FUNDAMENTALS
Some companies are so strongly associated with certain individuals, that their original founders or cofounders are literally unknown. Take this quiz on little known founders. Write in with your suggestions, questions (with answers) to senjam@gmail.com UNKNOWN FOUNDERS 1. This company was founded by Martin Eberhard, an electrical engineer and Marc Tarpenning, a software developer, in 2003. They left the company just before the launch of its first product in 2008. Name this company that is now strongly associated with one individual. 2. The owner of NBA basketball team Portland Trail Blazers and American football team Seattle Seahawks, cofounded a company in 1975. He had a bout with cancer and in 1983 withdrew himself from active management. Name him and the company. 3. Apple had three cofounders. Two most famous ones are Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Name the third cofounder who drew the first logo and wrote the first partnership agreement but opted out in few months. 4. Travis Kalanick is known as the founder of Uber, however Uber had two founders. Name this co-founder who is also known as the co-founder of StumbleUpon. 5. There were seven founders of Infosys. Only one out of seven opted out of the company in its early years. He went to the US and started his own company. Who? 6. Snapchat was founded by two people. The most famous one is Evan Spiegel. Who is the other? 7. Ankit Bhati, who is an IIT, Mumbai alumnus, keeps a low profile, while his friend and co-founder of their enterprise, is the face of the company. Which company? ANYTHING GOES 1. Which payment company that was a pioneer in UPI was acquired by Flipkart in 2016? (Commander G.R. Balakrishnan (Retd), Chennai) 2. Anasuya Sarabhai, from the industrialist family of Sarabhai in Gujarat, has a unique distinction, quite different from her wealthy roots. What was it? (U.N. Murthy, Secunderabad) 3. How many sides would you find in an icosagon object? (Partha Sarkar, Kolkata) 4. In 1942, De Beers, the South African company that mines diamonds, gave 16 diamonds as a gift to an Indian. Who and why? (Philip Joshua, Secunderabad) 5. In the long, checkered history of first class cricket, the Holkar team in a 1946 Ranji trophy match established a world record which has not been equalled in any first class match even after 72 years. What record? (B.K. Harinath, Mysuru) 6. Every year in April, in Prague, a battalion of history buffs don army uniforms and march on vintage American military vehicles. This is known as the Convoy of Liberty. What does it commemorate? (Deepak Gomes, Kolkata) 7. William Shakespeare included the word ‘Mathematics’ in a play and nowhere else. Name the play. (Clue: only play where one animal also appeared in the title) (Gargee Sarkar, PanpraKhatra, Bankura) 8. The mission of TRAFFIC, a joint initiative of WWF and IUCN, is to ensure that trade in wild plants and animals is not a threat to the conservation of nature. TRAFFIC is the acronym of what? (Muhammed Arif, Mumbai)