This document contains a series of trivia questions about various technology companies and products. Some key details summarized: - Segway was invented by Dean Kamen in 2001 and was described by Steve Jobs as "as big as a PC"; the owner of Segway died in 2010 after falling from a cliff on a Segway. - Winamp was created by Justin Frankel as a product of his company Nullsoft; it was the first music player downloaded for Windows. - In the early 1980s, Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner at Stanford helped create networking hardware and telecom equipment company Cisco to solve their problem of not being able to communicate between buildings on campus. - Rakuten acquired

2. RULES
• POUNCE: +15/-10
• BOUNCE: +10

3. WARMUP QUES:
Located Longhua town, having well furnished apartments
for its workers, 4 swimming pools, bakery, its own TV
network and all other kind of luxuries.
Despite of this, it is one of the worst places to work in.
Which company owns township?

4. foxconn

5. Q1:
X was invented by Dean Kamen in 2001. It has a fluid
based leveling sensor and other sensors to detect the
weight shift.
Steve Jobs once said “ (It is) as big as deal as a PC “
(later added that its design sucked).
In 2010, owner of the company, Jimi Heselden died
after falling from a cliff on X.
Connect for X :
Usian bolt
Ian healy
Ellie goulding
Ellen deGeneres
George W. Bush

7. Segway
Celebs falling off a segway.

8. Q2:
It was invented by Justin Frankel as a product of his
company, Nullsoft.
It has a following audio played after finishing installation
shown on next slide.
According to Gizmodo, it is the first music player
downloaded to any Windows.

11. Winamp

12. Q3:
For people who get exasperated and freaked out when their
computer/laptop hangs, stops working or don’t know how a
particular software starts, more than often they perform
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17. X – LiFi
FITB - LED

18. Q5:
In early 1980’s X and Y worked at Stanford and
couldn’t talk to each other as they were living in
different buildings. There was no such network which
inter-connects the buildings.
Solution to this problem eventually built a network
hardware, telecom equipment company.
Unfortunately, both left the company in 1990 due to
Y’s conflict with the then president of the company.
WHAT COMPANY?

20. X – LEONARD BOSACK
Y – SANDY LERNER
COMPANY - CISCO

21. Q6:
In 1956, it became the only company in the world to
produce commercially viable rice cookers. They also made
the first incandescent lamps for the country which they
belong.
(Advertisement is selling rice cookers international
market.)

24. TOSHIBA

25. Q7:
Tauri 88 - 4 Lakh
Alpha-One – 1.57 lakh
Specs : qualcomm snapdragon 820, 4GB ram
5.5inch, 2K AMOLED display, 2560X1440 pixel, 20MP back
and 8MP front camera, fingerprint sensor, Dolby ATMOS,
etc
What company?

28. TONINO LAMBORGHINI

29. Q8:
The Bangalore City Police have launched X, an app similar
to Y, to help its police force buy subsidised groceries and
other products from their canteen on Mysore Road. The
app was developed after the police top brass discovered
that a large number of policemen were not buying
subsidised stuff from the police canteen for want of time
and figured out that a Flipkart and Amazon-like app could
solve the problem.

31. X - COPKART
Y - FLIPKART

32. Q9:
What is it used for?

34. SPRAYS FOR AMAZON KINDLE OR ANY E-
BOOK READER TO MAKE IT SMELL LIKE A
BOOK.

35. Q10:
Who’s suicide note?

36. HINT : He in a pioneer in bringing
photography to masses and
inventing roll film

38. George Eastman

39. Q11:
A PETITION TO PRANAB MUKHARJEE:
For a musical composition to become a country's national anthem, it
should meet the following criteria:
• Contain Cultural references
• Contain historical references
• Be of a easy-to-memorize nature, catchy
• Be in a language which a large amount of speakers are present in the
country
• Be able to be used as a national identification
I (as well as many others) would be pleased to have this song changed
into the National Anthem.
SONG?

41. "Tunak Tunak Tun" by Daler
Mehndi

42. Q12:
In March 2017, a New York city based architecture
studio called “Oiio” proposed the design of a
skyscraper with the hopes to create the longest
building in the world by bending the building in
the half and therefore calling it “ The big bend”.
Many people compared the proposed design with
something in the world of tech. What?

45. Clippy in MS Word

46. Q13:
Whose advertisement?

48. Canon

49. Q14:
Japanese e-commerce major Rakuten acquired X in 2014,
a free instant messaging and VoIP smartphone application,
for 900 million dollars to expand its platform on internet
based services.

51. VIBER

52. Q15:
The X were a group of girl gamers recruited and employed by
Y with the aim of promoting games made by Y.
On May 29, 2015, it was confirmed that the X group had
disbanded.

54. X – frag dolls
Y - ubisoft

55. Q 16 :
Inspirations for what?

57. Arena for Counter Strike

58. Q17:
Funda?

60. Someone accidentally
buying a WinZIP.