Questions

1. What is the test-bed for IPv6 called?
2. What was originally called “Two birds on a wire�?
3. SNOBOL is derived from String Oriented Symbolic Language. What is SPITBOL derived from?
4. What does the ‘cal’ command do in Linux?
5. Which instant messenger of a popular email service now allows you to send SMSs?
6. Where are you most likely to read “Insert Motto Here�?
7. What is Series 40 or 60 in cell phones?
8. What does the ‘nice’ command do in Linux?
9. SWF/LFM-926; what is it?
10. What is the name of the first virus in Symbian?
11. Like Yahoo has different specific IDs, which other popular email service has started it? Give 2 countries for which it has been started?
12. When you log onto Baazee.com you can pay by ‘Paisa Pay’. What is it?
13. What was the code name for the Amiga?
14. What are cherry and membranes types of?
15. Which company is Oracle trying to take over? When was its last bid rejected?
16. What is a quad band cell phone?
17. Why does the screen of a cell phone get stuck to 1 image when it is kept in the freezer?
18. On a QWERTY keyboard, what comes after Y?
19. Which company makes Across Lite?
20. What are Atom, Electron and Archimedes types of?
21. Which company makes the MuVo MP3 Player?
22. What is the most likely file extension of Java games for your mobile phone?
23. Which company has the slogan “Think Broad�?
24. How many pins are there on a Pentium I chip?
25. Which company made Commander Kene?
26. What is iLipi?
27. What’s a dongle?
28. What type of virus was/is Melissa?
29. What does Spybot do?
30. AGP is rapidly being replaced by which technology?
31. Most polyphonic ring tone files are of what type?

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Tie-Breaker Questions

1. Which anti-virus software does Apple endorse for its Mac OS?
2. Who wrote the book “Art of C Programming”?
3. What is QT? (not QuickTime)

Answers

1. McAfee Virex
2. Donald Knuth
3. A graphics rendering engine (used in KDE)
   

–Karan

Thanks for those sites Rohan! It was fun generating ambigrams. First, I got a real ambigram for iPod.

Then, I got an ambigram for Exun Clan.

Since I’m a sadist, I won’t show their inversions. Crane your neck and see for yourself.

–Karan

I’ve always been a staunch believer and a blind follower of apple’s product designing fundas. I had a startling revelation, thanks to my sister(aka current junior exun member saumya) who brought it to my attention, that the phrase “ipod!” by itself is an ambigram!

Those who have done a thorough research on the works of Dan Brown, responsible for masterpieces like DaVinci Code(duh!), Angels and Demons, Digital Fortress and Deception Point, would better understand the concept of ambigrams if they have bothered to go through the prequel (somewhat) of DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons. Anyhow, for the uninformed please refer to the following sites for more information on ambigrams.

http://www.ambigram.com

http://ambigram.matic.com (interesting)

http://www.johnlangdon.net

Anyhow, without much further ado, i bring you the ipod ambigram :

That’s All folks 🙂

once again cheers to apple.

Rohan & Saumya

P.S. : i DO realise that the ipod ambigram may not be intentional but, oh well, with apple you JUST never know 🙂

I’ve posted information here, on lnexun:

http://www.lnexun.com/20041123crossword.gif

–Karan

People would be interested in this piece of lnexun.com statistics.

–Karan

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• Swati Tuteja
• Arjun Gupta
• Nisheeth Sharma
• Souvik
• Bhavya
• Abhisheyk
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• Swati Gupta
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• Aayush Kumar

This is required for the members page on exunclan.com

Also, those of you who have email ids of the likes of firing ball, cool man, the great one, etc. are requested to kindly make new ids with some part of your name in it

Also, we need an exun photo session of all members leaving out a few. Gaurav Mishra shall decide the date and everyone should be there. Send the new pics to me at gursartaj@gmail.com

Thank You

The Mathematical Society, DPSRKP thanks Karan, Nishith and Gaurav of EXUN for making Mathematical Crusade 2004 a great success!

Certificates of appreciation and possible other laurels await you.

–Gopal

Hi from Chennai! The final (national level) round of the Young Talent Search In Computer Programming organised by The Computer Society of India took place today at Rajlakshmi College, which was 55-65 kms away from Chennai.The final comptetion was very well organised. Although the bus ride to the engineering college was not a very pleasant one, the computer labs were good and so was the event. The questions, their submission and correction was also co-ordinated in a very orderly manner. Our team(Swati, Souvik and myself) were awarded the second prize out of about 11 teams – 4 from Delhi, 1 each from Kanpur,Kolkata and Durgapur etc. We will also be representing India along with the team which stood first(Kolkata) in two upcoming International Competitions, one of which is at IIT-Madras on the 20th of Nov. and the other one is during the second week of December at Singapore. Chennai is very hot.

Categories

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Junior: Classes 9 to 10

Senior: Classes 11 to 12

Open: Classes 6 and above

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Detailed rules will be posted on Tuesday. Till then, comment away.

–Karan