A Tech Quiz By Samyak Jain & Harsh Digwasia

1.

After being rejected by Twitter and Facebook, Brian Acton founded which popular messaging company valued at more than $17 Billion ?

ANSWER…

WhatsApp

2.

Which popular music software was earlier known as SoundJam ?

ANSWER…

iTunes

3.

John Tukey early in his career worked on developing statistical methods for computers at Bell Labs where he invented the term “bit”. However the term X which Paul Niquette claims he coined in 1953 was first used in print by Tukey in a 1958 article in American Mathematical Monthly and thus some attribute the term to him. Which term ?

ANSWER…

Software

4.

X is a New Delhi based company which was founded on 10 June 1988 by Rakesh Malhotra. The tagline of X is “Jispe Desh Kare Bharosa”. In 2004 X tied up with Eagle Picher Inc USA for battery technology. Today X is a part of Schneider Electric Conglomerate and Sachin Tendulkar is the brand ambassador of X.

ANSWER…

Luminous

5.

Which popular tech personality publically offered to donate his kidney to Steve Jobs ?

ANSWER…

Tim Cook

6.

_______ Ravindran cracked the CAT Examinations several times but he decided not to join IIM and instead founded his own company which is named after him and is known for using technology to impart education. Identify this company ?

ANSWER…

BYJU’s.

7.

The name “X" was derived from the city name ___ _________, which is why the company's engineers insisted on using the lower case “X" in its early years. The logo is intended to depict the two towers of the Golden Gate Bridge.

X?

ANSWER…

Cisco, San Francisco

8.

Ritesh Aggarwal founded Oravel Stays as a method for people to easily book rooms. He then changed its name to “X”, which has become one of the most popular startups in the country. Its logo is a location pin.

ANSWER…

OYO.

9.

The company was founded by and is managed by James Park and Eric Friedman, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company's stock began trading with the symbol “___“(First three letters of their name) on June 18, 2015.

LOGO…

ANSWER…

FITBIT

10.

You don’t need to fill the blanks, just tell this is on the Wikipedia page of _____.

ANSWER…

11. Simply identify

the person from his social media profile picture.

ANSWER…

Kunal Shah, founder of Freecharge

12.

Name the company he founded which has been in the news prominently for the past few days.

ANSWER…

13. X, born 14th July 1976 is

an Indian entrepreneur and angel investor. He is the founder and CEO

of GOQii (pronounced Go-Key). Previously founded the game

development and publishing company Indiagames, which he sold to DisneyUTV Digital, The Walt Disney Company (India) in 2011 for $100 million.

Identify the person. (Picture on next slide)

PICTURE…

ANSWER…

Vishal Gondal

14. X is a global crowdfunding platform based in the

United States. The company’s stated mission is to help bring creative projects to life. X has reportedly received more than $1.5 billion in _______ from 7.8 million backers to fund 200,000 creative projects, such as films, music, stage shows, comics, journalism, video games, technology and food-related projects.

People who back X projects are offered tangible rewards and one of a kind experiences in exchange for their _______. This model traces its roots to subscription model of arts patronage, where artists would go directly to their audiences to fund their work.

Fill in the blanks.

ANSWER… Pledges.

15.

Identify this lady who was an actress and what is she doing in a tech quiz.

ANSWER…

Hedy Lamarr; Famous for developing Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum.

16.

What is being mocked here?

ANSWER…

The Turing Test

17.

Identify where this contraption is used or simply tell what is it.

ANSWER…The iPod Wheel.

18.

What is a pair of shades doing in a tech quiz?

ANSWER…

Snapchat Snaptacles.

19.

Name the now defunct project by Google which gained a lot of traction in the last 3 years which resulted in companies like Motorola and LG introducing devices inspired by it.

ANSWER…

Project Ara.

20. ID this safety mascot.

ANSWER…

21.

Who took the responsibility for hacks on twitter profiles of Rahul Gandhi, Vijay Mallya, Barkha Dutt, Raveesh Kumar, etc. recently?

ANSWER…

Legion

22. ID.

ANSWER…

Sony Morpheus

23. ID this gadget by Microscoft.

ANSWER… Microsoft’s HoloLens

24. WHAT?

ANSWER... Apple’s Touch Bar on the new generations of

Macs.

25. WHAT & BY WHO?

ANSWER... THE CRAZY ONES

26. VENTURES BY?

ANSWER... ELON MUSK

27. ID the company from its founder. (Hints on demand).

ANSWER... REED HASTINGS

28. ID the gentleman.

ANSWER...

Travis Kalanick (founder of Uber).

29.

The lady you saw in the previous image is Gabi Holzwarth.

She invested in Apple, which makes her a shareholder in Apple and its subsidiaries.

Why would that make her the enemy of her ex – boyfriend, Travis Kalanick (they split up in August)?

ANSWER...

Apple invested $1 billion in Didi Chuxing, a ride hailing app in China which is the main rival of Uber in China.

30. ID THE PERSON.

ANSWER… ARTEM VAULIN

31.

This company was started in Chicago, Illinois, as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation. Some of its important milestones are: Made the radio that went to the

moon Created the first mobile phone ever Got acquired by Google, then Lenovo

ANSWER…

Motorola

32.

X was born at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas, on May 27, 1999. He was named by Dan Van Coppenolle after the 1988 Shanachie song “_______(Working Together for Freedom)" by Rita Marley. _________ is a Swahili term for communal labor.On September 18, 2014, _______ was transferred to Cincinnati to learn adult behavior and join a new social group.

ANSWER…

Harambe

33.

This was founded as a card company in late 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi. Based in Kyoto, Japan, the business produced and marketed a playing card game called "Hanafuda". Currently, it is one of the biggest companies in the gaming world.What company?

ANSWER…

Nintendo

34.

It was a project started by Apple in the 90’s to create a handheld personal assistant device. What was the name of the project?

ANSWER…

Newton (PDA)

35.

Developed by Plain Vanilla Games from Iceland. It matches up users to compete against each other in an activity dear to our heart.

ANSWER…

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