RUSH 2.0 - Tech Reloaded is the second edition of our online Technology Quiz. We are glad to announce that we have retained CupoNation - India as our sponsor this time too.

2. Question 1:What is the name given to address
boxes that can do wonders like these?
Ans:Omnibox

3. Question 2: Connect.
Ans:Pranav Mistry

4. Question 3 : This service by one of the world’s
largest technology companies was created to
make the African individual more familiar to
the internet world and stand out as a platform
to bring more and more African content online.
In swahili language it refers to a meeting place.
Which service am I talking about?
Ans:Baraza

5. Question 4 : This is the chord Fmaj7 whose sound
is used in an entity that we use every day.The
notes that the chord Fmaj7 is comprise of ,also
make up half of the name of the entity.Where is
this used?
Ans:Facebook Ping Tune(Comes when message or notifications come
up)

6. Question 5: After a Berlin family got killed when a seal of refrigerator broke and
leaked fumes into house, a scientist and his student designed this model of
absorption refrigerator.Their patents were bought by the Swedish company
Electrolux.Who was the scientist?
Ans: Albert Einstein

7. Question 6: X is a popular means of transport.
The Dandy horse invented by the German Baron
Karl von Drais was the first of X’s kind .While X
in the 19th century was also known as
velocipedes , it got its current name from the
English print in the London The Daily News in
1868.What is X?
Ans:Bi-Cycle

8. Question 7: X is a concept car.The original idea
of X came from the 1977 James Bond film ‘ The
spy who loved me’.It uses the same frame as
that of Lotus Elise.Manufactured by a Swedish
company, what is X?
Ans:SQuba

9. Question 8: This is a screenshot from a particular site. Where?
Ans:Symbolics

10. Question 9 : X is one of the most notable inventions of Y.The very
first X was made out of an old hat box, a pair of scissors, some
darning needles, a few bicycle light lenses, and a used tea chest,
plus sealing wax and some glue to hold it all together. In 1924, Y
demonstrated the device he had created to a radio show, and in
1925, he demonstrated his device live inside a London
department store in a series of demonstrations over a three-week
period.Y was facing competition from Bell labs which was also in
the race of developing something similar to X.Identify X and Y.
Ans:X-Television Y-John Baird

11. Question 10:At the stroke of midnight on December 10,20
years ago,a file was uploaded to an FTP site on the
University of Washington's network.It sparked a revolution
and changed the face of the video game industry,which now
rakes in $66 billion each year.It became so popular that all
first person shooting games that came up after that were,
for a long period of time, were called its clone .Hence
making it a genre in itself.Which file is in discussion here?
Ans: Doom(the game)

12. Question 11: It is the largest American
interbank network.It began in 1984 and was
acquired by First Data Corporation in 2003.
What is being talked about?
Ans:STAR

13. Question 12 :This is a word having French
origins.It is defined as 'The rectangular, usually
steel frame, supported on springs and attached
to the axles, that holds the body and motor of
an automotive vehicle'.What is it?
Ans:Chassis

14. Question 13 :Which e-commerce site looked like
this when it started?
Ans: Myntra

15. Question 14:It is an intelligence system. Apart
from its master it is used by two others, they
are Virginia Potts and James Rhodes.It is
programmed to speak with a male British
accent and often mocks its own master.The
face behind its voice is that of Paul Bettany.
What thing is being talked about here?
Ans:J.A.R.V.I.S

16. Question 15:Marvin Stone invented a certain
type while Joseph Friedman invented another.It
can be related to soft drinks or beverages.
What?
Ans:Straw

17. Question 16:Identify this.
Ans:Spaceport America, New Mexico

18. Question 17:In 1876 X offered to sell the patent
of a revolutionary invention to Western Union for
$100,000, but the telegraph company turned
down the offer, saying it was nothing but a toy. X
founded his own company in 1877.Less than ten
years later, more than 150,000 people in the U.
S. owned a this device.what is the device?
Ans:Telephone

19. Question 18: In the world of Microsoft, who are
called Microsurfs?
Ans:New Employees

20. Question 19:This is the logo of which web based
service whose tagline is 'Build software better,
together'?
Ans:Octocat from Github

21. Question 20: Name this free web hosting
service and a wiki farm for wikis founded in
late 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley.
Ans:Wikia