FUNDAMENTALS
India’s most iconic IT company is going through turbulent times. Today’s quiz will take you through the ups and downs of the Infosys journey.
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INFOSYS
1. What is the connection of a company founded in Ra’anana, Israel by Yossi Cohen with Infosys? 2. All the seven founders of Infosys worked together in a company which is now part of Capgemini. Name this Pune based company? 3. What is common to McCamish Systems, Lodestone, Kallidus, Skava and Noah Consulting? 4. The company is now called Infosys Limited. What is the original name of the company when it was registered in 1981? 5. In 2014, two former senior Infosys board members tried their luck at Lok Sabha elections. The most famous one is Nandan Nilekani. Who is the second person? 6. Narayan Murthy has a famous brother-in-law based in the United States. Who is also a tech founder. Name him? 7. Who is the only person from the original six that started Infosys to leave Infosys and float his own company in the United States? 8. Narayan Murthy was employee No. 4 at Infosys as he took nearly a year to finish his ongoing projects at Patni. Who was employee number 1?
ANYTHING GOES
1. Jack Daniel’s, Finlandia, GlenDronach, Old Forester are all liquor brands owned by which American family owned company? (Shiv Reddy, Bengaluru) 2. Which former Test cricketer has the distinction of captaining his country in cricket and also in Football ?(B.K. Harinath, Mysuru) 3. What special character of glass frog differentiates its from other frogs? (P. Nivritee Sreelekha, Secunderabad) 4. This was once one of the four largest lakes in the world,almost 70,000 sq km in size. This has now completely dried up and is one of the environmental disasters of the world. Identify? (Philip Joshua, Secunderabad) 5. British endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh is described as Sir Edmund Hillary of swimming for a particular feat that he completed in 2006 and has not been replicated till date. What? (M.S. Abhigna, Secunderabad) 6. Contoured, flared, multi textured and studded are some of varieties of this product. I addition to these, there are three more popular varieties. What product are we talking about? (Deepak Gomes, Kolkata) 7. In 2005, researchers led by Professor Stephan Wolf showed for the first time that this substance is not formed by a crystallisation process but is a result of the aggregation of nanoparticles within an organic matrix. What substance are we talking about? (Aadisht Grover, Kolkata) 8. Ansatsuken or satsujinken is term used in Japanese to describe a particular type of martial arts with a special end objective. What objective? (Daniel Murad, Kochi)