Information Technology Quiz Questions

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Ans: InstaMojo

Instamojo Inc. is a web-based Indian startup payment gateway, founded in 2012 by Aditya Sengupta, Akash Gehani, Harshad Sharma and Sampad Swain. It is based in Bangalore, India

16. Which famous entrepreneur’s autobiography is aptly titled ‘Things A Little Bird Told Me’?                     (ANSWER: Biz Stone, Co-Founder Of Twitter)

17. Google Apps now sport a very minimalistic and flat UI. This look has been created using the ________ _________ design language by Google. This design language makes more liberal use of grid-based layouts, responsive animations and transitions, padding, and depth effects such as lighting and shadows. Here (below) is an example of this design being used in an app. What is the name of this design language used by google?        (ANSWER: Material Design) 

18. You may (or may not) have noticed that when most experts, articles and advertisements refer to 4G speeds, they always say ‘4G LTE’. What is the expansion of ‘LTE’?            (ANSWER: Long Term Evolution)

19. As of 2016, the most subscribed user on YouTube is PewDiePie with a documented 43 million subscribers. The owner of this channel is Felix Kjellberg, a Swede. What is the primary objective of this YouTube Channel, that is, what kind of content is shown in its videos?                                                     (ANSWER: This YouTube channel reviews Video Games)

20. Connect the following people [Inexhaustive List]: Jawed Karim (Co-Founder of YouTube), Peter Thiel (Angel Investor; One of the first outside investors in Facebook), Elon Musk (Founder Of Tesla and SpaceX), Reid Hoffman (Founder of LinkedIn), Russell Simmons (Co-Founder Of Yelp!)….                                          (ANSWER: All of them co-founded/worked at PayPal before going on to found their own respective companies)

21. Currently, which is the highest-rated movie on IMDb?   (ANSWER: The Shawshank Redemption)

22. “1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA” is the official address of which tech company? Notice how this is also a clever play on the computing error of the same name.      (ANSWER: Apple, Inc)

23. Identify this app used for live-streaming any event.     (ANSWER: Periscope)

24. It’s common knowledge that Android OS versions are named after sweets. OS X versions used to be named after members of the cat family and now are named after places in California. Wordpress, also, has a naming system for its software updates. On what basis are Wordpress versions named?                                       (ANSWER: They are named after Jazz Musicians.)

25. Expand AVI (The video format).           (ANSWER: Audio-Video Interleave)