CODE 2015 TECH-KNOW-WIZ

THE MOST AWESOME TECH QUIZ OF THE YEAR.

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*Question 1.Name-’X’Type-PrivateFounder-Don ValentineHeadquarters-3000 Sand Hill Road Menlo Park, California, USAKey People-Michael Moritz , Don Valentine , Douglas LeoneWebsite-www.’X’cap.comID X

Question 1SEQUOIA CAPITAL

Question 2Breakout is a 2013 Brendan Fraser Movie having an amazing rating of 4.2/10 on IMDb. In the movie a pair of criminals try to track down the kids who witnessed them commit a murder in the woods. The father (Brendan Fraser) of the children turns the tables on the killers who are hunting them. The above information is not really important, what happens when you go to Google Images and type ‘Atari Breakout’ in the search box?

Question 2ATARI BREAKOUT

Question 3*• ‘X’ is a Latin word meaning "to go before". According to ‘Y’,

the name was chosen because the ‘X’ was launched before environmental awareness became a mainstream social issue. In 1995, ‘Y’ debuted ‘X’ in Tokyo, with testing following a year later. The first ‘X’, model NHW10, went on sale on December 10, 1997.It was available only in Japan, though it has been imported privately to at least the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. X is very famously known as something belonging to the responsible citizen.ID X and Y

Question 3•X-PRIUS , Y-TOYOTA

Question 4• One of the most influential members of computing science’s

founding generation, X helped shape the new discipline from both an engineering and a theoretical perspective. In March 1952, X became Holland’s first ever programmer. X is also a recipient of the Turing Award and has the X prize named after him.• Despite his numerous contributions , he is generally famous only

for a method he suggested to programmers to find the shortest path between points in a graph. Who is X/What is he famous for?

Question 4•Edsger Dijkstra

Question 5X’ is the Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIM Calcutta.‘X’ founded the company “Re-diffusion” when he was 22.‘X’ has also written a book titled the Waverider. ‘X’ however is more famous for starting ‘Y’ which is one of the top 20 Indian Webportals recognised by Alexa. ID ‘X’ and ‘Y’.

QUESTION 5AJIT BALAKRISHNAN

Question 6B 2200 University Ave. E Waterloo, Ontario, Canada is the headquarters of the company ‘X’. ‘X’ ‘s products were famously used by Barack Obama during the 2008 and2012 presidential campaigns. Currently on the decline X’s major power lies in the patents it possesses valued at around 5 billion dollars. ID ‘X’.

QUESTION 10BLACKBERRY

Question 7Laura Poitras received anonymous encrypted emails from an address that turned out to be from X. Following this, she and Glen Greenwald interviewed X in Hong Kong. This led to the creation of the Oscar winner Y. Name X and Y.

Question 7

X-Edward SnowdenY-Citizenfour

Question 8This is an excerpt from a piece of writing by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown:“Thousands of people have come together to demand justice for X and recognition of the appalling way he was treated. While X was dealt with under the law of the time, and we can't put the clock back, his treatment was of course utterly unfair, and I am pleased to have the chance to say how deeply sorry I and we all are for what happened to him……………………………………. So on behalf of the British government, and all those who live freely thanks to X's work, I am very proud to say: we're sorry. You deserved so much better. “ IDX

QUESTION 8ALAN TURING

Question 9X was created by David Jones and Mike Daily. X is generally based in Los Angeles, Miami ,Las Vegas and the State of California. Famous people who have worked in the development of X include Ray Liotta, Burt Reynolds, Dennis Hopper, Samuel L. Jackson, Phil Collins, Axl Rose, and Peter Fonda. X has been critically acclaimed and commercially successful with many considering it to be the best of it’s genre. IDX

Question 9GTA(GRAND THEFT AUTO)

Question 10Simon Oxley is a British freelance graphic designer who was a prolific contributor to the iStockphoto site, which he had joined because of a free promotional offer for purchasers of the Adobe Creative Suite. However he is more famous for creating X. What did he create?

Question 10The Twitter Logo

Question 11CONNECT:(THINK HARDWARE)BLACKBERRY NOKIA XIAOMIAPPLENINTENDOAMAZONCISCOHUAWEI SONY

Question 11FOXCONN

Question 12• The X hack was a release of confidential data belonging to X on November

24, 2014. The data included personal information about X employees and their families, e-mails between employees, information about executive salaries at the company, copies of unreleased X films, and other information. The hackers called themselves the Y or GOP and demanded the cancellation of the planned release of the film Z. United States intelligence officials, evaluating the software, techniques, and network sources used in the hack, allege that the attack was sponsored by North Korea . North Korea has denied all responsibility, and some cybersecurity experts have cast doubt on the evidence, alternatively proposing that current or former X employees may have been involved in the hack.

Question 12X- Sony Pictures , Y- Guardians of Peace , Z- The Interview

Question 13OLPV or One Library Per Village is a place where students can avail free Internet through tablets or PC for their educational purpose. Its a knowledge sharing centre with the support of 30,000 plus tutors of who teach almost all subjects. In 2014 going on the lines of internet phenomenon X which saw people from all walks of life participating ,OLPV launched Y on social networking sites to do something similar to X but contributing to the field of education. ID X and Y.

Question 13X- Ice Bucket ChallengeY- Book Bucket Challenge

Question 14Connect:Peter Thiel , Elon Musk , Jawed Karim , Scott Banister Max Levchin(Not Exhaustive)

Question 14Paypal Mafia

Question 15 FITB

Question 15I HAVE A DREAMCAST

Question 16Wingdings are a series of dingbat fonts which render letters as a variety of symbols. They were originally developed in 1990 by Microsoft by combining glyphs from Lucida Icons, Arrows, and Stars licensed from Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. In 1992, only days after the release of Windows 3.1, it was discovered that the character sequence "NYC" in Wingdings was rendered as a skull and crossbones symbol, Star of David, and thumbs up gesture. This was often interpreted as an antisemitic message. Microsoft strongly denied that this was intentional, and insisted that the final arrangement of the glyphs in the font was largely random. What was the most famous controversy they caused?

Question 16

Question 17• X is a term having origins in the Sanskrit phrase “Antha Prerna”

meaning self-motivation. Jean Baptiste Say, a French economist, is often believed to have coined the term X because he had provided a definitive explanation of the X role as an intermediatory between capital and labour. James Watt , Samuel Crompton ,Thomas Newcomen and Claus Spreckels could be considered the world’s first X’s. What is this term synonymous to the world of Tech.

Question 17

Question 18• The X documents comprise a series of confidential Microsoft

memoranda on potential strategies relating to free software, open-source software, and to Linux in particular, and a series of media responses to these memoranda. Both the leaked documents and the responses were published by Eric S. Raymond in 1998.The documents are associated with X because many of them were originally leaked close to the 31st of October in different years. ID X.

Question 18

Question 19X was born on December 6, 1959, and raised in Sapporo, Japan, where his father served as a prefectural official. Most famous as the head of the company Y , at Y’s E3 2015 presentation last month, he appeared as a Muppet designed by The Jim Henson Company. Sadly, a very famous joke on social networks reads “ What was the sound of the ambulance that carried away X?” ID X ,Y and the Sound. (Points only for X and Y)

Question 19

X-Saturo IwataY-Nintendo

Question 20The handheld gaming device , X was launched on December 17,2011 in Japan and parts of Asia and on February 22, 2012 in Europe, North and South America. X is powered by a four-core ARM Cortex A9 MP Core Processor. X has Livearea interface which has succeeded the ‘X’ rossMediaBar. The word X means “life” in Latin. Identify X.

Question 20

Question 21X (born August 20, 1970) is an American game programmer and the co-founder of Id Software. X was the lead programmer of the Id video games Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, Rage and their sequels. X is best known for his innovations in 3D graphics, such as his famous X's Reverse algorithm for shadow volumes, and is also a rocketry enthusiast and the founder and lead engineer of Armadillo Aerospace. In August 2013, X took the position of CTO at Oculus VR.IDX

Question 21John Carmack

Question 22“Just setting up my twttr”

Question 22First Tweet.

Question 23X is a Bengali-American teacher who became famous in 2010.X was born in Metairie, Louisiana and attended the public school Grace King High School where, as he recalls, "a few classmates were fresh out of jail and others were bound for top universities.“ ID X

Question 23NOT THIS GUY!!!

Question 24Established in 1996 through Nelson Gonzalez and Alex Aguila, X assembles desktops, notebooks, and workstations. According to employees, X got its name because of the founders fondness for the hit television series The X-Files, hence the theme to their products, with names such as Area-51, Hangar18 and Aurora. Id X

Question 24

Question 25 Id the game.

Question 25Batman: Arkham City