Innovation Meets Hollywood
This Hollywood star will be playing the role of Elizabeth Holmes in the upcoming feature film about Theranos:
(a) Amy Adams (b) Jennifer Garner (c) Jennifer Lawrence (d) Kate Winslet
(c) Jennifer Lawrence
This peer-to-peer transportation network company plans to launch flying taxi demonstrations by 2020:
(a) Lyft (b) Wingz (c) Sidecar (d) Uber
(d) Uber
What year was the iPod first launched:
(a) 2000 (b) 2001 (c) 2002 (d) 2003
(b) 2001
Former Napster cofounder Sean Parker was reportedly fired from his role as Facebook’s first president in 2005 after:
(a) Sexual harassment lawsuit filed against him (b) Arrested for possession of cocaine (c) DUI charges filed against him (d) Discovery that he was starting up another company
(b) Arrested for possession of cocaine
What bestseller did Greg say was top of his reading list at the 2018 Global Kickoff:
(b) Brotopia by Emily Chang
This celebrity founded The Honest Company, an American consumer goods company that emphasizes ethical consumerism:
(a) Gwyneth Paltrow (b) Jessica Alba (c) Reese Witherspoon (d) Ivanka Trump
(b) Jessica Alba
This is the cost of a Space X two-stage-to-orbit Falcon 9 rocket launch this year:
(a) $24M (b) $37M (c) $50M (d) $61M
(c) $50M
What is the name of Lisa Brennan Jobs new book:
(a) Small Things (b) Small Fry (c) Life with Steve (d) Lisa Brennan Jobs—My Story
(b) Small Fry
Among the incidents leading up to Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick’s downfall, during an Uber ride hired by Kalanick, he engaged in a heated exchange with the driver that was caught on camera about:
(a) Uber fares (b) Uber benefits for drivers (c) Driver was late (d) Kalanick’s drunken behavior
(a) Uber fares
What was young Bill Gates’ favorite non-computer game during his college years:
(a) Poker (b) Car-racing (c) Badminton (d)Chess
(a) Poker
Elon Musk played a cameo role in this movie:
(a) Baby Driver (b) Avengers: Infinity War (c) Captain America: Civil War (d) Iron Man 2
(d) Iron Man 2
This is the company that created a drone that can follow and film you while you are running:
(a) Mavic (b) Spry (c) GoPro (d) Ryze
(b) Spry
What is the list price of the most expensive recently announced new Apple iPhone:
(a) $ 1,399 (b) $ 1,450 (c) $ 1,499 (d) $ 1,550
(c) $ 1,499
Which one of the following did Elon Musk not do:
(a) Called a British diver that helped with the Thai cave rescue a “pedo” (b) Appeared to smoke marijuana during a podcast appearance (c) Impulsively tweeted about securing funding to take Tesla private (d) Cried during New York Times interview, claiming it has been the “most difficult and painful year…excruciating” in part due to production delays of the Model X
(d) Cried during New York Times interview, claiming it has been the “most difficult and painful year…excruciating” in part due to production delays of the Model X (it was Model 3)
Who played Steve Jobs in “Pirates of Silicon Valley:
(a) Michael Anthony Hall (b) Emilio EstevezPot (c) Noah Wyle (d) Matthew Broderick
(c) Noah Wyle
This movie showed an object impressively similar to an iPad well before it was invented:
(a) 2001: A Space Odyssey (b) Star Trek II (c) Fahrenheit 451 (d) The Matrix
(a) 2001: A space Odyssey
SVB is, believe it or not, banking this private electric vertical take-off flying jet company:
(a) Lilium (b) Airleap (c) eJet (d) Blazze
a) Lilium
Katherine Adams, Apple’s new GC, just arrived from this company:
(a) Honeywell (b) Textron (c) Proctor & Gamble (d) HP
(a) Honeywell
Elizabeth Holmes, disgraced former Theranos CEO, duped many investors --- except:
(a) Betty DeVos (b) Walmart’s Walton Family (c) CVS Pharmacy (d) Larry Ellison
(c) CVS Pharmacy (it was Walgreens)
Which is a real name of a startup company banked by SVB?
(a) Fiestify (party planning app) (b) Aviato (personal jets) (c) Snail Mail (escargot delivery) (d) Superpedestrian (customizable commuter bike)
(d) Superpedestrian (customizable commuter bike)
This American film actor pioneered the field of wireless communications invented Spread Spectrum Technology with her invention of Spread Spectrum Technology
(a) Ava Gardner (b) Lucille Ball (c) Hedy Lamarr (d) Lana Turner
(c) Hedy Lamarr
This American pizza restaurant was the first company to deliver pizza by drone
(a) Pizza Hut (b) Pappa John’s Pizza (c) Little Ceasars (d) Domino’s Pizza
(d) Domino’s Pizza
Jony Ive, Apple’s Chief Design Officer, was influenced, according to Wikipedia, by this designer:
(a) Jacob Jensen (b) Phillipe Starck (c) Ettore Sottsass (d) Dieter Rams
(d) Dieter Rams
William Shockley, often called the First Founder of Silicon Valley, the original “bad boy” did all but which of the following:
(a) Made employees take polygraph tests and publicly posted employees’ salary and political affiliation information (b) Promoted (and donated to) a “high IQ“ sperm bank in hopes of spreading humanity’s best genes (c) Claimed IQ differences were based on racial genetics (d) Prepared a report for the War Department which influenced the U.S. to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
(a) Made employees take polygraph tests and publicly posted employees’ salary and political affiliation information (all true but did not post political affiliation info)
This SVB client was the first IPO of 2018 led by a female:
(a) Glossier (b) Le Tote (c) StitchFix (d) Zuora
(c) StichFix