Latest Tech Quiz Questions and answers 2018

QUESTION NO: 31

● It was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 as 87a and has since come into widespread usage on
the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.

Answer: GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)

QUESTION NO: 32
Virtual or Personal Assistants ?
Answer: Facebook

QUESTION NO: 33
Identify the Company ?
● Genius bars are tech support stations located on the retail stores of which company?
Answer: Apple Computers

QUESTION NO: 34
Technology to enter words by sliding fingers on the letters without lifting it, on touch screen devices.
Answer: SWYPE

QUESTION NO: 35
Name the Company ?
● Tegra, Tesla, GeForce and nForce are series for integrates chipsets are from which company?
Answer : NVIDIA

QUESTION NO: 36
Name this Award ?
● The Government of India has been bracing for innovation and transformation in delivery of
information/services with adoption of best ICT practices. Almost every Government department is
trying to make services accessible and integrated to citizens. It’s time to recognize these e-
governance initiatives. These Awards, constituted by the Ministry of Electronics and Information
Technology, acknowledges exemplary initiatives/practices of various states/UTs in the realm of e-
governance.
Answer: Web Ratna Award / Digital India Award

QUESTION NO: 37
Who is behind this app ?
● This app Trringo aims to bring the sharing economy to rural India by creating a large inventory of
farm equipments on rent. Farmers can place order for tractors and implements through a toll free
number or through the app. The digital backend finds the nearest tractor and passes order to the
driver. The driver arrives at the location and completes the work and charges on an hourly basis.
Answer: Mahindra & Mahindra

QUESTION NO: 38
Name the Company ?
● A storage company started by Vivian Singh, Anshuman Gupta that starts with the name of an
element on period table. This company has products like Memory Modules (DDR1, DDR2, DDR3),
micro SD and flash Cards, Solid State Drives and USB Flash Drives. Which company?
Answer: Strontium

QUESTION NO: 40
Name this World’s First Regional Operating System ?
● This is an Indian mobile operating system based on Android. In India, the operating system has
gained popularity, ranking above iOS & Windows and only behind Android. The operating system
also has its own app market place called App Bazaar.
● The operating system is currently available in English & 12 Indian regional languages spoken by
over 95% of the Indian population and has an active user base of over 7 million. This OS has
partnered with the phone brands Micromax, Intex Technologies, Karbonn Mobiles, Celkon, Swipe,
Elite & Trio Mobiles.
Answer INDUS (earlier known as Firsttouch)

QUESTION NO:41
● Micheal Hart typed the entire “Declaration of the Independence” into a computer to create
something, it also marked a beginning to the world knows something else.
● He typed the text into a computer, all in capitals as there was no lower-case option at the time, and
sent out a message on ARPAnet saying that it was now available to download. Six people took him
up on the offer. What did he created?
Answer The world’s first e-book was born.

What are all these ?

● I-ME-WE (India-Middle East-Western Europe)
● FLAG FALCON ((Bahrain, Egypt, India, …. UAE, Yemen)
● Bay of Bengal Gateway
● EIG – (Europe India Gateway) ● LION (Lower Indian Ocean Network)
● SAFE (South Africa-Far East) (South Africa, Mauritius, India, Malaysia)
Answer: International submarine communications cables

QUESTION NO: 43
What is AR ?
● One of the new trends of the year 2017 is VR and AR.
● We know VR means Virtual Reality.
In that context What does AR mean?
Answer: Augmented Reality

QUESTION NO: 44
Name the area ?
● Narinder Singh Kapany is an Indian-born American Sikh physicist known for his work in ………..
● He was named as one of the seven ‘Unsung Heroes’ by Fortune in their ‘Businessmen of the
Century’ issue.
● He is also known as “Father of………”.
● The term ………. was coined by Singh Kapany in 1956. He is a former IOFS officer.
Answer: Fibre Optics

QUESTION NO: 45
Messaging App from Open Whisper Systems ?
● WhatsApp, announced it would use end-to-end encryption by default for all users, making it virtually
impossible for anyone to intercept private WhatsApp conversations.
● Then in May, tech giant Google announced a brand new messaging app called Allo that also
supports end-to-end encryption.
● Making the news even better from a privacy standpoint is that both WhatsApp and Allo use a widely
respected securemessaging protocol from Open Whisper Systems, the San Francisco-based maker
of this messaging app.
● Edward Snowden’s favorite messaging app is this.
Answer Signal

QUESTION NO: 46
Predecessor of Wikipedia ?
● Wikipedia originally developed from another encyclopedia project called ………
● This Encyclopedia was founded on March 9, 2000, under the ownership of Bomis, a web portal
company.
● Its main figures were Jimmy Wales, the CEO of Bomis, and Larry Sanger, editor-in-chief of that
Encyclopedia .
Answer Nupedia

QUESTION NO: 47
Musical Streaming App
● Rishi Malhotra (Co-Founder & CEO)
● Vinodh Bhat (Co-Founder & President)
● Paramdeep Singh (Co-Founder & Executive Chairman)
Answer: Saavn
QUESTION NO: 48
What was the Google’s first tweet if it is decoded ?
Answer: I’m feeling lucky

QUESTION NO: 49
Who owns this brand ?
● Best Resolution Audio Visual Integrated Architecture.
● Produces mainly LCD & Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) HDTV.
Answer: Sony
BRAVIA is a brand of Sony Visual Products Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation, and
used for its television products. Its backronym is “Best Resolution Audio Visual Integrated
Architecture”. All Sony high-definition flat-panel LCD televisions in North America have carried the
logo for BRAVIA since 2005.

QUESTION NO: 50
● In computing, …………… is the act of running a computer program, a set of programs, or other
operations, in order to assess the relative performance of an object, normally by running a number of
standard tests and trials against it. The term ‘…………..’ is also mostly utilized for the purposes of
elaborately designed programs themselves.
Answer Benchmarking

QUESTION NO: 51
Name this electronic device ?
● United States Ambassador to Lichtenstein and Switzerland Suzi LeVine has become the first
ambassador to be sworn into office on an electronic device.
● LeVine, 44, took her oath of office in London on an electronic device.copy of the U.S. Constitution
held by Vice President Joe Biden.
● A photo sent by the U.S. Embassy in London’s Twitter account show’s LeVine’s hand placed on the
device while being sworn in.
● LeVine’s choice of using an electronic version of the Constitution comes as less of a surprise than
others – she was a product manager at Microsoft and a marketing executive with Expedia prior to
joining the federal government.
Answer Kindle ––e-reader

QUESTION NO: 52
What is this project called ? .
● Now, when a potential terrorist recruit searches for known extremist content using a predefined set
of keywords, they’ll instead be redirected to videos that deconstruct and confront the terrorist group
by Google.
Answer Re-direct method

QUESTION NO: 53
● This is a freemium language-learning platform that includes a language-learning website and app,
as well as a digital language proficiency assessment exam.
● This offers all its language courses free of charge. As of November 2016, the language-learning
website and app offer 68 different language courses across 23 languages.
● The app is available on iOS, Android and Windows 8 and 10 platforms with about 150 million
registered users across the world.
Answer duoLingo

QUESTION NO: 54
What is this feature called ?
● This is a virtual perimeter for a real-world geographic area. This could be dynamically generated—
as in a radius around a store or point location, or it can be a predefined set of boundaries, like school
attendance zones or neighbourhood boundaries.
● This is a feature in a software program that uses the global positioning system (GPS) or radio
frequency identification (RFID) to define geographical boundaries.
Answer Geo fencing
QUESTION NO: 55
● This is the process of adding geographical identification data to various media such as a photos,
videos, websites or SMS messages.
● This data usually consists of latitude and longitude coordinates, place names, and perhaps a time
stamp.
Answer Geotagging

QUESTION NO:56
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QUESTION NO: 57
Name the mobile phone company ?

Ans: JOLLA

QUESTION NO: 58
Name the App ?
● Google seems to have silently launched a new food delivery and home services aggregator called
………..for the India market. The app is available as a free download on the Google Play store and is
currently operational in Bengaluru and Mumbai.
Answer Areo

QUESTION NO: 59
Name the company ?
● Shortened url ti.com will lead to a famous an American technology company that designs and
manufactures semiconductors, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globally.
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, United States, This company is one of the top ten semiconductor
companies worldwide, based on sales volume. This company focus is on developing analog chips
and embedded processors, which accounts for more than 85% of their revenue. TI also produces TI
digital light processing (DLP) technology and education technology products including calculators,
microcontrollers and multicore processors. To date, TI has more than 43,000 patents worldwide.
Answer Texas Instruments

QUESTION NO: 60
● A famous amul ad which captured an issue in India. What was the issue with TRAI ? Answer Net
Neutrality

1. Solar power generates electricity from what source?

2. Did the Apple iPhone first become available in 2005, 2006 or 2007?

3. In terms of computing, what does CPU stand for?

4. True or false? Nintendo was founded after the year 1900.

5. The Hubble Space Telescope is named after which American astronomer?

6. Is the wavelength of infrared light too long or short to be seen by humans?

7. Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari and Explorer are types of what?

8. True or false? Gold is not a good conductor of electricity?

9. The technologically advanced humanoid robot ASIMO is made by which car company?

10. True or false? Atomic bombs work by atomic fission.

11. In terms of computing, what does ROM stand for?

12. Did the original Sony Playstation use CDs or cartridges to play games?

13. What is the Earth’s primary source of energy?

14. IBM is a well known computer and information technology company, what does IBM stand for?

15. Along with whom did Bill Gates found Microsoft?

16. What science fiction writer wrote the three laws of robotics?

17. True or false? In computing, keyboards are used as input devices.

18. What does the abbreviation WWW stand for?

19. Nano, Shuffle, Classic and Touch are variations of what?

20. True or false? DNA is an abbreviation for ‘Deoxyribonucleic acid’.

Technology Quiz Answers

1. The Sun 2. 2007 3. Central Processing Unit 4. False - 1889

5. Edwin Hubble 6. Long 7. Web browsers 8. False

9. Honda 10. True 11. Read Only Memory 12. CDs

14. International Business
13. The Sun 15. Paul Allen 16. Isaac Asimov
Machines
17. True 18. World Wide Web 19. The Apple iPod 20. True