TechnoHolics

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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