Business and Innovation

QuizBy- Abhijeet Lele

Date: 24th Oct 2015

1. Google’s driverless cars have a rooftop sensor X which is responsible for

capturing and scanning a 360 degree view. What is X?

Ans.LIDAR- Light Detection and

Ranging

2. X  is a chain of member-based workshops that lets people of all skill levels come in and use industrial tools and equipment to build their own projects. X was founded by Jim Newton

and Ridge McGhee in California, USA. Identify X?

Ans. TechShop

3. X is the largest industrial

conglomerate in Western Africa headquartered in Lagos with current business interest and

presence widespread in cement, sugar, oil, food sectors. Identify X?

Ans. Dangote

4. A website engineer X at

Amazon.com, Inc. wrote a white paper about his idea of

computing power at cloud which later became foundation behind

development of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Name X?

Ans. Benjamin Black

5. In 2008, Peter Diamandis, Ray

Kurzweil and Salim Ismail founded a university X in NASA

Research Park, California. X aims to develop global network of

innovation ecosystems alongside a coalition of entrepreneurs, business leaders. Name X?

Ans. Singularity University

6. In 1984, Elon Musk developed a video game X and got its source code published in magazine Y.

Elon got $ 500 from publisher as reward for this publication?

Identify X and Y?

Ans. X Blaster

Y PC and Office Technology

7. In search of answer for the

question “Do managers matter?” X launched an internal

research initiative Y? Since then, Y has given consistent

insights on what activities by a manager really matter for X.

Identify X and Y?

Ans. X Google

Y Project Oxygen

8. In 1983, X a former employee of Procter & Gamble realized that

personal computer will replace paper and pencil based personal accounting and cofounded a computer software

company Y? Today, Y develops financial and tax preparation

software for individuals and small businesses. Identify X and Y?

Ans. X Scott CookY Intuit Inc.

9. In 1968, a scientist Dr. Spencer Silver at X was attempting to develop a

super-strong adhesive but instead he developed a low tack reusable and pressure

sensitive adhesive. This innovation helped X to

launch what we know today as Y. Identify X and Y?

Ans. X 3MY Post-it notes

10. X is a private space exploration company founded in September,

2000 by Y. Today, Y is giving nightmares to human resource

department of SpaceX by poaching employees. Identify X

and Y?

Ans. X Blue OriginY Jeff Bezos

11. X is a performance based

mobile advertising network founded by Naveen Tewari and backed by Soft Bank. X

is headquarted in Bangalore, India and is giving head on

competition to giant ad network provider, Google.

Identify X.

Ans. InMobi