This IT quiz prelims document contains 40 multiple choice questions related to technology companies, products, and terms. It is timed for 40 minutes and does not have negative marking. The questions cover topics like companies (Vodafone, X Box, Microsoft, Deloitte), products (NetWeaver, SIM card, bar code), terms (googol, freelancer, super computing), and people (Larry Ellison, Vinod Gupta, Bill Gates).

1. IT Quiz Prelims
40 Questions 40 Minutes
No Negatives
All the Best
Which company's name is derived from Voice Data & Phone?
Vodafone
Which Microsoft hardware product, launched in 2000, was created by Seamus Blackley and Kevin
Bachus ?
X Box
What is Bacon mail?
Mail for which you have subscribed but get filtered as SPAM.
Which R&D organisation started Projects Garuda, Setu, Veda, Vyasa, Vidwan, Vidur?
C-DAC
The Codex Leicester (also briefly known as Codex Hammer) is a collection of largely scientific writings by
Leonardo da Vinci. Who purchased it in 1994 for 30.8 Million $ making it the costliest book ever?
Bill Gates
‘A Space’ – in Facebook is a social networking site for which category of people?
Spies/Espionages
The film’s Adina’s deck, Odd Girl Out and Shredderman Rules create awareness about which internet
phenomenon?
Cyber Ragging
Which consulting major has a networking platform called D-Street?
Deloitte
Which computer industry billionaire owns Valley Crest Companies, Americas largest landscaping firm?
Michael Dell
Identify the company which divides its values into Engaging you, Achieving Together, Passion for
Innvovation, Very Human?
Nokia

2. MIT professor, Dr. Y. W. Lee invested his life savings in which company in 1964?
Bose
NetWeaver is a product from which IT Giant?
SAP
DilipKalra founded which successful Indian travel company?
MakeMyTrip.com
Agilent is a company which designs and manufactures electronic and bio-analytical measurement
instruments and equipment for measurement and evaluation. It is a successor of which company’s
Engineering division?
HP
Who is the world’s largest digital camera maker?
Canon
What term first appeared in the book, “Mathematics and the imagination”?
Googol
This term was first coined by Sir Walter Scott in his famous novel 'Ivanhoe'. It is widely used in business
and journalism these days. What is it?
Freelancer
Which communication company was founded by the founders of the peer to peer sharing network
Kazaa?
Skype
He was born to Florence Spellman, an unwed mother at the age of 17. His adoptive father was a Jew
who came from Ellis Island. Name this business tycoon.
Larry Ellison
What was the first mobile by Motorola?
Dynatac
What was the new name of Legend Computers?
Lenovo Computers

3. What is the 419 Fraud?
Nigerian Email Scam
About what did Indira Gandhi say in 1975 "a Government organ, it is going to remain a Government
organ”?
AIR
Which company started as Haloid Corporation?
Xerox
What was founded by Curtis Priem(ex-SUN engineer., Chris Malachowsky(ex-SUN engineer.& Jen Hsun
Huang(ex-AMD. in 1993?
Nvidia
Visual Computing Labs (VCL) is an animation, visual effects and game asset building facility servicing
production for which Tata company?
Tata Elxsi
What was first made by Gisecke&Devrient in 1991 in sizes of 85.6X53.9X0.76mm &26X15X0.76
mm, with the later being more popular?
SIM Card
What was first patented in 1949 as “classifying apparatus and methods” and described as
“article classification through the medium of identifying patterns”?
Bar Code
In Turkish, what means "the holy meeting place?"
Orkut
This term was first used by New York World newspaper in 1929 to refer to large custom-built
tabulators IBM made for Columbia University?
Super Computing
This Founder and Chairman of infoUSA in order to give back something to his alma mater started
a B school there. Name him.
Vinod Gupta (VGSOM, IIT Kharagpur)
Garage is an initiative by HP for which set of people / businesses?
Startups

4. What was the name that Apple wanted to use for its Internet Kiosks?
iPod
Why the first commercially available version of the Oracle database was called Oracle 2?
So that people don’t think that they are an amateur company launching their first product.
Who are Scarlett Collar Workers?
People in the Pornography business
Who is the single largest shareholder of Disney?
Steve Jobs
According to a study by Tom Chavez of "Rapt", this feature costs Google $110 million a year as
1% of all searches use this feature and bypass all advertising. Which feature?
I’m Feeling Lucky
What was added to the Morse code on 24th May 2004, its 160th Anniversary?
@ Symbol
What was first published between 1768 and 1771 in Edinburgh, Scotland? When launched it wasaimed
at educated adults.
Encyclopedia Britannica
How was the naming of HP decided between Bill Hewlett and David Packard?
Coin Toss