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TCS IT WIZ 2011 BHUBANESWAR
Contributed by Ayush Sinha
1. NIC is a premiere S&T institution of the Government of India, established in 1976, for providing e-Governing/e-Governance Solutions adopting best practices, integrated services and global solutions in Government Sector. What does NIC stand for?
National Informatics Centre
2. Metcalfe left Xerox in 1979 to form 3Com . He convinced 3 tech-giants to promote Ethernet as a standard . It was so called DIX. If “D” is for DEC and “X” is for Xerox, then what is it for “I”?
Intel (Not IBM as mentioned in last year’s TCS IT Wiz book)
3. What great innovation was done by August Dvorak and his brother-in-law William Dealey, that is now a historical achievement as of now?(Specific answer required)
Keyboard(Dvorak layout)
4. Identify the logo?
Sony Playstation Move
5. John Walker founded this company with 12 other engineers in 1982, Which aims at providing brilliant 3D design software for use in architecture, engineering and building construction, manufacturing, and media and entertainment. What is the company?
Autodesk
6. It is a semiconductor device used to amplify and switch electronic signals . It was jointly developed by William Shockley, Walter Brattain, John Bardeen. What are we talking about?
Transistor
7.This famous book depicts which great personality in the world of IT?
Alan Turing
8. In computing , X is any small application that performs one specific task that runs within the scope of a larger program , often as a plug-in . What is X?(Options given Applet/Crash/Flog) Applet
9.What is the name of the mascot of Yahoo!Mail?(Hint- Its a cryptic word somewhere in the question)
Liam
10. Ludicorp, a Vancouver -based company, launched in February 2004. It is a video and web hosting site.The service emerged out of tools originally created for Ludicorp's Game Neverending, a web-based massively multiplayer online game .What?
Flickr
11. In 1941, Jorge Luis Borges created a novel based on that style. It is the underlying concept which defined the World Wide Web?
Hypertext
14.This company also called “Integrated Electronics” though initially founded in 1968 ran much popular in 1990s. What significant company are we talking of?
Intel
15.Edwardo Saverin, Dustin Muskovitz, Chris Hughes and one another boy found what significant site in the IT world?
Facebook
16.Acronym as PDF in general. What is the full form?
Portable document format
16. Which cricketer is the brand ambassador of the very popular for Optical and imaging products, Canon?
Sachin Tendulkar
17.This is the old logo of?
Nokia
18. A privately-held, online gaming portal, with browser games in India (services provided Globally), promoted by the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group's subsidiary company Reliance Big Entertainment. Which is this famous gaming portal?
Zapak
19.Identify.(Clue given-First storage automatic Calculator)
EDSAC
20. Google celebrated this doodle on the 115 th discovery of what in the world?
X-Ray discovery
For visuals visit here
1. NIC is a premiere S&T institution of the Government of India, established in 1976, for providing e-Governing/e-Governance Solutions adopting best practices, integrated services and global solutions in Government Sector. What does NIC stand for?
National Informatics Centre
2. Metcalfe left Xerox in 1979 to form 3Com . He convinced 3 tech-giants to promote Ethernet as a standard . It was so called DIX. If “D” is for DEC and “X” is for Xerox, then what is it for “I”?
Intel (Not IBM as mentioned in last year’s TCS IT Wiz book)
3. What great innovation was done by August Dvorak and his brother-in-law William Dealey, that is now a historical achievement as of now?(Specific answer required)
Keyboard(Dvorak layout)
4. Identify the logo?
Sony Playstation Move
5. John Walker founded this company with 12 other engineers in 1982, Which aims at providing brilliant 3D design software for use in architecture, engineering and building construction, manufacturing, and media and entertainment. What is the company?
Autodesk
6. It is a semiconductor device used to amplify and switch electronic signals . It was jointly developed by William Shockley, Walter Brattain, John Bardeen. What are we talking about?
Transistor
7.This famous book depicts which great personality in the world of IT?
Alan Turing
8. In computing , X is any small application that performs one specific task that runs within the scope of a larger program , often as a plug-in . What is X?(Options given Applet/Crash/Flog) Applet
9.What is the name of the mascot of Yahoo!Mail?(Hint- Its a cryptic word somewhere in the question)
Liam
10. Ludicorp, a Vancouver -based company, launched in February 2004. It is a video and web hosting site.The service emerged out of tools originally created for Ludicorp's Game Neverending, a web-based massively multiplayer online game .What?
Flickr
11. In 1941, Jorge Luis Borges created a novel based on that style. It is the underlying concept which defined the World Wide Web?
Hypertext
14.This company also called “Integrated Electronics” though initially founded in 1968 ran much popular in 1990s. What significant company are we talking of?
Intel
15.Edwardo Saverin, Dustin Muskovitz, Chris Hughes and one another boy found what significant site in the IT world?
16.Acronym as PDF in general. What is the full form?
Portable document format
16. Which cricketer is the brand ambassador of the very popular for Optical and imaging products, Canon?
Sachin Tendulkar
17.This is the old logo of?
Nokia
18. A privately-held, online gaming portal, with browser games in India (services provided Globally), promoted by the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group's subsidiary company Reliance Big Entertainment. Which is this famous gaming portal?
Zapak
19.Identify.(Clue given-First storage automatic Calculator)
EDSAC
20. Google celebrated this doodle on the 115 th discovery of what in the world?
X-Ray discovery
For visuals visit here
Tim Morse in, Carol Bartz out in Yahoo
Yahoo has fired Chief Executive Officer Carol Bartz, who was brought on board two years ago to turn around the company’s troubled fortunes, and named Chief Financial Officer Tim Morse as interim chief executive.
In an e-mail message to employees titled ‘Goodbye’, Ms Bartz, 62, said she is “very sad to tell you that I have just been fired over the phone by Yahoo’s chairman of the board’’.“It has been my pleasure to work with all of you and I wish you only the best going forward,” she wrote.
Mind Game: Archive::QM:- Sanjay Krishna Part-1
1. When Takashi Hashiyama, CEO of a Japanese television equipment manufacturer, decided to auction off the collection of impressionist paintings owned by his corporation, including works by Cézanne, Picasso, and van Gogh, he contacted two leading auction houses, Christie's and Sotheby's,seeking their proposals on how they would would maximize profits. Both firms made elaborate proposals, but neither was persuasive enough to get Hashiyama’s business.
Unwilling to split up the collection into separate auctions, Hashiyama asked the firms to decide between themselves who would hold the auction, which included Cézanne's "Large Trees Under the Jas de Bouffan", worth $12–16 million.
The houses were unable to reach a decision. Hashiyama told the two firms to do "X" to decide who would get the rights to the auction, explaining that "it probably looks strange to others, but I believe this is the best way to decide between two things which are equally good". So what did thee houses "Do" to decide who would get the paintings?
2. Maurice Tillet was a French professional wrestler who developed acromegaly, a rare disease that causes bones to grow wildly and uncontrollably. Soon his whole body was disfigured as a result.His form was an inspiration for which character?
3. Mechthild Pierick who hails from a farming community in Reken, Germany is the Superior General of this org.The quality of care offered to terminally ill patients in this org. for the Dying has been criticized in the medical press, notably The Lancet which is considered a pioneer in Medical Journals, which reported the reuse of hypodermic needles, poor living conditions, including the use of cold... baths for all patients, and an approach to illness and suffering that precluded the use of many elements of modern medical care, such as systematic diagnosis. Dr. Robin Fox, editor of The Lancet, described the medical care of this org.as "haphazard", as volunteers without medical knowledge had to make decisions about patient care, because of the lack of doctors. He observed that the org. did not distinguish between curable and incurable patients, so that people who could otherwise survive would be at risk of dying from infections and lack of treatment. .which organization am i talking about?
4. According to Barks' as noted by a TIME article, X is worth one multiplujillion, nine obsquatumatillion, six hundred twenty-three dollars and sixty-two cents.
In the __________ Liquid Assets, Fenton Crackshell (X's accountant) notes that X's money bin contains 607 tillion 386 zillion 947 trillion 522 billion dollars and 36 cents. Don Rosa's the Life and Times of X notes that X amounts to five mult...iplujillion, nine impossibidillion, seven fantasticatrillion dollars and sixteen cents.
Forbes has occasionally tried to estimate X's wealth in real terms; in 2007, Forbes estimated his wealth at $28.8 billion; in 2011, it rose to $44.1 billion due to the rise in gold prices.
One website used the size of X's Money Bin as a basis and calculated that it could contain over $27 trillion.
Barks himself has said that the fortune is five billion quintiplitilion unptuplatillion multuplatillion impossibidillion fantasticatrillion dollars.
identify X
5. Boogie Woogie was the first dance show format to hit Indian Television. It has been entertaining audiences over the past 9 years. Hosted by the popular Film and Television personalities Naved and Ravi, the highlight of the show is Javed Jaffery who is the permanent celebrity judge. Boogie Woogie is the ideal platform to showcase & launch new talent across the cross section of people from all backgrounds, age groups, genders and cities. It is an iconic series, which has attracted celebrities like Esha Deol, Juhi Chawla, Rohit Roy, Mallika Sherawat, Govinda, Prabhudeva, Shefali Zariwala and Aadesh Srivastava as judges to add zeal and enthusiasm to the contest. Who was its South Zone champion in 1995?
AQAD - 391
Name Him. [A very Big Name in Indian Finance Sector and was also Founder-Chairman of an IIM]
Salman Khan becomes brand ambassador for HISTORY channel in India
Salman Khan has been roped as the brand ambassador for new US-based factual entertainment channel ‘HISTORY’, which is a joint venture between A+E Networks and TV 18, in India.
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