ConvergeQuiz 25 March

Q1: Connect

This organization was founded by 30 former NASSCOM members, led by two key

people behind it who were leading Nasscom’s product initiatives earlier.

It aims to be a ‘think tank’ dedicated to promoting existing Indian software product

companies. Their three focus areas will be to draft and take policy proposals to

government officials; create reusable ‘playbooks’ from successful companies that

can be applied by others; and create ‘self-help communities’.

Name the organization

Q2: Connect

Q3: Straight shot

5473 deliveries (over 900 overs ) without bowling a single wide in ODI

cricket.

Name the bowler.

Hint: Also called Whispering death

Q4: Connect

Shaheen Dhada and Rinu Shrinivasan from Mumbai

A tourism officer from Varanasi

Ambikesh Mahapatra, a Jadavpur University professor

Devu Chodankar from Goa

A class 11 student from UP

A man from Puducherry

Q5 Connect

Flame

Fire

Shamoon

Heartbleed

Prinimalka

Stuxnet

Duqu

Q6: Guess

Following the revolutionary vote by the Federal Communications Commission on net neutrality, President Obama thanked this community of open-Internet advocates who flooded the FCC with comments on the proposal supporting the agency's rules

Q7: Connect

● One of the largest indian business houses in its league

● Mentioned in a Newseek editorial in march 2015

● Got 600+ web pages banned under Sec. 66A

● Promoter is the best selling author of “Count your chickens before they

hatch”

Q8. Identify

Recently a lot of major controversies linked to this bank were exposed. One of

the ingenious schemes being was run like this:

In France, a manager, Nessim el-Maleh, was able to run a cash pipeline in

which plastic bags full of currency from the sale of marijuana to immigrants in

the Paris suburbs were collected. The cash was then taken round to Banks’s

respectable clients in the French capital. Bank accounts back in Switzerland

were manipulated to reimburse the drug dealers.

Name the Bank

Q9. Identify

An international hacking ring was in news for stealing as much as $1 billion

from more than 100 banks in 30 countries. The scheme, uses a unique

malware so sophisticated that hackers have used it to dispense cash from

ATMs without any physical contact with the machines, according to the report

by Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky Labs.

Name the Malware.

Q 10. Identify

BlackBerry and X are partners that provide data and voice encryption to Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security. Even Chancellor Angela Merkel was said to be a user of the pair’s tools. Name X.