Question 1

True or false: Sundar Pichai helped create Google Chrome while working as a product manager.

Accepted Answer

True. True. Pichai led the team that developed Google Chrome, which launched in 2008 and became the world’s most popular browser.

Question 2

True or false: Sundar Pichai was the first CEO of Google to be born outside the United States.

Accepted Answer

True. True. Born in Madurai, India, Pichai was the first non-U.S.-born CEO of Google, though his predecessor Larry Page was born in Michigan.

Question 3

True or false: Sundar Pichai holds a master’s degree in materials science from Stanford University.

Accepted Answer

True. True. He earned an M.S. in materials science and engineering from Stanford, later adding an MBA from Wharton.

Question 4

True or false: Sundar Pichai was the founding CEO of YouTube before joining Google.

Accepted Answer

False. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim; Hurley served as CEO. Pichai joined Google in 2004, before YouTube was created.

Question 5

True or false: Sundar Pichai personally wrote the original code for Google Search.

Accepted Answer

False. False. Larry Page and Sergey Brin wrote the original Google Search algorithm; Pichai joined Google years later.

Question 6

True or false: Sundar Pichai’s father was an electrical engineer who worked at General Electric.

Accepted Answer

True. True. His father, Regunatha Pichai, worked as an electrical engineer at General Electric, and his mother was a stenographer.

Question 7

True or false: Sundar Pichai became CEO of Google in 2015.

Accepted Answer

True. True. Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of Google Inc. in August 2015, later taking over Alphabet Inc. in 2019.

Question 8

True or false: Sundar Pichai once worked as a janitor to pay for his college tuition.

Accepted Answer

False. False. Pichai never worked as a janitor; he earned scholarships and his family made sacrifices to fund his education in India.

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