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