A short tech quiz conducted at the IEEE student branch of B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bangalore

1. Short Quiz
BMSCE IEEE – IEEE Day
7th October, 2016

2. Name X and Y
The founder (Y) of this company X
chose its name for 3 reasons.
One, he really liked X.
Two, no one could think of a better
name.
Three, to come before Atari in the
phone book.

3. X: Apple Inc.
Y: Steve Jobs

4. Identify X and Y
X is the “first decentralized ledger currency”.
X is a digital asset and payment system invented
by an anonymous person or people called Y.
X is represented by the image
or BTC.

5. Bitcoin
Satoshi Nakamoto

6. Name the company
This company tried to
trademark S, E, X and Y.
Ford threatened to sue them
for E. They went with 3. Name
the company.

7. Tesla

8. From Elon Musk’s Twitter profile.
The shaded company is a “non-profit AI research
company”. “Our goal is to advance digital intelligence
in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a
whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial
return.”

9. OpenAI
By OpenAI, Fair use,
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51304700

12. X has a blue and white colour scheme. The
company’s CEO has red-green colour blindness.
Y, the CEO and founder has said, "blue is the
richest color for me - I can see all of blue."

13. By Presidência do México - Flickr, CC BY 2.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?
curid=47141188

14. X’s roots go back to 1884 when electricity began
to become a major influence in society.
X is the world’s largest technical professional
society.
Y was reinitiated in 2008. Y is one of the biggest
branches of X in Karnataka (out of 76).
The biggest being NIT Surathkal.