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 ?

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* 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 ?

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* 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 ?

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* 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

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* 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