iquiz 2015 prelims

iQUIZ 2015 Prelims AnswersSKCH | CBSE

Rules22 questions* questions to decide tiesTop 6 teams qualify for finals

Which product?

ThoughtNet is a premier provider of technology products and solutions in the area of education and development. Founded in June 2008, ThoughtNet started with a dream of taking technology closer to people to make a difference in their daily life experience. ThoughtNet has reached over 100 Institutions in over 8 countries including India. It touches over 70,000 students on a daily basis. It is functional in various kinds of Institutions from Kindergarten, K-12, Colleges, University to Educational Board of CBSE enabling various processes in education.What is the name of ThoughtNet’s flagship technology product?

Q1

Pupilpod

Google CEO?

Who is the new CEO of Google? Give me the full name.

Q2

Sundar Pichai

This is Jen Taylor. Where would you have heard her voice?

*Q3

Voice of Cortana

Expand MMORPG.

Club Penguin, World Of Warcraft, RuneScape and other similar games are called MMORPGs because they are usually web browser-based games, in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a world.

Q4

Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game

Which product and by whom?

Q5

Apple Pencil

ID this application.

X is a visual programming language. It can be accessed as a free desktop and online multimedia authoring tool that can be used by students, scholars, teachers, and parents to easily create games and provide a stepping stone to the more advanced world of computer programming.The MIT Media Lab's Lifelong Kindergarten group, developed the first desktop-only version of X in 2003. Since 2007, projects could be shared online with other users and the shared projects could be "remixed" (i.e. saved with changes) by other users.

Q6

Scratch

Formulas for what?

*Q7

Temple Run Scoring Formula

What phrase?

What phrase if you type on Google will give this number as the first result: 1.6699016 x 10^-8 Hertz

*Q8

Once in a blue moon

ID the logo.

Q9

OYO Rooms

Which websites?

In the top 10 websites of the Alexa traffic ranking, only two are not American. Which two Chinese websites occupy positions in this list? Part points are up for grabs.

*Q10

Baidu

Tencent QQ

Taobao

What symbol is being explained here?

X is a symbol indicating that a control activates or deactivates a particular device. It incorporates line and circle figures, with the arrangement informed by the function of the control.X was the result of the logical evolution of a simple user interface, with most early power controls being simple switches that were toggled between two states demarcated by the words On and Off. As technology became more ubiquitous though, the English words were replaced by the universal numeral symbols 1 and 0 to bypass any possible language barriers. These symbols were later superimposed to form the X symbol which is universally recognized.

*Q11

Power symbol

Which website?

This website was founded by University of Virginia roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005. It is an entertainment, social networking, and news website where registered community members can submit content, such as text posts or direct links, making it essentially an online bulletin board system. This website’s slogan is “The front page of the internet”.Their mascot is an alien named ‘Snoo’.

Q12

Reddit

Ad by whom?

*Q13

BitTorrent

Which company?

This Chinese smartphone manufacturer was founded on 16 December 2013 by former Oppo Vice President Pete Lau and Carl Pei. They have manufactured only 3 phones till date.The company’s phones initially came with the CyanogenMod OS but current phones run OxygenOS, which is specially designed by this company.

Q14

OnePlus

Explain the significance of the arrow.

Q15

Everything from A-Z

Which company?

X is a multinational IT service, consulting and business solutions company which operates in 46 companies. X is now placed among the ‘Big 4’ most valuable IT services brands worldwide. X is the title sponsor for Amsterdam Marathon and New York City Marathon and one of the sponsors of Berlin Marathon, Chicago Marathon, Boston Marathon, Mumbai Marathon. In India, it is the title sponsor of World 10K held in Bangalore every year.

Q16

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Meme depicting what?

*Q17

WinZip / WinRAR

WOTY 2015?

Oxford Dictionaries, was among the first institutions to have a Word of the Year. Every year, candidates for Word of the Year are debated and one is eventually chosen that is judged to reflect the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of that particular year and to have lasting potential as a word of cultural significance.Which ‘word’ was the Word of the Year for 2015?

*Q18

Laughing Emoji

ID the organization.

Q19

Anonymous

Which company?

X is a Taiwanese multinational computer hardware and electronics company headquartered. It was founded in Taipei in 1989 by T.H. Tung, Ted Hsu, Wayne Hsieh and M.T. Liao. It gets its name from the winged horse of Greek mythology. Only the last four letters of the word were used in order to give the name a high position in alphabetical listings.Its current tagline is “In Search of Incredible.”

Q20

Asus

What is the name of the Twitter bird?

Q21

Larry

Which app?

One day, people from the VIA association, part of the X free-open-source project came back drunk with a traffic cone. They then began a cone collection.So later one day, the X project was done and they decided to use the cone as their logo.

Q22

VLC

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