Quiz Winners:
1st Prize(Rs.3000/-): Mr.Jacob Iype & Mr.Deepak D.
of SCT College of Engineering, Trivandrum
2nd Prize(Rs.2000/-): Mr.R.Arun & Mr.Felix Johnny T.
of Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering, Pollachi
The other finalists who carried along with them a cash prize of Rs.750/- each were from
Kongu Engineering College, Erode
SSN College of Engineering, Kanchipuram
Sinhgad College of Engineering, Pune and
SCT College of Engineering, Trivandrum.
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The questions and answers to the Quiz Preliminary:
1. The landing site of the Mars Pathfinder probe has been named after a famous scientist. Name it. - The Carl Sagan Station
2. According to Celsius water freezes at 0 degrees. Fahrenheit puts that temperature at +32 degrees. Which of the two systems would make you feel the coldest at-40 degrees ? – No difference
3. The lobby of this company’s corporate HQ, houses a mausoleum, with the inscription “Intel Inside”. Name the company. - Cyrix Corp.
4. Apart from being names of famous astronomers what is commom to: Kepler, Encke, Huygens, Cassini and Maxwell - Gaps between the rings of Saturn
5. What term describes the time taken by the sun to make one rotation around the centre of the galaxy - A cosmic year
6. After U.S. President William McKinley was shot, this scientist was called to help locate and extract the bullet. Who was he and what invention was born as a consequence of this - Alexander Graham Bell (Metal Detector)
7. What is the study of Time called – Horology
8. What would I use to measure Luminous Intensity? – Luxmeter
9. The earth does not rotate at a constant rate. It was then decided to move to an atomic standard, where one second is defined as 9,192,631,770 transitions of what element? - Cesium
10. The term 'broadcasting' comes from which industry? agriculture. As in broadcasting seeds on plowed ground
11. What communications company was the first to offer a Wireless Web Mini-Browser built directly in to the phones? - SPRINT PCS
12. How do we popularly know the IEEE standard 802.11b? - Wi-Fi
13. What does UMTS stand for in Telecommunications? – Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (aka W-CDMA in USA)
14. VVVF - Variable Voltage Variable Frequency
15. Connect Brazil and Kashmir with Open source software. - Samba
16. Which company is credited with the invention of the CD technology – Phillips
17. Which five computer companies, the main competitors of IBM, were collectively known as BUNCH in the 1950’s and 60’s? – Burroughs, Unisys, NCR, CDC and Honeywell
18. Which company is China’s largest personal computer maker? – Legend Holdings
19. What is warez? – Commercial programs that are illegally made available to the public
20. How did the Iridium satellite phone company get its (rather exotic) name? – 77 satellite
21. This appliance was first built by Murray Spangler using a tin can, a broomstick, a flour sack and an electric motor. What? – Vacuum cleaner
22. What does a Scoville Scale measure? – Heat content of chili
23. What is common to the Voyager, Cassini and Mars Pathfinder spacecrafts? – All designed and operated by JPL
24. Soon after the success of Macintosh, Apple launched a computer with a feminine name. What? – Lisa (named after Steve Jobbs’s daughter).
25. What is common to Subhash Ghai and Tata Consultancy Services? - Taal
