These are the questions from the National Finals of TCS Rural IT Quiz 2010 held at Chowdiah Memorial Hall, Bangalore on 30-10-2010.
First Round (Login)
- Old IBM(CTRC) logo
- Hector Ruiz (AMD) pictures
- Robert Kahn’s picture (TCP/IP guy)
- Osborne-1 picture(first portable computer)
- Gordon Moore picture
- Gopher definition
- First high-level programming language created by John Backus for IBM in 1954. Original name – ‘speedcoding’ – FORTRAN
- Alan Turing’s picture
Second Round (Password) – Crossword
- First mobile was created by ? Motorola
- Moone Charles wrote a book ‘Superman of Computing’ about whom ? Seymour Cray
- Ursala Burns is CEO of which company ? XEROX
- Symantec’s main product ? Norton
- Passages from life of a philosopher ? Charles Babbage
- Tanaka Engineering Works is today known as ? Toshiba
- D2H is a direct to home service by whom ? Videocon
- Seamus Backley made the design of this ? Xbox
- Do Communication over Mobile ? DoCoMo
- Lord Byron’s daughter – Ada Lovelace
- Greek origin which means Wind Horse ? Asus (from Pegasus)
Third Round (Random Access)
- Which IT company is called the Big Blue ? IBM
- This famous processing tool was released with the name ‘MicroPro’ ? WordStar
- This hardware device is used to connect portable device to[...] ? Cradle
- In 1982, two friends Warnock and Geshcke found this company ? Adobe
- How many terrabytes make a petabyte ? 1024
Fourth Round (India Inspired)
- Logo of the ADHAR project, India’s UUID project
- ISRO logo
- Picture of India’s EKA supercomputer
- C-DOT logo
Fifth Round – TCS (Thirty Crucial Seconds, not TCS 
)
- A German Engineer developed a programming language called “Plan Claculus” in 1948. Created the first program controlled Turing-complete computer called Z3 ? Konrad Zuse
- Originally owned by Seattle Computer Products, created by Tim Patterson ? DOS
- Slate and Tablet were expected names of this device ? iPad
Score Board
PPC, Udupi, Karnataka : 120
DAV Public School, Orissa : 100
Sanmati High School, Madhya Pradesh : 30
Vibjyor High, Gujarat : 20
Nalanda Vidyaniketan, Andhra Pradesh : 10
St. Xavier High School, Jammu & Kashmir : 0
Virat Public, Rajasthan : 0
Model High School, Nagaland : 0
The competition between teams from Karnataka and Orissa was tough. Nakul and Athreya from PPC, Udupi finally bagged the trophy and a cash scholarship of 75K with an impressive show and loads of goodies. I couldn’t believe that I had won this same quiz two years back. Their level of quizzing and the competition now was way too high. Being their 5th time @ TCS Rural IT Quiz, this was their last chance, so they were determined to take the trophy home this time and were confident that nothing could stop them. Congrats !
P.S: The show’s gonna air on Doordarshan. I don’t know when.
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To Raveesh and Vikram….
Prelims Questions(20 questions, 700 to 800 teams participated !)
Logo shown ? Ubuntu
Company from Canada, Blackberry ? RIM
Retina display technology ? iPhone 4
‘Nothing Like Anything’ tagline ? Micromax
‘What’s the point of option when…” tagline ? monster.com
First browser to have speed dial and mouse gesture features ? Opera
India’s 20$ laptop project name ? Saakshaat
First game to be imported to US from Russia ? Tetris
MobileMe is from ? Apple
This company is called Logicool in Japan, what in India ? Logitech
TelePresence is a Teleconference product from which company ? Cisco
Logo/screenshot ? Apple appstore
Galaxy brand ? Samsung
Expand HTC ? High tech corporation
WebOS ? Palm
Six axis ? Game controller
Decision engine ? Bing
What is the name given to 10 to the power of googol ? Googleplex Read more…
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• Will you get admission in good college or not?
• What will be the Cut off percentage of different colleges ?
• What are the different courses available in different colleges ?
• Which branch should I take ?
• Which college I will get for my rank ?
First things first, shortlist the colleges and the places that you like (keeping your rank in mind : having rank over 10k and expecting to get E&C in RVCE, that’s height of craziness). This is where Read more…
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Need for Autonomy :
The affiliating system of colleges was originally designed when their number in a university was small. The university could then effectively oversee the working of the colleges, act as an examining body and award degrees on their behalf. The system has now become unwieldy and it is becoming increasingly difficult for a university to attend to the varied needs of individual colleges. The colleges do not have the freedom to modernise their curricula or make them locally relevant. The regulations of the university and its common system, governing all colleges alike, irrespective of their characteristic strengths, weaknesses and locations, have affected the academic development of individual colleges. Colleges that have the potential for offering programmes of a higher standard do not have the freedom to offer them. Read more…
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I don’t have reservation under any category and hence cannot get Computer Science branch in any top engineering college. May be I should take Mechanics. Or if luck is on my side, nobody should take Computer as the IT industry has collapsed and there are thousands of job cuts. Hope it works that way
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