IT Quiz

1. Recently Google has acquired which company which is  a very young (its first public appearance was on May 22 of this year) startup based out of Bengaluru, India, that was focused on building deep learning and machine learning systems to address what it describes as “old problems.”

Ans:Halli Labs

2.X was established in December 1998 as Confinity,a company that developed security software for handheld devicesfounded by Luke Nosek and Ken Howery and two others.It was developed and launched as a money transfer service at Confinity in 1999, funded by John Malloy from BlueRun Ventures.What is X ?

Ans:Paypal

3.Identify this logo

Ans:Oculus

4.Which company, acquired by Yahoo! in 2002, was founded by UC Berkeley professor Eric Brewer and a graduate student Paul Gauthier?

Ans:Inktomi

5. X went on sale in July 1976 at a price of US$666.66,because Y “liked repeating digits” and because of a one-third markup on the $500 wholesale price.There is also another theory that it is as a reference to Y’s Dial-A-Joke machine phone number that ended in -6666.Give X & Y

Ans: X – Apple I , Y – Steve Wozniak

6.Which video game, introduced in 1996, had a soundtrack by Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails?

Ans:Quake

7.Identify this software from a famous company?

Ans:Renderman from Pixar    TCS IT Wiz 2017 Preparation Questions

8.In what way was October 7, 1998, significant in the history of the Internet in India?

Ans:On that day, the Government ended the monopoly of (then Government-owned) VSNL as an ISP.

9.Identify this guy who is the current CEO of Mozilla

Ans:Chris Beard

10.WeRead and PhonePe are the subsidiaries of which company ?

Ans:Flipkart

11.The X  worm, also known as Blackworm, Nyxem( by Sophos) , and Blackmal (by Symantec), is a type of malware that infects PCs using Microsoft Windows.Discovered January 16, 2006, X was designed to destroy common files such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents when each computer’s calendar hit February 3 and on the 3rd of each following month.What is X ?

Ans:Kama Sutra   TCS IT Wiz 2017 Preparation Questions

12.Which video recently became the most viewed video on youtube?

Ans: See you Again

13.What is the name of the application developed by the Government of India to pay taxes on mobile?

Ans: Aaykar Setu

14.Which country has the largest Facebook audience according to the latest reports?

Ans: India

15.Identify this logo

Ans: Faraday Future

16. Who recently acquired the domain X.com from Paypal?

Ans: Elon Musk