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Bala Narayanan
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The document provides details of a quiz conducted as part of CSI Kerala State Student Convention on 15th September 2012. It contains 12 questions related to computer science, technology and notable people in the field. The questions cover a range topics including supercomputers, algorithms, software, mobile phones and more. Key people mentioned include Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Noam Chomsky and others.

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As Part of CSI Kerala State Student Convention 15th September 2012 QuizMaster: Balanarayanan
Round 1 8 Questions +15 for direct /10 for passed
1)What is depicted in this xkcd webcomic?
Travelling Salesman Problem
2.  In computer science and related disciplines, considered harmful is a phrase popularly used in the titles of diatribes and other critical essays. It was popularized by Edsger Dijkstra's letter “X Statement Considered Harmful,” published in the March 1968 Communications of the ACM.  What is X , a command/statement still used mostly by beginners in C and ASM a lot ?
 GOTO statement
3  You might have seen the flag system used by ships and dock men to signal each other.  This is known by a particular name and this is said to have inspired a concept in Operating systems programming which has the same name and mostly used as flags in IPC. What concept?
 Semaphores  P();  V();
4  X is an American linguist, philosopher, scientist, logician, historian, political critic, and activist. He is an Institute Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT.  In addition to his work in linguistics, he has written on war, politics, and mass media, and is the author of over 100 books.  Along with Marco Schützenberger (a doctor of medicine) he formulated the X hierarchy in 1956 which became a turning point in the field of theoretical computer science and mathematics.  Identify X
 Noam Chomsky (Chomsky Hierarchy)
5  400: Bad Request Unauthorized Payment Required Forbidden Method Not Allowed Not Acceptable Proxy Authentication Required Request Timeout Conflict 410: Gone What is missing from the above list?
404  Error 400: Bad Request Error 401: Unauthorized Error 402 Payment Required Error 403 Forbidden Error 404 Not Found Error 405 Method Not Allowed Error 406 Not Acceptable Error 407 Proxy Authentication Required Error 408 Request Timeout Error 409 Conflict Error 410: Gone
6  Image of ?
1st IC Made by Jack Kilbey
7  He is said to have taken inspiration from 1970 paper written by Edgar F. Codd titled “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks” He formed a company based on this idea named Software Development Labs(SBL) and later changed its name to Relational Software, Inc. (RSI).But today it is knows by another name and he is 6th richest man on the planet. Who is he and what's the company known today as ?
Larry Ellison and Oracle
8  X is a software originally developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development; it has since been adopted by many other projects.  Every X working directory is a full- fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server.  What is X ? Used today by almost everyone developing their programs in the open source domain ?
GIT
5 Questions +10 for each right answer No Negatives Write the answers down.
1. Tech Specs of What?  Weight : 30 elephants  Power Consumption : 7.6MW  Memory :1638 TB  Clock 16.32 PFLOPS  Home :Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory  OS :Red Hat Enterprise Linux  Nodes :98000  "3 billion people using a pocket calculator would have to perform one million operations per second to reach equivalent performance "
2.Put Funda.
3.Expand.
4.  X academy is non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by Y X , a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School[and of Indian Origins].  With the stated mission of "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the website supplies a free online collection of more than 3,300 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube  The concept was so revolutionary that it was funded by many people and companies that included Bill Gates and Google.
5  Nintendo Power listings (a magazine that listed the high scores of various arcade games) refused to publish the name of X citing the reason he has been on top of the charts for Tetris high scores for quite a while.  So X used a fake name (Evets Kainzow) to send his scores to the magazine. Apart setting high scores on tetris he’s more famous for co founding a company.  Who is X ?
Masterminds [IT Quiz]
Masterminds [IT Quiz]
1. Tech Specs of What?  Weight : 30 elephants  Power Consumption : 7.6MW  Memory :1638 TB  Clock 16.32 PFLOPS  Home :Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory  OS :Red Hat Enterprise Linux  Nodes :98000  "3 billion people using a pocket calculator would have to perform one million operations per second to reach equivalent performance "
IBM Sequioa- Fastest Supercomputer
2.Put Funda.
Masterminds [IT Quiz]
3.Expand.
CAPTCHA  Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
4.  X academy is non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by Y X born a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School.  With the stated mission of "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the website supplies a free online collection of more than 3,300 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube  The concept was so revolutionary that it was funded by many people and companies that included Bill Gates and Google.
Masterminds [IT Quiz]
Masterminds [IT Quiz]
Steve Wozniak(Apple Cofounder)
[Buzzer] +5 for getting the connect +5 each for identifying the images -5 for wrongly identifying No negatives for wrong connect
Masterminds [IT Quiz]
 Evan williams Cofounded the 3.
 df
 Paul Allen – cofounded MS  MS – New Logo  Surface – Tablet from MS
Masterminds [IT Quiz]
 Vinton Cerf – Chief Evangelist at Google  [inventor of TCP/IP ]  Visualization of PageRank Algorithm  I/O – Annual Developer Conf
Masterminds [IT Quiz]
 Developers of Ubuntu  Quantal Quetzal 12.04 Codename  Mark Shuttleworth,CEO
 1111 1111  0000 0000
FLOPS- Floating Point Instructions Per Second, CPU Speed Unit MICKEY – Unit of Mouse Movement Byte– Unit of Memory
12 Questions +15 for direct / 10 for passed
1  In 1973 a product was introduced which was then popular by its acronym. The expansion to the acronym is Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Convergence.  What do we know this product today as ?
 DynaTAC – Worlds 1st mobile phone from Motorola.
2  The United States Congress in 2002 passed a resolution [269] which gave Antonio Meucci the original credits to an invention that changed the world.  He invented this in 1871 but couldn’t pay the $10 annual patent fees after 1874.  So in 1876 a patent was awarded to the more famous inventor who is popularly credited with the invention. Name the inventor and invention.
 AG Bell and the Phone
3  Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves, by George Church and Ed Regis is the 1st book to achieve what special feat ?
 The First book to encoded on a DNA. 70 Billion copies were made !  One Gram of DNA can hold 445 billion GB of Data !
4  Astro (1.0),  Bender(1.1) and  Cupcake(1.5) were initial version codenames of what?
Masterminds [IT Quiz]
5  There’s a legend about a Hindu temple which contains a large room with three time-worn posts in it surrounded by 64 golden disks. Brahmin priests, acting out the command of an ancient prophecy, have been moving these disks, in accordance with the rules of the puzzle, since that time. According to the legend, when the last move of the puzzle is completed, the world will end.  If the legend were true, and if the priests were able to move disks at a rate of one per second, using the smallest number of moves, it would take them 264−1 seconds or roughly 585 billion years to finish.  What puzzle are they trying to solve?
 Tower of Hanoi
6  Mars rover curiosity after landing was still for 4 days (doing something specific) before going to explore the surface.  What activity lasted for 4 days and why ?
 Updating the firmware  [It was preloaded only with firmware to land because of the frugal 256MB RAM. The processor is 134Mhz PowerPC machine for handling rough conditions]  It took 4 days since each communication needed about 8 minutes to complete due to the distance.
7  Logo Of ?
 Windows 1.0
8  Identify .
 Marissa Mayer – Google’s first female engineer.  Recently left the company to become Yahoos CEO.
9  Here’s the line from Obama’s prepared remarks, as given to the New York Times:  “We believe that a little girl who’s offered an escape from poverty by a great teacher or a grant for college could become the founder of the next Google.”  However in his presidential post acceptance speech at the democratic convention last week he modified the sentence used another name instead of Google. Which name?
 Steve Jobs
10  Shailesh Misra  Chitra mittha  Mansi Praveen  Vinod Balakrishnan(TKMCE 1989 CSE)  What's the name missing from the list/ Whats so special about this list?
 Seetharaman Narayanan  Indians On Photoshop Splash Screen
11  Occasion?
 Alan Turing's Birthday
12 Logo of ?
Google Drive  New Cloud service from Google.
Masterminds [IT Quiz]

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Masterminds [IT Quiz]

  • 1. As Part of CSI Kerala State Student Convention 15th September 2012 QuizMaster: Balanarayanan
  • 2. Round 1 8 Questions +15 for direct /10 for passed
  • 3. 1)What is depicted in this xkcd webcomic?
  • 5. 2.  In computer science and related disciplines, considered harmful is a phrase popularly used in the titles of diatribes and other critical essays. It was popularized by Edsger Dijkstra's letter “X Statement Considered Harmful,” published in the March 1968 Communications of the ACM.  What is X , a command/statement still used mostly by beginners in C and ASM a lot ?
  • 7. 3  You might have seen the flag system used by ships and dock men to signal each other.  This is known by a particular name and this is said to have inspired a concept in Operating systems programming which has the same name and mostly used as flags in IPC. What concept?
  • 9. 4  X is an American linguist, philosopher, scientist, logician, historian, political critic, and activist. He is an Institute Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT.  In addition to his work in linguistics, he has written on war, politics, and mass media, and is the author of over 100 books.  Along with Marco Schützenberger (a doctor of medicine) he formulated the X hierarchy in 1956 which became a turning point in the field of theoretical computer science and mathematics.  Identify X
  • 10.  Noam Chomsky (Chomsky Hierarchy)
  • 11. 5  400: Bad Request Unauthorized Payment Required Forbidden Method Not Allowed Not Acceptable Proxy Authentication Required Request Timeout Conflict 410: Gone What is missing from the above list?
  • 12. 404  Error 400: Bad Request Error 401: Unauthorized Error 402 Payment Required Error 403 Forbidden Error 404 Not Found Error 405 Method Not Allowed Error 406 Not Acceptable Error 407 Proxy Authentication Required Error 408 Request Timeout Error 409 Conflict Error 410: Gone
  • 13. 6  Image of ?
  • 14. 1st IC Made by Jack Kilbey
  • 15. 7  He is said to have taken inspiration from 1970 paper written by Edgar F. Codd titled “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks” He formed a company based on this idea named Software Development Labs(SBL) and later changed its name to Relational Software, Inc. (RSI).But today it is knows by another name and he is 6th richest man on the planet. Who is he and what's the company known today as ?
  • 17. 8  X is a software originally developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development; it has since been adopted by many other projects.  Every X working directory is a full- fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server.  What is X ? Used today by almost everyone developing their programs in the open source domain ?
  • 18. GIT
  • 19. 5 Questions +10 for each right answer No Negatives Write the answers down.
  • 20. 1. Tech Specs of What?  Weight : 30 elephants  Power Consumption : 7.6MW  Memory :1638 TB  Clock 16.32 PFLOPS  Home :Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory  OS :Red Hat Enterprise Linux  Nodes :98000  "3 billion people using a pocket calculator would have to perform one million operations per second to reach equivalent performance "
  • 23. 4.  X academy is non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by Y X , a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School[and of Indian Origins].  With the stated mission of "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the website supplies a free online collection of more than 3,300 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube  The concept was so revolutionary that it was funded by many people and companies that included Bill Gates and Google.
  • 24. 5  Nintendo Power listings (a magazine that listed the high scores of various arcade games) refused to publish the name of X citing the reason he has been on top of the charts for Tetris high scores for quite a while.  So X used a fake name (Evets Kainzow) to send his scores to the magazine. Apart setting high scores on tetris he’s more famous for co founding a company.  Who is X ?
  • 27. 1. Tech Specs of What?  Weight : 30 elephants  Power Consumption : 7.6MW  Memory :1638 TB  Clock 16.32 PFLOPS  Home :Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory  OS :Red Hat Enterprise Linux  Nodes :98000  "3 billion people using a pocket calculator would have to perform one million operations per second to reach equivalent performance "
  • 28. IBM Sequioa- Fastest Supercomputer
  • 32. CAPTCHA  Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
  • 33. 4.  X academy is non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by Y X born a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School.  With the stated mission of "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the website supplies a free online collection of more than 3,300 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube  The concept was so revolutionary that it was funded by many people and companies that included Bill Gates and Google.
  • 37. [Buzzer] +5 for getting the connect +5 each for identifying the images -5 for wrongly identifying No negatives for wrong connect
  • 39.  Evan williams Cofounded the 3.
  • 41.  Paul Allen – cofounded MS  MS – New Logo  Surface – Tablet from MS
  • 43.  Vinton Cerf – Chief Evangelist at Google  [inventor of TCP/IP ]  Visualization of PageRank Algorithm  I/O – Annual Developer Conf
  • 45.  Developers of Ubuntu  Quantal Quetzal 12.04 Codename  Mark Shuttleworth,CEO
  • 46.  1111 1111  0000 0000
  • 47. FLOPS- Floating Point Instructions Per Second, CPU Speed Unit MICKEY – Unit of Mouse Movement Byte– Unit of Memory
  • 48. 12 Questions +15 for direct / 10 for passed
  • 49. 1  In 1973 a product was introduced which was then popular by its acronym. The expansion to the acronym is Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Convergence.  What do we know this product today as ?
  • 50.  DynaTAC – Worlds 1st mobile phone from Motorola.
  • 51. 2  The United States Congress in 2002 passed a resolution [269] which gave Antonio Meucci the original credits to an invention that changed the world.  He invented this in 1871 but couldn’t pay the $10 annual patent fees after 1874.  So in 1876 a patent was awarded to the more famous inventor who is popularly credited with the invention. Name the inventor and invention.
  • 52.  AG Bell and the Phone
  • 53. 3  Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves, by George Church and Ed Regis is the 1st book to achieve what special feat ?
  • 54.  The First book to encoded on a DNA. 70 Billion copies were made !  One Gram of DNA can hold 445 billion GB of Data !
  • 55. 4  Astro (1.0),  Bender(1.1) and  Cupcake(1.5) were initial version codenames of what?
  • 57. 5  There’s a legend about a Hindu temple which contains a large room with three time-worn posts in it surrounded by 64 golden disks. Brahmin priests, acting out the command of an ancient prophecy, have been moving these disks, in accordance with the rules of the puzzle, since that time. According to the legend, when the last move of the puzzle is completed, the world will end.  If the legend were true, and if the priests were able to move disks at a rate of one per second, using the smallest number of moves, it would take them 264−1 seconds or roughly 585 billion years to finish.  What puzzle are they trying to solve?
  • 58.  Tower of Hanoi
  • 59. 6  Mars rover curiosity after landing was still for 4 days (doing something specific) before going to explore the surface.  What activity lasted for 4 days and why ?
  • 60.  Updating the firmware  [It was preloaded only with firmware to land because of the frugal 256MB RAM. The processor is 134Mhz PowerPC machine for handling rough conditions]  It took 4 days since each communication needed about 8 minutes to complete due to the distance.
  • 64.  Marissa Mayer – Google’s first female engineer.  Recently left the company to become Yahoos CEO.
  • 65. 9  Here’s the line from Obama’s prepared remarks, as given to the New York Times:  “We believe that a little girl who’s offered an escape from poverty by a great teacher or a grant for college could become the founder of the next Google.”  However in his presidential post acceptance speech at the democratic convention last week he modified the sentence used another name instead of Google. Which name?
  • 67. 10  Shailesh Misra  Chitra mittha  Mansi Praveen  Vinod Balakrishnan(TKMCE 1989 CSE)  What's the name missing from the list/ Whats so special about this list?
  • 68.  Seetharaman Narayanan  Indians On Photoshop Splash Screen
  • 70.  Alan Turing's Birthday
  • 72. Google Drive  New Cloud service from Google.

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  1. began tutoring his cousin in mathematics. When other relatives and friends sought similar help, he decided it would be more practical to distribute the tutorials on YouTube