Monday, November 06, 2006

FNQ-6

Recently I was pondering over the idea of changing the name of this series of quiz,as I hardly post every fortnight.None the less the sixth edition of FNQ is back.Its time to give the answers and scores

There were 30 replies in all

First the scores:
Srikanth Nori 9

Venkateswaran Vishwanathan 9

Ujjwal Kabra 8

Anirban Sen 7

Martin Johnson 7

Sangeeta Banerjee 7

Ameya Maroldkar 6

Rajiv Dsilva 6

Santanu Dey 6

Sheetal Koul 6

Prasoon Ranjan 6

Murali Dugginei 6

Debjit Gupta 6

McNeil Ivan Suresh 6

Pranav Agarwal 6

Nikhil Narayanan 5

Ritika S 5

Jacob Dijo 5

Rajimuth 5

Sadashiv 5

Rohit Jain 4

Ajay Parasuram 4

Chandan Sahi 3.5

Chanchal Pati 3

Anant Singhania 1

Debojyoti Adhikari 1

Srinidhi Rai 1

Prateek Vijayavargiya 1

Balaji Krishnan 1

Dushyant Mani



Send in your views to aniruddha_recdgp@yahoo.co.in within the next seven days

IT Quiz


1.While browsing the net you often encounter a Captcha.Can you tell me what a captcha is?

ans:It is an acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.
This test actually determines or confirmas that you are a human when you sign up or subscribe to services like mailing groups.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha


Many people got this one correct

2.What is Yahoo's webguide and search engine for kids called?

ans. Yahooligans!!

3.This mathematical term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman.Today it has given rise to something which has changed how the world seeks knowledge or information.Give me the word.

ans.Googol

It is not Google as many have answered.The name Google origianted from this word

4.What is the specific connection :US Government, Apple Macintosh, Linux, BSD and Microsoft ?

ans. They are all Google Special Searches

5.What extension (such as .com,.in,.org) does the proposed official website of the Board of Control for Cricket in India have?

ans. .tv

6. A9 is a search engine offered by which internet giant ?

ans.Amazon

7. What started in 1994 as a research project in the company called Telenor (Norway's largest Telecom company),and later became an independent softawre company named after its most famous suite of products in 1995.The company's name though means something unrelated to information technology

ans, Opera web browser

8. The first company to perhaps provide a wiki application to web users was recently taken over by Google.Name the company?

ans. JotSpot

9. Identify the gentleman on the extreme left getting down from the bus.

ans. Alan Turing



10.Identify the person,who must surely feature in any IT related quiz.
ans. Tim Bernes Lee.The inventor of world wide web.

Happy Quizzing! :-)

My first corporate quiz.....

Recently I attended a corporate quiz organised by BIM Trichy as part of their fest,in Chennai on the 4th of November.It was a realisation that I could no longer participate in a quiz as a college student...I seemed to have grown older a little......Things didn't go as well I had expected as we failed to qualify for the finals which included 6 teams

The quizmaster was Mr Giri "Pickbrain" balasubramanium.The questions were compiled by his Team Greycaps

There was a pleasant surprise in store for me as one of the questions in the prelims was based on the organisation I work for...For me it was the question of the day

The final round was nerve wracking and a closely fought one with SANMAR group bagging the top honours.They were followed by the brilliant Infosys team and the seasoned campaigners from Citibank,Sify,ICICI Lombard and WYSE technologies were the other teams vying for the honours...

Here are the question of the prelims...

1.Literally this surface to air missile means lightning in Hebrew. It was developed as a joint venture between Israel Aircrafts industries and RAFAEL. Identify the missile?

a. BARAK

2.Which retail giant is expected to enter India in early 2007 through the local partner RPG enterprises with Mumbai and Delhi being preferred location of its stores ?

a.StarBucks

3.The company was incorporated as BSKH plc in England in 1999. Its NYSE ticker is CGA. How do we know the company today?

a.Corus

4. Which sportsperson has recently become the director of a pharma company called db Bio Pharma India which is a joint venture with Invent Pharmaceuticals ,USA ?

a. Abhinav Bindra

5.Visual. Identify the person

a.KP Singh of DLF

6.Dialpad Communications Inc, Kelkoo SA and Ludicorp Research and Development Ltd. are all subsidiaries of which company ?

a.Yahoo

7. This company was founded in 1991 as Hughes Software Systems . It became Flextronics Software Systems in 2004.How do we know the company today ?

a.Aricent

8. If you are in the business of importing and exporting Beverly Hills, Cat’s Head, English Beauty, Lord Nelson etc. Which fruit are you doing business in ?

a. Apples

9.Visual. “Live without a plan”

a. Virgin Mobile

10.MagicBricks.com is a property portal launched by which company ?

a.Times group

11 Which company would you associate Tulsi Tanti, one of the top richest persons in India today ?

a. Suzlon

12.Divided into three categories ,the ______ awards are distributed every year by the Ministry of Labour, Government of India on the auspicious day of _______ puja. The awards are given to employees of industrial undertakings, mines, plantations and docks in recognition of their outstanding innovative contributions leading to improvement in productivity of their own area of work .Identify the award.

a.Viswakarma

13.Which organization’s primary slogan reads “The future of Britain”?

a.labour party

14.Visual. Identify the company from the logo/ mascot.

a. Monster.com

15.By what name do we know the group of professionals who calculate insurance risks and premiums and compute probability of occurrence of such events such as birth, marriage, illness , accident and death ?

a.Actuary

16.In 1776 this economist was appointed commissioner of customs of Scotland. His Essays on Philosophical subjects (1795) was published after his death. Identify?

a.Adam Smith

17.Which company owns Picasa,a software that helps find, edit and share pictures in a Computer ?

a.Google

18. Which company opened its Sahagunj plant this week thus bringing to life one of the oldest tyre plants in Asia. (Hint! Pawan Ruia is the chairman)

a.dunlop

19.This company was founded in 2005 by Steve Chen and Chad Hurley , after being frustrated by the difficulties of sharing video files. Initially it received funds from investment firm Sequoia Capital.It was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Identify the company ?

a.YouTube

20.Visual. Identify the company from the logo.

a.Worldspace

TIE_BREAKER questions

21Which Indian company is entering the US market with flavored and vitamin water under the brand Apple tree.

a.Bisleri

22.Indian Railways is planning to set up 100 budget hotels across the country under what brand name ?

a.Rail ratna

23.The newly formed marketing arm of Staachi and Staachi markets Sachin Tendulkar. Name it.

a.Iconix

24.Visual. Company logo

25. Visual . Company logo

a. Bell Ceramics

Sorry I cannot provide the visuals in the quiz