Tech MAZE

1) A and B started a company Traf-o-Data to generate statistics on traffic flow. This earned them $20,000. But Traf-o-Data was not a big success. They did make their billions by founding another company. Name the duo.

2) On July 19, 2001, about a dozen early employees met to mull over the founders' directive to elucidate their core values. The meeting soon became cluttered with the kind of easy and safe corporate clichés that everyone can support, but that carry little impact like Treat Everyone with Respect or Be on Time for Meetings, etc. The engineers in the room were rolling their eyes. That's when Paul Buchheit, another engineer in the group, blurted out what would become the most important words in Google's corporate history. Which words?

3) When asked whether he knew that the laser pointer was broken, the person replied, “I am a collector of broken laser pointers.” What is the significance?

4) In Greek it means ‘complete’ and ‘message’. It was invented by a Hungarian physicist with the objective of improving the resolution of electron microscopes. Besides its technical uses it is commonly used as a sign of quality. What is it?

5) Connect a fruit, a gadget and a rabbit in the Richard Adams novel ‘Watership Down’.

6) In Finnish Language, this word means 'pleasure of the body' but the Turkish creator obviously went by its Turkish meaning. What is the word?

7) Which is the most popular ecommerce site from India?

8)At the global level, this record is held by the Agricultural Bank of China at Naqu. In India, it is held by the Union Bank of India at Sherathang. What are we talking about?

9) Which Internet search-engine's name derives from the scientific name for the Wolf Spider?

10) Shepherds in the Canary Islands use the language ‘Silbo Gomero’. The uniqueness of the language is that it is whistled (and not spoken) to communicate over long distances and in rough terrains. This language is facing extinction because of a device. What?

Rohit is a graduate in Political Science from Delhi University. Besides watching almost all the movies that are released, he is into quizzing big time. He also finds time to crack PJs and is a huge football fan. He is a huge foodie and his body is the best evidence for it. He discovered at IIFT why some people write ‘sleeping’ as a hobby.