IT Quiz 146

Try to answer these questions and leave it in the comments 

1.What sign is this  in the internet world ?

2.If t.co is for Twitter, what is a.co for ?

3.X was a business partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen that existed in the 1970s. The objective was to read the raw data from roadway traffic counters and create reports for traffic engineers. The company had only modest success but the experience was important in the creation of Microsoft a few years later.What is X ?

4.
* X  is a Vietnamese independent video game developer founded in 2012.The company is best known for developing the 2013 mobile game Y which was released in May 2013 but received a sudden rise in popularity in early 2014.

* Few other games from X are Ninja: Assault (2013) , Shuriken Block (2013) , Droplet Shuffle (2013) and Smashing Kitty (2013)

Give X & Y


5.Old logo of which company ?

6.
* X began life as a video dating site dubbed "Tune In Hook Up," said to be influenced by HotorNot. The founding trio ultimately decided not to go that route.

* The inspiration for X  as we know it today is credited to two different events. The first was Karim's inability to find footage online of Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction," and the second when the other duo were unable to share video footage of a dinner party due to e-mail attachment limitations.

What is X ?

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7.This is the first web banner ad, this is from whom ?

8.
* The term X  was coined in 1965  by Ted Nelson at the start of Project Xanadu. Nelson had been inspired by "As We May Think", a popular 1945 essay by Vannevar Bush.

* In the essay, Bush described a microfilm-based machine (the Memex) in which one could link any two pages of information into a "trail" of related information, and then scroll back and forth among pages in a trail as if they were on a single microfilm reel, and thus the term X

What is X?

9.Identify this person

10.
* X is the world's largest long-distance ridesharing community.Conceived in December 2003 by Frédéric Mazzella, and founded in 2006.

* Mazzella first came up with the idea in 2003 while trying to travel home for Christmas, during which he observed many empty car seats available but no way to access them.

What is X ?


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IT Quiz 145

Try to answer these questions and leave it in the comments

1.In computing, X is a mapping from some domain (for example, a range of integers) to bits, that is, values which are zero or one. It is also called a bit array or X index.What is X ?
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2.Simon Oxley designed the it as part of a usual routine of cranking out images for iStock. GitHub saw it, and wanted it, presumably under the notion that it can represent how complex code combines to create peculiar things, much like it except the CEO of GitHub called it an X, and it has been the X since.What is X ?

3.Developer logo of what ?

4.Samsung changed it recently for its new devices Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus.The company collaborated with Jacob Collier, a Grammy Award-winning artist, to showcase a fresh new take on it.What is it ?

5.A X is a class of being in Norse mythology and Scandinavian folklore. In Old Norse sources, beings described as X dwell in isolated rocks, mountains, or caves, live together in small family units, and are rarely helpful to human beings.The Old Norse nouns X has various meanings  'fiend, demon, werewolf etc.Internet slang, a X is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting messaged in internet community.How do we know X in the Internet world ?

6.What prize is this ?

7.Which Data Science company founded by Anthony Goldbloom in 2010 was acquired by Google on 8 March 2017 to join their Google Cloud team and continue to be a distinct brand ?

8.Logo of which organization ?

9.which term is used by home stereo listeners, audiophiles and home audio enthusiasts to refer to high-quality reproduction of sound to distinguish it from the lower quality sound produced by inexpensive audio equipment, or the inferior quality of sound reproduction that can be heard in recordings ?

10.The history of the X  began with Eugene F. Lally of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who was thinking about how to use a mosaic photosensor to capture images.His 1961 idea was to take pictures of the planets and stars while travelling through space to give information about the astronauts' position.Steven Sasson invented the first X at Eastman Kodak in 1975.What is X?


Answers (Updated on 11th April 2017)

1.Bitmap

2.Octocat

3.Android O

4.Over the Horizon (default ringtone of Samsung phones)

5.Troll

6.TED Prize

7.Kaggle

8.IAMAI (Internet And Mobile Association of India)

9.Hi-Fi

10.Digital Camera

IT Quiz 143

1.Identify this man who is known as the father of iPod

Ans.Tony Fadell
2.The first X was allegedly written for the original IBM PC by John Socha. Decades before the first computers using this technology were invented, Robert A. Heinlein gave an example of how they might be used in his novel Stranger In A Strange Land (1961).It was initially designed to prevent phosphor burn-in on CRT and plasma monitors.What is X ?
Ans:Screensaver
3.In 1993 Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich, friends since their school days and by then working together to develop search software, invented the word "X" to describe their search technologies. The name initially stood for "Yet Another indexer".What is X ?
Ans:Yandex
4.New logo of ?

Ans:Logitech
5.X were initially used by Japanese mobile operators, NTT DoCoMo, au, and SoftBank Mobile (formerly Vodafone).The first X was created in 1998 or 1999 in Japan by Shigetaka Kurita, who was part of the team working on NTT DoCoMo's i-mode mobile Internet platform.He took inspiration for it from weather forecasts,Chinese characters and street signs. What is X ?
Ans:Emoji
6.Identify this person

Ans:Pavel Durov (Founder of VK & Telegram messenger)
7.Which Mumbai based online cabs service was started by Neeraj Gupta on 2007
Ans:Meru
8.It is a security software company created by Kailash Katkar in 1993 as "CAT Computer Services (P) Ltd".The slogan of this software is "Security Simplified". Which company/software ?
Ans:Quickheal
9.X was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His goal in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews from a variety of critics in the U.S."The first movie whose reviews were featured on X was "Your Friends & Neighbors".Identify X ?
Ans:Rotten Tomatoes
10.Identify this person

Ans:C Vijayakumar (CEO of HCL)

IT Quiz 142

1.Who introduced this app ?

Ans:ISIS
2.Which company's debut game was Gunshine.net ? The company was acquired by Tencent recently
Ans:Supercell
3.The company was formed in 2010 by Keyhole, Inc. founder John Hanke as X an internal startup within Google, before it was spun out of Google as an independent entity in October 2015.The company took its name from the whaling vessel X, which came to San Francisco during the California Gold Rush.Their first Augmented reality game was Ingress.What is X ?
Ans:Niantic
4.Identify this logo/company

Ans:Seagate
5.Microsoft :: Cortana  , Apple ::Siri  , Facebook :: ?
Ans:Facebook M
6.Which is the instant messaging app developed by Google and announced at Google I/O on May 18 2016 which has a feature called 'Whisper Shout'?
Ans:Google Allo
7.This is Alexey Moiseenkov.Which app did he develop ?

Ans:Prisma
8.It is widely accepted that the first X was put into use by Barclays Bank in its Enfield Town branch in north London, United Kingdom, on 27 June 1967.IT was inaugurated by English comedy actor Reg Varney.This instance of the invention is credited to the engineering team  of printing firm De La Rue.What is X ?
Ans:ATM
9.We all heave heard about MMI codes in phone network.What does MMI stands for ?
Ans:Man Machine Interface
10.Identify the logo

Ans:Sailfish OS

TCS IT Wiz 2016 Kolkata Prelims

Hi friends , here we are presenting the TCS IT Wiz 2016 Kolkata prelims . We 
have our sincere thanks and wishes to Praneet Shekhar, winner of TCS IT Wiz 
2016 Kolkata Edition for sharing the questions with us

1.Identify the logo

Ans:Buyhatke
2.Which company used to have its headquarters at ‘100 Disk Drive’?
Ans:Seagate
3.Give his name/company he heads

Ans:Abidali Neemuchwala(CEO of Wipro)
4.He was attacked by penguins in his childhood and was always haunted by them. He said that he suffered from ‘Penguinitis’. Who?
Ans:Linus Torvalds
5.Which basketballer who spent almost 20 years at the LA Lakers was one of the key advisors and testers for the creation of the Apple Watch,especially the fitness aspects of it?
Ans:Kobe Bryant
6.Identify

Ans:Bethesda
7.Who authored this book ?

Ans:Steve Case
8.A ____ is a vehicle that physically carries a computer with storage between remote locations to effectively create a data communication link. It is a special case of a sneakernet, where the data is automatically loaded and unloaded when it arrives at its terminal locations.
Ans:Data Mule
9.Which company came up with an April Fool’s Prank announcing that it had created an actual “Ghostbusters Proton Pack”?
Ans:Sony
10.Which company designed a projector with a specially dedicated ‘Football mode’?
Ans:BenQ
11.Which early Intel innovator later went on to become a part of AMD as a part of an acquistion deal of startup NexGen which was working on a Pentium competitor?
Ans:Vinod Dham
12.Which company resulted out of a communication problem between a couple at the Stanford University due to some protocol issue?
Ans:Cisco
13.Florian Caps tried to revive which great early technology for something ‘Instant’?
Ans:Polaroid
14.They are Vivek Prabhakar and Shubhra Chadda.Which company did they start for selling souvenirs to foreign visitors in India?

Ans:Chumbak.com
15.Identify him [hint:He is the creator of RSS feeds]

Ans:Ramanathan V Guha
16.What is intended to celebrate holidays, events, achievements and people and was designed to notify users of the absence of the creators in case the servers crashed?
Ans:Google Doodles
17.Whose tweet ?

Ans:Jack Dorsey
18._____ is a concept in software engineering and computer science where computing is made to appear anytime and everywhere. In contrast to desktop computing, It can occur using any device, in any location, and in any format.
Ans:Ubiquitous Computing
19.Logo of which reverse image search engine?

Ans:TinEye
20.Which company has an in-house software called Marionette which refers to puppets controlled by strings?
Ans:Pixar

TCS IT Wiz 2016 Bhubaneswar Prelims

Hi friends , here we are presenting the TCS IT Wiz 2016 Bhubaneswar prelims . We have our sincere thanks and wishes to Sampriti Panda, winner of TCS IT Wiz 2016 Bhubaneswar Edition

1.Which is the second city that is going to get free-wifi in it’s railway station after Mumbai?
Ans:Bhubaneswar
2.Which app was founded by Sean Rad in 2012, whose basic concept was swipe right for liking something, and swiping left to skip.
Ans:Tinder
3.Previously known as Leshi Internet Information & Technology, it is engaged in myriad of businesses, spanning from Internet TV, video production and distribution, smart gadgets and large-screen applications to e-commerce, eco-agriculture and Internet-linked electric cars,
Ans:LeEco
4.Identify the company

Ans:Lyft
5.The first-generation Zune device was created by X in close cooperation with Toshiba, which took the design of the Gigabeat S and redeveloped it under the name Toshiba 1089 as registered with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) starting in 2006.What is X ?
Ans:Microsoft
6.X was a semiconductor technology corporation based in Markham, Ontario, Canada, that specialized in the development of graphics processing units and chipsets. Founded in 1985 as Array Technology Inc., the company listed publicly in 1993. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) acquired X in 2006.Identify X
Ans:ATI
7.Buddy is a mobile wallet launched by which bank?
Ans:State Bank of India
8.A word that is referred to services offered by Dropbox, Evernote, etc. where they give it to you free for a while and then charge a premium
Ans:Freemium
9.Launched on October 1, 2003, its boards were originally used for posting pictures and discussing manga and anime, as the site was modeled on Japanese imageboards.
Ans:4chan
10.What project from Nintendo was codenamed Revolution ?
Ans:Nintendo Wii
11.The Murty Classical Library of India, which publishes classics of Indian literature, was established through a $5.2 million gift from X?
Ans:Rohan Murty(Son of Narayana Murthy)
12.Unified Payments Interface is an architecture and a set of standard APIs to facilitate the next generation online immediate payments. It has been created by which corporation?
Ans:National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)
13.Identify this project/browser by Microsoft ?

Ans:Spartan
14.Which game ?

Ans:Donkey Kong
15.Which antivirus company has launched a browser called SafeZone?
Options:- Kaspersky, Avast, Mcafee
Ans:Avast
16.Which key does this ISO symbol refer to?

Ans:Escape Key
17.It is a multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. It’s logo consists of Three Horizontal Lines.Which company ?
Ans:Ericsson
18.What computer is related to this ?

Ans:Macintosh
19. <playstation controller case picture, “If this was jewelery, this is how you would protect it”>[the image was not available]
Ans:Playstation Controller
20.He has partnered up with a Dutch company, Spil games, to enter the mobile game scene. He is considered the father of modern video games
Ans:Nolan Bushnell

TCS IT Wiz 2016 Ahmedabad Prelims

Hi friends , here we are presenting the TCS IT Wiz 2016 Ahmedabad prelims . We have our sincere thanks and wishes to Maharsh Shah, runner-up of TCS IT Wiz 2016 Ahmedabad Edition


1.Which wallet service based on Ahmedabad started by Pramod Saxena is the first non-bank wallet approved by RBI ?
Ans:Oxigen Wallet
2.T9 is a typing technique used in old phones.What is the full form of T9 ?
Ans:Text on 9 Keys
3.He is the father of http , identify him

Ans:Ted Nelson
4.X is a South Korean memory semiconductor supplier of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips and flash memory chips.it was founded as Hyundai Electronic Industrial Co., Ltd. in 1983 and known as Hyundai Electronics.What is X ?
Ans:SK Hynix
5.This online store was started as 'Fabmall' by V S Sudhakar. Shahrukh Khan is an endorser.Which store ?
Ans:Bigbasket.com
6.Identify the logo

Ans:Tesla Motors
7.Who made the Amoeba OS [Hint: He is also the creator of Minix]

Ans:Andrew S Tannenbaum
8.This logo is also called the cute logo.It is designed after Homer Simpson and it is also created after the creator and a programming language. Which logo ?
Ans:Tux
9.Which company acquired Jaybird, an Utah based earphones manufacturer ?
Ans:Logitech
10.This is a file extension mainly used in web browsers.It was created by Compuserve in 1983.Which format ?
Ans:GIF Format
11.Which company introduced the 'Pinch to Zoom' feature to smartphones ?
Ans:Apple
12.X is a company which started by Nolan Bushnell and was named after a game called 'Go'.What is X ?
Ans:Atari
13.Which company's name means 'Three Oceans'. Because they want to spread their products across Pacific, Atlantic and Indian ocean?
Ans:Sanyo
14.Identify the company

Ans:Myspace
15.This Google doodle signifies what ?

Ans:This is the Google Doodle in Morse code
16.Who informally launched an initiative called 'Music Foundry' which allows users to upload their own music ?
Ans:Youtube
17.Which term was coined by Ben Hammersly which is a a portmanteau of "iPod" (a brand of media player) and "broadcast."
Ans:Podcast
18.Visicalc is the first form of this software, it was a killer app for the Apple computers.What software was this ?
Ans:Spreadsheet
19.The following is an image of debit card used to handle bitcoins.What are they called ?

Ans:Cryptocurrency
20.Identify him

Ans:Mike Lazaridis (Founder of RIM)

TCS IT Wiz 2015 Lucknow Prelims

Hi friends , here we are presenting the TCS IT Wiz 2015 Lucknow prelims . We have our sincere thanks and wishes to Siddhant Singh, winner of TCS IT Wiz 2015 Lucknow Edition

1.255 AM studios launched this Android app for a famous cultural and heritage event in Lucknow. Identify the event.

Ans:Lucknow Litfest
2.Susan Bennet, Jon Briggs , Karen Jacobsen all under the names Samantha, Daniel and Karen are famous for what?
Ans:Apple Siri Voices
3.Which app was known as Picaboo and was developed by Evan Spiegel? [Hint : Chat engine]
Ans:Snapchat
4.Which browser, developed by Norway-based Telenor, was started in 1994 and shares its name with a dramatic art form performed by singers?
Ans:Opera
5.This is a foldable form of something we use quite frequently in our life. What is this?

Ans:Battery
6.Which children’s television channel hosts all its content on nick.com and was previously known as Pinwheel?
Ans:Nickelodeon
7. This is the headquarters of a company based in Hangzhou, China. Which company? [Hint: When seen from above, it seems to form the Chinese letters for A and B]

Ans:Alibaba
8.Which movie shows robots as sentient beings which come back in the 21st century to control humans?
Ans:The Matrix
9.Which movie, directed by David Fincher, starred the now-famous Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg and was about the development of Facebook?
Ans:The Social Network
10.'Jeh’ is a book by Bakhtiar J. Dadabhoy.About which founder of TCS , the book is about ?
Ans:J R D Tata
11.Identify this person. He is the co-founder of Napster

Ans:Sean Parker
12.We all know about Apple. What was Mango with respect to the world of mobiles?
Ans:Microsoft Windows Phone OS [Codename of the OS]
13.What is the missing name ?

Ans:Educomp
14.This is a very famous online store. By what name was it previously known?

Ans: EA Store
15.Identify this DIY Virtual Reality set-up

Ans:Google Cardboard

*Share the missing questions in the comments if possible*

TCS IT Wiz 2015 Coimbatore Prelims

Hi friends , here we are presenting the TCS IT Wiz 2015 Coimbatore prelims . We have our sincere thanks and wishes to Prakash R who shared us the questions.


1.Identify the logo

Ans:OLA
2.  ____________ is a multinationalheadquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It was founded as Kyoto Ceramic Company,Limited  in 1959 by Kazuo Inamori and renamed in 1982 ?
Ans:Kyocera
3._________ is a Sanskrit word which may take either a three-dimensional in games or virtual worlds, or a two-dimensional form as an icon in Internet forums and other online communities 
Ans:Avatar
4.Whistler is the codename for which Microsoft product ?
Ans:Windows XP
5.Logo of ?

Ans:Blackberry
6.Which professional social networking site shows the following error message ?

 Ans:LinkedIn
7.Expand Paytm
Ans:Pay Through Mobile
8.Identify the Indian Mobile maker

 Ans:Micromax
9.Identify the logo (Hint:Owned by Yahoo)

Ans:Tumblr
10.TCUP is a Connected Universe Platform offering that accelerates the development and deployment of IOT applications for organizations across industries such as healthcare, insurance, and manufacturing. What does T stand for?
Ans:TCS
11.A poor woodcutter in the Arabian Nights who gains entrance to the treasure cave of the 40 thieves by saying the magic words "Open,Sesame!". Which Chineseonline giant gets the names name from it ?
Ans:Alibaba
12.Which online shopping site moved on to app-only business model where in customers can only buy and transact in their site through smartphones. It was acquired by Flipkart. 
Ans:Myntra
13.Logo of which entertainment channel 

Ans:Sony
14.Identify the company

Ans:Intel
15.Identify the gaming company

 Ans:EA
16.Which company was started as 'Western India Vegetable Products Ltd' ?
Ans:Wipro
17.Logo of which gaming company ?

Ans:King
18.The word is the combination of Quick & Education ..Which word ?
Ans:Wikipedia
19.The screen is made out of sapphire glass. Comes in three bands like Space Black Stainless Steel, Space Gray Aluminum and 18-Karat rose gold.What ?
Ans:Apple Watch
20.Identify the personality from United Kingdom

Ans:Charles Babbage