01/02/07

February 2007 Main Quiz

Quiz 1

The world’s largest car maker for 2006 was –

a) Ford Motor Co
b) Toyota Motor Corp.
c) General Motors Corp

The ____P310 is the world’s only credit card size phone. It is from whom?

a) Samsung
b) Sony Ericsson
c) LG

Arun Sarin is the CEO of which global telecom company?


a) Vodafone
b) 3-Mobile
c) Nokia

Quiz 2

The first area of business of Nokia way back in 1865 was obviously not cell phones. What was it?
a) Cable/ Wires
b) Rubber works
c) Paper Mills

As per Alexa traffic rankings, which is the top site in India?

a) Yahoo.com
b) Orkut.com
c) Google.co.in

What kind of a device is apoptosis?

a) It’s the real name of the “Hawk Eye” technology in cricket
b) A device that disconnects cellphone calls happening near you
c) It’s a calculator developed by Duckworth Lewis for targets shortened cricket games

Quiz 3

Which site was founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim?

a) Flickr.com
b) Youtube.com
c) AOL.com

Who is the world’s largest toy maker?


a) Mattel
b) Fisher Price
c) Hanayama

What is the reference to the smallest part of a digitized or Digital Image?

a) DPI
b) Pixel
c) Hi-Definition

Quiz 4

Think. Computers help people help people. Solutions for a small planet. These slogans are best associated with which IT Giant?

a) IBM
b) Apple
c) HP

Which car makers name do you prominently see on the courts of the Australian Open Tennis these days?


a) Ford
b) Toyota
c) Kia Motors

In terms of computer data storage what is 2 to the 40th power or approximately a thousand billion bytes?

a) A Terabyte
b) A Gigabyte
c) A Petabyte

Quiz 5

What is the GRAPE IV, or Gravity Pipeline?

a) The first cordless mouse
b) The code name of the Channel Train project
c) The first computer to perform a trillion operations per second

This used to be the logo of which organisation?

a) Voice of America
b) British Telecom
c) Bose

What on earth is e-choupal?

a) ITC’s rural marketing venture
b) “Cybercafes” in rural areas powered by Microsoft
c) Slang name of the e-mart at Nehru Place, New Delhi

Quiz 6

What is an “interstitial” on the cyberspace?

a) The techy-name for a pop-up
b) A page inserted in the normal flow of editorial content on a Web site for the purpose of advertising.
c) A ticker/ crawler on the screen enabling you to work as well as keeping yourself updated with news, sports scores, etc.

Which country out of these do you imagine has setup a helpline for Gaming addiction of all things?


a) Holland
b) South Korea
c) Spain

“Nation shall speak unto Nation” is the motto of which organisation?

a) BBC
b) Vodafone
c) British Telecom

Quiz 7

Garmin, NovAtel and Trimble are collectively best associated with what products?

a) GPS Devices
b) Pen-Drives
c) MP3 Players

What is the term used these days for only music storage services?


a) Jukeboxes
b) MCs (Music Caches)
c) Lockers

Celador originated this. What did they originate?

a) Who wants to be a Millionaire (KBC in India)
b) American Idol (Indian Idol in India)
c) Deal or No Deal (Deal Ya No Deal in India

Quiz 8

Trait of an urban man of any sexual orientation with a strong aesthetic sense who spends a great amount of time and money on his appearance and lifestyle. Who is this in a single word?

a) Metrosexual
b) Yuppie
c) Wannabe

What was adjudged by the Time Magazine as the best invention of 2006?


a) Nike + iPod Sport Kit
b) YouTube
c) Apple MacBook Pro

Who among these was the top searched person of 2006 on Yahoo?

a) Paris Hilton
b) Britney Spears
c) Shakira

The cute Matiz is coming back with a makeover and a different name. What will it be called?


a) Pony
b) Atos
c) Chevy Spark

For what are the gadget geeks thankful to Philippe Kahn?

a) Invention of the Blackberry
b) Invention of the Camera Phone
c) Devising the iPod

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