IT Quiz

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 second semi final of TCS IT WIZ 2020, India’s biggest and toughest technology quiz for schools consisting of 4 techies from Dewas, Pune, Ahmedabad, and Hyderabad region.

First Round : Digital Readiness

1.

Who is this?

Ans. August Dvorak 

2.

Which company is he the founder of?

Ans. Flipkart 

3.

What great title was given to this book to describe Paul Allen?

Ans. Idea Man 

4.

Which famous game are we talking about?

Ans. Minesweeper 

5.

This was a creation by Toshiba. It was a huge invention in the world of television. What is this invention, because of which people need not do something?

Ans. There is no need to wear 3D glasses to watch a 3D movie 

Second Round : Borderless Learning

1.

Identify a term by these clues.

Ans. Podcast 

2.

What is it?

Ans. Main frame 

3.

What is this?

Ans. QuickTime by Apple 

4.

Name the technology.

Ans. GPS 

5.

Name the concept.

Ans. SMS 

Third Round : @TCS

1. TCS launched a new world wide community for runners, reinforcing its long standing commitment to global marathon and running partnership platforms. What is it?

Ans. #ThisRun 

2. Australia’s first neobank has partnered with TCS to power its next generation banking as a service. What is the name of this neobank?

Ans. Volt 

3. Focus on applying science and technology for the benefit of industry and people is a powerful vision articulated by which former chairman of TCS?

Ans. J. R. D. Tata 

4. With the vision to promote programming as a sport, TCS has a very popular contest for youngsters known as?

Ans. CodeVita 

Fourth Round : Analytics and Insights

1.

What is the overall answer?

Ans. Wi-Fi 

2.

What is the answer?

Ans. ATM Machine 

3.

What is the name of the enterprise?

Ans. Yahoo 

4.

What is the name of this supercomputer?

Ans. Deep Blue 

Final Round : Multi Experience

1. What is t.co?

Ans. Twitter URL shortening service 

2. Name the Indian Company that started as a time recorder unit.

Ans. Moser Baer 

3. The name of this pet is homonymous with pal and it is one of the several types of pets designed by Sony. What is it?

Ans. AIBO 

4. Name the company which was launched on February, 2012 with the launch of a portal called Junglee which got acquired by them.

Ans. Amazon