This document is a 20 question quiz about technology companies and innovations. It includes questions about banned gadgets like the Apple iPad, the name of Google's headquarters (Googleplex), the Indian supercomputer company C-DAC, the origins of Nintendo as a playing card company, Rick Astley benefiting from a YouTube trick, Amazon's "Block View" street view feature, the Tiny Wings app beating Angry Birds in downloads, the origins of Sony as a electronics repair company, the first email message, Napster's trouble with Metallica songs, the first book sold on Amazon, Xerox's origins, expanding the name "Yahoo", the computing power of the original iPhone compared to older Apple laptops, HTC

1. i-QUIZ
By:-
Anurag Mohanty (2011-16)
NIT, Rourkela

2. Question - 1
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.

3. And the answer is:
Apple iPad

4. Question - 2
What is the Google headquarters
called?

5. And the answer is:
Googleplex ( googolplex, the name
given to the large number 1010100, or
10googol).

6. Question - 3
It was started in 1984 with an initial
mission of building indigenous
supercomputers in India
headquartered at Pune presently.
What am I talking about?

7. And the answer is:
C-DAC (Centre for Development of
Advanced Computing)

8. Question - 4
Which is the famous video game
company whose name when translated
from Japanese to English roughly gives
the phrase “leave luck to heaven”?
This company was initially started as a
producer of playing cards. Which is this
famous company?

9. And the answer is:
Nintendo founded by Nintendo Koppai.

10. Question - 5
Which 80s pop star benefited from
a global game to trick people into
clicking through to YouTube?

11. And the answer is:
Rick Astley.

12. Question - 6
Amazon’s search engine has a
facility which allows users to
virtually walk down the blocks in
US cities. What is the name of this
facility and the search engine?

13. And the answer is:
Block View
A9

14. Question - 7
It’s a app. Designed
for iOS. Last year it
achieved something
that no other app
has achieved in long
long time.
Identify the app and
the achievement.

15. And the answer is:
Tiny Wing.
 Last year it beat angry bird as most
downloaded app for two weeks.

16. Question - 8
In 1946 twenty people met in a burned-
out department store in Tokyo to form a
new company. The Tokyo
Telecommunication Engineering
Corporation. One of its founders,
Masaru Ibuka, wanted to create a
product that would be useful to the
general public. What is the company
known as today?

17. And the answer is:
Sony Corporation.

18. Question - 9
What was the first email message?

19. And the answer is:
QWERTYUIOP
Ray Tomlinson was the inventor of
Internet based e-mail in the early
1970’s

20. Question - 10
This P2P file sharing service ran
into trouble after it circulated the
song 'I Disappear' by Metallica
even before it was officially
released. Which is that P2P file
sharing service?

21. And the answer is:
NAPSTER

22. Question - 11
What is special
about this book?

23. And the answer is:
It is the first book to be sold on
amazon.com

24. Question - 12
Which company was founded in
1906 in Rochester , New York as
The Haloid Photographic
Company, which originally
manufactured photographic paper
and equipment.?

25. And the answer is:
Xerox

26. Question - 13
Expand “Yahoo”.

27. And the answer is:
Yet Another Hierarchical
Officious Oracle

28. Question - 14
The original iPhone's computing
power is equivalent to which old
Apple laptop?

29. And the answer is:
Pismo
G3 Powerbook (400MHz,
released Feb 2000)

30. Question -15
Which company delivered the
first ever Android Phone and the
1st 4G phone?

31. And the answer is:
HTC (High Tech Computer Corporation)
1st android phone- HTC Dream
1st 4g phone- HTC EVO 4G

32. Question - 16
Identify the group in the photo.

33. And the answer is:

34. Question - 17
What was the first iApp to be
developed at Apple?

35. And the answer is:
iPhoto

36. Question - 18
Identify the person
in the photo.

37. And the answer is:
TIM COOK
CEO of Apple

38. Question - 19
Verizon Wireless has released a
line of smartphones that go by a
name which is a trademark of
Lucasfilms Ltd. It was involved in a
lawsuit with Google with a very
popular OS. Identify this series of
smartphones?

39. And the answer is:
Droid Smartphones
OS in conflict - Android

40. Question - 20
David Bradley chose this key
combination because it is practically
impossible to accidentally press
these combinations of keys on a
standard keyboard. Which key
combination did David Bradley
devise?

41. And the answer is:
Ctrl+Alt+Del