Q 01/05

Which sci-fi film made the curved Nokia 8110 famous as its hero's slide-open phone?

A) The Matrix

B) The Fifth Element

C) Men in Black

D) Gattaca

Answer · why

A) The Matrix

The Matrix gave Keanu Reeves's Neo an 8110, and Nokia's 1999 press release boasted that its phones created the vital link between the dream world and ...

Q 02/05

Nokia began as a pulp mill; in 1967 it merged with a rubber works and a maker of what?

A) Cables

B) Glassware

C) Skis

D) Locomotives

Answer · why

A) Cables

Cables: the Finnish Cable Works had started an electronics division in 1960, and its radio telephones grew into Nokia's phone business.

Q 03/05

Nokia took its name from what?

A) An old Finnish word for a signal fire

B) A Finnish town where its second mill stood

C) A river spirit in Finnish mythology

D) The surname of its founding engineer

Answer · why

B) A Finnish town where its second mill stood

A Finnish town where its second mill stood gave the firm its name, and within a few years all of its operations had moved there.

Q 04/05

Which German industrial giant agreed in 2006 to combine its network equipment business with Nokia's?

A) Siemens

B) Bosch

C) Infineon

D) Deutsche Telekom

Answer · why

A) Siemens

Siemens and Nokia formed Nokia Siemens Networks, and once Nokia sold its phones to Microsoft, that networks business became the heart of the company.

Q 05/05

Which footwear did an old Nokia unit make that is still sold under the Nokian name?

A) Wellington boots

B) Wooden clogs

C) Leather ankle boots

D) Flip-flops

Answer · why

A) Wellington boots

Wellington boots came from Nokia's rubber business, which it shed as it chose to focus on telecoms.