This document contains a 20 question tech quiz with questions about inventions, events, companies, and products. It includes questions about Earl Grey, the Burning Man festival, A.R. Rahman, Nintendo, Minecraft, Angry Birds, Wikipedia, and Bill Gates purchasing the Codex Leicester. The quiz contains different point values for direct answers, passes, and pouncing on questions.

1. Tech quiz
By:-
Shubhonil Chatterjee
Mechanical(2nd year)

2. • Quiz contains 20 questions.
• Direct- +10/0
• Pass-+5/0
• Pounce-+20/-10

3. • 1.Nathaniel Baldwin created what in his kitchen
and then sold his creation to the United States
Navy? It is one of the most common products in
use today , everybody uses it

4. • Ans:Earphones

5. • 2. what occasion and its claim to fame?

6. • Ans: Burning man festival
• First google doodle ever

7. • 3.nexGTv is a mobile
application,which provides access to live TV
channels and video on demand on handsets.
This app allowed people to watch videos of one
of the largest events in human history this year.
Which event ?

8. • Ans:Maha Kumbh Mela

9. • 4.Featured on apple’s website in january 2009,
for having created great music through his
imacs.X has been interviewed for the company’s
final cut studio software and his album had
topped all the international charts that January,
1 year later another album of X topped itunes
charts. First of its kind to do that. Who is X?

10. • Ans:A R Rahman

11. • 5.Usually,large corporations keep acquiring
whatever company that they think is a
competition to their business. They keep eating
whatever comes in their way. What term , coined
by Namco Inc., is used to describe this strategy?

12. • Pacman strategy.

13. • 6.X coined a new type of journalism:
“ScientificJournalism”. We work with other
media outletsto bring people the news, but also
to prove it is true. Scientific journalism allows
you to read a news story, then to click online to
see the original document it is based on. That
way you can judge for yourself: Is the story true?
Did the journalist report it accurately ? Id X.

14. • Julian Assange

15. • 7.X started off as a Rubber Products
Companyand a Cable Works Company.Soon
thereafter it established a groundwoodpulp mill
and started manufacturing paper.Later it added
electricity generation to itsbusiness
activities.Today it is the largest company of Y
and plays avery important role in the economy
of thiscountry Y.IDENTIFY X and Y

16. • X-NOKIAY-FINLAND

17. • 8.A X is a performance or
luxury automobile capable of high speed or
spirited long-distance driving. The most
common format is a two-door coupé with either
a two-seat or a 2+2 arrangement.
• The term is a tribute to the tradition of
the grand tour, used to represent automobiles
regarded as automobiles, able to make long-distance,
high-speed journeys in both comfort
and style.

18. • Grand tourismo.

19. • 9.this film contains numerous references to apple
computers: when _____ is fully charged by the sun,
he makes the same bootup sound that most of apple
macintosh computers have made since circa
1996._____ watches his favourite movie every
night on the screen of an ipod. The villainous___’s
voice is provided by apple’s text- to –speech
system,macintalk.____’s sleek design as an
evolution of ____’s parrells the sleek imac design
having evolved from boxy apple Iie which film?

20. • Wall e

21. • 10.What was “ jerry and davids guides to
worldwide web”and was renamed on april 1994?

22. • Yahoo!!

23. 11.One of Apple's biggest announcements earlier
this week was X, a new system that allows
owners of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus to pay
for stuff in the real world by holding their
phones up to checkout readers (it uses NFC
technology).

24. • Apple pay

25. 12.X , a 16-year-old from Panipat, has entered the Google's Global
Science Fair as the only finalist from Asia this year for developing a
device that helps people with developmental disabilities, like
Locked-In Syndrome and ALS, communicate, using only their
breath.
The device, called 'TALK', uses signals from a person's breath via
Morse code, picked up by a sensor, and then converts them into
speech. X, student of DAV International School, Panipat, says the
device even allows almost entirely speech impaired and paralyzed
people to communicate like never before.
Claiming to have built the world's fastest and cheapest
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) device, a kind
used by physicist Stephen Hawking, X says it is not possible for all
those who have motor-neuro disabilities to afford an AAC device
that costs $7,000 (Rs 4.26 lakh).

26. • Arsh Shah Dilbagi

27. • 13.X was showing off a wheelchair. The chipset
maker revealed its connected wheelchair , complete
with endorsement from one of the world's greatest
living scientists, Dr. Stephen Hawking. The
wheelchair is being created by X’s internet of things
department, and is designed to take biometric
information from the user and display it on touch
screens.
• The device is capable of measuring the health of the
user, including body temperature, heart rate, and
blood pressure, in addition to the status of the
wheelchair itself. It also allows people to quickly
judge the wheelchair accessibility of places they visit

28. • Intel

29. • 14. X is a sandbox indie game originally created by
Swedish programmer Markus "Notch" Persson and
later developed and published by Mojang.
• Recently acquired by microsoft.
• X is game that has no specific goals for the player to
accomplish. The game world is essentially composed
of rough 3D objects—mainly cubes—that are
arranged in a fixed grid pattern and represent
different materials, such as dirt, stone, various ores,
water, and tree trunks.

30. • Minecraft

31. connect
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32. • beats

33. • 16.The name X is Norwegian, meaning "beautiful
woman who leads you to victory", and comes
from the intended name for the original
developer's first child.
• Y had announced that their software would be
available for BlackBerry and for phones
running Android, but all development efforts for
non-Apple platforms were cancelled after the
acquisition by Apple

34. • X-siri
• Y-siri inc

35. • 17.Game made in 1984 by Alexey Pajitnov.
(soviet union) on commodore 64 (IBM pc)
• Released Game Boy, Game Boy
Color, NES, Mobile Phone later
• 143 million copies sold .largest selling game
ever.
• Tagline : from russia with fun!!

36. • Tetris

37. • 18.X was originally a self-published
official gaming magazine created by Satoshi Tajiri,
and Ken Sugimori in the 1980s. Tajiri wrote and
edited the text and Sugimori illustrated. On April
26, 1989, Tajiri and Sugimori started a video game
development company with the same name. One of
X first games was Famicom action/puzzle
game Quinty, which was released in North America
as Mendel Palace. Its most popular series Y based
on super popular cartoon
, the romanized contraction of the Japanese
brand is published by Nintendo in Japan, North
America and Europe.[7]

38. • X-game freak
• Y-pokemon

39. • 19.X has been praised for its successful combination
of addictive gameplay, comical style, and low price.
Its popularity led to versions of it being created for
personal computers and gaming consoles, a market
for merchandise featuring its characters, spin-offs
and television series based on the franchise, and
even long-term plans for a feature film. With 2
billion downloads across all platforms and including
both regular and special editions, the franchise has
become the highest downloaded freemium game of
all time.
• Finnish computer game developer developed X

40. • Angry birds and rovio entertainment

41. • 20.Xis a global set of conferences owned by the
private non-profit Sapling Foundation, under the slogan:
"Ideas Worth Spreading".
• X was founded in 1984 as a one-off event. The annual
conference began in 1990, in Monterey, California. X's
early emphasis was technology and design, consistent
with its origins in the Silicon Valley.
• The speakers are given a maximum of 18 minutes to
present their ideas in the most innovative and engaging
ways they can. Past presenters include Bill Clinton, Jane
Goodall, Malcolm Gladwell, Al Gore, Gordon
Brown, Richard Dawkins, Bill Gates, Bono, Mike
Rowe, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and
many Nobel Prize winners.

42. • TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design)

43. Thank you!!

44. • The logo of X, an hourglass with one
globe leaking to the second.
• Slogan -We open governments.
• According to the founder of X, its goal is "to
bring important news and information to the
public... One of our most important activities is
to publish original source material alongside our
news stories so readers and historians alike can
see evidence of the truth

45. • wikileaks

46. • 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?

47. • Bill gates

48. • connect

50. • 1.Which famous company’s logo is called Larry
the bird?

51. • Twitter

52. • 3.The recent Indian ecommerce website-
Junglee.com is by which online giant?

53. • Ans:Amazon

54. • 4.What is Samsung's answer to Siri ?

55. • Ans: S Voice

56. • 5.In the world of books what is the full form of
ISBN ?

57. • Ans:International Standard Book Number

58. • 7.Which celebrity became the first Indian to
cross 1 million follower mark on Twitter ?

59. • Ans:A R Rahman

60. • 8.What is david and jerrys first guide to world
wide web known as?

61. • Yahoo