barra

QUES 15:

On October 22, 2015, Instagram launched ____________, an app where you shoot a one-second burst of five photos that are turned into a silent video that plays forwards and then reverses in a loop.Users can post directly to Instagram or Facebook from the app, or share through email or texting.

ANSWER

Boomerang from Instagram

QUES 16: (1)___________was arrested for speeding in Albuquerque. He frequently was caught speeding in his Porsche 911. That day he was driving along with Paul Allen. The bail was set at a thousand dollars.(1)__________, although only 21, was very successful in his early years at (2)________, and was immediately able to post bail from his wallet full of cash.

ANSWER (1)

(2) Microsoft

QUES 17 :Identify

ANSWER

Sergey brin

QUES 18:

(1)___________is the founder and CEO of OYO Rooms. He started his entrepreneurial journey when he was 17 years old. He dropped out of college and launched his first start up (2)_________. Ltd. in the year ‐2012. (2)_______ was designed as a platform to enable listing and booking of budget and premium accommodations. He soon realized that the budget hospitality sector lacked predictability. Therefore, he pivoted (2)_______ to OYO Rooms in 2013 with the key proposition of offering affordable and standardized accommodation.

ANSWER

(1) Ritesh Agarwal(2) Oravel Stays Pvt. Ltd (Oravel)

QUES 19:__________ was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory “. ________ is perhaps equally well known for founding both digital computer and digital circuit design theory in 1937, as a 21-year-old master's degree student at (MIT).He contributed to the field of cryptanalysis for national defence during World War II, including his basic work on code breaking and secure telecommunications.

ANSWER

Claude Elwood Shannon

QUES 20: ID (ez pz)

ANSWER GRU’S LAB