This document contains a quiz with multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions about various topics. Some of the questions identify the first Walkman, the company that produced the most cars annually from 1998-2014 (Nissan), the location of the first World Cup final (Uruguay), and the last cell in an Excel spreadsheet (XFD1048576). It also includes fill-in-the-blank details about the career of Jonathan Ive, the chief designer at Apple.

1. The Quiz
By Sanjay Sankar

2. What are we talking about??
• The original ------------- was marketed in 1979 as
the ------------- in Japan and, from 1980, the
Soundabout in many other countries including
the US, Freestyle in Sweden and the Stowaway in
the UK. Advertising, despite all the foreign
languages, still attracted thousands of buyers in
the US specifically. Morita hated the name "--------
-----" and asked that it be changed, but relented
after being told by junior executives that a
promotion campaign had already begun using the
brand name and that it would be too expensive
to change.

3. • Walkman

4. Put funda

5. • Nicolaus copernicus’ vision of the universe in
his book, “De revolutionibus orbium
coelestium”

6. ID the company and put funda

7. Believed to be the first coupon
published by the coca-cola company.

8. • What is defined as “a message, graphic, or
sound effect emitted by a program in
response to some undocumented set of
commands or keystrokes, intended as a joke
or to display program credits”??

9. • An easter egg!!

10. Worldwide sales figures of which
motor car company??
• 1998 2,555,962
• 1999 2,629,044
• 2000 2,632,876
• 2001 2,580,757
• 2002 2,735,932
• 2003 2,968,357
• 2004 3,295,830
• 2005 3,597,851
• 2006 3,477,837
• 2007 3,675,574
• 2008 3,708,074
• 2009 3,358,413
• 2010 4,080,588
• 2011 4,669,981
• 2012 4,940,133

11. • Nissan!!

12. On the left is US president Ronald
Reagan… ID the man on the right!

13. • Steven Spielberg!!!

14. ID THE LOGO

16. Why is this place significant in football
history??

17. • The final of the first football world cup was
held here!!

18. • What is XFD1048576?

19. • It’s the last cell in an MS Excel Document.

20. Doodle on what occassion??

21. • Fathers Day.

22. “Heavily built and massive, there was a suggestion of uncouth physical inertia in
the figure, but above this unwieldy frame there was perched a head so masterful
in its brow, so alert in its steel-gray, deep-set eyes, so firm in its lips, and so subtle
in its play of expression, that after the first glance one forgot the gross body and
remembered only the dominant mind”
“The conclusions of every department are passed to him, and he is the central
exchange, the clearinghouse, which makes out the balance. All other men are
specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.”
“...he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify
his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to
prove himself right. Again and again I have taken a problem to him, and have
received an explanation which has afterwards proved to be the correct one. And
yet he was absolutely incapable of working out the practical points...”
Who?

23. • Mycroft Holmes!!(Sherlock’s older brother)

24. • If you encountered the “fail whale”, where
would you be??

25. • Twitter!!!

26. • In 1998, Michel Gondry directed a commercial
for Smirnoff Vodka. It was quite popular, but is
remembered today for something that Gondry
pioneered, which was later used in a film the
following year. What am I talking a?bout?

27. The bullet-time sequence in The
Matrix!

28. Which mega hit game received the
following awards??
Golden Joystick Awards Ultimate Game of the Year 2003, PS2
Game of the Year,
GameSpot's Best and Worst of 2002 Best Music on PlayStation 2,Best Action
Adventure Game on PlayStation 2,Game
of the Year on PlayStation 2
IGN's Best of 2002 Best Adventure Game for PlayStation 2
(Editor's Choice and Reader's
Choice),Special Achievement for Sound
(Reader's Choice),Best Game of the Year
for PlayStation 2 (Editor's Choice and
Reader's Choice)
1st British Academy Video Games Awards Best Design, Best PC Game, Best Action
Game, Sunday Times Reader Award for
Games, Best PlayStation 2 Game, Best
Sound

29. GTA VICE CITY !!!

30. Motto ??
• For the Game. For the World.

32. • Name the only two NBA players who have
scored 2000 points and 600 assists before
turning 23..
• It’s hard..

33. • Oscar Robertson of the Cincinnati Royals and
Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls.

34. Flag ??

35. • Flag of NATO!!!

36. Passport of which famous
personality???

37. • Nikola Tesla!!

38. ID X
1. 195 million pounds of steel are used for the
production of X.
2. 3.5 billion of X are made annually.
3. Although steel is greatly recycled, X is particularly
tough to recycle as it is coated with plastic. As a result,
X takes several decades to decay in a landfill.
4. Thomas Jefferson made the wooden version of X.
Apparently, there are over 200 different patents for it.
5. There’s even an asterism that is named after X.

39. Coat hanger!!!

40. Name the company who produced this
amazing phone

41. APPLE INC.

42. ID X

43. ALBERT EINSTEIN!!!

44. Whose quote???
• "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine
percent perspiration."

45. • Edison..

46. Whose signature??

47. • Hitler

48. ID the unknown person??
• In 1974, at the age of 17, ------------ married Najwa
Ghanem at Latakia, Syria; they were separated before
September 11, 2001. ------------'s other known wives
were Khadijah Sharif (married 1983, divorced 1990s);
Khairiah Sabar (married 1985); Siham Sabar (married
1987); and Amal al- sadah (married 2000). Some
sources also list a sixth wife, name unknown, whose
marriage to ------------ was annulled soon after the
ceremony. ------------ fathered between 20 and 26
children with his wives. Many of ------------'s children
fled to Iran following the September 11 attacks and as
of 2010, Iranian authorities reportedly continue to
control their movements.

49. Osama Bin Laden

50. • The Indianapolis 500 is one of the oldest, most
significant motorsport events in the world.
Under the ownership of Tony Hulman, what
very famous command became popular?

51. • “Gentlemen, start your engines”

52. ID

53. CIA

55. • Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent
drawing.

56. ID the person depicted on the coin

57. • Pythagoras!!

58. Fill in the blanks
• In 1999, ------------ was named by the MIT Technology Review TR100 one of the top 100 innovators in the world under age 35.
• In 2003, he was the winner of the Design Museum’s Designer of the Year Award.
• In 2004, he was named the "Most Influential Person on British Culture" by the BBC.
•
In 2007, the UK edition of GQ magazine named ------------ "Product Designer of the Year."
• In 2007, ------------ ------------he was awarded the 2007 National Design Award in the product-design category for his work on the X.
• In 2008, he was named the No. 1 "Most Influential Briton in America" by the Daily Telegraph [ Creativity Online included ------------ in
their "Creativity 50" list.The same year, he was awarded the MDA Personal Achievement Award for the design of the X.
• In 2009, ------------------------he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Rhode Island School of Design and honorary doctor of the
Royal College of Art. Also in 2009, Fast Company put him at No. 1 on their list of "100 Most Creative People in Business; the Daily
Telegraph named him the second "Most Influential Briton in Technology, Forbes magazine listed him as second amongst the "Most
Powerful People in Technology; and The Guardian named him "Inventor of the Decade".
• In 2010, Bloomberg Business Week listed ------------ among the "World's Most Influential Designers", CNN Money named him "Smartest
Designer" in their "Smartest People in Tech" story. ------------ was listed at No. 18 on "The Vanity Fair 100" list, and Eureka of The Times
group placed him No. 5 on their list of "Britain's Most Important Scientists"; Fortune named ------------ the "world's smartest designer"
for his work on Apple products.
• In 2011, the Daily Mail profiled ------------, hailing him as a "design genius". He also was nominated for a British Inspiration Award.
• In 2012, Vanity Fair gave ------------ along with X’s CEO the first spot on their annual "New Establishment" List.
• In 2013 Blue Peter awarded ------------ a gold Blue Peter badge.
• In 2013, ------------ was profiled by musician and activist Bono in The 2013 TIME 100, the TIME annual list of the 100 most influential
people in the world.
• ------------ was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2006 New Year Honor for services to the design
industry. In the 2012 New Year Honors, he was elevated to Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) for "services to
design and enterprise"; he was knighted by Princess Anne in Buckingham Palace in a May 2012 ceremony. He described the honor as
"absolutely thrilling" and said he was "both humbled and sincerely grateful".
• As of 2011, ------------ is listed as an inventor on 596 design and utility patents.

59. • It’s Jonathan Ive..!!!

60. • The current Wikipedia logo is almost
universally known…What was the logo before
the present one??

61. THE U.S. FLAG

62. • Whose slogan in 2011 was ‘Badal Do Zamana’
meaning ‘Change The World’ in Urdu

64. Which product??
Region Units sold First available
Japan 21 million March, 2000
Asia 25.42 million March, 2000
North America 50 million Oct., 2000
PAL region 51 million Nov., 2000
Worldwide 155 million -

65. SONY PS2

66. What does it represent??

67. NFC

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