Masterminds Prelims
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The document contains the questions from a 2012 Masterminds prelims competition. It includes 25 multiple choice or short answer questions testing knowledge in various domains including technology, computing, business and popular culture. Key topics covered include mobile networks, programming languages, operating systems, software companies and iconic figures in the technology industry.
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![Masterminds Prelims [15th September 2012 ]
Time : 30 Mins
1. Expand LTE (As in iPhone 5 supports LTE).
2. Who/What was the Time Person of the Year in the year 1982?
3. “Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion.
And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of
foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words,
and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a
follower.”
-from The Book of X, 11:9(10th Edition)
What is X ?
4. Who launched worlds 1st 3G network back in 2002?
5. “The number of transistors on a chip doubles about every 18 months”. This means
higher performance for about the same manufacturing cost. What is this law known as?
6. (*) Expand CSS with respect to web designing.
7. Legion Of Doom, Cult of the Dead Cow, Chaos etc are examples of what?
8. (*)If Pixel is the smallest indivisible element for two dimensions, what is it for 3D?
9. A high level programming language was developed by Ken Thompson (original
developer of UNIX) along with two others in 2009 for Google. Name it. (Two letter word)
10. Which company bought the mobile division of Motorola Inc last year?
11. In 1997 each of this company’s shares was valued at $4, today it stands at a mammoth
$650 hence making it the most valuable company in the world. Which is this iconic
company?
12. Encarta is a PC based Encyclopedia from which technology company?
13. (*) Bankers Algorithm is used for detecting and solving which problem in Operating
Systems?
14. New version of Windows (8) is said to support both CISC and RISC architectures. Expand
CISC and RISC.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/image.slidesharecdn.com/prelims-120916031856-phpapp02/85/Masterminds-Prelims-1-320.jpg)
![15. Duke- (a software agent to simplify tasks for users) is the mascot of which popular
programming language developed by SUN Microsystems?
16. Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin are Lesser known founders of ?
17. Who is famous for developing the Mosaic web browser at the University of Illinois?
[Mosaic was the 1st popular web browser and later renamed to Netscape Navigator.
He’s currently a board member of Facebook.]
18. (*) If IEEE 802.3 corresponds to Ethernet standards, what does 802.11x correspond to?
19. How many pins are there in a standard parallel port?
20. If CSI is Computer Society of India, What is ACM? (Considered the highest body in
computing and awards the Turing award )
21. “640K of RAM ought to be enough for anyone “is said to be a famous statement made in
1981 by whom?
22. I’m an Italian plumber in a Japanese game going through multiple worlds and castles
while vanquishing tortoises to save a princess named Peach. What is my name?
23. (*) If IE explorer uses “Temporary Internet Files” for temporary storage, what does
Firefox use?
24. Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce initially wanted to name the company "Moore
Noyce". The name, however, was a partial homophone for "more noise" – an ill-suited
name for an electronics company, since noise in electronics is usually very undesirable
and typically associated with bad interference. So they decided to go with a more
suitable name for an electronics company-Integrated Electronics .How do we know this
company today as?
25. (*)Which famous person from the Free Software Field has an avatar called St. IGNUcius ,
a saint from the church of Emacs ?
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.slideshare.net/data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Masterminds Prelims
- 1. Masterminds Prelims [15th September 2012 ] Time : 30 Mins 1. Expand LTE (As in iPhone 5 supports LTE). 2. Who/What was the Time Person of the Year in the year 1982? 3. “Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower.” -from The Book of X, 11:9(10th Edition) What is X ? 4. Who launched worlds 1st 3G network back in 2002? 5. “The number of transistors on a chip doubles about every 18 months”. This means higher performance for about the same manufacturing cost. What is this law known as? 6. (*) Expand CSS with respect to web designing. 7. Legion Of Doom, Cult of the Dead Cow, Chaos etc are examples of what? 8. (*)If Pixel is the smallest indivisible element for two dimensions, what is it for 3D? 9. A high level programming language was developed by Ken Thompson (original developer of UNIX) along with two others in 2009 for Google. Name it. (Two letter word) 10. Which company bought the mobile division of Motorola Inc last year? 11. In 1997 each of this company’s shares was valued at $4, today it stands at a mammoth $650 hence making it the most valuable company in the world. Which is this iconic company? 12. Encarta is a PC based Encyclopedia from which technology company? 13. (*) Bankers Algorithm is used for detecting and solving which problem in Operating Systems? 14. New version of Windows (8) is said to support both CISC and RISC architectures. Expand CISC and RISC.
- 2. 15. Duke- (a software agent to simplify tasks for users) is the mascot of which popular programming language developed by SUN Microsystems? 16. Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin are Lesser known founders of ? 17. Who is famous for developing the Mosaic web browser at the University of Illinois? [Mosaic was the 1st popular web browser and later renamed to Netscape Navigator. He’s currently a board member of Facebook.] 18. (*) If IEEE 802.3 corresponds to Ethernet standards, what does 802.11x correspond to? 19. How many pins are there in a standard parallel port? 20. If CSI is Computer Society of India, What is ACM? (Considered the highest body in computing and awards the Turing award ) 21. “640K of RAM ought to be enough for anyone “is said to be a famous statement made in 1981 by whom? 22. I’m an Italian plumber in a Japanese game going through multiple worlds and castles while vanquishing tortoises to save a princess named Peach. What is my name? 23. (*) If IE explorer uses “Temporary Internet Files” for temporary storage, what does Firefox use? 24. Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce initially wanted to name the company "Moore Noyce". The name, however, was a partial homophone for "more noise" – an ill-suited name for an electronics company, since noise in electronics is usually very undesirable and typically associated with bad interference. So they decided to go with a more suitable name for an electronics company-Integrated Electronics .How do we know this company today as? 25. (*)Which famous person from the Free Software Field has an avatar called St. IGNUcius , a saint from the church of Emacs ? Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
- 3. Prelims Answers 1. Long Term Evolution 2. The PC 3. Mozilla (about:mozilla) 4. DoCoMo 5. Moore’s Law 6. Cascading Style sheets 7. Hacker Clubs 8. Voxel(Volumetric Pixel) 9. Go (Google Go) 10. Google 11. Apple 12. Microsoft 13. Deadlocks 14. Reduced / Complex Instruction Set Computing 15. Java 16. Facebook 17. Marc Anderson 18. WiFi / Wireless LAN 19. 25 20. Association for computing machinery 21. Bill Gates 22. Mario 23. Cache 24. Intel 25. Richard M Stallaman