Queek Prelims

QU33K! PRELIMS Bringing out the geek

Q. 1

Talking about computer hardware, if GPU is a Graphics Processing Unit, then what is a PPU?

Q. 2

Identify this logo. This a company that became very famous in the world of the internet some years ago.

Q. 3

You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in?

Q .4*

What is the collective name given to these images?

Q. 5

If there are 8 bits in one byte, then how many bits are there in a nibble?

Q This worldwide phenomenon was initially .6* termed by many across the internet as the CDC and FADL. However, a certain Massachusetts programmer David Eddy in an email to his friend gave it a new name. The name stuck and gained worldwide fame. What name?

Q. 7 What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?

Q. 8

The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year ... Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase. Over the longer term, the rate of increase is a bit more uncertain, although there is no reason to believe it will not remain nearly constant for at least 10 years. That means by 1975, the number of components per integrated circuit for minimum

Q. 9

In 1971, while investigating ways and means to improve and develop the Arpanet, Ray Tomlinson (person in the pic) developed a certain symbol or sign which has gone on to become something that we use almost everyday. What symbol did he introduce into the

Q .10* Connect the following : Clippit, The Dot, Hoverbot, The Genius, Mother Nature, Scribble, Power Pup, Will, F1, Lynks,Rocky, Bosgrove,Genie,Kairu,Max,Peedy, Robby.

Q. 11 Who was the Time Magazine person of the year in 1982?

Q .12

Identify the product.

Q. 13

In which famous video game would you find these characters : Chaser (Red color) Ambusher(Pink color) Fickle(Cyan color) Stupid (Orange color)

Q .14

What is the biggest number that can be written with four 1's without using factorial?

Q. 15

Identify this person.

Q .16 This is a standard specification that defines a cross platform API developed by Silicon Graphics Inc for producing 2D and 3D graphics. What is it?

Q. 17 In mathematical terms, what is a googolplex?

Q.18 ** Which is the world’s largest distributed computing system?

Q .19 What is the last digit of the sequence 101^101*202^202*303^303........... .........909^909

Q .20 If Tommy Vercetti : GTA Vice City :: Niko Bellic : ?

Q .21 Along with the IMAP protocol, this protocol is the most widely used in emailing systems to retrieve emails from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection. Name this.

Q .22* Connect : Banias, Tumwater, Granite Bay, Salt Creek, Allendale, Tanglewood and Covington

Q .23 Name this famous machine.

Q .24 A human judge engages in a natural language conversation with one human and one machine, each of which try to appear human; if the judge cannot reliably tell which is which, then the machine is said to pass the test.” What test is being talked about?

Q .25 What word related to the computing fraternity was crowned as the word of the year in 2007 by merriamwebster’s dictionary?

Q .26

Daughter of the 18th century English poet, Lord Byron, this person is nicknamed as the world’s first programmer. She was responsible for developing programs which could be run on the Analytical engine conceived by Charles Babbage. Who

Q .27

This feature of a particular software was quoted by Smithsonian magazine as “one of the worst software design blunders in the annals of computing”. After the feature was released, it received wide criticism from the users and hence the feature was removed from the later editions of the software. In fact, this feature during its development phase was codenamed TFC(The F****** Clown).