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