A.Charles Darwin 5.What is this?
A.iPhone4 antenna problem spoof 6.what’s significance of this logo ?
A.HP bought Palm recently and changed the logo to HP style
Round II. Automatic Computing
1.What’s blingtronics ?
A:It is a wearable electronics made of gold or diamonds
2.Connect these terms : base,trigger,button,autofire,hatch,suction,throttle ?
A.Joystick
3.It is a six letter word of Greek origin, arranging together, rules of governing, construction of command?
A.Syntax
4.Barbara Liskov is a Prof. of CS from MIT, only female to have achieved this ?
A.Alan Turing award
5.Connect these Mephisto,gidion,shredder,hiarcs,junior ?
A.These are chess engines
6,This ambitious project called Project X has codenames cupcake,doughnut,eclairs.What is X?
A.Android
Round III. @TCS : Buzzer round
1.TCS is a tech partner to world’s oldest marathon ?
A.Boston marathon
2.With which state in India did TCS start a citizen portal called ‘MahaOnline’ ?
A.Maharashtra
3.TCS is officially partner till 2012 for this a leading European pro-cycling team ?
A.Cervélo
4.Expand TRDDC ?
A.Tata Research Development and Design Center
Round IV. Parallel Computing ( +10,-5) buzzer round
1.Pics of Obama ,Mark Zuckerberg and another lady ?
A.Facebook
2.Video showing Beckham, pics – flickr logo,inktomi logo,del.icio.us logo ?
A.Yahoo
3.Pics of camel,java temple,turtle,song ‘ruby tuesday’ playing in background ?
A.Programming languages
4.MSN messenger logo,cdragon logo and another pic ?
A.Apps designed by MS for Apple on AppStore
Round V. Final round – Grid Computing (+5,+10,+15)
Solve the 4 questions, derive the final single worded answer using the given formula and the answers of 4 questions !
Example Question :
R-2,C+3,F-2
A program that permits rewriting and editing of file ? ediTor
This name is abbreviation of San Francisco ? cisCo
Web browser from Apple for Mac OS X ? Safari
Answer : TCS
1. E+2,T-2,R+2,A-2
Designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert ? enIac
A small piece of software designed to fix problems ? Patch
Advanced Research Project Agency Network ? arpAnet
Original developer was C. Wayne Ratliff ? Dbase
Answer : IPAD
2. P+3,P+1,A+1,E-1
Published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth ?pasCal
Greek letter for ‘five’ ending with “ium” ? pEntium
Base 2 number system ? binaRy
Nippon Denki Kabushiki Kaisha ? Nec
Answer : CERN
3. X-1,I-1,U-2,A-2
Founded as Graphics Group ? pIxar
Coined by Ralph Vaerst, published by Don Hoefler ? Silicon Valley
Device that interconnects two or more networks ? Router
Netscape based web browser ? mOsaic
Answer : ISRO
Audience questions
1.What’s flog ? A.Fake blog
2.What’s napstering ? A.Distributing illegal content and making money out of it
Source:Prashanth Pai
