Post on 13-Jul-2015
SQ Prelims
Infoyage 2014
#STRIVEFORSUCCESS
Question 1
Marc Andreessen recently said that X is the
world's best CEO. He said, "He's absolutely
fearless and he has a cult-like following inside
the company. People love working for him."
Who is X?
Ans: Mark Zuckerberg
Question 2
In which game will you find ‘Faby’?
Ans: Flappy Bird
Question 3
In 2012 Shaadi.com, the no. 1 Indian
matrimonial website, launched a Facebook
game to create awareness and showcase the
company’s stand against dowry.
Which game am I talking about?
Hint: Angry Birds (Play with the words)
Ans: Angry Brides
Question 4
ID.
Hint: OmniTRACS
Ans: Steven Mellonkopf (CEO of Qualcomm)
*Question 5
X is a nonprofit collaborative trade organization
established by Sony in June 2003, that is
responsible for defining interoperability
guidelines to enable sharing of digital media
between multimedia devices. ID X.
Ans: DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance)
Question 6
Who along with Robert Metcalfe is considered
to be the inventor of Ethernet?
Ans: David Boggs (There were others too)
Question 7
Which aerospace company is privately funded
by Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos?
Ans: Blue Origin
Question 8
Expand AIM.
Hint: It’s an alliance formed b/w 3 companies
Ans: Apple Intel Motorola
Question 9
X is a document preparation system and
document markup language. It is widely used
for the communication and publication of
scientific documents in many fields, including
mathematics, physics, computer science,
economics, and political science.
ID X.
Ans: LaTeX
*Question 10
ID.
Ans: Kidrobot
Question 11
ID the gadget.
Ans: Parrot AR Dron 2.0
Question 12
In the domain name so.cl owned by Microsoft,
which country can be associated with .cl?
Ans: Chile
Question 13Stéphane Chazelas discovered this bug on 12
September 2014 and suggested the name
"bashdoor". The bug was assigned the CVE
(Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures)
identifier CVE-2014-6271. Analysis of the source
code history of Bash shows the vulnerabilities
had existed since approximately 1992.
Which bug am I talking about?
Ans: Shellshock
Question 14Having observed people helping one another in friendly, social, and
trusting communal ways on the Internet via the WELL, MindVox and
Usenet, and feeling isolated as a relative newcomer to San Francisco, X’s
founder Y decided to create something similar for local events. In early
1995, he began an email distribution list to friends. Most of the early
postings were submitted by Y and were notices of social events of interest
to software and Internet developers living and working in the San
Francisco Bay Area.
In January 2000, X’s current CEO Jim Buckmaster joined the company as
lead programmer and CTO. Buckmaster contributed the site's multi-city
architecture, search engine, discussion forums, flagging system, self-
posting process, homepage design, personals categories, and best-of-X
feature. He was promoted to CEO in November 2000.
Ans: X = Craigslist; Y = Craig Newman
*Question 15
Headquarters of?
Ans: Tesla
Question 16
This is a term which is derived from the
Hawaiian word for "quick". The term is
described as a web application which allows
people to add, modify, or delete content in
collaboration with others.
Which term am I talking about?
Ans: Wiki
Question 17
Zadeh and Mehr met as undergraduates at Sharif
University of Technology in Iran and travelled to the US
together to attend graduate school at the University of
Maryland. Zadeh worked at Microsoft after graduating with
a master’s degree. Mehr earned his master’s degree and
Ph.D. and later worked for NASA. Mehr attended business
school at the University of California at Berkeley, but he
dropped out to work on X.
ID X.
Ans: Zoosk
Question 18
The X scandal was a corporate scandal that occurred in
India in 2009 where chairman Ramalinga Raju confessed
that the company's accounts had been falsified. The Global
corporate community was shocked and scandalised when
the chairman of X, Ramalinga Raju resigned on 7 January
2009 and confessed that he had manipulated the accounts
by US$1.47-Billion.
ID X.
Ans: Satyam
Question 19
X, who joined Apple in 1980 and was nicknamed “The
Diesel” because of his long working hours, was head of
Apple Europe before being tapped to serve as CEO from
1993 to 1996. While there were some successes under his
tenure, including the PowerPC, there were also memorable
failures, including the Newton and the Mac clones –
computers that ran the Mac operating system. X was
ousted and replaced as CEO by Gil Amelio.
Who is X?
Ans: Michael Spindler
*Question 20
Funda?
Ans: Charger made by NTU (Google it)