The TCS IT WIZ Quiz 2008 organized by Tata Consultancy Services was held on 11th of December. As many as 650 teams of two from numerous schools across Delhi participated in the event conducted at Dogra Hall, IIT Delhi. One Team from our school qualified for the Regional Finals and managed to emerge as winners of the quiz. The team consisted of:
Aditya Jain (X-D) Sameer Mittal (XII – J)
They have as a result been selected for the National Finals to be held in Bangalore. They Received HP Laptops amongst other Goodies !Our School not only Defended the title they won last year but also won the Best Cheering School award.
Lnexun doesn’t normally do movie reviews but I thought this movie deserved one.
Wall-E is computer-animated-science-fiction-romance film produced by Pixar Animation Studios (Now owned by Disney, with Steve Jobs on the board of directors). All in all, a wonderful movie, Most of the characters do not have actual human voices, but instead communicate with body language and robotic sounds, designed by Ben Burtt, that resemble voices. It is also quite interesting to note that Wall-E runs Mac OS.
“By the early 22nd century, the mega corporation Buy n Large took control of every economic service on Earth, causing excessive worldwide consumerism to cover the planet in un-recycled trash. A plan was proposed that would have the Earth’s population evacuate the planet into space on fully automated luxury star liners where they would spend the next five years while an army of waste disposal robots called “WALL-E” (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) would be left behind to clean the planet. This plan failed, however, and the planet was deemed uninhabitable. For the next 700 years, humanity continued to live in space while all of the WALL-E robots on Earth broke down except for one; this lone unit still performs his duties but, after centuries of prolonged activation, has developed sentience and a sense of curiosity, as shown by his habit of collecting knickknacks among the trash (as well as spare parts for himself), and his fascination with the old musical film Hello, Dolly!.
Subsequently, Wall-E falls into love with a probe robot EVE. Wall-E’s adventures then lead him to the luxury star liner, the axiom itself. The captain of the ship discovers Earth’s present state and realizes that humans must go back and rebuild human civilization on earth. Once they reach Earth, the humans and robots begin working together to restore their home.”
C.O.R.E, the computer club of D.P.S Dwarka organized its first annual interschool Computer symosium- C.O.R.E ’08. Delhi Public School R.K Puram bagged the overall trophy. The individual results are as follows-
Quiz- First Position
Anuj Bharadwaj
Dhananjay Goel
Programming- First Position
Anand Khare
Sakshi Gupta
Surprise Event- First Position
Tanay Padhi
Adideva Sekhri
Gaming (Fifa)- First Position
Aviral Goyal
Group Discussion- Second Position
Samarth Mathur
Crossword- Third Position
Sampoorna Biswas
Aditya Grover
There was also a special mention of the participants of Creative Event, Pranav Obhrai and Arpit Mathur.
We got the overall First Position in Exun, 2008, organized by our own school. DPS RKPuram being the host team, handed over the trophy to the runners up, DPS Vasant Kunj.
The details of the final results are as follows:
Senior Quiz (1st position)
Aditya Grover
Karthikeya Asthana
Vishesh Kumar
Senior Quiz (2nd position)
Aditya Jain
G. Siddarth
Sameer Mittal
Gaming – Fifa (2nd position)
Aviral Goyal
Crossword (3rd position)
Aditya Jain
Sameer Mittal
Programming (3rd position)
Rahul Bhatnagar
Sajal Jain
Junior Quiz (First Position)
Aditya Grover
Aditya Jain
Vishesh Kumar
Junior Quiz (Second Position)
Dhananjay Goel
Rohan Nagpal
Tanay Padhi
Surprise Event – Digital Imaging (First position)
Pranav Obhrai
Shubham Goel
Group Discussion (Third position)
Samarth Mathur
You could get the archive of the JQ, SQ, and the crossword from here. Also, you could check out more detailed results over here.
1. His name is spanish for kisses. He also happens to be the founder and CEO of a well known e-commerce company.Who? 2. Name Apple’s next ‘Evolutionary rather than Revolutionary’ operating system 3. What is common between GLEAM, BAM and The Hoppers 4. What is 1 Exabyte equal to 5. Which game engine does the upcoming Far Cry 2 game use? 6. This famous personality is recognized as the world’s first programmer and whose father was the famous poet Lord Byron 7. Which is currently the world’s fastest supercomputer 8. He is “one quarter (Asian) Indian, one quarter Welsh (on his Mother’s side), one quarter Hungarian, and one quarter Russian (Father’s side”. Who? 9. He was an American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a best-selling author who achieved worldwide fame for his “The Last Lecture” speech. Who? 10. His autobiography is known as iWoz. Who? 11. Google’s operating system for mobile phones is known as? 12. Amazon’s E-book reader is known as? 13. Which company makes the BlackBerry 14. The company originally manufactured hanafuda cards. Which company? 15. This famous personality committed suicide by eating an cyanide laced apple. Who? 16. This company was started as Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering 17. Who is the CEO of Adobe 18. What is Microsoft’s music player called? 19. This popular animation software is sanskrit for ‘Illusion’ 20. This electronics giant based in South Korea is also known as the team sponsor for the EPL team Chelsea 21. What does VERONICA stand for? 22. Microsoft’s coffee table like touchscreen computer is known as? 23. What does http://www.google.com/explanation.html contain 24. What is Froogle 25. What was the orignal price for the Apple I
ExunClan has bagged the Overall Runners Up trophy at Code Wars 2008, held at DPS Vasant Kunj on the 21st of November. The individual results are as follows-
