TECHQUESTPAILAN COLLEGE of MANAGEMENT and TECHNOLOGY Presents

ANTIMATTER 2012

Quiz By: Abhishek Bagchi

WETWARE

ROUND 2Infinite Bounce 1

Question 1

The term was first used by Arthur Schuster in two rather whimsical letters to Nature in 1898, in which he coined the term. He hypothesized it, as well as its whole solar systems but differed with the theory of negative gravity.

What is the term coined?

Question 2

Raymond Samuel Tomlinson (was born in 1941) is a programmer who first time implemented an ____ system in 1971 on the ARPANet.

What will be in the blank?

Question 3

Jeff Bezos founded X in 1994, and launched it online in 1995. The company began operation online as "Cadabra.com", a name that is quickly abandoned.

What is X?

Question 4

The term is generally attributed to Daniel Edwards of the National Security Agency (NSA). He is given credit for identifying the attack form in the report "Computer Security Technology Planning Study". It derived its name from an epic.

What is X?

Question 5

Identify this person with his controversial demands!!

Question 6

No, it is not QWERTY. What is this claimed to be most effective keyboard style called?

Question 7

What is this colour model called? (give the full name)

Question 8

What is shown above?

Question 9

BCPL B ?

Question 10

In relation to Spelling and Grammar check option in MS Word or others, what is referred as the Cupertino effect?

Question 11

“In one respect this book is an experiment, and may chance to prove a failure: I mean that I have not thought it necessary to maintain throughout the gravity of style which scientific writers usually affect, and which has somehow come to be regarded as an ‘inseparable accident’ of scientific teaching. I never could quite see the reasonableness of this immemorial law: subjects there are, no doubt, which are in their essence too serious to admit of any lightness of treatment – but I cannot recognise Geometry as one of them. Nevertheless it will, I trust, be found that I have permitted myself a glimpse of the comic side of things only at fitting seasons, when the tired reader might well crave a moment’s breathing-space, and not on any occasion where it could endanger the continuity of the line of argument.”

Where you will find these difficult to read (as it is displayed in a fish-eye view) words as a part of the quote from Euclid and his Modern Rivals by Lewis Carroll?

Question 12

The Wheaton is a measurement of X relative to celebrity Wil Wheaton. The measurement was standardized when Wil Wheaton achieved half a million X, with the effect that Wil Wheaton now has 3.4 Wheatons himself.

What is X?

Question 13

Identify this early logo (edited) of a present company of legendary status.

Question 14

First model of what?

Question 15

What is it called in the movie HUGO?