AMAZON QUIZ -Team QUIRKY

1. Amazon.com started as an online ____________. (ans. bookstore)

2. Name any 5 countries where amazon has a separate retail website. (ans.  United States, United Kingdom & Ireland, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, theNetherlands, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India and Mexico.)

3. In 2015, Amazon surpassed _________ as the most valuable retailer in the United States by market capitalization. (ans. Walmart)

4. When was Amazon founded? (ans. July 5th 1994)

5. Where are the headquarters of Amazon, Inc.? (ans. Seattle, Washington, U.S)

6. Who is the president of Amazon? (ans. Jeff Bezos)

7. Who is the Vice-President and Country Manager, Amazon India? (ans. Amit Agrawal)

8. What is the NASDAQ symbol for Amazon.com? (ans. AMZN)

9. In which programming language is the Amazon website written in? (ans. C++ & Java)

10.  In 1994, Bezos left his employment as vice-president of D.E. Shaw & Co. where was this company located? (ans. Wall Street, New York)

11.Why was a name beginning with "A" was preferred? (ans. due to the probability it would occur at the top of any list that was alphabetized).

12.  In 1999, which magazine named Bezos the Person of the Year? (ans. Time Magazine)

13.Amazon announced additional how much USD Investment in India, June 2014? (ans. $2bn)

14.How many subsidiaries does Amazon own? (ans. 40 subsidiaries)

15. In 2011, Amazon.com announced a partnership with which comic house for the exclusive digital rights? (ans. DC Comics)

16.Why did Amazon.com announced a partnership with the United States Postal Service in 2013? (ans. to begin delivering orders on Sundays)

17.How many employees can work at the headquarters of amazon? (ans. 12,000)

18.In India, Amazon has 4 software development centers. Mention in which city are these 4 located respectively? (ans. Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Pune)

19.Where is the Customer Service Centre of Amazon in South Africa located? (ans. Cape Town)

20.In 2015, Amazon recently opened a warehouse in India in which city? (ans. Pune)

21.Amazon announced a grocery service offering perishable and nonperishable foods. (ans. AmazonFresh)

22. In 2005, Amazon announced the creation of a premium membership offering. Name it. (ans. Amazon Prime)

23. In April 2015, Amazon started a partnership with Audi and DHL in order to get deliveries on the trunk of Audi cars. Which country was this project for? (ans. Germany)

24. In which year was the Amazon Kindle launched? (ans. 2007)

25.Amazon entered the smartphone market in July 2014. What was the name of their device? (ans. Fire Phone)

26.What did Amazon launch on March 22, 2011, which made their service was made available in over 200 countries. (ans. Amazon App on Android)

27.What is the domain name of Amazon Germany? (ans. Amazon.de)

28.On January 31, 2013 Amazon experienced an outage that lasted how long leaving its site inaccessible to some customers? (ans. 49 minutes)

29.On May 5, 2014 Amazon unveiled a partnership with Twitter. Twitter users can link their accounts to an Amazon account and automatically add items to their shopping carts by responding to any tweet with an Amazon product link bearing the hashtag ______? (ans. #AmazonCart)

30.Which cloud-based digital comics platform did amazon buy in 2014? (ans. ComiXology)

31.Which social cataloging website for books did amazon buy in 2008? (ans. Shelfari)

32.The domain amazon.com attracted at least 615 million visitors annually by 2008, twice the number of __________. (ans. Walmart)

33.What is the domain name of Amazon, Ireland? (ans. Amazon.ie)

34.In which year Amazon was reported as being the largest single source of Internet consumer reviews? (ans. 2010)

35. "Taking a different approach ... we want to make every book available—the good, the bad, and the ugly ... to let truth loose". Who said this statement? (ans. Jeff Bezos)

36.What is a feature which allows customers to search for keywords in the full text of many books on Amazon? (ans. "Search Inside the Book")

37.  Customers can purchase online access to some of the same books via which program? (ans. the "Amazon Upgrade")

38.Amazon derives many of its sales from third-party sellers who sell products on Amazon. How much sales (in % of total sales) do 3rd party sellers achieve annually? (about 40% annually)

39.The ASR provides an indication of the popularity of a product sold on any Amazon locale. What is ASR? (ans. Amazon sales rank)

40.  For competitive reasons what Amazon does not release annually? (ans.Actual Sales Figure)

41.Amazon has now begun to release point of sale data via the __________________ service. (ans. Nielsen BookScan)

42.The core technology that keeps Amazon running is based on which os. (ans. Linux)

43. Amazon had the world’s three largest databases, with capacities of: a) 7.8 TB b)18.5 TB c) 24.7 TB d) All of these e) None of these (ans. All of these)

44. Which database software does amazon use to keep track of transaction? (ans. Oracle)

45. Whom has Amazon employed to use the Secure Socket Layer protocol which stores all credit card details in a separate database. (ans. Netscape Secure)

46. On January 31, 2013 Amazon experienced an outage that lasted approximately how long, leaving its site inaccessible to some customers. (ans. 49 min)

47. In 2014 Amazon unveiled a partnership with which social networking giant? (ans. Twitter)

48. Amazon started off by focusing on which 2 main business models? (B2B & B2C)

49. Who can sell on Amazon? (ans. Anyone who has registered themselves as a seller)

50. By 2010, Amazon has developed a customer base of around how many people? (30 million)

51. Shoppers who used the app to check prices in a brick-and-mortar store were offered a _____ discount to purchase the same item from Amazon. (ans. 5%)

52. Companies like Groupon, eBay, and Taap countered Amazon's promotion by offering how many USD off from their products? (ans. $10)

53. In 2014 the ____________________ launched a lawsuit against the company alleging it was promoting in-app purchases to children, which were being transacted without parental consent. (ans. Federal Trade Commission)

54. Amazon.com  collects sales taxes from how many U.S. states? (ans. 26 states)

55. In most countries where Amazon operates, a sales tax or _______________ is uniform throughout the country, and Amazon is obliged to collect it from all customers. (ans. Value Added Tax)

56. Several U.S. states have passed or are considering ____________ tax laws designed to compel Amazon to collect local sales and use taxes from customers. (ans. Amazon Tax)

57. In 2011, what resulted in Amazon employees becoming extremely uncomfortable and suffering from dehydration and collapse in the Pennsylvania warehouse? (ans. workers had to carry out work in 40 °C heat)

58. Some workers, "pickers", who travel the building with a trolley and a handheld scanner "picking" customer orders can walk up to how long distance during their workday (ans. 15 miles)

59.  In February 2013, which journalist conducted a covert investigation at the distribution center of Amazon? (ans. Diana Löbl)

60. In 2015, which news house reported that Amazon will be removing 18 month long non-compete clauses from its US employment contracts. (ans. The Verge)

61. Which newspaper article published on August 16, 2015 described evidence of an intimidating and confrontational working culture for the company's office workers. (ans. New York Times)

62. Amazon.com was a corporate member of the (ALEC) until it dropped membership following protests at its shareholders' meeting May 24, 2012. What does ALEC stand for? (ans. American Legislative Exchange Council)

63. Which initiative was founded on May 8, 2013 by several online retailers in Berlin, Germany cause in the view of the initiative, sales bans and online restrictions by individual manufacturers? (ans. Choice in eCommerce)

64. In 2014, Amazon expanded its lobbying practices as it prepared to lobby the _________________________ to approve its drone delivery program. (ans. Federal Aviation Administration)

65. Connect Flipkart with Amazon. (ans. founded by Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, former amazon employees)

66. Rep. Nancy Skinner pushed legislation to tax online sales that was approved in 2009 as part of the state budget. Which governor vetoed the legislation? (ans. Arnold Schwarzenegger)

67. Amazon.com 's fixed-price online market which enables sellers to offer new and used items alongside Amazon's regular offerings is called what? (ans. Amazon Marketplace)

68. The Marketplace is available on Amazon sites in over how many countries? (60 Countries)

69. Amazon sellers ship internationally. True or False. (ans. False)

70. Sellers may sell their items using the "Pro Merchant Option". It costs how much per month? (ans. $39.99 per month)

71. What was Amazon.com annual revenue in 2014? (ans. $89 billion)

72. What type of a site is amazon.com? (ans. Ecommerce website)

73. Which 2 countries does Amazon have an intention to launch its websites? (ans. Poland and Sweden)

74. The company began as an online bookstore, an idea spurred off with discussion with John Ingram of Ingram Book. What is Ingram Book called now? (ans. (now called Ingram Content Group)

75. When amazon first started selling books, which was the largest book store they competed with? (ans. Brick and Mortar)

76. Amazon was originally founded where in Bellevue, Washington? (ans. in Bezos' garage)

77. The company began as an online bookstore, an idea spurred off with discussion with John Ingram, along with _____________ who still holds a stake in Amazon. (ans. Keyur Patel)

78.  Within two months of launching the online book service, Amazon's sales were up by how much per week? (ans. $20,000/week)

79. What is the domain name of Amazon, China? (ans. Amazon.cn)

80. What is the domain name of Amazon, Japan? (ans. Amazon.jp)

81. What is the domain name of Amazon, France? (ans. Amazon.fr)

82. What is the domain name of Amazon, China? (ans. Amazon.cn)

83. What is the domain name of Amazon, Italy? (ans. Amazon.it)

84. What is the domain name of Amazon, Netherlands? (ans. Amazon.nl)

85. What is the domain name of Amazon, Spain? (ans. Amazon.es)

86. What is the domain name of Amazon, Ireland? (ans. Amazon.ie)

87. What is the domain name of Amazon, China? (ans. Amazon.cn)

88. What is the domain name of Amazon, Canada? (ans. Amazon.ca)

89. What is the domain name of Amazon, Mexico? (ans. Amazon.mx)

90. What is the domain name of Amazon, Austrailia? (ans. Amazon.au)

91. What is the domain name of Amazon, Brazil? (ans. Amazon.br)

92. What is the domain name of Amazon, China? (ans. Amazon.cn)93. What is the domain name of Amazon, Pakistan? (ans. Amazon doesn’t provide service in

Afghanistan)

94. Which biography of Michael Jackson by Randall Sullivan, bombarded Amazon with negative reviews and negative ratings of positive reviews? (ans. Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson)

95.A website for browsing music ceased existence on June 18, 2012, and the site redirected to Amazon. Name this website. (Ans. Soundunwound)

96.In January 2015, Amazon announced its own email and scheduling service dubbed ________ developed by Amazon Web Services, the cloud-computing unit of Amazon Inc. (ans. WorkMail)

97. Which division develops television shows, movies and comics from online submissions and crowd-sourced feedback for Amazon. (ans. Amazon Studios)

98. Infibeam was started by an ex amazon employee. Name him. (ans. Vishal Mehta)

99. ABNA was a contest sponsored by Amazon.com, Penguin Group, Hewlett Packard, CreateSpace and BookSurge to publish and promote a manuscript by an unknown or unpublished author. Expand ABNA. (ans. Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award)

100. Which book by D.M. Pulley won the ABNA Award for 2014? (ans. The Dead Key)