quizznga 2015 prelims by dork's corner

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1. Tuesday 13 October 2015 marked the international celebration of the

achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). On

which famous personality has the day been aptly named after?

Answer: Lady Ada Lovelace

2. Back in around 2005, X , an IIT Delhi graduate had conceived the idea of online food ordering and tried to bring it to life with his startup Foodlet.com. After working for around a year on the idea, X decided to end its operations because of the lack of resources. However, X went on to start one of the most successful companies in India. Who is X?

Answer: Deepinder Goyal, Zomato

3. What is the funda here?

Answer: Ebay India trolls Amazon’s #AurDikhao campaign.

4. X happens to be the largest consumer of fireworks in the United States. They also launch the fireworks with compressed air instead of gunpowder to reduce fumes and gain better height and timing. X Please!

Answer: Disneyworld

5. X was made in 1952, famously because the then Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was concerned that Indian women were spending precious foreign exchange on beauty products, and personally requested J.R.D Tata to manufacture them in India.

Answer: Lakme Cosmetics

6. According to this company’s website, the name "X" is derived from the symbolic mountain of the gods, an icon of unshakeable reliability and character - a core value which lies at the heart of X's promise to its customers. Founded in 2007, it claims to be the third largest ‘Radio Taxi’ service in the world. Name the company.

Answer: Meru

7. She is the woman who rented her garage to Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they started Google. Her sister Anne founded 23&Me, a personal genomics and biotechnology company. She is also the current CEO of Youtube. Who am I talking about?

Answer: Susan Wojcicki

8. This is the logo of a famous philanthropic organization. Identify the organization.

Answer: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

9. His father worked as a supervisor of taxes at Rouen and to save his arithmetical labor, he devised this simple calculator that can perform addition and subtraction. Name the machine or the inventor.

Answer: Blaise Pascal and Pascaline / Pascal’s Calculator.

10. This is a strip from Dilbert by Scott Adams. What/who is described as X here?

Answer: Mark Zuckerberg

11.What did IKEA release this ad as a reaction to?(Answer in next slide)

Answer: Apple Pencil

12. Martin Shkreli is a serial entrepreneur who has recently been in news for being arrested on charges of fraud. He was the founder of a pharmaceuticals company dealing in an anti parasitic drug called Daraprim whose price was raised from $13.50 to $750 per tablet. (by 5556 %) Whom was this company named after ?

Answer: Alan Turing (Turing Pharmaceuticals)

13. Lamar Odom, Charlie Hebdo, Copa America, Jurassic World, Big Brother Brazil, Bobbi Kristina, Adele, iPhone 6S.

Where would you find these names?

Answer: Google Trends 2015

14. When he was 13, he had an appendectomy and he didn't recover from the operation. He remained at his house mostly and spend most of his time on the internet. He got pretty excited by the Silicon Valley and the fact that you can change the world from your bedroom compelled him. He started a blog when he was 19 and the blog has become one of the most famous blogs on the internet. Which blog am I talking about?

Answer: Mashable

15. It was codenamed "Project Baraboo" and has been in development since the last five years. The idea about this was pitched much earlier in around 2007 which served as the development platform for MS Kinect. What am I talking about that has been making a huge buzz in the recent months?

Answer: Microsoft Hololens

16.What has been blacked out?

Answer: 301

17.The image below is the first working layout of which widely used payment service?

Answer: Square, Inc. by Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey

18. X is also called Additive Manufacturing(AM). In 1981, Hideo Kodama of Nagoya Municipal Industrial Research Institute invented two AM fabricating methods. In 1984, Chuck Hull of developed a prototype system featuring X based on a process known as stereolithography and designed the STL (STereoLithography) file format widely accepted by X software. This technology has become popular in the recent years as its patents have expired or will expire soon. X please!

Answer: 3D Printing

19. X was founded by Dewan Bahadur in Burma in 1901. Today it is one of India’s largest conglomerates and is headquartered in Chennai. BSA, Hercules, Ajax and Ballmaster are all parts of X.

Identify X.

Answer: Murugappa Group

20. Identify this company which is credited for bringing the plastic ‘revolution’ in the world.

Answer: The Bakelite Corporation founded by Leo Baekeland (‘Father of Plastics Industry’)