A knowledge initiative started by Tata Consultancy Services in 1999, it is the biggest interschool IT Quiz in India for students from class 8 to 12. The quiz aims to build awareness, emphasize the importance of IT skills and enable students to look at technology from innovative perspective. TCS IT WIZ has brought a massive shift in the world of quizzing. The quiz works as an alternative learning tool for students in an outside classroom environment. This is the seventh quarter final of TCS IT WIZ 2020, India’s biggest and toughest technology quiz for schools consisting of 4 techies from the Jharkhand region.
First Round : Digital Readiness
“To test the knowledge of modern era technical giant”.
1.
Who is this extremely important innovator?
Ans. Sal Khan from Khan Academy
2.
A great man once said, “Schools kill creativity”. He is one of the sensational speakers in Ted. Name the person
Ans. Sir Ken Robinson
3.
This is the old logo of which company?
Ans. Canon
4.
Identify this partnership
Ans. Disney BYJU’S
5.
Identify the “K”
Ans. It stands for Kryptonite
Second Round : Borderless Learning
“To democratise the technical learning in today’s seamless world”.
1.
This is an extremely important innovation by a company which is better known in the technology space, but they started their journey with pencils. Name the company
Ans. Sharp Technologies
2.
What does the 3 S’s in Amazon S3 stand for, if one of them is Simple, then what are the other two?
Ans. Simple Storage Service
3.
It’s known as the 10,000 year clock. Which great individual is behind this experiment?
Ans. Jeff Bezos
4.
Which operating system would you associate to him?
Ans. Ubuntu
5.
Name the person
Ans. Jeff Immelt
Third Round : @TCS
“Unfolding awareness about TCS budding business and absolute history”.
1. Tata Consultancy Services has a partnership with a company that was founded by Thomas Elva Edison, which is believing in digital reimagination. Which great company are we talking about?
Ans. General Electric
2. The TCS icity lab is in partnership with SMU, which is a famous university in which country?
Ans. Singapore
3. TCS Japan announced something called ASTEPLUG for Japanese conglomerates among which of the following Toyota or Mitsubishi?
Ans. Mitsubishi
4. It’s an app created by TCS Innovation Labs to provide easy tools for sea food growers like pond management, feed, and water test management. How do we know this project?
Ans. mKRISHI
Fourth Round : Analytics and Insights
“Many images are shown and the analysis and insights of techies on technical giant are seen”.
1.
Identify the person
Ans. George Boole
2.
These two characters were used differently by somebody. What are they?
Ans. Office Assistants
3.
Identify the book
Ans. Bridgital Nation
4. What is the overall answer for the following?
Ans. Nvidia
Final Round : Multi Experience
“Scrutinising the knowledge of technical giants in much wide level”.
1. We all commonly say Giga Byte, it is 10 to the power how much?
Ans. 9
2. In all books especially in the digital world, there is something called ISBN number. What does that stand for?
Ans. International Standard Book Number
3. Google Sky is a collaboration between NASA, Sloan and which telescope?
Ans. The Hubble telescope
4. The ACM Prize in Computing was established by the Association for Computing Machinery. This award is given to outstanding young professional of the year, selected on the basis of a single recent major technical or service contribution. This award is accompanied by a price of $35,000. The candidate must have been 35 years of age or less at the time the qualifying contribution was made. What is the name of the award?
Ans. Grace Murray Hopper Award