THE TECH GURUS’ QUIZ

Saksham Koul

QUESTION 1

• Originally designed for the Macintosh computer, the initial release was called "Presenter", developed by Dennis Austin and Thomas Rudkin.How do we know it today?

ANSWER

• PowerPoint

QUESTION 2

• What was founded by four Israeli partners: Talmon Marco, Igor Megzinik, Sani Maroli and Ofer Smocha, with Talmon Marco as its CEO?

ANSWER

• Viber

QUESTION 3

ANSWER

• Tencent

QUESTION 4

• Christopher Poole is the owner of which comic site?

SITE LOGO

ANSWER

• 4chan

QUESTION 5

• The word would remind people of the sound made during "the moment of discovery and decision making." Which word?

ANSWER

• Bing

QUESTION 6

• The first truly successful set was developed in 1910 by Nathaniel Baldwin, who made them by hand in his kitchen and sold them to the United States Navy. What are we talking about?

ANSWER

• Earphones

QUESTION 7

• What was founded by husband-and-wife team Michael and Xochi Birch in January 2005 at their home in San Francisco?

ANSWER

• BEBO (Blog Early, Blog Often).

QUESTION 8

• In IT lingo, what does “O” stand for in the abbreviation “NOISE?”

ANSWER

• Oracle• NOISE – Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and

Everyone else. All these companies are competitors of Microsoft.

QUESTION 9

• Firefox for mobile, how do we better know it as?

ANSWER

• Fennec browser

QUESTION 10

• The state of ___________ is the only state whose letters can be typed in a straight row of keyboard letters.

ANSWER

• Alaska

QUESTION 11

• What is the Chinese word for "millet?"

ANSWER

• Xiaomi

QUESTION 12

ANSWER

• Mindtree

QUESTION 13

ANSWER

• Birlasoft

QUESTION 14

• ___________ is a Hawaiian word meaning “quick.”

ANSWER

• Wiki

QUESTION 15

• The noted German engineer Walter Bruch was responsible for the first ever technological design and installation of which system?

ANSWER

• CCTV

QUESTION 16

• Microsoft Edge, was initially developed under the codename Project ____________. (clue :- also the name of a sports company endorsed by Michael Clarke and MS Dhoni)

ANSWER

• Spartan

QUESTION 17

• Logo of which file extension?

ANSWER

• .ogg (audio/video/application)

QUESTION 18

• The __________ name was devised by branding consultants Michael Cronan and Karin Hibma. Lab 126 tasked them to name the product. Which product?

ANSWER

• Kindle