The 3rd quiz

a)According to the US Department of Defense, what is the world’s oldest software piracy ring on the internet?

b)When X received a mail from DreamWorks SKG regarding the illegal reproduction of Shrek 2, they
replied in the following manner:
As you may or may not be aware, Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a
country in northern Europe. Unless you figured it out by now, US law does not apply here. For your
information, no Swedish law is being violated. Please be assured that any further contact with us,
regardless of medium, will result in
i) a suit being filed for harassment
ii) a formal complaint lodged with the bar of your legal counsel, for sending frivolous legal threats.
It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are ……. morons, and that you should please go
sodomize yourself with retractable batons. Please also note that your e-mail and letter will be
published in full on [X’s website].
Go fuck yourself.
Simply identify X.

c)Automattic recently released a set of plugins to provide self-hosted WordPress blogs all the
features available on WordPress.com. What is the name given to the collection?

d)X was released in 1998 as the first game of the series with 3D graphics to universally high critical
acclaim, receiving perfect scores from IGN and Gamespot. It introduced revolutions in gaming, such
as a target lock system and context-sensitive buttons that changed the gaming industry forever. It
has, since then, been re-released a number of times and still enjoys reputation as a classic. One of
the major points of acclaim was its innovative use of music. What is X? (Be specific)

e)Name the inventor of the Lisp programming language who is also credited with coining the term ‘Artificial Intelligence’.

f)Name the Taiwanese company that produces the iPod, the iPad, the iPhone and branded motherboards for Intel Corp.

g)Which unique PS3 game won the award for artistic achievement at BAFTA(British Academy of Film and Television Arts) in 2008?

h)The Princeton University statistician John W Tukey coined the term ‘bit’, an abbreviation of ‘binary digit’, and another very famous word which has become a part of everyday usage. Identify the word.

i)What is ‘Batman factor’?

j)What is Tetris effect?

k)What is Onion routing?

This quiz has not come from an archive but, maybe you will find some of the questions in archives.
Please give your answers as a comment or send a mail at technohol@live.com for the answers.

Finally, if you found this quiz hard I would go Buhuhahahaha
else,DAMN

The Code Breakers

DPS Vasant Kunj has been giving us CODE WARS for quite some time now. These are a few questions that have been asked.

a)Intel introduced 286, 386, 486. Then why was the 586 renamed Pentium?

b)I have worked for the San Diego Supercomputer Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory, FBI, Air Force and the NSA.

I tracked down Kevin Mitnick in 1994. Who am I?

c)Kevin D Mitnick – Hacker and phreaker, served five years. Widely considered the ‘most famous hacker in history’.

Broke into Digital Equipment Corp, Motorola, Nokia, Fujitsu, Novell, NEC, Sun Microsystems, the University of Southern

California, the Well and Colorado SuperNet, just to name a few. What nickname did he use?

d)In the 1960s, Honeywell, Burroughs, General Electric, RCA, NCR, Sperry Rand and Control Data Corp were the smaller

companies competing with IBM. What popular nickname was used to refer to these companies?

e)Which company is ‘Shaping the Digital World’?

f)Which company makes CoCoPod?

g)This was invented by David Bradley and is known as the ‘three-finger-salute’. What am I talking about?

h)The literal translation means ‘Humanity to others’. What am I talking about?

i)What did Tim Berners-Lee start while working at the CERN?

j) What is Bjarne Stroustrup’s claim to fame?

k)What is India’s DVD region code?

l)The Chinese call it a little mouse, Danes and Swedes an elephant’s trunk, Germans a spider monkey, Italians a snail and Israelis pronounces it as strudels. What am I talking about?

m)Which country recently made 1 Mbps internet connections a fundamental right?

n)What is ‘heuristic detection’ in the context of anti-virus software?

o)In which South Park episode does Blizzard Entertainment play an important role – both on and off screen?

p)What is ‘Google Goggles’?

q)This book is published by a company called BreadPig (founded by Alexis Ohanian in 2007), that aims to use donate all its profits from sales of ‘geeky things’ to charity. The author of the book has a hobby of kite photography.Which book?

r)What office productivity suite is bundled by default in Ubuntu releases?

All of the archives available have been put in a virus free zip(Norton Certified) and can be downloaded from quiz archives

How to get Windows 8

For those who don’t want to spend their hard-earned money on Windows 8 here is a way to experiment with it for free

Windows 8 is available on the Microsoft website

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229516

You can mount the ISO in Windows 7 itself and upgrade directly to Windows 8.

You can also burn the ISO file to a DVD and use it to install Windows 8 onto your Computer.

The installation process is very simple, all you have to do is keep clicking next at each question.

IMP:After installation you’ll see a start screen where you get to choose the OS  you want to boot into.Windows 8 Developer preview is usually set as the default.

Finally when you have finished messing with the OS and done enough experimentation, you may decide to uninstall Windows 8 and get back Windows 7.

All you have to do is boot into the OS of your choice and delete the Windows 8 partition.In Windows 7, you press the start  button, search for disk management and delete the partition from there.

The 2nd Quiz

The 2nd Quiz will  be difficult.

A)Who said this famous quote: ‘Technology has the shelf life of a banana’?

B)Who is associated with this emoticon: (0-0)?

C)Who wrote ‘The Art of Computer Programming’?

D)Which company is the largest producer of digital cameras?

D)What is the Nokia netbook called?

E)Why ‘Lisa’ is named so?

F)Which company manufactures the Satellite and Qosmio series of notebooks?

G)Which hacker group hacked into BARC?

H)What is the name of the 64bit microprocessor, codenamed Merced, from Intel?

I)Who invented the Ethernet?

J)What is Bill Gate’s daughter’s name?

K)Expand DMRCA?

L)What is Lindows

M)What is Vanderpool?

N)What are black hole lists?

O)Groups.google.com borrows most of its functionality from a site which Google acquired. Which site am I talking about?

P)What goes ‘TMZ’ in the gossip blog TMZ.com stand for?

Q)What is a ‘Codie’?

R)Where is the controversial ‘No Russian’ chapter of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 set?

S)Who is the inventor of the mouse?

T)What is the name of the portable music device made by Microsoft?

U)What is virtual memory?

V)What is the meaning of a ‘solid state’ device?

W)What is HT in P4HT?

X)Why was the Céline Dion CD, A New Day Has Come, so controversial?

Y)What is DB2 and which company makes it?

And this brings us to the last alphabet Z

Z)State Moore’s law.

Archive:The DPS Tech mega archive(Please refer to quiz archives)

The 1st Quiz

I’M BACK

Back with the first few quiz questions and an archive.

SECTION 1 (FOUNDERS AND CEOS)

a)Who were the founders of Apple?

OK, That was easy.

b)Who founded XEROX?

c)Who founded Xkcd?

d)Who were the founders of Asus?

e)Who is the CEO of Akamai Technologies?

f)Who is the CEO of EA Sports?

SECTION 2 (CODEBREAKERS)

a)What is the codename of WordPress 2.0

b)Which is the latest version of Ubuntu?

c)Latest version of firefox and it’s codename?

d)What was codenamed Microsoft Project Argo?

e)What was Project Natal?

SECTION 3 (Who’s who)

a) 

b)

c)

d)

SECTION 4 (FULL FORMS)

a)FLOPS

b)VIRUS

c)IMEI

d)GNU

e)PHP

f)WINE

g)Try and connect the d),e) & f) part.

h)CAPTCHA

SECTION 5 (IDENTIFY THE LOGOS)

a)

b)

c)

d)

SECTION 6-(SIMPLE QUESTIONS)

a)Who coined the term ‘FPS’?

b)Who was the TIME Man of the year 1982?

c)Which was the first registered domain name on the Internet?

d)Sun Microsystems and Intel have their headquarters at a common place. Name this place.

e)Which software is the poor man’s Photoshop?

f)Which country has recently made Internet Access a fundamental right?

SECTION 7 (STORY QUESTIONS)

a)I was developed by two PHD Students from Standford. My name actually originated

from a wrong spelling that actually meant a number represented by a ‘1(one)’ followed by

‘one-hundred zeroes.’ I have recently launched something similar to the Internet Explorer.

b)According to research by professors at the La Sapienza in Rome, the formula for what

can be represented as “estimate of time (log v/phi X log squared 1/phi)” where ‘v’ stands

for number of vertices of communication and ‘phi’ stands for conductance.

c)Which famous studio has launched the ‘DVD2Blu’ program which ofers customers an

opportunity to send in a DVD copy of a movie and receive back from the studio a Blu-ray

version?

All of these and lots more can be found in Vidit Bhargava’s ‘The Ultimate Quizzer’s Guide to Technology’  which can be downloaded from my quiz archives(hopefully) or from http://gyaan.in/discussion/comment/15883#Comment_15883

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