TCS IT Wiz, 2008

TCS IT Wiz, 2008 is an inter-school computer quiz regularly organised by TCS in India. It was held in Delhi on December11. The quiz began with a 20-minute preliminary round, which was followed by a final round wherein top six teams competed for the ultimate position. And guess what! My school team made it to the final, and guess what! They won the quiz. I have collected some of the questions that the quiz master asked in the finals. One can try these questions. Another tech quiz which can be attempted can be had from the www.tcsitwiz.com.

1. Something about Pope, basically how the cyber-cafe was envisioned.
2. A term that comes from the world of submarines, basically about how Sonar- the answer was ping
3. Douglas Engelbart and the mouse, something about taking a wooden shell and breaking apart a car to get the wheels
4. In 1987 a company adopted the pacman design. Created by Scott Baker, According to them the name has an intended slash which denotes motion and speed- The Microsoft Logo
5. In 1998, Jerome Rotta, Max Morris.... some people re-engineered a microsoft codec and created another codec....the DivX codec
This was the second round, which was the crossword

6. Dan Googen created this. In the footnotes was the line “A reference for the rest of us” What am I talking about?... The Dummies Series of Books
7. August Dvorak.... QWERTY keyboard
8. Computing Speed Unit...Flops
9. When you have a CD which is given free with a magazine, what is that called?... An Onsert
10. 3 Starks Korean...Samsung
11. These 4 colours were part of an attempted trademark Lime, Blueberry Tangerine and Grape....iMac
12. Allows one system to imitate another....emulator
13. Founder of Vulcan....Paul Allen
the round which was only about TCS
14. “I completed my Post-Grad from MIT and joined TATA as a manager.”(There was a bit more on this question, was not able to catch them)....F.C.Kohli
15. Which of these companies was acquired by TCS...(he gave options)...Citigroup Global
16. Something about The Wall Street Journal and a service.... M Krishi
17. Something about India's mission critical statement.... Passport Seva
The Visual Round
18. This question was really nice, they showed a picture of a sun, and asked which top level domain it was associated with......in
19. Showed a picture of supercomputers....Eka
20. showed a quote “Just for fun”....Linus Torvalds
21. Claude Shannon
22. Kodak
23. Which company was the first to develop the GUI....Xerox
24. A term coined by a programmer Lou Montulli had the idea of using them in an email....(The quizmaster broke off when someone gave the answer).....Cookies
25. A creation to counter the dominance of Flash.......Silverlight
26. In the year 2008 Nokia changed its calendar from Gregorian to lunar because it anticipated heavy sales in a particular region. For which region did they do this?....Beijing(Because of the Beijing Olympics)
27. Don Hoefflor coined this term....Silicon Valley