TCS IT WIZ KOLKATA 2017 IT QUIZ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Questions and answers of TCS IT Wiz Kolkata 2017 IT Quiz Prelims

*Actual questions may be different from the questions on this blog. This is a tweaked version of the actual questions. If you can edit/contribute more you’re most welcome.

1. X is a real-time strategy, simulation video game, developed and published by UK-based independent games studio Ndemic Creations. The player creates and evolves a pathogen in an effort to destroy the world with a deadly X .What is X ?

Ans: Plague

2. A Question on Kik

3.Intouch is a service that is entering Nepal now with a lots of Banking solutions . Which Bank brought it ?

Ans: State Bank of India

4. A Question on Vishal Gondal

5.Which e-commerce site came up with the tagline ‘We only sell CAMEL’  where Camel Stands for Certified Authentic Merchandise that Everybody Likes ?

Ans: TataCLIQ

6. Who coined the term ‘Information Superhighway’ ?

Ans: AL Gore

7. A Question on Byju’s app

8. A Question on Monument Valley

9.A Question on Liam robot

10. A Question on Uber effect – on demand mobile services

11. Kamalapur in West Bengal become’s India’s first ________  village ?

Ans: Wifi enabled village

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13.A Question on Rotten Tomatoes

14.What  is currently the smallest unit of the bitcoin currency recorded on the block chain. It is a one hundred millionth of a single bitcoin (0.00000001 BTC) ?

Ans: Satoshi

15. Who quotes “In a world without fences, who need gates “?

Ans : Scott McNealy

16.Identify the app

Ans: Meetup

17. This is an information technology and business management software as a service (SaaS) developer. The company was founded in 1996 by Sridhar Vembu and Tony Thomas in Pleasanton, California and has development offices in India and China.

Ans: Zoho Corporation

18.What product from Nintendo was codenamed NX ?

Ans: Nintendo Switch

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20.Who is the current chairman of Tata Sons ?

Ans: Natarajan Chandrasekaran

TCS IT Wiz Kolkata 2017 IT Quiz Finals

Round 1

1.The project’s origin can be traced to Interaction Design Institute,Ivrea in Italy where students used a BASIC stamp microcontroller at a cost of $100 which was a costly affair for many students.In 2003, Hernando Barragán started WIRING, a development platform.The name of the project comes from the bar in Ivrea,Italy where the founders used to meet.Name the project ?

Ans: Arduino

2.It was inspired by the forced-symbiotic relationship between H.R. Ciger’s fictional face hugger and its host in the movie Alien (1979).The concept however was invented and implemented by Young and Yung at Columbia and presented in 1996 IEEE security and privacy conference.What ?

Ans: Ransomware

3.Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Minds programme of ministry of Human Resource development,Government of India is an instrument of self-actualization providing opportunities of life-long learning.Professors from centrally funded instituted like IITs and IIMs will offer online courses to citizens of India.Atleast 1 crore students are expected to benefit from this move.What is this initiative better known as ?

Ans: SWAYAM

4.Its length was decided by Sony and Philips in 1980 and one unseeingly unusual factor that influenced was Ludwig Van Beethoven.It was decided that the standard version be able to fit the Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony completely.What ?

Ans: The size of a CD

5.The company was founded by Mr.Ray, an American in the United Kingdom in 1965.The company’s first product was a compander based noise reduction system.Today their technology drives our multimedia almost everywhere.Which company ?

Ans: Dolby

6.The medals for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics are to be made from what ?

Ans: E-Wastes

Round 2

1.What this album’s significance in an IT Quiz

Ans: First digitally sold album

2.What are they called/ What  they do ?

Ans: They are called Internet Saathis , an initiative to bring digital literacy to women in rural parts of India

3.What type of sites were seized by them ?

Ans: Torrent Sites

4.What concept ?

Ans: Underwater warehouse patented by Amazon

5.What is the significance ?

Ans: Self-tying shoes by Nike inspired from the movie ‘Back to the Future’

6.Which is the first fully digital village as per this initiative ?

Ans: Akodara

Round 4

1.Connect

Ans: Flipkart

2.Connect

And: Vinod Khosla

3.Connect

Ans: Y Combinator

4.Connect

Ans: Elon Musk

Round 5

1.Connect

Ans: Internet of Things

2.Connect

Ans: Bill Joy

3.Connect

Ans: Acer

TCS IT WIZ KOLKATA 2017 IT QUIZ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS