Code Wars 2008 Quiz Prelims – Held at DPS Vasant Kunj
Tech Quiz
Date: 21 November 2008
1. * Decrypt this: “Bpqa qa vwb epib gwc bpqvs qb qa”
Ans: “This is not what you think it is”. The encryption system used here is ROT-8, not ROT-13.
2. What is the NASDAQ stock ticker symbol for Sun Microsystems?
Ans: JAVA
3. Of which US-based media organization is Microsoft the part owner of?
Ans: MSNBC
4. Who is the creator of eBay?
Ans: Pierre Omidayar
5. * One of the many nicknames that this person has is ‘Monkey Boy’. Who
is he / she?
Ans: Steve Ballmer
6. Digit magazine is owned by which company?
Ans: Nine Dot Nine Mediaworx
7. Connect: Dodgeball, Urchin, Jaiku, GrandCentral
Ans: All of these companies were acquired by Google. (Urchin was renamed as Google Analytics)
8. Name the web-based content management system software that is used
to run Wikipedia and many other similar wikis.
Ans: MediaWiki
9. For which operating system was Microsoft Office first released?
Ans: Mac OS
10. * Which company makes the processor for the Apple iPhone?
Ans: Samsung
11. * What is the name of Microsoft’s diagram and flowcharting software?
Ans: Visio
12. Name the GUI used on the OLPC XO laptop.
Ans: Sugar
13. Jelsoft Enterprises makes a product which is highly popular with web
developers. What is that product?
Ans: vBulletin (forum software)
14. * What was Yahoo! Widgets earlier known as?
Ans: Konfabulator
15. Glutamate Grape, Sugar-Free Radical, Beta Carroty, and Sero-Tonic
Water are different varieties of what?
Ans: Google Gulp flavors
16. Identify the person.
Ans: Sakina Arsiwala, International Manager of YouTube
17. Name Mozilla Labs’ new instant messaging project.
Ans: Snowl
18. What do you get when you multiply six by nine?
Ans: 42 (Forty-Two)
The sad part was we missed qualifying for the finals of this Quiz because we did not write 42 as the answer to the 18th question 😦 and then lost out to DPS Dwarka in the tie-breaker. Also made another big blunder, wrote Mac OS X instead of Mac OS for the 9th question and paid a heavy price. But Ankur did a great job for the finals (which was real tough!) and I enjoyed the quiz as audience.
Signing off,
Prateek
1 responses to “Code Wars 2008 DPSVK Tech Quiz Prelims”
Michael Leung
December 29th, 2008 at 18:53
That is interesting. But I don’t know the answers for most of questions