TechnoHolics

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

THE FINALS : STAGE ROUND ( top 6 teams)

I. Cloud Computing (+10) – visual round

1. pic ? Andy Bechtolsheim // I got a cool TCS bag for answering this, passed as audience question
2. pic and clue : look at the parking lot ? Bell Labs HQ. (there was a B symbol in parking lot)
3. pic ? Ronald Wayne (the Apple guy)
4. pic : Google doodle having nature, identify the man ? Charles Darwin
5. pic : Apple logo with ‘Hold differently’ written below ? iPhone4 antenna problem spoof
6. pic : new Palm logo, what’s significance ? HP bought Palm recently and changed the logo to HP style

II. Automatic Computing

1. What’s blingtronics ? wearable electronics made of gold or diamonds
2. Connect these terms : base,trigger,button,autofire,hatch,suction,throttle ? Joystick
3. Six letter word of Greek origin, arranging together, rules of governing, construction of command ? Syntax
4. Barbara Liskov is a Prof. of CS from MIT, only female to have achieved this ? Alan Turing award
5. Connect these Mephisto,gidion,shredder,hiarcs,junior ? These are chess engines
6. This ambitious project called Project X has codenames cupcake,doughnut,eclairs ? Android

Audience questions

• What’s flog ? Fake blog
• What’s napstering ? Distributing illegal content and making money out of it

III. @TCS : Buzzer round

1. TCS is a tech partner to world’s oldest marathon ? Boston marathon
2. With which state in India did TCS start a citizen portal called ‘MahaOnline’ ? Maharashtra
3. TCS is officially partner till 2012 for this a leading European pro-cycling team ? Cervélo
4. Expand TRDDC ? Tata Research Development and Design Center

IV. Parallel Computing ( +10,-5) buzzer round

1. pics of Obama ,Mark Zuckerberg and another lady ? Facebook
2. Video showing Beckham, pics – flickr logo,inktomi logo,del.icio.us logo ? Yahoo
3. pics of camel,java temple,turtle,song ‘ruby tuesday’ playing in background ? Programming languages
4. MSN messenger logo,cdragon logo and another pic ? Apps designed by MS for Apple on AppStore

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

Final scores of teams :
SBM Jain : 40 //Champions
SKCH-CBSE : 30 //Runners-up
NAFL : 25
St. Joseph’s Boys : 10
Bishop Cotton Boys : 10
St. Pauls’ : 0

The champions got Lenovo laptops, a bag full of goodies and entered national finals.

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