Quiz-o-pedia - Your Weekly Quiz Blog!: 11/21/10

Hey All,

Its been an awesome week, and here we have the answers for last week's The Sunday Quiz.

The first ever theme of Quiz-o-pedia would have went uncracked, though Saket Ranjan did it again and got the theme BINGO!! Congrats Saket, we have updated the leader board, so check out where does your name feature.

Grand Theme:

Answers to The Sunday Quiz: 03

1. A ____________ is an electronic device powered by a source other than a battery, it converts the electric source to a allowed DC voltage that may be used by another device which is designed to be powered by batteries.

Ans: Battery eliminator

Connection to Theme: Motorola started in Chicago, Illinois as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation (at 847 West Harrison Street) in 1928, with its first product being a battery eliminator.

2. Identify the occasion which is commemorated on the stamp.

Ans: First Man on Moon 1969 Issue 10c

Connection to Theme: In 1969, Neil Armstrong spoke the famous words "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" from the Moon on a Motorola Radio.

3. Who is this gentleman. He is considered The Father of a revolutionary business management strategy.

Ans: Bill Smith - Father of Six Sigma

Connection to Theme: In 1986, Motorola invented the Six Sigma quality improvement process. This became a global standard.

4. Post WWII Company X regrouped and began to provide Japan with radios, appliances and bicycles. The owner's brother-in-law, founded Y as a subcontractor for components. Y grew to become a competitor to X. Identify X and Y.

Ans: X - Panasonic, Y - Sanyo

Connection to Theme: In 1974, Motorola divested itself of its television and radio-manufacturing division, which included the popular Quasar brand of electronics. This division was acquired by Matsushita, already well-known under its Panasonic brand in North America, where it was looking to expand.

5. Identify the group.

Ans: A picture of the official Mac Design Team taken by Norman Seeff for Rolling Stone, in the lobby of Bandley 3. From left to right, it's George Crow, Joanna Hoffman, Burrell Smith, Andy Hertzfeld, Bill Atkinson and Jerry Mannock.

Connection to Theme: The 68000 family of microprocessors manufactured by Motorola are used in Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, Color Computer, and Apple Macintosh personal computers.

6. What is being described here.

Ans: Explorer 1 Satellite

Connection to theme: Beginning in 1958 with Explorer 1, Motorola provided radio equipment for most NASA space-flights for decades including during the 1969 moon landing. A year later, it established a subsidiary to conduct licensing and manufacturing for international markets.

7. X in today's world are considered a type of electronic waste, regarded as one of the hardest type to recycle. They have high content of phosphorous and lead, both of which are necessary for the display, which lead to to difficult disposing process. Identify X.

Ans: Cathode Ray Tube (CRTs)

Connection to Theme: In 1963, Motorola, which had very successfully begun making televisions in 1947 introduced the world's first truly rectangular color TV picture tube which quickly became the industry standard.

8. Identify this super fast sportsman.

Ans: Robby Gordon of NASCAR

Connection to Theme: Sponsored by Motorola

9. This appeared first in 1969, though is now replaced. What?

Ans: Bell Laboratories

Connection to Theme: The first cellular phone was the culmination of efforts begun at Bell Labs, which first proposed the idea of a cellular system in 1947, and continued to petition the FCC for channels through the 1950s and 1960s, and research conducted at Motorola.

10. Simple one to end with again. Identify the device.

Ans: Atari ST PC

Connection to Theme: Same as Question 5

Congratulations to all those who cracked the questions right.

Happy Quizzing and wishing you a great week ahead!!

Team Quiz-o-pedia

Hi all,

The answers to the last week's quizzes are uploaded in the blog itself. Winners will be shortly updated on leader board.

Answers to The Saturday Quiz: 03

1. Simple one to start with. Connect the following pictures.

Ans. To quote Saket, "a.1st mention of the term in Argosy magazine. b.Conspiracy theory behind disappearance of Flight 19--group of five TBM Avenger fighter-bombers of the U.S. Navy in the Bermuda Triangle. c. Poster of the 1979 movie "The Bermuda Triangle""

2. Identify this gentleman. His name is a "Riddle".

Ans. Ralph Fiennes - The actor who portrayed Tom Marvolo Riddle or popularly Lord Voldemort.

3. Where would you find these sad faces. Print Campaign.

Ans. The losers campaign in the "in flight" magazine of Indigo Airlines.

4. Identify this person, his life and death represents the realities of "Reality TV".

Ans. Lakshman Prasad Ahirwar, The man for Jhansi, MP who committed suicide after being humiliated in the controversial show "Rakhi ka Insaaf" on NDTV Imagine.

5. Connect the first three pictures to an honour currently with the last movie.

Ans. Movies named after the all the above personalities(Gandhi, 1982; Amadeus, 1985; Hamlet, 1948) have won the Academy Award for the Best Picture, the title that currently rests on "The Hurt Locker".

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