Not your average SlideShare quiz.

1. Tech Quiz
Not your average SlideShare Quiz
Made by: Baibhav Vatsa & Alhad Sethi

2. Q1
Microsoft recently patented a new feature of HoloLens. This has been described as “a
pretty inefficient way to find your keys today, or possibly ever. For one thing, you’d
need to be consistently wearing smart glasses, which is currently staggeringly
inconvenient.” What is this feature?

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4. Keeping track of everyday items by tracking them in the
background.

5. Q2
The National Payments Corporation of India recently launched an app called X. X has
recently reached the top of the Google Play charts. X has been named after Dr. B. R.
Ambedkar. It allows a maximum limit of 10,000 INR at a time. Ironically it shares it’s
name with the protaganist of a beloved cartoon show, the protaganist has been
described as “X is an extremely brave, strong and intelligent young boy. All the
children in the town are very fond of him, as he always manages to solve everyone's
problems.” What is X?

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7. BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money)

8. Q3
X is a famous American personality who has been in the news for various purposes.
Recently at a rally, he told people that “No computer is safe, so they should use a
courier instead.” When asked about the Russian hacking incident, he said “I know a lot
about hacking. And hacking is a very hard thing to prove, so it could be somebody
else.” Ironically, X isn't very pro-computer. Some believe that a Reddit AMA (Ask Me
Anything) in July was the first time he used this modern technology. Who is X?

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10. Donald Trump
“Grab ‘em by the p***y”

11. Q4
The Indian Government recently launched an app in collaboration with X, called the
“X Toilet Locator.” This comes as part of the Swachh Bharat Initiative. This contains
all the toilets located in Delhi-NCR and in Madhya Pradesh, with support for more
states coming later. This comes years after X revealed its product in beta, called “X
Nose.” Identify X.

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13. Google

14. Q5
X (born April 24, 1983) is an American internet entrepreneur, activist, investor, and
best-selling author born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City and based in San
Francisco, best known for co-founding the social news website Y, co-founding the
early stage venture capital firm Initialized Capital, helping launch the travel search
website Hipmunk, and starting the social enterprise Breadpig. He was a partner at Y
Combinator, and is also the executive chairman of Y. X has also recently announced
his engagement to Serena Williams. Identify X (Ez).

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16. X - Alexis Ohanian, Y - Reddit

17. Q6
X is an online gift exchange that connects Internet users (with Reddit accounts)
around the world with one another. The site was launched in 2009 with 4,000
participants; the website reports 89,421 people worldwide participated in Secret Santa
2013. The site is a three-time Guinness World Record holder for the World's Largest
Gift Exchange. Famous personalities like Bill Gates and Snoop Dogg particiapted in
Secret Santa 2016. Identify X (Think simple).

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19. Redditgifts

20. Q7
X is a famous Indian personality, famous for his contribution to the Indian Film
Industry. X has launched his personal app called “BeingInTouch.” This allows access to
X’s social media accounts and never before seen photos of him. X’s driver has also
recently been in the news (giveaway). Identify X.

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22. Salman Khan

23. Q8
X, is a Bangladeshi amateur music video model and social media phenomenon. X came
to spotlight on Bangladeshi social media through his amateur music videos shared on
Youtube and Facebook . As of December 2016, his YouTube videos had received over
10 million views. In Bangladesh, X is a popular target of online trolling and a popular
subject of memes. But some Indian media had wrongly described X as a "superstar"
and thus misrepresented of the Bangladeshi film industry. As of December 2016, Alom
has not acted in any kind films, drama or mainstream production. Identify X.

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25. Hero Alom

26. Q9
X was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. X’s book on his
last lecture, titled aptly “Last Lecture”, even became a New York Times Bestseller. X
gave this upbeat lecture after knowing that he had pancreatic cancer and had only 3 to
6 months of good health left. X?

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28. Randy Pausch

29. Q10
The Ministry of Justice in Iran blocked X because psychologists in the country believe
the game promotes violence and what they are describing as ‘tribal conflict’. They also
state that, among other findings, that the game negatively affects family life for youth,
who psychologists believe are addicted to playing. In August 2016, Iran was the first
country to ban Y over security concerns — which, although a severe action to take —
was at least based on reasons that many authorities around the world had also
expressed. Identify X and Y.

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31. X - Clash of Clans Y - Pokemon Go

32. Q11
Recently, a Virgin America flight was delayed due to a prank by a passenger. This
prank is directly related to one of the biggest tech fiascos of 2016 (giveaway). What is
this prank?

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34. The passenger named the hotspot Galaxy Note 7

35. Q12
X is a computer scientist from Australia who pioneered the development of object-
oriented programming languages. X was the principal architect of ScriptX and
MaxScript. In 1992, X sold his sold Apple Computer his structural framework for an
object oriented language and virtual operating system called Objects in C. However,
(most probably) you know X for a completely different reason.

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37. John Wainwright

38. Q13
Pure Software was founded in October 1991 by X, Raymond Peck and Mark Box. In
August 1996, Pure Software merged with Atria to form Pure Atria Corporation. Later
in August 1997, Rational Software acquired Pure Atria, giving X the capital to start Y.
Though nobody really cares about this Pure Atria, it gave rise to a company that has let
us chill for years. Identify X and Y.

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40. X - Reed Hastings Y - Netflix

41. Q14
X is the successor to CyanogenMod, which recently shut down as its commercial
counterpart, Cyanogen Inc, which owns all patents and trademarks shut down. Their
websaite says “So, yes, this is us. X will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was.
To quote Andy Rubin, this is the definition of open. A company pulling their support
out of an open source project does not mean it has to die.” Identify X.

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43. X - LineageOS

44. Q15
X is an IT services company formed in 2000 after it merged with X Corporation and
BFL Software Limited. It provides infrastructure technology and applications
outsourcing services, as well as architecture guidance, application development and
integration, and application management services. Earlier under HP since 2008, the
majority stock was recently sold to the Blackstone Group. X?

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46. Mphasis