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1st Round - Data Clouds 1. This revolutionized the computer gaming industry. Simplicity through technology was the key. What was this game?   Ans-Pong. 2. X is a folk of the Debian project's code-base. X was first released in October 2004. What is X? Ans-Ubuntu 3.The codename of this was 'emerald sea' and was named after a painting. What? Ans-Google+ 4. Known famously as the Blue Box. Who created it?   Ans-Steve Wozniak 5. His other big venture Blue Origin wants to develop space hotels and amusement parks for the people. Which Person? Ans-Jeff Bezos 6. What does this picture depict?   Ans- Christopher Latham Sholes making the QWERTY typewriter. 2nd Round - Big Data Visualization  1. The hints were- Image of Rory Read. The future is fusion. Advanced Micro Devices. Ans-AMD 2. The hints were- Inspiring Innovation. Persistent Perfection. Image of Jerry Shen.  Ans-Asus 3. The hints were- Imangi Studios. Image of an Old Temple. Image of creators of Temple Run. Ans-Cam...

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1.What in the world of computers was initially designed   to prevent  phosphor burn-in on CRT and plasma computer monitors? 2.What do you call a person who spends a great deal of his time on computers ? 3.What is this called? 4.Which was the most used term on the internet in 2012? 5.Who are they ? 6.Identify this personality.                                     7.Which company provided solutions for the New York Half marathon ? 8.Who was the Times Person of the Year for the year 2006 ? 9.Identify this entity.                                                    10.Which term is used to describe a computer security expert who uses hacking with ethical intentions like improving security of workstations ? 11.Identify.             ...

                          

                         

                         

Q1. Luna, Royale, Zune, and Embedded were the official themes designed for which product by Microsoft?[Hint: For Which version of Windows were they designed?] Q2. Which operating system was developed by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears and Chris White in October 2003? Q3. Identify the Blanked out part:! [Options: Flash, Corel, Autodesk] Q4. Everyone's heard about DSLRS. Canon's famous DSLR Range is called Canon EOS. What does EOS Stand for? Q5. How do we better know Active Matrix Light Emitting Diodes. Something you'll see in Televisions, Mobile Phones and other gadgets? Q6. Identify. Q7. It is Facebook's Advertisement System which is personalized according to likes and interests of the people. So if you like Movies, Facebook will show you advertisements relevant to that. What is this called?[Options: Torchlight, Beacon, PageRank] Q8. Gorilla Glass the trademark for an alkali-aluminosilicate sheet glass is manufactured by which U.S. glass maker? Q9. Which operating sy...

1 . Justin Frankel created which media software? 2 .Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion are all versions of which famous OS? 3. Which famous utility was started by Drew Houston, the idea for which he conceived while at MIT? 4 .ID – 5 .He has been heading Cisco since 1995? 6. Octane is a web test to test which component? 7. Which company’s ad campaign is this? 8. Which famous software suite was originally created by StarOffice? 9 – Sabeer Bhatia’s ‘SabseBolo’ acquired this company recently? 10.ID – 11. Who succeeded Louis V Gerstner &  preceded  Virginia Rometty? 12. Cruzer & Sansa are products by which company? 13. ID the gaming franchise – 14. Series 40 is a mobile OS by which company? 15 . ID – CEO of RedBus 16 .Which company, well known in the field of gaming, in collaboration with New Line Cinema creates games based on movies (Recently on an alien franchise )? 17 . Which company was founded by John Bullough Lansing? 18 . Which company has a tagline – ‘Connecting the World ...

1.The Dylan programming language belongs to which company? 2.Which company was originally founded as an in house technology unit of Dun and Bradstreet in 1994 by Kumar Mahadeva whose headquarter is at Teaneck,New Jersey ? 3.In computing which term refers to 'data that a reader can follow or that is followed automatically'? 4.Identify. 5.Who made the first web browser in th e year 1990? 6.Which was the first tab to have Jelly Bean on board? 7.Its business and government customers consisted mainly of wireless voice and broadband systems (used to build private networks), and, public safety communications systems like Astro and Dimetra.Which company is being talked about here? ( hint: Niel Armtrong said those famous words  used the device of this company on moon) 8.Identify. 9.Name the diagnostic utility included in MS-DOS   and   Windows 9x which checks and repairs   file systems   errors on a disk drive. 1   10.Which company's f irst products were "JetMate...

1.What was found at Stanford Research Istitute and incorporated into the iOS? 2.Identify the operating system. 3.Who is the author of the book "Only the paranoid survive"? 4.Godrej and Olympia are the sole manufacturers of which device in this world?(hint:it can be mostly found outside court rooms) 5.Which game made the writer Sam Lake or Sami Jarvi famous? 6.How is Multitech better known in this world? 7.Who manufactures the 'Me' range of laptops? 8.Name the two Seans behind Napster. 9.Identify the game. 10.This is an ad campaign for what? 11.This is an ad campaign for what?(hint:Think about the three dots)  12.Name the famous software from Cowpland Research Limited. 13.Who owns DoubleClick and Motorola Mobility? 14.Identify. 15.Who is the father of "Free Software Movement" ? 16.What is the process of adding a location of a Image,Media file Documents etc.(options:Metatagging , Geotagging) 17.It is a framework which won the Jolt productivity award and JAX i...

After evaluating 47 entries, we got our champion... Rocker Quizzer- Sanchit Bansal. His score was 31/34. Congratulations Sanchit..:) Rewards- Sanchit has been added as the Author of Tech Tac Toe for the month of October 2012. He will also be rewarded with a Special Archive for preparation of upcoming quizzes. Tech Tac Toe

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PRELIMS 1.How many bits constitute a byte? 2.What in this world uses MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 digital compression technology and is transmitted using INSAT 4A at 83 degrees E ? 3.What is the full form of COBOL? 4.Grace Murray Hooper wrote the first_____ in 1952?(options:bug,compiler,BIOS) 5.What is Google's headquarters at Mountain View , California known as? 6.For which device did Apple make it's Newton OS for? 7.Who is this very famous Indian? 8.Connect SPSS , LEXMARK , Pwc and the sale of Thinkpad in 2005. 9.What was created in the dorm room of Chris Hughes,Eduardo Saverin,Dustin Moskovitz and Andrew Mccolum? 10.Identify. 11. X was officially launched on MTV on May 12 , 2005.The detailed launch and game information divulged later that month at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.What is X ? 12. Which former Google executive was hired by Yahoo to take up their Chief Executive Officer Post? 13.Identify this popular game. 14.Which brand in this world created the Whispernet for its trade...