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Questions from the 2011/2012 editions of  Telecom/Tech Quiz thati have been doing in my company. Leave your answers in the comments. Answers will be updated in a week.

1. Whose logo called the “speech mark”, is a quotation inside a circle?
2. What does ADSL stand for?
3. Digicel is the official sponsor of which cricket team?
4. A _____ system  is a set of applications should support the Service Provider to effectively manage the relations and interactions with its customers.
5. The original concept was developed by Jaakko Iisalo and its mechanics is said to have been inspired from a previous game called Crush the Castle. Which game from Rovio Mobile?
6. Telecom service provider MTS India recently announced which Bollywood actor as its brand ambassador for two Years – in a 10 crore deal?
7. What is the name of the voice-activated personal  assistant that comes with the iPhone 4S?
8. What is the version name of the Symbian OS which was released in Apr/May 2011 (Original name was PR2). All of us would know this name!
9. This company’s name is officially an abbreviation of the phrase ‘Do communication over the mobile network ‘ .  This word also means “Everywhere” in Japanese. Identify the company
10. Expand EDGE, also known as Enhanced GPRS
11. When you call 1909 in India, which service do you register for?
12. What is the present name of the Alexander Bell Telephone Company?
13. Name the father of the C programming language and the UNIX operating system who passed away a week after Steve Jobs died.
14. This company started in 1995 as a joint venture between the Tatas, the Aditya Birla Group and AT&T, by merging Tata Cellular and Birla AT&T Communications. Which one?
15. Who makes the Ascend P1 S, the world’s slimmest smartphone at 6.68 mm that was unveiled at CES 2012?
16. What does T9 (developed by tegic communications) mode, used on many mobile phones for typing messages stand for?
17. What is the QR “code” known as? (the expansion)
18. What is the name of the tablet manufactured by the Canadian company DataWind Limited?
19. Reliance has launched the first such service in India. This service is similar to a chat room: a conference call with upto six people, in which the ___ ____ plays host, and initiates and facilitates discussions on topics like movies, trends, current events. What is this service called?
20. I can afford this phone. Presenting XXX, the affordable Android. Which brand?
21. We have prepaid and postpaid. What is the service offered by the Future Group, available in shops like Big Bazaar called?
22. What is the term used for the service set combining broadband, television, telephone (home phone)  and a wireless option (mobile phone)?
23. Taglines : Baat mein Dum hai
24. Taglines : Har friend zaroori hai yar
25. Which indian telecom company’s logo resembles a telephone?
26. “We wear cool suits We wear shiny Shoes We’re the ___ _____ Oh yeah We’re the ____ _____ We’re special, we’re clever We’re very very clever We’re the ____ ______ Oh yeah We’re the ____ ______ We do chat and we do mail We do surf We do all on the move”
27. Norwegian IT minister Rigmor Assrud eas featured recently in a photo with Kapil Sibal. What was the most likely topic of discussion?
28. ‘Out’ is a US-based gay men’s fashion and lifestyle magazine. Every year, it publishes Power 50, a list of the 50 Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America. Who topped the list in 2011?
29. What is “Nomophobia“?
30.  I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone by X’s Chairman of the board. It has been my pleasure to work with all of you and I wish you only the bext going forward. Sent from my iPad. Who?
31. The shorty awards are given for creation of best content on which website?
32. What does IVR stand for w.r.t telecommunication industry?
33. Which is the company in the news (for all the wrong reasons) that makes the parts of many products including iPhone?
34. This is a term coined by Rohit Bhargava, a senior vice president at Ogilvy, for the practice of brands using social media to create an affinity with customers who share the same sentiments with friends. Which term?
35. Which app is being touted as the Android answer to Apple’s Siri?
36. What name was chosen by a company to “reflect the provision of voice and data services over mobile phones”?
37. This inventor resided for most of his life in Nova Scotia, Canada, received the master patent in the United States for something he invented. He assigned 75% of his patent rights to his father. These were the beginnings of Telco. Who is this inventor and which company is being spoken about?
38. “Send an SMS  to 1900. Then you will get a reply SMS with a UPC. Submit an application to the ___  with this UPC in a prescribed format.Your application will be processed and you will get an application receipt confirmation and the details of ___ date. Once the ____ is completed, confirmation message will be received. Steps for what in India?
39. “Different meanings of the same word: A very small amount of an ingredient, In economics, it is the level of inventory below which consumers become worried about continuity of supplies . To squeeze between the thumb and the finger. Connect this word to this Steve Jobs.
40. If it is ASKM (Available Seat Kilometers) for the airline industry, and ARR (Average Room rate) for the hotel industry, what is it for the telecom industry?
41. In 17th century, this word was introduced into Optics and later used for other waves. The dictionary meaning is – a condition that is not limited to a specific set of values but that which can vary infinitely within a continuum. What word?
42. What is the term used for the situation in which a subscriber is outside his/her home network and uses wireless connectivity services?
43. He is considered to be the inventor of the mobile phone. On April 3, 1973, he placed a call to Joel Engel, head of research at AT&T’s Bell Labs, while walking the streets of New York City talking on the first Motorola DynaTAC prototype. Who?
44. W.r.t IPL , a six was referred to as a DLF Maximum, what is a catch/best catch of the day referred to as ?
45. If Mountain Dew’s tag line is “Do the Dew”, whose tagline is “Do the New”??
46. ‘Sparks’, ‘Hangouts’, ‘Huddle’,‘Mobile’, Circles are some of the features in which product. Which one?
47. Big city, big enterprise, Which telecom player of India extracted its name from it?
48. Expand CDMA
49. What is the name of the cloud version of its popular Office offerings, aimed to enable enterprises to use the software on a pay-per-use model.
50. Expand GSM
51. On September 20, 2007, which company was taken over by Vodafone in India?
52. Kapil Sibal is the current minister of communications and Information technology.Who was the one before him?
53. Which company’s name is is supposedly derived from “Accent on the future”.
54. The Lava B5 mobile phones are the first phones launched in India to have 2 new things. One is the ABC keyboard. What is the other?
55. On July 1, 1968 this  number was introduced in New York City to call the police. What?
56. Scene in a Bus: When asked as to why she was being put on hold and why it took so long for customer care to respond, what does the lady say?
57. A recent survey found what to be main reason for low churn in India even after the introduction of MNP?
58. Bell was testing his instrument over a longer distance. Bell and Watson were upstairs with one instrument while Charles Williams was using the other instrument downstairs. Someone called for Bell from another room and as he went to the other room he handed the instrument to Watson and Bell said “here, hold this“. This is rumoured to be the origin of which phrase?
59. What acc to Onida is the USP of their PreCool range of air conditioners?
60. Standard to the iphone is a device that allows the user to flip the screen from landscape to portrait mode simply by rotating the phone. By what name is this function better known?
61. The Digital Rights Management system on the iPhone was broken by a group of hackers, which allowed for other non-Apple applications to be installed onto the devices. By what name is such a cracking of Digital Rights Management better-known?
62. A similar handheld device is also available from Apple that has most features that the iPhone has, minus the telephone. What is the name of this device?

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I recently conducted a quiz at work. It was a general quiz, but not in the usual format. it was done in the format of the IPL cricket auctions. See the screen below.

Every team was given a budget of 10000 INR. The questions were grouped into categories such as Uncapped, batsman, foreigners etc. Each of the categories had a base price , marked within brackets in the header of the category e.g. a bowler question’s base price is 100. Now, teams were shown the question and then had to bid for it. The “runs” that they score if they got the question right are the numbers printed on the buttons. So, the teams have to manage their bidding based on their knowledge of the answer, the number of runs a question would fetch them and the amount of money they have. Also, if a team gave a wrong answer, they got negative runs, equal to the number printed on the square.

The quizzing was interesting with teams fighting it our for questions they were confident about and some teams bluffing knowledge of the question so as to increase the money spent by the other teams. Given below are some of the questions used.

• Gandhari had many children. One of them is Dushala – her daughter. Who were the others?
• Whoever cheats and thereby dishonestly induces the person deceived any property to any person or to make/alter or destroy the whole or any part of a valuable security shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years and shall also be liable to fine. Which section of IPC is this (not the complete description)?
• Which modern-day game was earlier known as Poona as it was originally played in Indian city of Pune?
• Name the country in Asia where you have to be a Sunni Muslim to be its citizen.
• Who is the hero in the comics “Sunare Panjon wala Kekda” & “Tuta Hua kaan”
• Referred to as a sugar pill these contain no active ingredients but people feel better without having any physical effect. What are such medicines known as?
• The world’s number one smoking cessation brand has been launched in India. Name it?
• If you were to win the Golden Bails award which profession would you be in?
• X Mobility Holdings and X Solutions are the two companies which have been formed after X split. Identify X
• Sushruta identified this group of metabolic diseases and associated it with a sedentary lifestyle. He classified it as Madhumeha. What medical condition did he refer to as Madhumeha?
• This term in sports comes from a military term for a man trapped behind enemy lines where he is said to be “away from the strength of his side”. Which term?
• Who fetched the highest amount amongst non-Indians in the recent IPL4 auction?
• One key on the keyboard has its own “day” on October 22 when people observing this day use this key. Which key?
• The Ayodhya verdict was a 3 way split between the Muslims (Sunni Waqf board) Hindus (Ram Lalla) and who?
• Which technology received a patent under the name “Classifying Apparatus and Method”. One of the scientists who came up with this technology said that he received inspiration for the technology by drawing lines in the sand on a beach.
• Which is the first IT company from India to be listed on NASDAQ?
• Which building would you see on the reverse side of a Rs 50 note?
• Which airline in India has aircrafts named Oregano/Fenugreek/Sesame?
• A new breed. The first Indian Crossover. The finesse of a Sedan with the muscle of a SUV. Which vehicle from TATA?
• What is the brand of condoms given in lieu of change in the new Lava A10 mobile phone ad?
• What is classified into the types Pure/Virgin/Extra Virgin?
• In which state were the first Aadhar cards (UID Cards) issued?
• Who established the Missionaries of Charity in 1950 in Calcutta?
• There are 3 national holidays in India: 26 January/15 August and… ?
• His name is Bholu the elephant. What is he the mascot of?
• After Sachin who holds the record for the most number of Test Cricket centuries?
• The Bandra-Worli Sea Link Bridge is officially named after which former Prime Minister?
• Neral – Hardal Hill – Jammapatti Station – Bhekra Station – Mount Barry- Panorama Point – Simpson Point – ? Which is the last station for this train?
• What is the common English name of the Middle Eastern dance form of which there are 2 types – Raqs sharqi and Raqs baladi
• Expand GPRS
• What is the name of the process which converts carbon-di-oxide into organic compounds using the energy from sunlight?
• Which country would appear first in the list of alphabetically arranged country names?
• Expand ATM (where you withdraw cash)
• Of which state/UT is Silvassa the capital?

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I did a Cryptic Quiz through @kweezzz on Twitter. Given below are the questions. For answers, see the comments. This is a combination of a quiz question and a cryptic crossword kind of clue. The number of brackets give the number of letters in the answer. Enjoy!

1. Tirunellai Narayana went behind Ms. Universe 1994. That’s great news (9)
2. Greek Island in Charles Boss’ territory (6)
3. The bow and arrow guy was crowned king and became the quizmaster! (7)
4. Foreign intelligence agency turned around and observed  a capital (6)
5. Tail-less rabbit singing a religious song of praise after two hundreds! (9)
6. The States have poles around them for the lazy woman (5)
7. Female undergarments are sick in this country (6)
8. This german beauty loved the kiss from a rose (5,4)
9. African country was cut to make this african country (5)
10. It should not be colder, i hear for this animal (5)
11. The “One” which Joseph Alois flies on, Baa Baa heard (8)
12. First name buddies with Lightyear, he was the second to step on his mom’s last name (4,6)
13. The original chocolate crisp was in my bag with the feline (3,3)
14. The beach ohm goes to, on Pogo (6, 5)
15. I travelled 12.875 kilometres to watch the movie (1,4)
16. Beijing has got 2 Lings and a Qi (5,4)
17. if you get the first rub on the back on “this”, you are extremely popular (6)
18. The black one amongst the “little, black and many” in South Pacific (9)
19. Collision without warning in this movie  (6,6)
20. Though he cannot make the first move, he comes first in the dictionary (6)

Answers moved to the comments section.

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Nowadays, everyone seems to be on the Sudoku or the Kakuro bandwagon. Yes, they are fun and give immense satisfaction when you complete one, but it is the same thought process which goes into each and every one of them. I have always liked the non-traditional ones be it the word based ones or the mathematical ones or don’t-know-what-to-call-them ones.

With this in mind, I have started @Twuzzles, Puzzles on Twitter. I will post one puzzle daily. Each puzzle requires you to think in a different direction. While some may require a bit of brute force,  most of them can be solved “logically”.

How do you start solving these puzzles?

• Log on to your Account @twitter. If you don’t have one, get one created on Twitter.
• Go to the Twuzzles Page. You should see a “follow” button on top of the page. Press that button to start “following” twuzzles. Once you do this, you would see all “Twuzzles” posts automatically on your twitter home page.
• Once you solve a particular puzzle, choose the “Reply” option and you should see a window on top with “@twuzzles” automatically entered. Enter your answer and press “Tweet”.

Every day, I will give out the answer to the previous day’s puzzle as well announce the names of the first 3 correct replies. Three puzzles are already available to you to solve on Twuzzles.

Suggestions are welcome. Do spread the message or as they say “Tweet” the word around.

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