The PING-IT Quiz- Prelims , 2022.

 Hello folks, this was the quiz that I conducted for my club at the start of this year. The quiz was online, but this didn't deter the participation. This was a challenge which I enjoyed, and I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did.

The first set of questions was for Prelims. The answers are given at the back. Feel free to comment down your answers before watching the end of the post.

Cheers!

THE HUB SERIES-4

The 4th part of the Tech questions which last came out in 2016-17 was back due to people's interest from countries like Russia, Germany and UAE, apart from my homeland. So, here are some questions based on some recent happenings :)

1.Which of the search engines has a unique policy of donating more than half its profits to nonprofit organisations for planting trees? It is based in Germany?

2. Identify the brand behind the futuristic masks, codenamed Project Hazel.

3. The Government of India has decided to give Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civillian honour to this gentleman posthumously, also known as Father of Fibre Optics. Identify him. (A sad reality of some people who only gets recognition after they are gone)

4. Who will soon take the place of Jeff Bezos who recently announced that he will be stepping down as the CEO of Amazon? He is the co-founder and CEO of Amazon's cloud platform AWS.

Answers:

1. Ecosia

2. Razer

3. Narinder Singh Kapany

4. Andy Jassy

 Thanks for reading.

EASY TECH QUESTIONS (circa 2016)

 These were some of the questions which we practiced from/searched from in 2016 during my school quizzing days.

RANDOM QUESTIONS 1

 

1. Which telecom company did he found?

Ans.Aircel


2. Which company’s Logo is made up of 8 U’s? 

Ans.Sun Microsystems


3.  Jerry Yang and David Filo founded this company. This company gets its name
    from a fictional character of Gulliver’s travels. ID.
Ans.YAHOO!.


4.  Who quoted “There are no unsuccessful experiments. If we stop, 
    it’s we who are unsuccessful, not the experiment”?

Ans. Alexander Graham Bell


5.  ‘Double Click is a subsidiary of a company which acquired it,
   for its ad services in March 2008. Which is the parent company?

Ans.Google,Inc.


6.  It is a line of consumer-oriented laptop computers designed by Lenovo. 
    The computers were put on the market in January 2008 as entirely Lenovo products,
    and were not produced by IBM. What are these laptop-computers called as?

Ans. IdeaPad


7. Which company delivered the first ever android phone and also the first ever 4G phone?

Ans.HTC  first android phone – HTC Dream, 
    first 4G phone – HTC EVO 4G


8. Name the person with which you will associate this educational institute.

Ans. Azim Premji University


9. This was initially named as Phoenix then its name was changed to Firebird and then
    again was changed to another name with which it is called even today.
    What are talking about?

Ans. Mozilla Firefox


10. MeeGo, a linux based OS for mobile phones by Nokia and which company? 

Ans. Intel

Ads and Brands-1

The long gap is finally over. Starting with some informtions which I have gathered since this year.
And yes, one more thing:





Q1. The man shown below is Oliviero Toscani, an Italian photographer. He is the man behind much of the ad campaigs for a particular brands and also serves as its Art Director. His ads have garnered both controversy and acclaim. Identify the brand.


Q2. After the World War II ended, Germany got divided into two factions, and so did the factories belonging to BMW. While the control for the factories in West Germany went to BMW, the East Germany factories remained under the control of Soviet-inspired bloc. What was the name given to that company which resulted from this? (Hint: Pretty similar naming to BMW)

Q3. Identify the famous brand (or product)

Q4. An app founded by Eric Yuan, a former Cisco employee, has been topping the charts in the app stores all around the world recently due to the ongoing Covid-19 scare. What is the name of the app?















Q5. Who founded this?



ANSWERS:
1. United Colors of Benetton
2. EMW
3. Royal Enfield (Bullet is the product)
4. Zoom (under scanner, currently)
5. The Beatles