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Business and Tech Leaders

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Business and tech leaders covers prominent founders, chief executives, and economists who shaped global industries. This section features questions on leaders of major technology corporations and financial institutions. It is a highly scoring topic in general awareness.

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Business and Tech Leaders Questions

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

MOTOROLA

  1. paul garvin

  2. Paul Galvin

  3. kin johson

  4. jaon gelvin
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Motorola was founded by Paul Galvin and his brother Joseph Galvin in 1928. Paul Galvin coined the name 'Motorola' by combining 'motor' (for motorcar) and 'ola' (from sound, implying radio). The other names are incorrect or misspellings.

Multiple choice general knowledge

Founder of Adobe is

  1. Steve Woznaik

  2. John Warnock

  3. Larry Page

  4. Sabeer Bhatia
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

John Warnock co-founded Adobe Systems in 1982 along with Charles Geschke. Warnock was instrumental in developing the PostScript page description language. Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple, Larry Page co-founded Google, and Sabeer Bhatia founded Hotmail.

Multiple choice general knowledge

Founder of Google

  1. Bill Gates

  2. Sergey Brin and Larry Page

  3. Chestor Carlson

  4. MArk Jukerberg
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Google was founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1998 while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford. Bill Gates founded Microsoft, Chester Carlson invented xerography, and Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook (with misspelling in option D).

Multiple choice general knowledge

Founder of Yahoo!

  1. Jerry Yang and David Filo

  2. Chestor Carlson

  3. Dennis Ritchie

  4. Bill Joy
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Yahoo! was founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo while they were doctoral students at Stanford University. The company began as 'Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web' before being renamed to Yahoo!

Multiple choice general knowledge

Founder of hp

  1. Biltz Hewlett (H) and David Packard (P)

  2. Bill Hewlett (H) and Dave Packard (P)

  3. Bill Hawale (H) and Dave Pattison (P)

  4. Prashant Pallaw
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Hewlett-Packard (HP) was founded in 1939 by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in a garage in Palo Alto, California. The company name comes from their surnames - Hewlett won a coin toss to have his name first.

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Founder of Intel

  1. Gordon Moore and Bob Noyce

  2. George Moore and Bob Nightingle

  3. Mohammad Rashid Reshamwala

  4. Anuraj P
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Intel was founded in 1968 by Gordon Moore (of Moore's Law fame) and Robert Noyce (inventor of the integrated circuit). The name 'Intel' is short for Integrated Electronics.

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Founder of Lotus Software

  1. Mitch Kapor

  2. Puneet Garg

  3. Marc Ewing

  4. Scott Mc Nealy
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Lotus Development Corporation was founded by Mitch Kapor in 1982. Lotus 1-2-3, the company's first product, became the dominant spreadsheet application in the 1980s before being overtaken by Microsoft Excel.

Multiple choice general knowledge

Founder of MOtorola

  1. Paul Galvin

  2. Larry Ellison

  3. Bob Oats

  4. Marc Ewing
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Motorola was founded by Paul and Joseph Galvin in 1928. The company name combines 'motor' (from motorcar) and 'ola' (from sound, implying audio/radio). They made the first car radio and later pioneered mobile phones.

Multiple choice general knowledge

Founder of Oracle

  1. Larry Ellison and Bob Oats

  2. Marc Ewing

  3. Ken Thompson

  4. Jonathan Swift
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Oracle was founded by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates. The option 'Larry Ellison and Bob Oats' (despite the misspelling of Oates) is the intended correct answer.

Multiple choice general knowledge

Founder of hotmail

  1. Sabeer Bhatia

  2. MarkJukerBerg

  3. Julian Assenge

  4. Robert William
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Hotmail was founded in 1996 by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith. It was one of the first webmail services and was later acquired by Microsoft. Bhatia is the most prominently known founder.

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Founder of Facebook

  1. Mark JukerBerg

  2. Mark Jockey

  3. Martin Jockerberg

  4. Martin
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg along with Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes while they were students at Harvard. Zuckerberg is the primary founder and CEO who led the company's growth.

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Founder of CIsco

  1. Leonar Bosack

  2. Sandy Learner

  3. Leonar Bosack and Sandy Learner

  4. John Martin
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Cisco was founded in 1984 by Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, who were married at the time. They developed the first multi-protocol router while at Stanford University. Both are equally important as co-founders.