Techeez Quiz Prelims
Venue: Jaspal Kaur Public School
By Manmeet Singh and Pulkit Arora
Date: 5 November 2008
1. Name the major company that rejected a takeover bid by Microsoft recently.
Ans: Yahoo
2. Name the latest two graphic cards launched by NVIDIA.
Ans: GTX 260 and GTX 280
3. (*)The Intel India team in Bangalore recently designed a 6 core processor to be used in servers. What was this processor named?
Ans: Dunnington
4. Which operating system is the successor to Windows Vista, to be launched in 2009?
Ans: Windows 7
5. What resolution is referred to as “Full HD”?
Ans: 1920×1080
6. (*)HP is the owner of which Gaming PC manufacturer?
Ans: Voodoo
7. World’s most photorealistic game.
(Hint: This game is so heavy on resources, it makes computers CRY)
Ans: Crysis
8. Which company uses the tagline “Yours is here”?
Ans: Dell
9. (*)What is the codename of Windows Mobile 7?
Ans: Photon
10. All present graphic cards use which port on the motherboard?
(Hint – Successor to AGP)
Ans: PCI Express
11. Which free internet radio service is promoted by Winamp?
Ans: Shoutcast
12. Which program is called the “Poor Man’s Photoshop”?
Ans: GIMP
13. MASTER of COOLING?
(Hint – Think Cabinets!)
Ans: Coolermaster
14. Our friend Doug showed off his invention in 1968, in the Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco. It’s a pivotal part of computers these days. Name the invention.
Ans: Computer Mouse
15. Who’s called “Father of Visual Basic”?
Ans: Alan Cooper
16. Who created JavaScript?
Ans: Brendan Eich
17. Write Full forms of:
- RIM – Research In Motion
- ARPANET – Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
- NASSCOM – National Association of Software and Services Companies
- CAPTCHA – Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart
- PERL – Practical Extraction and Report Language
18. How many Gigabytes are there in a Terabyte?
Ans: 1000
19. Sun Microsystems and Intel have their headquarters at a common location. Name this place.
Ans: Santa Clara
20. Name the CEOs of the following companies:
- Facebook – Mark Zuckerberg
- Oracle – Larry Ellison
- Apple – Steve Jobs
- Intel – Paul S Otellini
21. What is one unit of mouse movement called?
(Hint: A unit of mouse movement is 1/200th of an inch.)
Ans: Mickey
22. (*)Which is the successor to the current Leopard version of Mac OSX?
Ans: Snow Leopard
23. Name a desi internet search engine.
Ans: Guruji.com
24. Identify this logo.
Ans: Java
25. Name the thinnest notebook in the world.
Ans: MacBook Air
Thanks to Pulkit for this paper. It was an easy prelims set, mostly on basic current affairs stuff. We qualified for the finals and came 2nd.
Cheers
Prateek
5 responses to “Techeez Quiz Prelims at JKPS”
Ankur
May 14th, 2009 at 00:42
But you were marvellous in Techeez. I was competitor too and got qualified for finals. Alas! Lost still.
prateekv
May 16th, 2009 at 15:12
Thanks! No probs. I have also lost MANY quizzes 🙂 I know Aman from ur school, and hez a really good quizzer…
Ankur
May 14th, 2009 at 00:43
And wasn’t he Pulkit Arora, mate of Manmeet at JKPS. They both hosted the quiz I think.
prateekv
May 16th, 2009 at 15:10
Yes, the Quiz was hosted jointly by Manmeet and Pulkit 🙂
Gaurav
September 3rd, 2010 at 02:11
please update the thinnest latop
its dell adamo