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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
  1. Linus Torvalds

  2. Andrew S Tanenbaum

  3. Dennis Ritchie

  4. Richard Stallman

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Richard Stallman founded the GNU Project in 1983 to create a complete Unix-like operating system that would be free software. Linus Torvalds later created the Linux kernel, which was combined with GNU tools to form the complete GNU/Linux system.

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology
  1. Linus Torvalds

  2. Andrew S Tanenbaum

  3. Richard Stallman

  4. Steve Jobs

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in 1985 to support the free software movement. He also created the GNU Project and developed the concept of copyleft through the GNU General Public License (GPL). Linus Torvalds created Linux kernel, Tanenbaum wrote Minix, and Steve Jobs co-founded Apple - none founded the FSF.

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology
  1. Steve Jobs

  2. Henning Kagermann

  3. Ross Mason

  4. Jong-Yong Yun

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Ross Mason is the founder and was the CTO of MuleSoft, the company behind Mule ESB. He created Mule as an open-source project and co-founded the company. Steve Jobs was Apple's CEO, Henning Kagermann was SAP's CEO, and Jong-Yong Yun was Samsung's leadership - none were associated with MuleSoft.

Multiple choice general knowledge
  1. March 1998, Larry Page

  2. January 2001,Sergey Brin.

  3. February 2004,Mark Zuckerberg

  4. August 2005, Mark

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Facebook was launched in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg while he was a student at Harvard University. The other options (Larry Page, Sergey Brin) are Google founders, not Facebook. Option C is factually correct.

Multiple choice general knowledge
  1. 1) Dennis Ritchie & Ken Thompson

  2. 2) David Filo & Jerry Yang

  3. 3) Vint Cerf & Robert Kahn

  4. 4) Steve Case & Jeff Bezos

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Yahoo was founded in 1994 by David Filo and Jerry Yang, two Stanford graduate students who created a directory of websites called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web." The other pairs are incorrect: Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson created Unix, Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn developed TCP/IP, and Steve Case founded AOL while Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.

Multiple choice general knowledge
  1. Bill Gates

  2. Martin Cooper

  3. Ralph Bunche

  4. John Dalton

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Martin Cooper, working at Motorola, made the first handheld mobile phone call in 1973 and is widely credited as the father of the mobile phone. Gates founded Microsoft, Bunche was a diplomat, Dalton was a chemist.

Multiple choice general knowledge
  1. Bill Gates

  2. Martin Cooper

  3. Orkut Buyukkokten

  4. Mark Zuckerberg

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 while he was a student at Harvard University, along with Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. It became the world's largest social networking platform. Bill Gates founded Microsoft, Martin Cooper invented the mobile phone, and Orkut Buyukkokten created Orkut (a Google social network).