These are previous years Tata Crucible Tech Questions. Would be helpful for prel ims. 1.

Which Microsoft hardware product, launched in 2000, was created by Seamus Bla ckley and Kevin Bachus ? -XBOX 2. What is Bacon mail? - Mail for which you have subscribed but get filtered as SPAM. 3. Which R&D organisation started Projects Garuda, Setu, Veda, Vyasa, Vidwan, Vi dur? -Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) 4. The Codex Leicester (also briefly known as Codex Hammer) is a collection of l argely scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci. Who purchased it in 1994 for 30 .8 Million $ making it the costliest book ever? -Bill Gates 5. What term was given by Lou Montalli in 1994 of Netscape communications which is also a food items? -Cookies 6. A Space in Facebook is a social networking site for which category of people? -Espionages / Spies 7. The film s Adina s deck, Odd Girl Out and Shredderman Rules create awareness abou t which internet phenomenon? - Cyber Ragging 8. Which computer industry billionaire owns Valley Crest Companies, Americas lar gest landscaping firm? -Michael Dell 9. Which landmark was designed by David Rockwell of the Rockwell group & is now owned by the CIM group? - Kodak Theater 10. Identify the company which divides its values into Engaging you, Achieving T ogether, Passion for Innvovation, Very Human? -Nokia 11. MIT professor, Dr. Y. W. Lee invested his life savings in which company in 1 964? -Bose Corp. 12. NetWeaver is a product from which IT Giant? -SAP 13. Which company founded by Ralph Roberts and Daniel Aaron in 1963 gets its nam e from the words "Communication" and "Broadcast"? -ComCast 14. Dilip Kalra founded which successful Indian travel company? -MakeMyTrip.com

15. Who is the world s largest digital camera maker? -Nokia 16. What term first appeared in the book, Mathematics and the imagination ? -Googol 17. You press the button, we do the rest -Kodak 18. Who is the CEO of Dynamatic Aerospace? -Rakesh Sharma. 19. Which private firm was the first to report Abraham Lincoln's death in Europe ? -Reuters 20. Which communication company was founded by the founders of the peer to peer sharing network Kazaa? -Skype(Nikklaus Zenstrom and Janus Friis) 21. He was born to Florence Spellman, an unwed mother at the age of 17. His adop tive father was a Jew who came from Ellis Island. Name this business tycoon. -Larry Ellison(Oracle Corp.) 22. Who left Motorola to join Cisco as a CTO? - Padmasree Warrior (Probably Indian with highest number of twitter followers ab ove Big B, Tharoor, SRK, Sachin, etc. 23. What was the old name of Legend Computers? -Lenovo 24. What was the first mobile by Motorola?-Dynatac 25. Which company started as Haloid Corporation? -Xerox 26. What was founded by Curtis Priem(ex-SUN engineer., Chris Malachowsky(ex-SUN engineer.& Jen Hsun Huang(ex-AMD. in 1993? -Nvidia 27. How do we better know VSNL? -Tata Telecommunication 28. Visual Computing Labs (VCL) is an animation, visual effects and game asset b uilding facility servicing production for which Tata company? -Tata Elxsi 29. What was first made by Gisecke & Devrient in 1991 in sizes of 85.6X53.9X0.76 mm & 26X15X0.76 mm, with the later being more popular? -SIM cards 30. Big city, big enterprise, which telecom player of India extracted its name f rom it? -MTNL 31. What was first patented in 1949 as classifying apparatus and methods and descr adline for?

ibed as article classification through the medium of identifying patterns ? -Bar Code 32. What was created by Alexey Pajitnov that has sold 40 million copies, but did not benefit its creator monetarily since he invented it in communist-era Russia? -Tetris 33. The founder of which bookstore believed in Regret Minimization framework and hence founded the bookstore? -Amazon.com 34. In Turkish, what means "the holy meeting place ? -Orkut 35. This term was first used by New York World newspaper in 1929 to refer to lar ge custom-built tabulators IBM made for Columbia University? -Supercomputing 36. Garage is an initiative by HP for which set of people / businesses? -Startups 37. Which brand s slogan is -Samsonite Life is a journey ?

38. What was the name that Apple wanted to use for its Internet Kiosks? -iPod 39. Why the first commercially available version of the Oracle database was call ed Oracle 2? - So that people don t think that they are an amateur company launching their firs t product. 40. Who is the single largest shareholder of Disney? -Steve Jobs 41. According to a study by Tom Chavez of "Rapt", this feature costs Google $110 million a year as 1% of all searches use this feature and bypass all advertising. Which feature? -I m Feeling Lucky 42. The sticks were made of polished hazel or willow wood, and transactions were recorded by notches carved into the square with a knife. The size of the notch indicated the denomination. Name of which Software Company is derived from the name of the stick? -Tally 43. 119. What was added to the Morse code on 24th May 2004, its 160th Anniversar y? -The @ Symbol. 44. Which inventor spent the last ten years of his life in near-seclusion in Sui te 3327 (where he also died), largely devoting his time to feeding pigeons while occasionally meeting d ignitaries? -Nicholas Tesla

45. How was the naming of HP decided between Bill Hewlett and David Packard? -By the toss of a coin