01/05/07

May 2007 Main Quiz

Quiz 1

What does SG as on Cricket bats stand for?



a) Sunny Gavaskar
b) Sporting Goods
c) Sanspareils Greenlands

What are Sparsha, Surabhi, Umang, Falak and Spandana collectively a part of?

a) WorldSpace Stations
b) New Hindi fonts in the Windows Vista
c) Part of the new series of HCL Desktop Computers

Inimae Naangathan, Chhota Chetan, Friends Forever – What are all these?

a) Indian 3D Movies
b) Microsoft India’s HR Programmes
c) Indian sub-brands of soon to come Nokia CDMA phones

Quiz 2

What interesting thing in the cyber world is originally a creation of the Keyhole Inc.?

a) MSN Messenger
b) Finger print enabled access to computers
c) Google Earth

What on earth is the Maglev?

a) Currently the fastest train in the world
b) The latest games update on Xbox 360
c) The new antivirus kit from Symantec

His name was Rene’____. Which brand did he bring to us?



a) Nike’
b) Lacoste
c) Adidas

Quiz 3

KrisWorld is the in-flight entertainment system of which airline?



a) Cathay Pacific
b) Singapore Airlines
c) British Airways

What was designed by IBM in 1992 and was called as “Simon”?

a) The first smart phone
b) The first scientific calculator
c) The first web cam

The code 6E is the prefix to flight numbers of which domestic airline?

a) Kingfisher
b) Indigo
c) SpiceJet

Quiz 4

Who or what is “brog”?

a) Brands on Blog
b) Blogs of British origin
c) Computer garbage

In 1964 Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman got together in the shoe business. It was in 1972 that they got their own make of shoe. Which make was it?

a) New Balance
b) Puma
c) Nike

Which company is soon bringing out the first sub Rs.25K laptop in India?




a) Zenith
b) HCL
c) Sahara

Quiz 5

A world best seller plaything invented by Ruth Handler in 1959 named after her daughter. What is it?

a) Hoola Hoop
b) Frisbee
c) Barbie Dolls

What in the computer world was referred to as Osborne 1 and was truly the first of its kind in 1981?

a) The cordless mouse
b) The first truly laptop computer
c) The floppy disk

Invented by JP Knight, the world's first traffic lights were installed at the intersection of George and Bridge Streets in 1868. Which city was this in?



a) London
b) New York
c) Belfast

Quiz 6

Who among these was named as the Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year” in 1982?

a) Bill Gates
b) The Computer
c) Al Gore

How is the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States well known?

a) Hollywood
b) Silicon Valley
c) HP2

Who among these celebrities bought the first Hummer manufactured for civilian use in 1992?



a) Arnold Schwarzenegger
b) Christopher Reeve
c) Sylvestor Stallone

Quiz 7

In the 1940s, it was the first electronic computer which was about 80 feet long and weighed 30 tons. It was at least 50,000 times slower than the current desktop computers. What was it called?

a) ENIAC
b) Big Bull
c) Wizard

Who among these formed the company called Lakeside Programming Group at the age of 14?

a) Michael Dell
b) Steve Jobs
c) Bill Gates

This picture – best associated with which company?



a) Atlas Cycles
b) Bridgestone
c) MRF

Quiz 8

Steve Wozniak at one time had sold “blue boxes”. What did these blue boxes enable?



a) Making free telephone calls
b) Converting measurements from one unit to the other
c) Voice Mail recording

On which product would you most commonly find the letters YKK?

a) Memory Cards
b) Bulbs
c) Zipper

Vaio as in Sony Vaio is an acronym for what?



a) Voice Activated Internet Operability
b) Video Audio Integrated Operations
c) Various Intelligent Operations

It’s called as Mehran in Pakistan. What is it called in India?

a) Hyundai Santro
b) Maruti 800
c) Fiat Palio

What would happen to somebody in the western world, if he/ she said “I got Bangalored”?

a) Banned from working in any company of a certain industry
b) Looses his/ her job due to outsourcing to India (more specifically Bangalore)
c) Superceded by an Asian in terms of promotion in the office