Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Bizquizzes Quiz 2

1.Who is the brand ambassador for Tata Sky ?

Ans.Hritik Roshan

2.Identify this person. (Clue: Gambling)

Ans.Stanley Ho. He held monopoly of Macau's gambling industry for 35 years.His companies' income amounts to almost 1/3 of Macau's GDP. 

3.This was found by the KGB in the 1960's as a part of ingenious spy equipment with Francis Gary Powers whose U2 plane was shot over the Soviet Union while on a espionage mission.
Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly bought this product to promote its new drugs.
The sales of this product fell almost by 50% after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.

What are we talking about ?

Ans.Victorinox Swiss Army Knife

4.UNIX was first called UNICS (Uniplexed information and computing system). the name was incidentally changed to UNIX, what was the reason behind this ?

Ans.UNICS sounded like eunuchs, so to avoid such connotations the 'CS' was shortened to a 'X'. 


5.Which company's first product in that specific category was called the ' Master System' ?

Ans.Sega.Their first gaming console was called that.

6.Identify :




Ans.The Blue Origin project sponsored by Jeff Bezos.

7.This guy created a product that is revolutionizing the web.Identify him and his product.


Ans.Evan Williams of Pyra Labs.He formed Pyra along with Meg Hourihan.Pyra created Blogger.

8.Connect : Sea Wolf,Enigma,Valhalla,Psyche,Shrike

Ans.All are names of Red Hat Linux releases.Shrike is the latest release.

9.In February 1918 a German engineer named Arthur Scherbius filed for a patent for this product.later a company called Chiffriermaschinen AG was granted licence to make this product which would give Germany and enormous advantage in World War II.Name the product.

Ans.The Enigma Cipher machine.

10. Identify this guy.


Ans.Jerry Sanders of AMD.

Answers will be posted next week.you can email your answers to : goutham.ramkumar@gmail.com

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