KBC questions and answers: 1. Which country keeps time 15 minutes ahead of Indian standard time? Answer: Nepal. 2. Charaka was an ayurvedic physician to which king of ancient India? Answer: Kanishka. Technology quiz questions & answers: 1. What is the full form of T9? Answer: Text on 9 Keys developed by the Tegic Communications. 2. Which famous company acquired Sun Microsystems? Answer: ORACLE. 3. What is the Google headquarters called? Answer: Googleplex (reference to googolplex, the name given to the large number 1010100, or 10googol). 4. It was started in 1984 with an initial mission of building indigenous supercomputers in India headquartered at Pune presently. What are we talking about? Answer: C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing). 5. Which is the famous video game company whose name when translated from Japanese to English roughly gives the phrase “leave luck to heaven”? This company was initially started as a producer of playing cards. Which is this famous company? Answer: Nintendo founded by Nintendo Koppai. 6. What is the full form of “DOCOMO”? Answer: Do Communication Over The Mobile Network. 7. Jerry Yang and David Filo founded this company. This company gets its name from a fictional character of Gulliver’s travels. Which is this famous company? Answer: YAHOO!. 8. It is a line of consumer-oriented laptop computers designed by Lenovo. The computers were put on the market in January 2008 as entirely Lenovo products, and were not produced by IBM. What are … [Read more...]
20 quiz bits on inventors
20 Quiz questions on inventions: 1. Who invented the localizer antenna system for radio navigation? 2. Who was the inventor of the world’s first disposable cell phone? 3. Who is credited with the invention of the fax machine? 4. Who do we owe the telephone to? 5. Who is the inventor of World Wide Web and HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)? 6. What did Louis Braille invent? 7. Who was the brain behind the most popular game in America, Baseball? 8. Which invention is Claude Chappe famous for? 9. Who made our lives easy by inventing the dishwasher? 10. Who is known as the ‘founding father of genetic engineering’? 11. Name the famous astronomer who proved that the sun is stationary at the center of the solar system. 12. Who discovered radium? 13. Who invented bandaids? 14. Who was the first person to develop a blood bank? 15. What is Michael Faraday famous for? 16. Who is the brain behind home diabetes test? 17. What did King Camp Gillette invent? 18. Who started Hallmark Cards? 19. Who is the creator of Barbie doll? 20. Name the inventor of the artificial kidney dialysis machine. Quiz Answers: 1. Andrew Alford 2. Randice-Lisa Altschul 3. Alexander Bain 4. Alexander Graham Bell 5. Tim Berners-Lee 6. Braille Printing 7. Alexander J. Cartwright 8. The first non-electric telegraph 9. Josephine Garis … [Read more...]
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