Following are the prelims questions of the "TEKQUIZ: organised at L &T infotech , Bangalore on 4'th July 2007.
1. What is the contribution of Scott Fahlman of Carnegie Mellon University to everyday usage in the world of "communication"?
2. Which company calls it highway hospitality "dhabas" in Uttar Pradesh as "A1 Plazas”?
3. * What is common to David Smith, Joe Popp and Christopher Pile?
4. What famous item in South Indian hotel menus often gets abbreviated on the computerized bill to spell a famous Operating System?
5. What was named Time man of the year in the year 1982?
6. This game upon release was responsible for riots in Japan along with coin shortage. The country had to quadruple Yen production to keep up. In America, videogames were introduced in department stores for the first time to cope with its popularity?
7. * Bell Telephone Labs joined a project with MIT and General Electric which it later dropped out of in April 1969. Two of its programmers continued working on a similar project on their own and even named it as a joke on their earlier project. They presented a paper on this work at the 1973 SIGOPS conference which won the best paper award that year. What was the project?
8. "A better world is our business.” is the catch line of which company?
9. The literal meaning in Chinese for this term is - "Ten-Thousand-Dimensional Web in Heaven and Net on Earth". How do we better know this yet another term from the Cyber world?
10. What initiative from ITC gets its name from the Hindi word meaning ‘place of gathering’?
11. The day Steve Jobs of Apple Inc, launched iPOD Nano, he launched another product jointly developed with Motorola. It was a cell phone. What's it called?
12. * The first occasion was the American Independence Day, 4th July 2000. The second one was on Bastille Day. Many more occasions followed including the Korean Independence day in 2001 and Edward Munch’s birthday. What is being discussed?
13. The proposed name for this institution was ‘Imperial University’ which was not selected. The Maharaja of Mysore laid the foundation stone in 1911. How do we know it today?
14. * What item did the first vending machine in US dispensed?
15. A supposedly biographical movie was made movie on the lives of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. What was it called?
16. Triband is an Internet service from which Indian company?
17. Which famous product is developed by Research in motion?
18. This format was originally created by SanDisk. It was originally called T-Flash, and then TransFlash, before being rechristened to this name when it was finally adopted.
19. This technology was first used on 7 Dec, 1963; this was used for the first time during the Army-Navy football game by CBS TV in the USA. What?
20. In the field of Computers, the statement "the power of a microprocessor doubles every 18 months...." is better known as?
21. What is the significance of “QWERTYUIOP”?
22. * How do we know IEEE 802.14 better as?
23. Sitter..... Who took over Dish net - DSL & VSNL?
24. *The technique that was founded in the University of West England has become household name for it’s mathematical proposition. Which is this technique?
25. This tool was invented in the late 1970s by Cleve Moler, then chairman of the computer science department at the University of New Mexico. He designed it to give his student’s access to LINPACK and EISPACK without having to learn FORTRAN. What is this?
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27. What can you get when you visit the website www.ietf.org?
28. What’s unique about “'SillyFD-AA'?
29. *Identify the company.
30. Maximum capital to be raised – $2718281828 (reference to Napier’s constant e = 2.718281828) .Shares floated during IPO – 14142135 (reference to Square Root of 2 = 1.4142135). Shares floated during secondary offering – 14159265 (reference to Pi = 3.14159265).
31. What is term used for e-mail returned to the sender after the recipient's mail server has already accepted it?
32. What is special about E-13B and CMC -7?
33. The LZW algorithm is used for which graphical format?
34. What mirror site does one get while keying in: www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog?
35. Who was the first to release hand-held virus protection software, in March 2001?
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