THE FAREWELL QUIZ ‘16

- TECHNOLOGY

XOC, FRS is a Greek-Canadian businessman, investor in quantum computing technologies. 17th wealthiest Canadian and 651st in the world. His technical achievements have won him an Academy Award and an Emmy.Name him or the company he is the founder of.

Answer..

Mike Lazaridis&Blackberry

X is a conceptual high-speed transportation system, incorporating reduced pressure tubes in which pressurized capsules ride on air cushion driven by linear induction motors and air compressors.A preliminary design unveiled which included a national route running from the Los Angeles region to the San Francisco Bay Arena.Name the concept and the person behind it.

Answer..Hyperloop

By Elon Musk

ID this trading organization in India

Answer..ASSOCHAM(The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India)

ID this software which answers factual questions directly by computing the answer as a search engine might

Answer..WOLFRAM ALPHA

This is the logo of..

Answer..

China Mobile

This is a Virtual Reality camera OZO from which entity?

Answer..

NOKIA

Its website is abc.xyz. A part of its name means “An investment return above benchmark” something each company has a desire of..It has merged many different businesses of a company under one roof.

Answer..

What are we talking about?• Its first appearance is found in France on a stone in a cave of Nimes.• Then this featured on the poster artwork for Academy Award film Lilli• This was seen on a sweatshirt worn by iconic rock star Mick Jagger in 1964 as

part of a promotion on radio station WMCA which launched during 1960 in the USA.• In 1963, the State Mutual Life Insurance Company also uses The badge

containing this as a part of a promotional campaign.• On 1st Jan, 1972 it was born when French newspaper France Soir prints

Franklin Loufrani’s promotions in which he uses this to highlight the good news.• Harvey Ball is said to have designed its modern avatar.

Answer..

Started on 28th April, 2009 by Yancey Strickler, Charles Adler and Perry Chan.

They have a mission

“ To bring creative projects to life”

The website says..

“ .. helps artists, musicians, film makers, designers and other creators find the resources and support they need to make their idea a reality”

Answer..

What’s this?

Answer..

TESLA KEY

Claimed to have developed in just 8 hours, what product did Narayan Babu at Dexetra Software introduce?

Answer..

Intelligent Rival Immitator Of Siri

Alone in his home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillbrand sat at his typewriter tapping out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper. What standards did this lead to?

Answer..Text message 160 characters limit.

This Indian born OS for smartphones is the world’s first regional OS and has pipped Apple and Microsoft to take the second spot in the smartphone OS market – a first for s local software maker.Having 5.6% share in the market as of January-March , this patented OS has regional keyboards that support 12 languages and are capable of translating messages written in a local language to English with just a swipe.With local elements like App Bazaar formerly called Firstouch. OS primarily comes in handsets of Micromax.

Answer..

• Epic of ____ is a poem in the Tulu language• ____ language, highly endangered Afro-Asiatic language in

Bauchi state, Nigeria

____ Fort in Delhi____ lake in Kaghan Valley, Pakistan

Answer..

Siri