The Tech Quiz

THE TECH QUIZ

1. Why is the theme of "Facebook" blue ?

2. Expand "YAHOO"

3.“640K ought to be enough for anybody” Who said this?

4. When the Internet was still very much under the spell of bare Unix shells and Gopher, an ambitious group of scientists at CERN started working on the World Wide Web.In an office on the fourth floor they placed the World Wide Webs central database. Some faulty requests were answered with a standard message: “___________”

5.

Observe the picture and name it 👆

6. System Architecture:

• Manufacturer: SGI

• 161 racks (11,472 nodes)

• 7.25 Pflop/s peak cluster

• 5.95 Pflop/s LINPACK rating

• 175 Tflop/s HPCG rating

• Total CPU cores: 246,048

• Total memory: 938 TB

• 2 racks (64 nodes total) enhanced with NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs)

• 184,320 CUDA cores

• 0.275 Pflop/s total

• 1 rack (32 nodes total) enhanced with Intel Xeon Phi co-processors (MICs)

• 3,840 MIC cores

• 0.064 Pflop/s total

These are the specifications of which petascale supercomputer and where is it housed ?

7. Co-founders of this multinational technology company, Larry Page and Sergey Brin originally named X 'Backrub'. The name 'X' is actually derived from a mathematical term, which is basically 1 with a 100 zeros following it.

ID X

8. Ericsson, A Denmark based company started working on a device which establishes radio links between portable devices. Jim Kardman named the technology X after the 10th century Viking king Harold Blatand who liked eating Blueberries.What is the name of the technology?

9. 

This is the logo of which famous company ?

10. 

How did this place get its name ?

ANSWERS

1. The reason for Facebook's theme to be blue is that  Mark Zuckerberg, the young founder of Facebook is red-green color-blind and blue is the richest colour for him.👀

2. The name Yahoo! is an acronym for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle, but the founders insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of yahoo: rude, unsophisticated, uncouth. It is the name of American multinational company Yahoo Inc.

3. Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft. In 1981 when IBM introduced a PC with 640 KB of memory.

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5. Blue Screen of Death - A stop error, better known as a Blue Screen of Death (also known as a blue screen or BSoD) is an error screen displayed on a Windows computer system after a fatal system error, also known as a system crash: when the operating system reaches a condition where it can no longer operate safely.

6. Pleiades - NASA

7. Google

8. “Bluetooth” because of the teeth coloration after eating blueberries.

9. Xerox

10. Snapdeal has adopted a remote village in Uttar Pradesh and enabled clean drinking water facilities for its people by installing manual pumps. To show their gratitude, the village’s residents have decided to rename their village to Snapdeal.com Nagar, actually taking the company by surprise.

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