TCS It Quiz 2018
TCS It Quiz 2018
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The Word
identity Search
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Tackle Combos
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1. Which famous programming language started as Project Green at Sun
Microsystems?
Python Java Lisp
2. Darrius, Mokap and Reiko are well known characters from which game series?
Mortal Kombat Raiden Scorpion
3. If ‘Only the Paranoid Survive’ is a book written by Andy Grove, who wrote ‘High
Output Management’?
4. Which famous social networking giant now owns Oculus Virtual Reality?
5. What is the name of the Microsoft technology which enables us to get the help
of multimedia without any delay?
Active X Direct X Flash
6. The creator of this famous operating system wanted to name his invention
‘Freax’. How do we know it today?
Minix Unix Linix
7. According to the Nintendo Style Guide, the name "is simply______, not Nintendo
_______." Fill in the blank?
Wii Xii Yii
10. Which game, developed by Jordan Mechner in 1989, found itself being first
launched on the Apple II computer before it went on to other gaming platforms?
Prince of Persia Age of Empires Mario
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11. Connect Weread, Mime360, Chapak.com, to a famous e-commerce website?
13. What is the name given to the main circuit board on which chips are mounted
on a personal computer?
Motherboard Sisterboard Daughterboard
14. Jimmy Wales, also known as Jimbo, is an American Internet entrepreneur best
known for being the founder of what?
Myspace Wikipedia Blogger
15, Which one word defines ‘collection of data duplicating original values stored
elsewhere or computed earlier, where the original data is expensive to fetch’?
System Memory Cache Memory Random Memory
18. Which computer language was developed by John Backus for IBM which was
said to be the first high level language?
Pascal Cobol Fortron
20. How do we know the wide area network created in 1969 funded by Advanced
Research Projects Agency?
ARPANET CDAC CIA
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21. Who founded the Free Software Foundation, a nonprofit organisation famous
for its copyleft initiative?
Richard Stallman Alan Kay John Warnock
23. Which product was developed at Stanford Research Institute and later
incorporated into iPhone 4s?
Siri Passbook Tomtom
24. Who has launched the Shield tablet specifically meant for gaming?
Nvidia Alienware Asus
27. Which country, for the first time, allowed its citizens to vote over the Internet in
their national election?
Vatican Estonia Canada
28. What is a non-volatile computer memory that can be electrically erased and
reprogrammed, and is primarily used in memory cards and USB drives?
Flash Memory Cache Memory Random Memory
29. What is the process of locating the noncontiguous parts of data into which a
computer file may be divided, rearranging these parts and restoring them into
fewer or into the whole file?
Defrag Rearrange Decode
30. What name did Sega give to its video game console that was the successor to
the Sega Saturn?
Dreamcast WII Play Station
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31. This entity has developed the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9. These are launch
vehicles designed to be reusable and will supply the International Space Station
(ISS) with cargo. Name the entity.
32. Which company founded by Reed Hastings, has launched Fast.com -- a tool to
help customers monitor their download speeds anywhere in the world?
34. In the early 1980s in Japan, these were referred to as ‘Baka-chon’. Today, it
has been replaced by smartphones and the use has come down drastically. What
are we talking about?
35. It is the central part of an operating system. It manages the tasks of the
computer and the hardware - most notably memory and CPU time. What are we
talking about?
36. This company has a service called NOW. NOW can be accessed via the free
Shield Hub app on any shield device. Which company?
37. Which payment solution provider was founded by Pramod Saxena in 2004?
39. Founded as Woodman Labs, Inc., the company eventually focussed on the
connected sport genre, also developing a quadcopter drone, Karma, released in
October 2016. Which company?
40. MMID is a seven-digit random number issued by the bank upon registration.
The Remitter (customer who wants to send money) and Beneficiary (customer who
wants to receive the money) should have a MMID for doing this interbank fund
transfer. What is MMID?
41. What term was coined by Ben Hammersley in an article titled 'Audible
Revolution' that is also known as 'Net Cast', which is a vendor-neutral term?
42. On 15 September 2016, who announced that they had purchased the Saitek
brand and assets from Mad Catz for $13 million in cash?
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43. Which term refers to extremely large data sets that may be analyzed
computationally to reveal patterns, trends, and associations, especially relating to
human behaviour and interactions?
44. What was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 as ‘87a’ and has since come into
widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability?
45. Which type of a card can store data by modifying tiny, iron-based particles on a
band of material on the card?
46. This is a motion picture film format and a set of cinema projection standards
developed in Canada by Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, Robert Kerr and
William C. Shaw. How do we know it?
47. Which non-metallic element's name was coined in 1817 by British chemist
Thomas Thomson, for something that was obtained from a hard-grey rock called
‘Flint’?
48. Which web browser was developed by National Center for Supercomputing
Applications in 1993 in USA, and is credited for popularising World Wide Web?
49. Which Indian sportsperson has invested in London based startup Sport Convo,
a social media hub for discussing anything related to sports and for sharing
sporting news and features online?
51. DSL, originally Digital Subscriber Loop, is a family of technologies that are used
to transmit digital data over telephone lines. How do we know DSL today?
53. This was founded by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp. Their
CEO summarized the company as a ‘catalog of ideas’, rather than as a social
network, that inspires users to ‘go out and do that thing’. Which website is this?
54. This service debuted on 7 Sept, 2006 as Unbox in the United States. It is
extremely popular today. Which service is this?
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55. It gets its name from the terms ‘Research and Development’. This is an
American nonprofit global policy think tank originally formed by Douglas Aircraft
Company to offer research and analysis to the United States Armed Forces. How
do we know them better?
56. Which Google offering has come up with the 'Music Foundry' program to assist
music artists produce content and guide them to grow successfully on its platform?
57. What is the term used for a clause associated with software products that
states, “The vendor is not responsible for any loss due to use of this product”?
58. It is a set of related programs located at a network gateway server that protects
the resources of a private network from users of other networks. What are we
describing?
59. Back in October 2014, this great physics professor made his first Facebook
post that read - “I have always wondered what makes the universe exist. Time and
space may forever be a mystery, but that has not stopped my pursuit.” Who is this
professor who asked people to be curious through his first post?
60. In the 1980s, Hiroshi Ueda, an engineer at Minolta was holidaying in Paris. He
asked someone to take a photo of him with his wife, at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
The person ran away with his camera. What did he create after coming back?
62. What are the codenames for - Precise Pangolin, Quantal Quetzal, Raring
Ringtail, and Trusty Tahr?
63. Hidden Reflex is a software and web application product startup based in
Bengaluru. They created India's first what?
64. V.S.S. Mani was working with a yellow pages company called United Database
India (UDI) in 1987 and thought of a business plan which could make the database
more accessible. In 1994, at Mumbai, he started a company which put his plan into
practice. Which company?
65. Which was the first ever dot com in the world, in terms of a domain name
registered?
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66. The name of this language originated during an online chat session between
Matsumoto and Keiju Ishitsuka on 24 February, 1993, before any code had been
written for the language. Initially two names were proposed: ‘Coral’ and ‘X’. What is
this now popular programming language?
68. Named as the 'Word of the Year 2009', it means ‘to remove someone from a
list of designated friends on a person's social networking website’. Which word?
69. Who has started its India operations in February 2012 with the launch of portal,
Junglee.com, which was acquired by it in early 2000 from Indian entrepreneurs
Rakesh Mathur and Ashish Gupta?
71. Which word coming from Sanskrit means 'an icon or figure representing a
particular person in a computer game, Internet forum'?
72. This system was invented in 1994 by Denso Wave, a Toyota subsidiary. Its
purpose was to track vehicles during manufacture; it was designed to allow high-
speed component scanning. It consists of black modules (square dots) arranged in
a square grid on a white background, which can be read by an imaging device.
What is this system?
73. It was originally released as a power toy for the Tablet PC launch in 2002. The
program is a screen-capture tool that comes with Windows. How do we know it?
75. What was founded by Sanjeev Bhikachandani and established in 1997 by Info
Edge (India) Ltd.? Its parent company was the first dot com conglomerate to be
listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd.
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The
Identity
1 Identify the company he founded.
a. INTEL
b. AMD
c. Microsoft
a. XEROX
b. HP
c. Ebay
a. Sega
b. UBI Soft
c. Zynga
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4 Identify the company.
a. Compaq
b. Lenovo
c. Qsoft
a. Winamp
b. HMV
c. VLC
a. Skype
b. UBI Soft
c. Zynga
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7 Identify the company he founded.
a. Google
b. Oracle
c. Blackberry
a. Yahoo
b. Google
c. HP
a. Flickr
b. Foursquare
c. Flixter
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10 Identify the company.
a. MTNL
b. VSNL
c. BSNL
a. Google Wallet
b. Google Maps
c. Google Photos
a. Thomas Edison
b. Charles Babbage
c. Alan Turing
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13 Identify the company.
a. Starlite
b. Philips
c. LG
a. SpadeX
b. Cap Gemini
c. Adidas
a. Google
b. Firefox
c. Snapdragon
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16 Identify the person.
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21 Identify the company.
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26 Whose insignia is this?
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31 Identify this logo.
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36 Identify this logo.
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41 Identify this person.
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46 Identify this offering from Google.
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DID YOU KNOW?
The Briefcase was first introduced in Windows 95 and was only removed in
Windows 10, running for a good 20 years.
Before CGI there was ‘Matte Painting’, a technique where artists would
paint backgrounds on glass sheets. These painted sheets would then be
placed as backgrounds at actual filming locations.
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Block
&
Tackle
1 It was setup by its parent company Geophysical Service Incorporated
(GSI) to manufacture the newly invented transistor in 1947. Which
Company?
X S E
2 Name the term which is derived from Hawaiian for `quick' and
describes websites that can be edited by any reader, including
anonymous visitors?
I I
U D A S
E M G
U R D
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6 The use of X can be traced back to the 19 century and they were
used in casual or humourous writing. The digital forms of X on the
internet were included in a proposal by Scott Fahlman in 1982 to
Carnegie Mellon University. What is X?
M I S
I E f E A
E X C P A N
U T E
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11 What is this digital media player developed by Google, a HDMI
dongle that plays audio/video content on a high-definition television
by directly streaming it via Wi-Fi.
O C
T E O I
A N E
15 This was named after IBM's first CEO and industrialist. The computer
system was specifically developed to answer questions on the quiz
show Jeopardy. This is an AI computer system capable of answering
questions posed in natural language. What is being described here?
M T N
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16 Where would you find LindeX, an internal currency exchange that
can be used to buy, sell, rent or trade land or goods and services with
other users?
C L
I U S
I H
D E
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21 In video games, what is the process by which a player’s character
obtains items such as in-game currency, spells, equipment, or
weapons, often from the corpse of a creature or possibly the corpse
of another player?
O G
22 The term was inspired from a story in Greek mythology because the
thing being talked about appears to perform a desirable function but
instead facilitates unauthorised access to the user's computer system.
R A R
23 Entities in the collection are kept in order and the principal operations
on the collection are the addition of entities to the rear position and
removal of entities from the front position. This makes it a First-In-
First-Out (FIFO) data structure. What?
U U
25 Its codename was inspired by Flickr and the fact that American ____
short codes are five characters. The developers initially experimented
with ‘10958' as a short code, though later changed it to ‘40404' for
‘ease of use and memorability’. What?
T T
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26 This is the logo of which Microsoft
application?
L L E
E O R
E G B L
L S O
O S
N E S T
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31 This German civil engineer was an inventor and
a computer pioneer. His achievement was the
world's first programmable computer. Who?
N D S
E I
R I
N E O
D N S G
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36 Identify this famous torrent service.
R E Y
B O
C O
N I
N O
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41 What started thus?
A A
V A
A C E
S N
U E
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46 With which company would you associate
this logo.
A A
F R
A T I
I A T
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DID YOU KNOW?
Shigeru Miyamoto originally wanted to incorporate the characters, Popeye,
Bluto and Olive Oyl in his game. After failing to obtain the licensing rights,
he decided to use the same scenario but with different characters.
Jun 10, marks the 40th anniversary of the release of the Apple II computers.
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Cyrpto
combos
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The selection
+ The type
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The maker
+ The tour type
The element
+ The animal
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The
instrument + The
process + The term
defined
A part of this
+ The process
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A part of its
name + name +
A part of its A part of its
name
Most common
metalloid + The term for
this depression
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The state
+ The collection
10
A part of
the name + Common name
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12
His name
+ The citizen
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The movie
+ The kind of fruit
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The slang
+ The type
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16
The action
+ The type
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The effect
+ The type
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The action
+ The type
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Action button
+ Reference to
P, E & F
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DID YOU KNOW?
To give the audience an impression that previous glitches had already been
worked out, Oracle’s founders came up with a brilliant marketing strategy.
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Round 1 - Crack These... (Multiple Choice)
1. JAVA 16. LEAF
2. MORTAL KOMBAT 17. LG
3. ANDREW GROVE 18. FORTRAN
4. FACEBOOK 19. NOKIA
5. ACTIVE X 20. ARPANET
6. LINUX 21. STALLMAN
7. WII 22. ORACLE
8. BIT TORRENT 23. SIRI
9. AMD 24. NVIDIA
10. PRINCE OF PERSIA 25. HOTMAIL
11. FLIPKART 26. APPLE
12. POWERPOINT 27. ESTONIA
13. DAUGHTERBOARD 28. FLASH MEMORY
14. WIKIPEDIA 29. DEFRAG
15. CACHE MEMORY 30. DREAMCAST
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Round 2 - The Identity (Multiple Choice)
1. INTEL 9. FOURSQUARE
2. XEROX 10. VSNL
3. ZYNGA 11. GOOGLE WALLET
4. COMPAQ 12. EDISION
5. WINAMP 13. PHILIPS
6. SKYPE 14. CAP GEMINI
7. ORACLE 15. SNAPDRAGON
8. YAHOO
1 2
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Round 5 - Crypto Combos
1. KEYBOARD 11. JOHN CHAMBERS
2. FACEBOOK 12. JACK WELCH
3. APPLE SAFARI 13. BLACKBERRY
4. FIREFOX 14. BILL GATES
5. FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL 15. STEVE JOBS
6. SOCIAL NETWORKING 16. SNAPCHAT
7. SUN MICRO SYSTEMS 17. SOUND CLOUD
8. SILICON VALLEY 18. MAGIC BRICKS
9. TEXAS INSTRUMENTS 19. POWERPOINT
10. QUICK HEAL 20. LARRY PAGE
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Round 6 - Connect Them
1. VISICALC | ORACLE | INTEL | JERRYYANG - SONY
2. VINTON CERF | COREL | LASER | NOYCE - CRAY
3. TROJAN | PALO ALTO | LOVELACE | YAHOO - JAVA
4. ENIAC | PATCH | ARPANET | DBASE - IPAD
5. PASCAL | PENTIUM | BINARY | NEC - CERN
6. PIXAR | SILICON VALLEY | ROUTER | MOSAIC - ISRO
7. MICROSOFT | SAP | PATNI | ERIC SCHIMDT - SPAM
8. ADOBE | WIPRO | ADA | MORPHING - DRAM
9. JUSTIFY | COBOL | BROADCAST | FLOPS - JOBS
10. HCL | ADOBE | IBM | APPLE - CDMA
11. WINDOWS | PHILIPS | IFLEX | CISCO - WIFI
12. CROMA | SPICE | SAMSUNG | APTECH - RISC
13. EBAY | CYBERSPACE | MICROSOFT | LENOVO - BYTE
14. ACER | MACFEE | MICKEY | WALT DISNEY - RFID
15. AQUA | JAVA | IPAD | XEROX - AJAX
16. ANDREW GROVE | MORTAL KOMBAT | METCALFE LAW | WINDOWS VISTA - NTFS
17. APPLE | INTEL | TELENOR | NOOGLE - PING
18. BABBAGE | SYMBIAN | LINUX | BLACKBERRY - BSNL
19. BAUD | MENU | ONLINE | PIXEL - DELL
20. XEROX | BENQ | GOOGLE | AJAX - XBOX
21. WOZNIAK | PHILIPS | LINKEDIN | VLSI - WIKI
22. BING | WIKIPEDIA | NAPSTER | QUICKHEAL - BENQ
23. TOSHIBA | ADOBE | GOOGLE | AJAX - IDEA
24. MINDTREE | SPAM | ORACLE | GOOGLE - MPEG
25. UBUNTO | LAN | TWITTER | PIXEL - UNIX
26. KERNAL | SILICON | NAPSTAR | MOTOROLA - LIAM