cyberlaxamana

1.What in the world of computers was initially designed to prevent phosphor burn-in on CRT and plasma computer monitors? Ans:Screen Saver 2.What do you call a person who spends a great deal of his time on computers ? Ans:Mouse Potato 3.What is this called? Ans:Blue Screen of Death 4.Which was the most used term on the internet in 2012? Ans:Hashtag ( # ) 5.Who are they ? Ans:MS Office Assistants  6.Identify her ? Ans:Virgina Rometty  7.Which company provided solutions for the New York Half marathon ? Ans:TCS 8.Who was the Times Person of the Year for the year 2006 ? Ans:You ( Reference to the millions of people contributing to the internet) 9.Identify the logo ? Ans:Dropbox 10.Which term is used to describe a computer security expert who uses hacking with ethical intentions like improving security of workstations ? Ans:White Hat Hacker 11.Identify Ans:Angry Birds - Star Wars

1.Whose Logo? 2. Expand SMTP. 3. How is Alex Oloitiptip, a citizen of Kenya related to TCS? 4. Name the technology encircled below.  5. Which content management system was started by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little? 6. Expand CERT. 7. The 'Flip' feature was introduced in which version of Internet Explorer? 8. Shown below is TubeTop an inflatable laptop. Whose April fool prank is this? 9. Identify him. 10. Which Taiwanese giant produces the 'Iconia' series of tablets? 11. Which Indian non-profit organization has started an initiative to back 10000 tech start-ups? 12. What in the world of technology marked its commencement with a video named 'Me at the Zoo'? 13. Which rule says that '90% of the participants of a community only view content, 9% of the participants edit content, and 1% of the participants actively create new content'? 14. Expand JPEG. 15. Introduced in 1992, IBM Simon was the first of its kind. What is being talked about? 16. NMDC and Ind...

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...

The Catechize-The IT Quiz finals were held on 1st August at 9:30pm ISD along with the FINALISTS  Here are the archives of the quiz. Hope you liked.

1. The 'Electronics Project Proposal System(e-PPS)', co-developed by The Department of Electronics and Information Technology and C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) was launched by which renowned personality? Ans- Kapil Sibal 2.  Which company in November,2012 partnered with Alaska Airlines and Kaggle offered $500,000 to data scientists, professionals or enthusiasts  who can accurately predict when a flight will land and arrive at the airport by the study of  data on weather, flight plans, air-traffic control and past flight performances? Ans- General Electric 3. Which French multinational received huge attention due to the CEO’s proposal of ‘Zero e-mail policy’- A ban on e-mail all through the organization? Ans- ATOS (CEO-Thierry Bretton)    4. Identify the logo-   Ans- Uncyclopaedia 5. Expand SSD. Ans- Solid State Drive 6. Identify this widely used locomotive device-   Ans- Segway  7. Expand DRM. Ans- Digital Rights Management...

1. Identify the logo- Ans- Microsoft Pixelsense. 2. Which web service headed by an Indian has the tagline "Present yourself"? Ans-Slideshare. 3. Which was the most searched Indian movie on Google in 2012? Ans-Ek tha tiger. 4. Expand mVOIP Ans-Mobile Video Over Internet Protocol. 5. Expand BOYD. Ans-Bring Your Own Device 6. Which term was coined by John Mc Carthy? Ans-Artificial Intelligence 7. Which popular comic strip by Scott Adams has been digitized and available online? Ans-Dilbert 8. Identify this eminent personality-   Ans-Som Mittal   9. Which brand of gadgets get their name from the unanimous black colour and keys which resemble seeds? Ans-Blackberry 10. Which technology is named after the stained teeth of King Harold Blatand? Ans-Bluetooth 11. Name this service-   Ans-Google Drive 12. Headed by Sam Pitroda it is an Indian think tank which looks over the possible policies related to education, research and reforms needed to make India competitive in the knowle...

Thanks for the splendid response. The results will be out today by midnight. Six top scorers qualify for the finals and the finals will be held on 1st August. Here are the answers to the Catechize-Prelims- 1. Kiip 2. Saul Bass 3. Flickr 4. Rotten Tomatoes 5. Deviant Art 6. WUBI(Windows based Ubuntu Installer) 7. Paula Scher 8. Mario PowerUps 9. TomTom 10. Retrogaming or Old house gaming 11. Amkette 12. Flipkart 13. Milky Way 14. Nvidia Shield 15. Sam Pitroda 16. Broadband 17. Flight Simulator 18. Intel 19. Library of Congress 20. Hedy Lamarr

1. Owned by Brain Wong, it is a mobile advertising network that enables brands and companies to prompt consumers for commercial offers on virtual achievement. Identify the company. 2. Identify him-   3. Which popular photo sharing social network was started by Stewart Butterfield? 4. It was started by Senh Doung in 1998 with a purpose to create a site where people can get access to reviews from variety of critics in the US. Identify it. 5.'Where art meets application' is the tagline of which social network? 6. Name this application- 7. Who designed the windows 8 logo? 8. What on earth are Tanooki suit and Fire flower? 9. Identify this location and navigation giant-   10. Which term describes the hobby of playing and collecting older personal computers, consoles and arcade video games? 11. Rajiv Bapna in 1984 started this company as 'Allied Electronics and Magnetics Limited' . How do we know this company today? 12. 'We Read' is a social boom discovery tool by wh...