SEES Quiz Night 6

Ohm's Law is not applicable to

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Answer explanation

A vacuum tube is a non-linear circuit. Its conductance changes with temperature, its current and voltage graph is not a straight line which implies that vacuum tube does not obey Ohm's Law.

.ini' extensoin refers usually to what kind of file?

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Answer explanation

A .ini file is a configuration file used by Windows programs to initialize program settings. It contains sections for settings and preferences (delimited by a string in square brackets) with each section containing one or more name and value parameters.

Who invented the ballpoint pen?

• Waterman brothers

• Bicc brothers

• Wright brothers

• Biro brothers

Answer explanation

Waterman brothers - Well, Lewis Waterman held mutliplr fountain pen patents and was the founder of the Waterman Pen Company...

Wright brothers - Aviation pioneers...

Biro brothers - Lászlo and Gyorgy Bíró patented the first successful ballpoint pen

Bicc brothers - ...

Who developed Yahoo?

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Answer explanation

Dennis Ritchie & Ken Thompson - Invented the UNIX Operating System and C programming language.

David Filo & Jerry Yang - Founded Yahoo! in January, 1994.

Vint Cerf & Robert Kahn - Proposed the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) effectively creating the internet as we know it.

Steve Case & Jeff Bezos - Cofounder and investor in Rise of the Rest Seed Fund II, a tech startup hub.

Fathom is a unit of measuring

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Answer explanation

A fathom is, no, not about understanding, a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 metres), chiefly used in measuring depth of water.

In a series RLC circuit that is operating above the resonant frequency, the current

• lags the applied voltage

• leads the applied voltage

• is in phase with the applied voltage

• is zero

Pick out the scalar quantity

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Facebook was launched on

• Jan 16, 2002

• Feb 4, 2004

• Jan 16, 2003

• Feb 4, 2002

Answer explanation

On February 4, 2004, a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg launches The Facebook in order to connect Harvard students with one another.

The other dates:

Jan 16, 2002 - On January 16, 2002, a school shooting occurred at the Appalachian School of Law, an American Bar Association accredited private law school in Grundy, Virginia, United States.

Jan 16, 2003 - The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.

Feb 4, 2002 - ...life...? :)

In a transformer, the resistance between its primary and secondary coils is

• zero

• 1 Ω

• infinite

• none of the above

The Hike messenger is available in ___ languages

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• 9

• 13

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Answer explanation

Hike Messenger, also called Hike Sticker Chat, was an Indian freeware, cross-platform instant messaging (IM), Voice over IP (VoIP) application which was launched on 12 December, 2012 by Kavin Bharti Mittal and is now owned by Hike Private Limited. Hike worked offline through SMS and had multi-platform support.

Languages: English, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu.