IRAI Quiz -- 220701

IRAI Quiz -- 220701

1. Before the rapid growth of the World Wide Web in the 1990s, a protocol called ----------- briefly made the internet easy to use by combining the world’s online resources

2. “zillion” is an actual number  like million, billion & trillion. State True or False

3. Who said this:  "I have a hard time thinking of an industry that I don’t think AI will transform in the next several years"

4. Gen Z people are younger than Millennials. True or False? 

5. The act of remotely accessing unlicensed software, known as -------------

6. In Texas, lies a street called East 17th Street. It is a lively beautiful street with huge houses. But what's most notable about all these houses?

7. US: FANG = China: --------

8. ------------ is Amazon’s new cashierless technology built on the proprietary tech behind Amazon Go stores which allows customers to walk in, pick up items, and walk out, all while accurately tracking selections in a virtual shopping cart and charging credit cards appropriately at the end

9. In the James Bond movie -------------- Bond is pitted against Max Zorin, who plans to destroy California's Silicon Valley

10. ---------------- are video, audio and image content generated by artificial intelligence. This technology can produce false images, videos or sounds of a person, place or event that appear authentic.

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IRAI Quiz -- 220621

IRAI Quiz -- 220621

1. What is common to these: Maxthon, Safari, SeaMonkey and Vivaldi

2. Collectively, fingerprint scanning, iris scanning, voice recognition and facial recognition are known as  ---------------

3. The Microsoft browser Edge is based on Google’s open-source -------------- project.

4. ------------- is the Google’s latest artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. It  is  claimed to be sentient by Blake Lemoine, a Google AI engineer

5. The term GHz is the indicator of Computer -----

(Screen Resolution/Speed/Storage)

6. IIT Madras: SHAKTI = IIT Bombay: ----------

7. The Computer History Museum  (CHM) Fellows are exceptional men and women 'whose ideas have changed the world [and] affected nearly every human alive today'. The first fellow of CHM in 1987  was -----------

8. Recently, Microsoft announced the end of support after 26 years on its introduction of one it's popular product. Name the product

9. The developer event F8 normally held at San Jose is associated with -----------

10. --------------- (Harry/Larry) is the name of the bird associated with the Twitter logo?

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IRAI Quiz -- 220611

IRAI Quiz -- 220611

1. Microsoft schedules the release of security updates on "Patch Tuesday," the ------------- Tuesday of each month at 10 am PST

2. PC Quest magazine from Cyber Media which is now celebrating 35th year of it publication was started in 1987 as ------------ and subsequently named as PC Quest

3. US/EU ------- mandates USB-C charging ports for small and medium-sized portable electronic devices

4. Prescriptive analytics is a branch of data analytics that uses -----------  models to suggest actions to take for optimal outcomes.

5. "Software and cathedrals are much the same — first we build them, then we pray." -- who said this?

6. While Dolly the sheep was the first animal to be cloned in 1996, recently scientists in China have successfully cloned ------- using only AI, without any human intervention, in a world first

7. Theory of Everything: Stephen Hawking = Imitation Game: --------------

8. The Apple Lisa was conceived in 1979 when Steve Jobs, Apple’s chairman, toured PARC and saw the first  ------------------- 

9. ---------- is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Apple whose name is also a brand of  popular Indian four wheeler.

10. Apple recently discontinued it's iconic product -------- after 21 years of its introduction

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IRAI Quiz -- 220601

 IRAI Quiz -- 220601

1. In a world first, ----------- (Australia  /South Africa) grants patent to an artificial intelligence system

2. ------------ , an Australian computer scientist and businessman has publicly claimed to be the main part of the team that created bitcoin, and the identity behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.

3. To help raise awareness about ransomware strains like WannaCry and the steps needed to combat them, INTERPOL in 2020 teamed up with cybersecurity firm Kaspersky to declare ---------  as Anti-Ransomware Day.

4. Who Was The First U.S. President To Use Email?

5. Similar To The Y2K Bug in 2000, There’s A Looming Date Bug Triggered By The Year ---------- (2028/2038/2058/3000)

6. Who Coined The Term Meme?

7. In 1945, -------------  predicted that computers would one day play very good chess, and just over 50 years later, in 1997, Deep Blue, a chess computer built by the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), beat the reigning world champion, Garry Kasparov, in a six-game match.

8. --------------- (Intel Pentium D / IBM Power4) was the First Commercial Multicore Microprocessor Was The?

9. SpaceX's latest rideshare mission, Transporter-5, launched the world's first "crypto satellite", -------------------, paving the way for secure blockchain cryptography from space.

10. On ------------- each year, International Women in Engineering Day is observed

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IRAI Quiz -- 220521

IRAI Quiz -- 220521

1. Who has opined that "A computer beating a grandmaster at chess is about as interesting as a bulldozer winning an Olympic weightlifting competition"

2. Which area is common to these Key People: Marvin Minsky, Edward Albert Feigenbaum, Allen Newell, John McCarthy, Alan Turing

3. National Day of Unplugging is an awareness campaign that promotes a 24-hour respite from technology annually observed  on ------------

4. JSON is a data interchange format. True/ False

5. In India, The National Technology Day is observed on ----------- 

6. Who is describing himself as a “free speech absolutist”?

7. ------------ (Intel/TSMC) is the world’s biggest semiconductor company

8. Who had coined the term Web 3.0

9. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ron Wayne founded “Apple Computer Company” on April 1, 1976.  Jobs decided on the Apple name after visiting an apple farm while on a fruitarian diet. He also wanted Apple to alphabetically appear before --------- in the phone book.

10. Who said this -- “The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim”

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IRAI Quiz -- 220511

 IRAI Quiz -- 220511

1. World Password Day is observed on ------------

2. A Group Of Off-The-Shelf Computers Run In Parallel As A Super Computer Is Called A -------------- (Beowulf Cluster/Parallel Supercom)

3. Expand FIDO 

4. ----------------, a popular video game has become home to a virtual library where players can lay eyes on censored news articles from around the world.

5. David Leavitt’s book "The Man Who Knew too Much" is about whom?

6. World Quantum Day is observed on ----------

7. Twitch is a microblogging platform similar to Twitter. State True or False

8. While the first floppy disk of 8" was invented by IBM, ------------- (Sony /  Shugart Associates) had invented the first 5.25" floppy disk? 

9. Who is describing himself as a “free speech absolutist”?

10. Expand CTS in the context of ergonomics / working with computers

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IRAI Quiz -- 220501

IRAI Quiz -- 220501

1. Mastodon is an open-source microblogging social network similar to Twitter where people can make profiles, post messages (up to 500 characters)  that are known as  ------------  which is Mastodon’s version of a “tweet”

2. Bulbapedia is an encyclopedia about the game -------------- to which anyone can contribute.

3. The world's first permanent NFT art museum has been opened in ---------, aiming to "pull back the curtain" on blockchain-based digital art.

4. ------------ are defined as “electronic in-ear devices designed with hearing-aid-like features.”

5. Information Overload Day is observed on ---------- every year.

6. It is suggested that resumes need to be ATS compatible. Expand ATS

7. The Eat the Frog technique is a ---------- management skill that motivational speaker Brian Tracy named in 2001

8. -------------- allow people who discover security flaws in computer software and services to be rewarded with money

9. Plastic In Old Computers Yellows Because Of The Presence Of the element ----------

10. Bitcoin: BTC = Ether: ETH = Ripple: ------

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IRAI Quiz -- 220421

 IRAI Quiz -- 220421

1. Java EE  has been renamed as  ------------- after Oracle handed over it to Eclipse Foundation

2. Rasberry PI, a popular SBC (Single Board Computer) which completed 10 years of development,  was developed by Raspberry Pi Foundation in association with Broadcom in -------- (UK/USA)

3. As on 15th Apr 2022, there are two hectocorns -- startups valued over $100 billions. They are ByteDance and -----------

4. Expand XAI

5. 8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bits is equal to one -------------

6. IPv6 has a loopback address, too. Fully written out it is 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001, though that is usually truncated to -------- for convenience.

7. ----------------   aka ------------ is the first ever known malware specifically designed to attack electrical grids. It was framework considered to have been used in the cyberattack on Ukraine’s power grid on December 17, 2016

8. Which comes first?  QC or QA

9. "A Penguin Said That Nobody Drinks Pepsi" & "A Priest Saw Two Nuns Doing Pushups" are mnemonics to remember a widely popular model. Name it.

10. The term DLT  -- Digital Ledger Technology, is associated with Blockchain in the current context, during yesteryears, it was associated with -------------

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IRAI Quiz -- 220321

IRAI Quiz -- 220321

1. Plastic items in old computers "Yellows" because of the presence of ------------

2. The International Day of Mathematics (IDM) is observed worldwide  on -------- 

3. -------------  is a type of cryptocurrency which has its value attached to the performance of a conventional fiat currency such as the US dollar.

4. ------------- are hundreds of millions of real world passwords previously exposed in data breaches. 

5. Windows: Task Manager = Mac OS: ------------

6. Googlers are ---------- (users/employees) of Google

7. ETH  (Ether) is the only crypto on Ethereum. State True or False 

8. Quantum ------------ is a feature of quantum mechanics where a particle can exist in more than one quantum state.

9. Who said this?  “A computer is a bicycle for the mind.”

10. ------------ is Russian alternative to GPS (Global Positioning System) Satellite Navigation System

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IRAI Quiz -- 220301

IRAI Quiz -- 220301

1. The ----------- High Court has recently said admins of WhatsApp groups are not liable for objectionable posts made by group members.

2. Who said this: “The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim”

3. Which is referred as "New North Star" by Mark Zuckerberg? 

4. CES: Los Vegas = MWC: ---------- 

5. "No meeting should be so large that two pizzas can't feed the whole group" is known as Two Pizza Rule which is aimed at  Maximizing Meeting Effectiveness. It is attributed to whom?

6. The biggest difference between 3G and 2G mobile-data-transfer technology is the use of the type of  ----------

7. Who was the first Monarch to send an email, doing so during a visit to an army base in 1976?

8. An agricultural area once known as the “Valley of the Heart’s Delights” became synonymous with personal computer manufacturing and software and then Internet-based businesses in the 1980s and ’90s. What is it?

9. What is common to these: Insync, Rclone, Backupify, Spanning, SysCloud

10. -------- Linux is a Debian-derived Linux distribution designed for digital forensics and penetration testing and used by Ethical Hackers

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IRAI Quiz -- 220221

IRAI Quiz -- 220221

1. ----------------- is the India's AI Supercomputer established under National Super-computing Mission (NSM)

2. ----------------- in Jharkhand is known as Phishing capital of India

3. Author Neal Stephenson is credited with coining the term  ----------------  in his 1992 science fiction novel "Snow Crash"

4. 17th July is observed as --------------

5.Researchers of Vermont University Analyzing Social Media Trends Have Declared Which Day Of The Week Most Depressing?

6. After he was banned from Facebook and Twitter, former US President Donald Trump is now sharing posts on -----------------,  a social media platform created by him.

7. ---------------- is the widely used scheduling technique in a time shared operating system?

8. What is the umbrella term to technologies which are either new or growing very fast such as AI, Robotics, Healthtech, Material Science, Neuroscience, Spacetech, AR/VR, 3D Printing, Quantum Computing?

9. How was Internet originally named?

10. Name the global electronics company founded in the 1930s, engaged in the distribution of groceries and specialty noodles. It ventured in electronics with black & white TV in early 1960s

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IRAI Quiz -- 220201

 IRAI Quiz -- 220201

1. ------------- is a programming language created by top scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) for quantum computing.

2. ---------------, an Eastern Caribbean island  is opening a Diplomatic Embassy in the Metaverse

3. The Phoenix Project, a seminal business novel about a fictional American company working through its digital transformation is considered as -------------- bible.

4. The internet is something that people "browse." But, to a degree, people can "live" in the -----------.

5. What is common to these: PotCoin (POT), DopeCoin (DOPE), HempCoin (THC), and CannaCoin (CCN).

6. The term Web3  is largely believed to have been coined by ---------------, creator of the Ethereum cryptocurrency and founder of the Web3 Foundation.

7. Sequential Reads/Writes : MBPS = Random Performance: ---------- 

8. Google Has Leveraged Security Captcha To Successfully ----------- (Fold Proteins / Digitize Books)

9. Sun Microsystems’ Java Software Platform was first designed for ------------- (web browser / smart appliances)

10. Registering a domain name as amazom.com is an example of ------------------

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Irai Quiz -- 220121

 IRAI Quiz -- 220121

1. For secure in room wireless connectivity with signals which does not penetrate walls, we need to use ----------- (WiFi / LiFi)

2. Which one of these four is the top emoji used worldwide: a 😂 b ❤️ c 👍 d🙏

3. The roll-out of C-band 5G in US near airports has forced major airlines to cancel their flights as the frequencies expected to affect the aircraft navigation system in particular the -----------------.

4. ----- (90/95/100) is the percentage of the worlds top 500 supercomputers run on Linux OS.

5. The German plugboard-equipped Enigma became Nazi Germany's principal crypto-system. It was broken by --------------- (country - Poland /Briton/France) by designing the deciphering machine Bomba.

6. The ---------------- (country -- Canada/Brazil/South Africa) patent office made history in July when it issued a patent that listed an artificial intelligence system as the inventor.

7. In a ------------- (Call / Contact) Centre, activities take place through multiple channels like through the company website, email, company branded apps, chat apps, social media, etc

8. What can be  commonly associated with these terms: PoW, NFT, DLT, DeFi

9. Of these four, which font is not recommended in resumes? Calibre,Times New Roman, Comic Sans MS, Verdana

10. PM Narendra Modi declared that ---------- is  to be observed as  National Startup Day

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IRAI Quiz -- 211221

IRAI Quiz -- 211221

1. The book "Android Dreams" is about  -------------  (Mobile OS / Artificial Intelligence)

2. Transforming your data into different formats is called ----------------

3. The term HODL is a popular term among crypto investors and it is a short  form for --------------------

4. Cloubhouse is a  social media based on -------- (audio/web/text & images)

5. On resumes, ---------- (soft/hard) skills show what you can do. 

6. The worst virus in terms of the cost of damages associated with it is ---------- (Melissa / Mydoom / ILOVEYOU / Stuxnet )

7. Popular application of Conversational AI is -------------

8. National Mathematics Day on 22nd Dec every year is celebrated in rememberance of -------- ( Srinivasa Ramanujan / Shakuntala Devi)

9. The 1967 patent application described the ----------- as an X-Y position indicator for a display system.

10. Who is the TIME's 2021 Person of the Year? 

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IRAI Quiz -- 211211

 IRAI Quiz -- 211211

1. Whose tagline is "Removing barriers on the way of knowledge"

2. ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award: Microsoft = ACM A. M. Turing Award: --------------

3. ---------------- is considered as the father of software quality. 

4. Which popular book co-authored by Ullman is called the "Dragon Book"

5. --------------- is the social media venture of Trump, Former US President

6. Microsoft's Project Silica is related to  -----------  computer chip / (holographic  data storage)

7. Uber has announced its launch in -------------  in  Telangana, marking the company’s expansion to 100 cities across India.

8. Who said this? “I predict the Internet in 1996 [will] catastrophically collapse.”

9. Sony and --------- invented CDROM in 1983

10. Sreadsheet: VisiCalc = Wordprocessor: ------------ 

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IRAI Quiz -- 211201

IRAI Quiz -- 211201

1. Who had coined the term "information overload"

2. At Twitter, Parag Agrawal beats ---------  as youngest CEO in S&P 500. He was born later than the earlier youngest CEO who was born in May 1984.

3. In (online) shopping, what follows the Black Friday?

4. The GoI's  portal for database of unorganised workers is known as ------------ is all set to hit the 10-crore mark

5. According to the founder of "Qlan",  the social platform made for gamers, it is a cross of Linkedin and  ------------------

6. -----------  refers to the smallest fraction of a Bitcoin that can be sent, which is 0.00000001 of a Bitcoin.

7. Wolfe Herd launched social and dating app --------,  an alternative to Tinder that allows the woman to make the first move in 2014.

8. International Girls in ICT Day marked annually on the ------------------

9. Japanese robot owners held Buddhist funerals for their --------- when Sony withdrew technical support for it

10. The term Erobotics  is a combination of the words ----------  and "robot"

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IRAI Quiz -- 211111

 IRAI Quiz -- 211111

1. World Digital Preservation Day (WDPD) is observed on ----------  of every November  to demonstrate how digital preservation supports digital connections, unlocks potential and creates lasting value.

2. -------- is the Amazon’s new home robot 

3. “Universal Access to All Knowledge.”  is the mission of ------------------- a non-profit digital library since is existence from 1996.-

4. ------------ is the subscription version of Twitter at $2.99 per month includes the ability to read some news articles without ads, upload longer videos and customize the navigation bar

5. Pac-Man edition special phones are recently launched by --------- 

6. Home-grown mobile phone company  ------------ has become the first Indian brand to launch 5G smartphones named "Agni" for domestic consumers

7. The name ‘Tesla’ was actually owned by a company in Sacramento, California and Tesla had to buy the name from that company for $75,000. According to Elon Musk, the top alternate name, if Tesla couldn’t acquire the Tesla Motors trademark, was ------------

8. Had he not sold his shares earlier to leaving the Microsoft board, Bill Gates would have been the richest person with his 1998 holdings that would have been valued  at the end of Oct 2021 at about  ------ billion.

9. ------------- (Amazon/Alphabet/Tesla) becomes the 3rd US company to hit $ 2 trillion market cap after Apple & Microsoft

10. Active listening is a communication skill.  State True or False

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IRAI Quiz -- 211101

 IRAI Quiz -- 211101

1. Infosys Narayamurthy's first venture was a consulting firm called -------------  which didn't last  very long and was closed down in one and a half years time.

2. A  ----------- phone  is an inexpensive mobile phone that is designed for temporary use, after which it may be discarded.

3. The first-ever Google Doodle was made in honor of the --------- (Holloween / Burning Man) Festival  of 1998.

4. On 1st Oct  2021 Google paid tribute on the 93rd birthday of the legandary actor --------- with a Doodle

5. Which IT startup's IPO is touted to be India’s largest market debut at a consideration bof Rs. 18300 crores.

6. Google: Alphabet = Facebook : -------------

7. The focus of the movie "Free Guy" is on -------------

8. Who are the couple:  Paul and Clara

9. The first documented Ransomware was created by a  --------------- (Computer Science Student / Biologist)

10. While a classical application (App) are supported by a centralised database,  a -------- is supported by a smart contract that is connected to a blockchain 

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IRAI Quiz -- 211011

 IRAI Quiz -- 211011

1. What is common to these: Dice, Whitetruffle, Tech Fetch, AngelList, F6S

2. Expand: K8S

3. CoinSwitch Kuber is the recent and India's 2nd Crypto Platform to become an Unicorn. Which is the 1st Crypto Platform to become the Unicorn? 

4. Which is the parent company of PayTM

5. FreshWorks: FreshDesk = FoodieBay:  -----------

6. What is known as "mobo"

7. Who said this: "What the Hell is Cloud Computing?...I’ve no idea what everyone’s talking about."  

8. Kotak's 811 app draws its name from what?  

9. Airtel: India = Telstra: -------- 

10. RJ-11 : Phone/Modem = RJ-45 : -----------

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IRAI Quiz -- 211001

 IRAI Quiz -- 211001

1. Amazon recently announced a mobile home robot called  ---------- 

2. Expand: BNPL

3. "Computers for the masses, not the classes" was the tagline of -------------

4. PumPumPum is a start-up in --------- segment.

5. Hanson Robotics, the designers of "sophia", the 1st robot to receive citizenship, now have designed ---------- the robot nurse which  can speak english, mandarin, and cantonese for the healthcare market.

6. Bit Player is the documentary created to celebrate the birth centenary of ------------

7. In 1971, Laser Printer was invented by --------- (HP / Xerox)

8. "You are only good enough to be a rickshaw puller". Who was told so by his relatives?

9. The investment of the venture capital firm ---------- $1 million as seed fund in 2011 in Freshworks is worth $3 billion on it's listing on NASDAQ in 2021

10. Popular name of SRAM is --------

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