General Knowledge and IT Questions 043

1. It is an interpretation that the logo represents a building surrounded by four boundary walls leaving spaces on each side. It has a meaning that the bank will help people in building their dream homes focusing completely on the housing sector.

Which financial institution are we talking about?



Answer: Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC)

2. Kraft durch Freude (KdF) meaning strength through joy was a German leisure organization, organizing tourist trips and resorts in Nazi Germany which soon became the world’s largest tourism operator in the 1930’s.

An idea for a new product had been conceptualised by KdF in the 1930’s whose aim had been for a small car that could carry a German family of five. To buy one, people had to join a special savings scheme run by the organisation.

However the product couldn’t materialize due to WW2. After the war, it became a symbol of Germany worldwide. What are we talking about?



Answer: Volkswagen Beetle

3. Connect the following companies to a recent announcement.

Answer: Internet on the Moon

4. Below is the coat of arms of which company whose motto means Step by Step, Ferociously? The name of the company itself refers to the point of origin of the company.

Answer: Blue Origin

5. While at college, co-founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap by his grandfather. People would often turn to him to solve their problems and was referred to as ‘that guy in the ___ ___’.  By the time he wrote the manual for the beta version of X he had lost his ___ ___ and hence included an appeal in the manual to return his ___ ___ if found, which later became the name of the company itself.

Fill in the blanks which is the company we are talking about.

Answer: Red Hat Inc.

General Knowledge and IT Questions 042

1. It is a computer operating system based on the Debian distribution of Linux and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of “humanity towards others”. It is sponsored by the UK-based company Canonical Ltd., owned by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth. What are we talking about?


Answer: Ubuntu


2. This creation by E.A. Johnson has given a total new dimension to the gadgets of today. What did he invent?


Answer: Touch Screen




3. Head quarters of Sun Microsystems (Now a Subsidiary of ORACLE Corp.) in Menlo Park, California, is going to be used by another IT giant which caused a complete revolution in the way people communicate. Which IT giant are we talking about?

Answer: Facebook

4. To prove/confirm something , the students/members of MIT conducted an experiment, where they showed that the specific gravity of specimen X is greater than the specific gravity of specimen Y . They hence showed that this was correct.

Answer: They scientifically proved the proverb - "Blood is thicker than water".

5. "I'm really happy to reach 80. I never expected it, not least having a neighbour – the greatest power in the world – trying to kill me every day." Who said these lines? CLUE: He was the longest-ruling non-royal leader. 

Answer: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (He is a Cuban revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008. His term length was of 47 years, 165 days.)

6. Identify the lady below. She has been called "the world's longest hunger striker" for fasting for over 10 years; she is also called the "Iron Lady of Manipur".

Answer: Irom Sharmila Chanu (She has been on hunger strike to demand that the Indian government repeal the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958)

7. Something that we use everyday is named after Harold _______ 2 , a 9th century Viking King. What are we talking about?

Answer: Bluetooth

8. Which brand is being advertised in the below ad?

 Answer: Pantene

9. Identify the lady below. She founded which modern day holiday?

Answer: She is Anna Jarvis, she is credited for having founded Mother's Day in USA. She first celebrated it in 1908 as she held a memorial for her mother

10.  This structure is the longest cemetery in the world. It is also known as “Wan Li Chang Cheng” in its country. Which structure are we talking about? 

Answer: The Great Wall of China (It is known as the longest cemetery in the world because lakhs of commoners died while constructing the Wall and their bodies got buried under the Wall. Wan Li Chang Cheng in China, means ‘Ten Thousand Li Wall’)

General Knowledge and Technology 037

1. Identify the structure below. It was built by David Jin, an entrepreneur from Las Vegas with the help of architect Mark Ross Johnson.

    Answer: Grand Canyon "Skywalk"

2. What is special about this stamp?

    Answer: It is India's first ever perfumed postage stamp. It gives out sandalwood fragrance every time it is rubbed.

3. Identify the robot below and mention its purpose.

    Answer: It is called "The Battlefield Extradition Assist Robot" or simply "BEAR". It is developed by Vecna Technologies for the US Army. It's main purpose is to carry out the injured soldiers away from the battlefield so that they can be given medical attention, and also to perform some other tasks considered dangerous for humans in the battlefield.

4. What is special about these shoes?

    Answer: Developed by Electrolux it is called "Dustmate". The shoes vacuum as you walk around, the base of the shoe collects the dust without requiring any effort.

5. Identify the person below.

    Answer: Joseph Kony (He is a Ugandan guerrilla group leader, head of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). He recently caught fame due to the 27 minute documentary titled "Kony 2012" by film maker Jason Russell.)

Information Technology 016

1. Identify this Nokia Model below and mention its specialty.

    Answer: Nokia 808 PureView (It has a 41 Megapixel Camera)

2. Identify the camera below and mention its specialty.

    Answer: Sony Cybershot G3 (It was the first Wi-Fi Camera)

3. Identify the gadget below.

    Answer: Moser Baer Zap (It is a Credit Card shaped USB Flash Drive)

4. What do you see below and by whom was it invented?

    Answer: Invisible Car by Mercedes (For more information on it: http://www.pcworld.com/article/251249/mercedes_makes_invisible_car_is_tricky_to_find_in_a_parking_lot.html)

5. Identify the person below and name the company he founded and is the current Chairman of.

   Answer: Ajit Balakrishnan (He is the founder, current Chairman and C.E.O of Rediff.com)

General Knowledge and Technology 032

1. What does this traffic sign pictured below, in Dresden, East Germany signify?

   Answer: It stands for "NO ENTRY"

2. Hard disks when impregnated with X can increase the amount of data that can be held by the disk by almost six times. Name the substance X.

    Answer: Table Salt (NaCl).

    (For more information on this: http://www.geekosystem.com/salty-terabits/)

3. Name the two people below, with each of them holding their own inventions in the picture.

    Answer: (Left) Eastman Kodak, (Right) Thomas Alva Edison (George Eastman Co. founder of Kodak, and Thomas Edison are seen with their inventions in the 1920s. Edison invented the motion picture equipments and Kodak invented the roll film and the camera box, which helped to create the whole of movie industry.)

4. Name the watch and what is so special about this watch?

   Answer: Titanic DNA Watch (The metal frames of the watch is actually made of the metal in the hull of the ship Titanic.)

5. It is called Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, and Yeh-hsien in China. Who are we talking about?

    Answer: Cinderella

DID YOU KNOW?

The colour blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.

General Knowledge and Technology 029

1. What is being displayed in the pictorial diagram below?

    Answer: Nanocar (It is the world's smallest car (one molecule in size). It takes 10 pulses of electrons to move the vehicle 6 nanometres.To keep the car moving requires a pulse of electrons every half turn. It was developed by Netherlands based researchers.)

2. Name the wristband and what is special about it?

    Answer: It is the "UP Wristband" produced by Jawbone. It is the combination of a wristband and iPhone application that tracks your activity and sleep and inspires you to move more, sleep better and eat smarter.

3. It is an extremely radioactive synthetic element that on Earth can only be created in a laboratory. It is a d-block element whose name was approved by the IUPAP on November 4, 2011 making it the last element in the Periodic Table to have a permanent name (presently). It has been named after a very famous Renaissance Astronomer. Which element are we talking about?

   Answer: Copernicium (It is named after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus)

4. A very famous video game character is now an emblem of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party's Presidential candidate, Tsai ing-wen, in Taiwan. Identify the character.

   Answer: Red Angry Bird

"Angry Birds" Sculpture made of piggy banks
outside her campaign office in Taichung.

5. Who is going to mostly top the list of the top-paid C.E.O. of 2011 in US with a total value of around $378 million?

    Answer: Timothy D. Tim Cook (The Apple C.E.O.'s worth is more than the top 10 of the 2010 list combined.)

DID YOU KNOW?


Armored knights raised their visors (hats) to identify themselves and also a gesture of respect when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.

Information Technology 015

1.What was Christopher Latham Scholes biggest contribution to the IT World? 

Answer: He invented the type writer and also the “QWERTY” Keyboard; He is also called “The father of typewriter”.

2.This gadget was invented by the Cambridge University’s Science Department. The first of it was pointed at the Trojan Room coffee pot. Which gadget are we talking about? 


Answer: Webcam (That first camera was finally switched off on August 22, 2001.)


3. Which famous company acquired DoubleClick (It develops and provides Internet ad serving services)?


Answer: Google Inc.


4. It is an infra-red imaging system used in cricket presently. The technology was in fact founded by French scientist Nicholas Bion. Which controversial technology are we talking about? 


Answer: Hot Spot


5. In Greece, it is papaki, In Japan, it is atto maaku, in South Africa, it is called aapstert. 


Answer: '@' sign on keyboard


DID YOU KNOW?


The day after Internet Explorer 4 was released, a few Microsoft employees left a 10 by 12-foot Internet Explorer logo on Netscape’s front lawn with a message that said “We love you” at the height of the browser wars in the late 90’s.

Information Technology 014

1. Who is the author of the book ‘Long Live the Web’?


     Answer: Tim Berners Lee


2. It was developed by American programmer Justin Frankel and Russian programmer Dmitry Boldyrev, and its popularity grew quickly, along with the developing trend of MP3 file-sharing. Which entertainment software are we talking about?
 

     Answer: Winamp

3. Which is the world’s fastest supercomputer?

      Answer: K Computer produced by Fujitsu in Kobe, Japan named after the Japanese word, kei which stands for 10 quadrillion. In Novemeber 2011, it exceeded 10 petaflops.

4. Israel banned the imports of this gadget in their country. After two months of the ban, they lifted the ban and returned the confiscated gadgets. Then the Princeton University and The Yankees Stadium in New York too banned this gadget due to issues with Wi Fi and network. Name this gadget.

 

    Answer: Apple iPad

5. This problem was the electronic equivalent of the El Nino and was possibility of nasty surprises around the globe. It was also called the Millennium Bug. What was the problem called?

 

     Answer: Y2K Problem

DID YOU KNOW?

The largest on-line auction site eBay started in 1995 when founder Pierre Omidyar posted for sale a broken laser printer and someone bid $15.

Information Technology 013

1. “Arkham Asylum” is a popular version of which game series published by Eidos Interactive for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC?

     Answer: Batman Series

2. Who is credited to have invented the printers?

     Answer: The Father of Computers himself, Charles Babbage

3. If we related Apple to iPhone, in the same way which product would we relate to Google?

     Answer: Nexus One (The Nexus One (codenamed HTC Passion) was Google's flagship Smartphone manufactured by Taiwan's HTC Corporation)

4. Which gaming console has gaming joysticks named “Six Axis Motion Controller”?

     Answer: Playstation 3 (The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles)

5. BenQ launched a Series of Notebook PCs (Laptops). By what name are these series of notebooks known as?

     Answer: JoyBook (BenQ is a Taiwanese multi-national company that sells and markets consumer electronics, computing and communications devices under the "BenQ" brand name, which stands for the company slogan Bringing Enjoyment and Quality to life)

DID YOU KNOW?

The phonograph - the first machine that could both record and reproduce sound - was invented by Thomas Edison in 1877.

Information Technology 012

1. The Chairman and Co-founder of MindTree resigned from the company in March 2011 and established a new business company, Happiest Minds Technologies Private Limited. Who are we talking about?


    Answer: Ashok Soota


2.  This is 3D computer graphics software. Originally developed by Alias Systems Corporation (formerly Alias Wavefront) and currently owned and developed by Autodesk, Inc. This software was also used in a few films of Harry Potter Series for the special effects. It is surprisingly named after a Hindu word for illusion. Which is this software? 


    Answer: Autodesk Maya commonly shortened to Maya.


3. The person below is in news. Why and who is he?

     Answer: He is Scott Thompson he is in news recently because he was appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of Yahoo Inc.. He formerly was the President of PayPal.


4. What is being displayed by the woman in the below picture?

    Answer: i2R E-Paper (A group of Taiwan Scientists have developed an environmentally-friendly form of re-writable electronic paper that works without electricity.)


 5. Jackie Chan is the product spokesperson for which Antivirus company?

     Answer: KASPERSKY

DID YOU KNOW?

Data actually is plural of datum. However, these days it is common practice to use data as a singular word.

Information Technology 011

1. Which company bought out the LCD TV division of Sony for 1.08 trillion won?

   Answer: Samsung (Making S-LCD a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung)

 2. Identify the product which is being advertised below.

    Answer: Gorilla Glass

3. Identify the C.E.O. below.

   Answer: N. Chandrashekharan(C.E.O. of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS))

4. Whose logo do you see below?

    Answer: Alexa

5. Whose first tweet was this: "I'm 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010" ?
    Answer: Google (It's the binary form of "I'm feeling lucky")
DID YOU KNOW?
Google rents goats from a company called California Grazing to help cut down the amount of weeds and brush at Google HQ.

Information Technology 010

1. Simon, the world’s first smartphone was made in collaboration between Bell South and which IT giant?
    
    Answer: IBM (International Business Machines)



2. Which Hindi Daily has partnered with Yahoo India, to promote the content in Hindi for Yahoo India?
    
    Answer: Dainik Jagran


3. What was originally to be named '80586' but couldn't be trademarked that way.What was it later named?
    
    Answer: Pentium


4. Which company was originally called Amazin' Software?
    
    Answer: Electronic Arts (EA)


5. YouTube, launched a new channel which will be showing a new Bollywood blockbuster every month. It was first released for Bollywood movies and soon its going to be available for Tamil movies. Which service are we talking about?

    

    Answer: Box office

DID YOU KNOW?

The world ‘e-mail’ was been banned by the French Ministry of culture. They were required to use the word ‘Courriel’ instead, which is the French equivalent of E-mail. This move became the subject of ridicule from the cyber community in general.

Information Technology 009

1. By what name is Apple Inc. known on the NASDAQ and NYSE market?
    
    Answer: APPL


2. Which is the first restaurant chain to open Online Booking?
    
    Answer: Pizza Hut


3. Expand JAR.
   
    Answer: Jave ARchive


4. GO is a handheld gaming console from which company?
    
    Answer: Sony


5. Sun Microsystems has been acquired by which famous company?
    
   Answer: ORACLE




DID YOU KNOW?


The blue colored links on a web page is just a browser default because way back on the days when monitors only had 16 colours, blue was the darkest colour that did not affect text legibility.

Information Technology 008

1. It was known as DIX when created by Dell, Intel and Xerox and was a very important part of the technology world. What are we talking about?

    Answer: Ethernet

2. Which was the Open Source Operating System developed by Apple in 2000?
    Answer: Darwin OS

3. It was first suggested by Ben Hammersley, it is a series of digital media file that are released in episodes. What are we talking about?

    Answer: Pod casting

4. Who invented the Oak Programming Language while working for Sun Microsystems and then later on joined Google?
     Answer: James Gosling (Java was initially named Oak.)

5. Which was the first registered domain?
     Answer: Symbolics.com 


DID YOU KNOW?


Google’s famously sparse homepage is considered a classic design in the online world. The Google logo, however, wasn’t actually centered on the page until March 31, 2001. As early users will remember, the homepage had a bias to the left-hand side, and even earlier — back in 1998 — Google sported a Yahoo-style exclamation mark.

Information Technology 007

1. What is the unit of measurement for the speed and movement direction of a computer mouse?

    Answer: Mickey

2. Whose 84th birthday (12th December, 2011) does the below Google doodle signify?

    Answer: Robert Noyce (He was nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley"; He co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968.)

3. Identify the C.E.O. below.

   Answer: Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman, current C.E.O. of Hewlett-Packard

4. The immediate predecessors of this file format were “Optimum Coding in the Frequency Domain” (OCF), and Perceptual Transform Coding (PXFM). This format was made at the Fraunhofer Society. Which file format are we talking about?

    Answer: MP3 (MPEG-2 Audio Layer III)

5. "Quietly Brilliant" is the tag line of which famous mobile manufacturing company?

     Answer: HTC formerly High Tech Computer Corporation.

DID YOU KNOW?

The order of the name of Hewlett-Packard was decided by a coin toss, Packard won the toss but choose Hewlett-Packard.

Information Technology 006

1. The two people below are the founders of ________?

    Answer: Flipkart (It is an Indian online shopping company headquartered in Bangalore, India, which was established in 2007. It is among India’s largest online retail businesses. In picture: Sachin Bansal (R) and Binny Bansal)

2. In 1971, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded a firm, Syzygy Engineering. How do we better know this company now?  

   Answer: Atari

3. “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” is better known to us as what?

     Answer: CAPTCHA (It is a type of challenge-response test used in computing as an attempt to ensure that the response is generated by a person and not by a computer)

A Facebook CAPTCHA

4. Identify the person below.

    Answer: Ronald Gerald Wayne (He founded Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Wozniak and the late CEO Steve Jobs but soon gave up his share of the new company for a total of $2,300.)

5. Whose birthday does this Google Doodle signify?

    Answer: Gregor Johann Mendel signifying his 189^th Birthday on 20^th July. (He is often referred to as the, “Father of Modern Genetics”)

DID YOU KNOW?

If you opened up the case of the original Macintosh, you will find 47 signatures. One for each member of Apple's Macintosh divison as of 1982.

Information Technology 005

1. What is the present name of the Alexander Bell Telephone Company?

    Answer: AT & T

At the 1997 Macworld Expo, Steve Jobs announced that Apple would join _________ to release new versions for the Macintosh. For this the audience booed for 42 seconds. Identify this company?

Answer: Microsoft

Go is a programming language from which company? 

Answer: Google

Logo of "Go"

If Street view: Google, then Street side: ________

Answer: Bing

It is a bit rate measure of available or consumed data communication resources expressed in bits/second or multiples of it (kilobits/s, megabits/s etc.). What is this term?

Answer: Bandwidth

DID YOU KNOW?

The NASDAQ stock exchange in the USA - a world centre of capitalism - was totally disabled in December 1987 when a squirrel burrowed through a telephone line.