thequiz(); from ampersand commerce & manchester girl geeks 20/6/2012
DESCRIPTION
A geeky quiz for programmers and the like. Originally presented by Ampersand Commerce and Manchester Girl Geeks at AmpersandHQ in Manchester, UK on 20 June 2012.For details on the next quiz, please check here: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/org/1539185402?s=8075909TRANSCRIPT
quiz.init(programming);
Question 1
Find three ways to make the program below print 20 copies of the dash character '-' by changing or adding one character:
int i, n = 20; for (i = 0; i < n; i--) { printf("-"); }
(2 points)
Question 2
Encryption challenge.(see code page behind answer sheet)
Calculate the returned value for each number of the $inputData in turn to reveal an English message.
(2 points)
Question 3
What was the name of the chess-playing computer that beat world champion, Garry Kasparov?
Question 4
Which programming language was named after a 17th century French mathematician?
Question 5
What is the Linux mascot?
Bonus:Why?
(1 extra point)
Question 6
What is the use of capitalisation in the name of theQuiz(); commonly called?
Question 7
What is a polygot in programming terms?
Question 8
Which of the following languages can be used to write server side scripting in ASP.NET?
a) C-sharp b) VB c) C++ d) a and b
Manchester
Question 1
The streets of the Northern Quarter were transformed into 1940’s New York for what movie in 2010?
Question 2
MOSI and the Manchester Science Festival are celebrating the centenary of Alan Turing’s birth by organising the mass planting of sunflowers. This is because Turing had observed a mathematical sequence in the seeds of sunflowers. What is the sequence called?
Question 3
What was the name of the world's first commercially available general-purpose electronic computer, invented in Manchester and known in its sales literature as the Manchester Electronic Computer?
Question 4
Which chemist, physicist and meteorologist has a street named after him in Manchester City Centre, and a building at one of the universities?
Question 5
A Clockwork Orange, by Mancunian writer Anthony Burgess, mentions a number of fictional music groups. Which Sheffield synthpop band took their name from one of these fictional bands?
Question 6
Which Manchester landmark did Sony get in trouble for using without permission as the setting for a virtual shoot-out against invading aliens, in their 2007 PlayStation 3 game Resistance: Fall of Man?
Question 7
How many Starbucks are there within Manchester’s inner ring road?
a) 2 b) 5 c) 13 d) 20
Question 8
Which Mancunian physicist has a unit of energy named after him?
The Front-End
Question 1
How should a quotation mark character be encoded in HTML?
(both correct methods will be accepted)
Question 2
The WebKit layout engine used by the Google Chrome and Apple Safari web browsers, began development as a fork of which Linux-‐based HTML engine?
Question 3
What is the correct syntax for a media query for an iPad in landscape orientaIon?
Question 4
What is the difference between comparison operators == and === in JavaScript?
Question 5
In a HTML document, where is the correct place to insert JavaScript code:
a) In the head of the document (between the <head> and </head> tags)
b) In the body of the document (between the <body> and </body> tags)
c) Code can be inserted in the head or the body of the document.
Question 6
According to sitepoint, what percentage of internet users were using ie7 in march 2012?
a) 9.78% b) 15.56% c) 32.87% d) 50.12%
Question 7
What is the correct syntax for creaIng a black drop shadow with a horizontal and verIcal offset of 5px, and a blur radius of 5px for firefox?
Question 8
Name the three types of HTML lists.
Famous Geeks & Stuff Geeks Like
Question 1
In 1914, Thomas J Watson renamed the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR) to what?
Question 2
Who created Perl in 1986?
Question 3
What does BOFH stand for?
Bonus (and clue):Where can you read all of the episodes?
(1 extra point)
Question 4
Name the artist who famously took stock instead of money for painting murals in the first Facebook headquarters?
Question 5
Name the Film:
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain”
Question 6
Name the woman who in the 1840’s wrote what is recognised as the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine?
Thanks to this, she is widely credited with being the first computer programmer.
Question 7
What was the name of the first computer to use a GUI that Steve Jobs named after his daughter?
a) The Lucy b) The Liza c) The Lisa d) The Mona
Question 8
In the TV series Futurama, what is the character Bender’s full name?
eCommerce
Question 1
What is the full name of P.E.T, the UX methodology used in ecommerce for conversion?
Question 2
Which of the following is not an ecommerce platform?
a) Magento b) Venda c) osCommerce d) Drupal
Question 3
The term ‘Multi-channel Retailing’ refers to:
a) A store that sells more than 1 brand b) A store that has an online & offline
presence c) A store that sells only through eBay
Question 4
Recently Google made a comical video, based in a grocery store, meant put an online checkout experience into a real life scenario.
What was the man buying?
Question 5
Which of these big high street brands do not yet have mobile friendly versions of their ecommerce sites?
a) John Lewis b) Debenhams c) Harvey Nichols d) Selfridges
Question 6
What is the name of TK Maxx in the USA?
BonusWhy?
Question 7
Most people think that choosing ‘Check out as a Guest’ is faster than registering for checkout.
What is the one additional form field that a registration process requires?
Question 8
In the recent airing of a fly-on-wall-documentary by Channel 4, ‘More Sex Please, We’re British’ which online retailer had to struggle under the weight of one order every 3 seconds while the show was airing?
And the winner is...
