TCS Rural IT Quiz Nagpur 2014 Prelims

Hi Friends here we are presenting the TCS Rural IT Quiz Nagpur 2014 Prelims Questions.We have our sincere thanks and wishes to Dakshak Nagrale , winner of TCS Rural IT Quiz Nagpur 2014  for providing us the questions.

1.Kindle : Amazon :: Pi :?
Ans:Infibeam
2.WeRead, Mime360, Champak.com, etc. are acquisitions by whom?
Ans:Flipkart
3.Identify this game

Ans:Bomb Gaza
4.Identify her and the company associated

Ans:Ursula Burns ,Xerox
5.Garret camp is associated to what ?
Ans:Uber ( Well , he is associated to Stumbleupon too)
6.Identify this mascot [hint:Little Rice]

Ans:Xiaomi
7.Windows+Lumia . What ?
Ans:Nokia
8.It was going to be named as "Lotatron","semi conductor diode:, "crystal diode", but it was named something else by John Pierce. What are we talking about?
Ans:Transistor
9.Expand ENIAC
Ans:Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer
10.Which D2H provider broadcasts it’s signals using MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 digital compression technology, transmitting using INSAT 4A satellite at 83 degree east?
Ans:TataSky
11.Which Microsoft executive resigned recently ?
Ans:Steve Ballmer
12.Yahoo has partnered with which company to help Yahoo mail users to attach files easily and quickly?
Ans:Dropbox
13.Identify the advertiser

Ans:OLX
14.Which version of Android is this ?

Ans:Android Kitkat (4.4)
15.He is a technology innovator and entrepreneur, credited with creating the first camera phone solution sharing pictures instantly on public networks.Who is he ?
Ans:Philippe Kahn
16.Which programming language was called Project Green?
Ans:Java
17.Which internet giant now owns Oculus Rift ?
Ans:Facebook
18.Creator of this famous OS wanted to name it as “Freax”. What OS are we talking about?
Ans:Linux
19.“Connect with your friend” .On which site's homepage  you find this?
Ans:Twitter
20.Identify this logo

Ans:Snapchat

TCS IT Wiz 2014 Coimbatore Prelims

1.The company was founded by Chinnakannan Sivasankaran in 1999.Mary Kom is the brand ambassador of this company. Which company it this?
Ans:Aircel
2. X  is a component that transparently stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster . What is X ?
Ans:Cache
3.The name of the company is portmanteau of "Sky" and "Peer to Peer" . Which company ?
Ans:Skype
4.Fireworks , Shockwave  are all products from ?
Ans:Adobe
5.The term comes X comes from a word which means "darkened room" in Latin . Which term is X ?
Ans:Camera
6.It is known as Decision Engine , It powers Facebook . What is it ?
Ans:Bing
7."Think" is a inhouse employee magazine from which company ?
Ans:IBM
8.Natarajan Chandrasekharan is the CEO of which company ?
Ans:TCS
9.He was the TIME person of the year in 1999 and he now owns the Washington Post . Who are we talking about ?
Ans:Jeff Bezos
10.Bill&Dave chose the name  of the company by tossing a coin . Which company is this ?
Ans:HP
11.Who releases Viera range of gadgets ?
Ans:Panasonic
12.Elon Musk is the Chief Product Architect of which Electric Car Company ?
Ans:Tesla Motors
13.Which photo-sharing company was founded my Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger ?
Ans:Instagram
14.About which company Adam Cohen wrote the book "Perfect Store" ?
Ans:eBay
15.Puss in Boots is the version of which game ?
Ans:Fruit Ninja
16.Identify this person

Ans:Peter Thiel(Former ceo of Paypal)
17.Identify this logo

Ans:Flipboard
18.Identify this service

Ans:Blogger

N.B : The questions maybe wrongly framed . Suggest Edits 

TCS IT Wiz 2014 Kolkata Prelims

Hi Friends here we are presenting the TCS IT Wiz 2014 Kolkata Prelims Questions.We have our sincere thanks and wishes to Kautuk Raj who stood 7th in the TCS IT Wiz 2014 Kolkata for providing us the questions.


Cutoff : 14

1.Which Indian music company owned by the RPG group was formerly known as the "Gramophone Company of India" ?
Ans:Saregama
2.Expand MAC as in MAC address. 
Ans:Media Access Control
3.What was developed after Internet financial services company X.com acquired Confinity in 2000 ?
Ans:Paypal
4.Which programming language was developed by Yukihiro Matsumoto? [Hint : let the girl answer]
Ans:Ruby
5.Douglas Englebart called the _______ as "The Bug" but this term was not widely adopted. [Hint : You see it on your computer screens]
Ans:Cursor
6.News.com redirects to which news site? (Options : CNN CNET BBC) 
Ans:CNET
7.Which font's name means a weapon used by Romans which is a type of catapult that was used as a siege engine in the Middle Ages. [Hint : Starts with 'T']
Ans:Trebuchet
8.In CYMK group of colours, if C stands for Cyan, M for Magenta and Y for Yellow, then what does K stands for? 
Ans:Black
9.Koobface virus disabled plugins to run flash videos on which website? [Hint : Look at the name carefully]
Ans:Facebook
10.Social Soccer is an app by which compnay? 
Ans:TCS
11.It is a book on which Microsoft CEO ?

Ans:Steve Ballmer
12.The ____________ are eight men who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1957. FITB. 
Ans:Traitorous eight 
13.Movies like The Karate Kid, The Da Vinci Code, The Pursuit of Happyness and more were made by Columbia Pictures. Which company owns it? [Hint : beverage company]
Ans:Coca cola [
[The answer was wrong .Sony Picture Entertainment bought it from Coca-Cola in September 28,1989]
14.Which company is named after a Buddhist deity? [Hint : Very famous in India] 
Ans:Canon
15.He has friends named Ben, Ginger, Angela and all. Who is he? [HInt : He talk too much]
Ans:Talking Tom Cat
16.What has been blanked out in this image ?

Ans:Dell
17.Identify this game

 Ans:Uncharted
18.Identify the person[Hint : He is the founder of a famous OS]

Ans:Linus Torvalds
19.These are service support centres in the showrooms of which company? 

 
 Ans:Apple
20.Identify this service

Ans:Chaton 

TCS IT Wiz 2014 Pune Prelims

Hi Friends here we are presenting the TCS IT Wiz 2014 Pune Prelims Questions.We have our sincere thanks and wishes to Dhananjay Katkar  (Winner of TCS IT Wiz 2014 Pune) who provided us the questions.



1.Which pune based organization has its director as Vijay Bhatkar ?
Ans:C-DAC
2.Which L.A NBA team is owned by Steve Ballmer ?
Ans:Los Angeles Clippers
3.It was founded in 1996 by American web entrepreneurs Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat. The company was named after a  largest repository of knowledge in the ancient world and the potential of the Internet to become a similar store of knowledge.What is it ?
Ans:Alexa
4.Which programming language developed by Guido Von Rossum ? [hint:It is named after a dangerous reptile]
Ans:Python
5..Charles W. Hull has created something that gave him European Inventor Award in 2014 . What was his creation which is also called additive technology?
Ans:3D Printing
6.Hidden Reflex is a company that creates web browser which is specific to India. Which web browser is it  ?
Ans:Epic
7.Which company is known in India associated  with Tata's for many years whose headquarters is at Santo Park Tower , Tokyo ?
Ans:NTT Docomo
8.It is the fear or dislike of advanced technology or complex devices, especially computers.What is it ?
Ans:Technophobia
9.Which app has the feature 'Reply yo Unlock' ?
Ans:Slingshot
10.Who wrote the book 'TCS Story and Beyond' ?
Ans:S Ramadorai
11.Two people in Karnataka  moved on from IT sector to be part of social servicing field . One of them was CFO in an IT firm who failed in the Lok Sabha election from Bangalore Central . Which person ?
Ans:V Balakrishna
12.What was created by Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah ?[hint:You may find it in vegetable market]
Ans:Zomato
13.Old norse word meaning candle or tourch . It means 'lighting a fire' . What am i talking about ?
Ans:Amazon Kindle
14.With whom do you associate from the world  of gaming to  'tribe.net' ?
Ans:Mark Pincus
15.It was started by Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy as a project for one of Spiegel's classes at Stanford University, where Spiegel was a product design major. Beginning under the name Picaboo. what is it ?
Ans:Snapchat
16.Brad Stone is writing the biography of a famous tech personality . Who is it ?
Ans: Jeff Bezos
17.'Soccer Bite' is a Polish game which became viral in the last two months . It is based on which personality ?
Ans:Luis Suarez
18.Identify the personality

Ans:Ajay Bhatt
19.Identify the logo

Ans:Dropbox
20.Identify this app , it has been viral among women

Ans:iRangoli

TCS IT Wiz 2014 Bangalore Prelims

1.Which famous tech giant's first Indian acquisition was Little Eye Labs, a Bangalore based company ?
Ans:Facebook
2.Mike Muss named it after the sound made by sonar's which were used in naval warfare techniques ?
Ans:Ping
3.It was first named Green but the name had to be changed because of copyright issues . The creator then named it after his favorite type of coffee. What ?
Ans:Java
4.Cheetah , Puma, Jaguar & Panther are all versions of what ?
Ans:Mac OS
5.What was launched by Apple as Local Integrated Software Architecture which was said to be named after Steve Job's daughter ?
Ans:LISA
6.Mime360 , WeRead , Chakpak.com & Letsbuy are all acquisitions of ?
Ans:Flipkart
7.The company is headquartered at 1 Infinite Loop , Cupertino , California . Which company ?
Ans:Apple
8.It was a multiplayer shooting game with the characters being Bill 'Mad Dog' Rizer and Lance 'Scorpion' Bean .  Which game ?
Ans:Contra
9.Eric Ly and Allen Blue were the co-founders of which company which have another 3 famous co-founders ? [hint:Networking Giant]
Ans:Linkedin
10.Who was the American activist who created RSS at his age of 14 ?
Ans:Aaron Swartz
11.The Atlas, created by University of Manchester was the world's first what ?
Ans:Supercomputer
12.Jyoti Basu, then the CM of West Bengal , called the Minister of Telecom, Sukh Ram, who was in Sanchar Bhavan ,Delhi at the time. This was the first instance of what in India ?
Ans:First cellphone call
13.Jawbone , Pebble, Neo and Fitbit are all types of what technology ?
Ans:Wearables
14.This 244 year old publications has decided to stop publishing and go completely online . Which one ? [hint:A quizzer's favorite reference guide]
Ans:Encyclopedia Brittanica
15.What in this world was created in a research lab by Xialong Zhang ? [hint:Ma Huateng]
Ans:Wechat
16.This book is about which company ?

Ans:Google
17.Identify the game

Ans:World of Warcraft
18.Identify the person [hint:A famous designer]

Ans:Jonathan Ive
19.Founder of which company ?

Ans:Pinterest (Ben Silberman)
20.This is the old logo of what ?

Ans:Firefox

Credits : Dork's Corner

TCS IT Wiz 2014 Ahmedabad Prelims

Hi Friends here we are presenting the TCS IT Wiz 2014 Ahmedabad Prelims Questions.We have our sincere thanks and wishes to Yash Sodha (participant of TCS IT Wiz 2014 Ahmedabad) who provided us the questions.

Cutoff : 15

1.Silvertouch technologies created something for the Gujarat government for  a Gujarat government initiative. What is it ?
Ans:Vibrant Gujarat
2.Ripple , Primecoin , Ethereum , dogecoin  are examples of ?
Ans:Cryptocurrency/Virtual Currency
3.Which company was started as Multitech corporation ?
Ans:Acer
4.It is a Linux open source operating system , it was released in October 2013. [hint: It starts with 'T']
Ans:Tizen
5.The iconic adoption of this keyboard combination has come from David Bradley, a designer of the Original IBM PC.It was chosen since it was nearly impossible to press this with one hand.What is the combination
Ans:Ctrl+Alt+Delete
6.It is the India's first virtual world , created by Godrej .What is it ? (Options : Khoj.com , Gojiyo.com , quickr.com)
Ans:Gojiyo.com
7.367 Addison Avenue, Palo Alto. Which company was started here ?
Ans:HP
8.Its IPO was $2718281##. The amount was so huge that they had to use 'e' for that. It is known for its geekiness. Identify the company.
Ans:Google
9.It was started by Reggie Brown and Evan Spiegel as a project for one of Spiegel's classes at Stanford University, where Spiegel was a product design major. It was started under the name 'Picaboo' . What is it ?
Ans:Snapchat
10.TCS helped a temple overcome the problem of huge crowds. For which South-Indian temple did they do so ?
Ans:Thirumala / Thirupathy temple
11.Toru Iwatani created this at Namco . What is it ?
Ans:Pacman
12.Six employees from Delhi Cloth Mills left the company and created a compnay . Which is the company they created ?
Ans:HCL
13.Julie Uhrman founded the project in 2012.If was formerly known asn BOXER8 . What is it ?
Ans:Ouya
14.Its name comes from its Stock logo. Often called by media as Mr. Softee.Which company ?
Ans:Microsoft
15.It is a commercial smartphone-based music identification service.It is also the name of a Marvel Superhero . What is it ?
Ans:Shazam
16.About which company this book is written ?

Ans:Amazon
17.Where would you find this ?

Ans:Templerun
18.Identify her , she is the CEO of Xerox

Ans:Usrula Burns
19. It is a free language learning service .(some more info were given)

Ans:Duolingo
20.Which Indian media company released 'Alive' app ?

Ans: Times of India

TCS IT Wiz 2014 Hyderabad Prelims

Hi Friends here we are presenting the TCS IT Wiz 2014 Hyderabad Prelims Questions.We have our sincere thanks and wishes to Lucky Kaul  (2nd Runner up of TCS IT Wiz 2014 Hyderabad) who provided us the questions.

Cutoff: 16

1.Who was the first chairman of TCS ?
Ans: J R D Tata
2.What is Universe of Blogs better known as ?
Ans:Blogosphere
3.Identify this logo

 Ans:Moodle
4.Expand Saas
Ans:Software as a Service
5.Who is regarded as the father of 'Pentium Chip' ?
Ans:Vinod Dham
6.Identify this person

Ans:Salman Khan(Khan Academy)
7.Which company's headquarters is located at '1 Hacker Way' ?
Ans:Facebook
8.What was Microsoft's first ever product had helped them get a lot of money?
Ans:MS DOS
9.Which social networking site was founded by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai ?
Ans: Foursquare
10..Which e-commerce website was launched through a provision in the 1999 Railway  Budget ?
Ans:IRCTC
11.US Dept of defense created a programming language after which pioneering lady in the same field in 1994. Who is she ?
Ans:Ada Lovelace 
12.Which British pioneer in the world of computing was ranked way ahead of Tim-Berners Lee who was at 99.[Hint:has an award and test named after him]
Ans:Alan Turing
13.Named 'Dragon' this spacecraft became the first ever commercial spacecraft to venture into the International Space Station .Which company would you associate 'Dragon' with? [hint:its a word and a letter]
Ans:SpaceX
14. Eugene,Natalya,Sachin Tendulkar & Jackie Chan . What is the connection ?
Ans:Kaspersky
15.Which is the most downloaded app on Google Play [Hint:Made by Google]
Ans:Gmail
16.Identify the person

Ans:Andy Grove
17.Identify the game [hint:the 'Super' game]

Ans:SuperMario 3D
18.Identify

Ans:World Wide Web Consortium
19.Who is being referred here?

Ans:Marissa Mayer
20.Who owns this entity now ?

Ans:Twitter

N.B : A special mention to Siddharth B Rao & Upamanyu Datta (Winners of TCS IT Wiz 2014 Hyderabad Winners) and Pranav Mihir K & Arjun S. Kallapur ( Runners up of 2014 Hyderabad)