code wars 2010 - junior quiz prelim

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CODE WARS 2010 [ JUNIOR QUIZ ]

www.code-warriors.org soBIG.H

Instructions There are 20 questions worth one point each.

Questions marked as WTF?! are tie-breakers. There is no negative marking. Go ahead and guess freely! If you want to change an answer, scratch out any previous answer neatly and write

your new answer. Usage of #hashtags in answers is not allowed. Please #stopdoingthat. It's #annoying.

1. W hat is a 'hashtag'? Explain using an example. A 'hashtag' is a system of tagging used on Twitter, by adding a '#' in front of a word or

phrase. For instance, '#codewars' could be used to tag a tweet as being about CodeWars.

2. Who is the t h i r d cofounder of Apple? Ronald Wayne

3. How much did Intel fork out to acquire McAfee? $7.68 billion (anything in the range of $7 billion accepted)

4. W hat is the codename for the most recently released version of Android OS? Froyo

5. W hich company developed the popular Nintendo game Contra? Konami

6. ______________ claims it is the "first Indian w eb browser" . Epic Browser

7. W ho discovered the first computer 'bug'?

Grace Hopper

8. W hich company manufactures the Blackberry range of smartphones? Research In Motion (RIM)

9. Expand PCI. Peripheral Component Interconnect

10. W hat w as the first computer-animated full-length feature film? Toy Story





11. WTF?!W hich w as the first mobile phone company in the w orld to outsource

everything except sales and marketing? Airtel

12. WTF?!W hich w as the first registered domain name on the Internet?

nordu.net (NOT symbolics.com, which was the first commercial domain nameregistered)

13. WTF?!Identify this. Bonus points if you can give the scientific name.

Bill Gates' flower fly, named after him for his contribution to the science of studyingflies. The scientific name is Eristalis gatesi .

14. WTF?! Wa t e r b o r n e , a film directed by Kanw al Rekhi's son Ben Rekhi and

starring Shabana Azmi, has to its credit one of the most unconventional firsts.What? First video to go on sale on the now-defunct Google Video store.

15. Seriously WTF?!W hose email address is '[email protected]'?

Homer Simpson

16. WTF?!The first three letters of this company's name mean 'w hen' in Latin.

Name the company. Ubisoft

17. How do w e better know 'I EEE 1394'? Firewire

18. W hat operating system (and version) do most touchscreen Nokia phones use?Be specific. Symbian Series 60 v5

19. Name the open-source w eb brow ser project started and supported by Google. Chromium (Google Chrome is the proprietary counterpart)





20. Identify this.

Twitter's fail whale, shown when their servers cannot handle traffic.

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