This document contains 10 multiple choice questions testing knowledge about various topics such as languages, sports, films, history, companies, organizations, and people. The questions cover the origins of fantasy sports leagues, the location associated with the soccer team Everton, the company that became Canon Inc., the meaning of the term "Boko Haram", and the invention of USB flash drives.
2. 1.
? _____ is a language spoken by the _____. This
language includes words from Italian, French, Hindi,
English, Japanese, Spanish etc. Some refer to this as
the Banana Language.
? Gelato, Kampai, Tank yu, Tatata bala tu are some of
the words.
? Identify the language.
8. 4.
? The concept of picking players and running a contest based on their
year-to-date stats has been around since shortly after World War II,
Wilfred Winkenbach devised fantasy golf in the latter part of the
1950s, in which each player selected a team of professional golfers
and the person with the lowest combined total of strokes at the end
of the tournament would win. Golf is a simple fantasy game to
administer and keep tabs on, since you are concerned only with the
scores of your team members without anything else to complicate it.
But it was never organized into a widespread hobby or formal
business.
? This is the history of?
14. 7.
? The company was originally named Seikik¨gaku kenky¨±sho (jpn. ¾«™C
¹âѧÑо¿Ëù, Precision Optical Industry Co. Ltd.). In 1934 it produced
the Kwanon, a prototype for Japan¡¯s first-ever 35 mm camera with a
focal plane based shutter. In 1947 the company name was changed to
X shortened to X Inc. in 1969. The name Canon comes from
Buddhism, of Buddhist bodhisattva Guan Yin, in Japanese, previously
transliterated Kuanyin, Kwannon, or Kwanon in English.
16. 8.
? This word means ¡®Western Education is Forbidden¡¯. The group has
received training and funds from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb,
and was designated by the US as a terrorist organisation in November
2013. Membership has been estimated to number between a few
hundred and a few thousand.
18. 9.
? X were invented by Amir Ban, Dov Moran and Oron Ogdan, all of the
Israeli company M-Systems, who filed US patent 6,148,354 in April
1999. However, the patent describes a product that has a cable
between the memory unit and the USB connector. Released later the
same year, IBM Patent Disclosure RPS8-1999-0201 from September
13, 1999 by Shimon Shmueli accurately describes the X. IBM
partnered with M-Systems to bring the product to market. Shmueli
was later an expert witness for M-Systems and as part of his
testimony in the Singapore court presented the IBM disclosure and
evidence to the fact that he invented the X. M-Systems' product,
developed by a team led by Dan Harkabi and named the DiskOnKey,
was announced in September 2000.