Tag: general knowledge

Kalpana Chawla was the Indian-American astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster (STS-107) on February 1, 2003. Rakesh Sharma and Ravish Malhotra are other Indian astronauts, and Sunita Williams is still alive.

Persia officially changed its name to Iran in 1935 under Reza Shah. The name 'Iran' means 'Land of the Aryans' in Persian, and this change was requested by the Iranian government.

The 'Moonwalk' is Michael Jackson's signature dance move where he creates the illusion of walking backwards while actually moving forward. He first performed it publicly in 1983 during a Motown 25th anniversary special.

Intel's headquarters is located in Santa Clara, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Redmond is where Microsoft is based, and the other cities are not major tech headquarters.

Ken Thompson co-created UNIX with Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs in 1969. Bjarne Stroustrup created C++, Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple, and Niklaus Wirth created Pascal.

Yahoo was founded in 1994 by David Filo and Jerry Yang, two electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University. They originally created "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" before renaming it Yahoo. The claimed answer (B) is correct. 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.

According to the original Red Book CD standard developed by Philips and Sony, standard audio CDs hold 74 minutes of audio. This specification was chosen because it could accommodate Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which Sony's president insisted should fit on a single disc. Later technology enabled 80-minute and 90-minute discs, but the original specification was 74 minutes. The claimed answer (A) is correct.