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The questions for this quiz were set by Movin Miranda
1.The first product made by this company was a car record player. They gave themselves a name similar to the name of the market leader in record players in those days. Today, this company has a worldwide presence and is known as a premier communications company. Name the company?
Motorola
2. Mitchell Kapor, a Bostonian, is a teacher of Transcendental Meditation and a Buddhist. In 1988, he started a foundation for electronic free speech. But he is the founder of a well-know company. Which one?
Lotus
3. An American inventor Herman Hollerith devised an electromechanical
counting machine that used punched cards to tabulate the results of
the 1890 United States census. The firm that grew out of this business
eventually became which familiar company?
IBM (international Business Machines)
4. Nolan Bushnell launched the video game industry with the founding
of a company that took its name from the
Japanese game of "Go" where the
word is used to warn an opponent that he is in danger of losing.
Name the Company?
Atari
5. In the Internet lingo, if someone advised you to 'RTFM', what is
he telling you to do?
Read the F***ing Manual
6. What is a three-finger exercise?
Pressing Ctrl+Alt+del on the Keyboard (cold reboot)
7. Why did Intel call the successor to the 486 Processor series
"Pentium", instead of using a combination of digits as they had always
done?
Because Numbers cannot be trademarked.
8. He shares his first name with a character in "Peanuts" and
he is known
as the person who wrote Linux. Who?
Linus Torvalds
9. If you find yourself in an Infinite Loop in the Bay area, where
would you be?
Apple’s HQ
10.What is the section of Yahoo that is dedicated to kids called?
Yahooligans
11.What are "Bells & Whistles"?
Features in a software that are of cosmetic value only.
12.A program that automatically sends a default reply to the senders
of
incoming email messages is called?
Auto Responders or Vacation Responders
13.Which Bangalorean started the free e-mail service "Hotmail"?
Sabeer Bhatia
14.It is the name of a very famous river in South America. However,
Amazon is also known in the wired world for what?
The largest bookstore in the Universe
15.What is electronic money known as in common internet parlance?
Cybercash
16.It is not something that you'd like to eat even if you were stranded
in an island with adequate supplies of it. However, which unpopular
food item is also the term used to describe unwanted mail sent to
a mass of e-mail addresses to advertise products or services?
Spam
17.What is DPI in computer printing terminology?
Dots per inch
18.What is the term for a small, book-sized computer with a screen
that allows you to read the digitized text of a book complete with a touch-sensitive
screen and stylus that let you highlight, annotate, or bookmark the book?
An e-book.
19.Before the World Wide Web, what was the system for finding and displaying
document files stored on the Internet. It was named for the mascot of the
college where it was developed, the University of Minnesota?
Gopher
20. Which company started in a garage in Palo Alto received its
first order from Disney, the making the film Fantasia,
for Oscillators?
Hewlett Packard
21.What do we call software that has become so loaded with features that it practically takes up all of a computer's hard disk and requires much too much of its RAM to run?
Bloatware
22.Who is called the father of computing for his contribution
to the basic design of the Computer through what he called
the analytical engine?
Charles Babbage
23.DVD, the new technology that looks like a CD-ROM but holds over
4.7 Gb of data (can hold a full length movie) stands
for?
Digital Versatile Disc
24.Who is a 404? (clue : The Internet)
A clueless person, from the www error message "404 not found"
25.Which word, meaning both "an opportunistic Computer hacker" and science
Fiction dealing with future urban societies dominated by computers"
was coined by writer Bruce Bethke?
Cyberpunk
26.What is a program that is disguised as useful software but
which actually crashes your hard-disk called?
Trojan Horse
27.What is Spanish for a "tall pole"?(clue : ask the Document Company)
Palo Alto
28.In the field of Computers, the statement "the power of a microprocessor
doubles every 18 months...." is better known as?
Moore’s Law
29.Name the first Indian product to be put up (earlier this week) on
Microsoft's Site Builder Network site? Hint - it is a customised customer
e-mail manager
Bangalore-based Aditi Technologies’ Talisma.
30.What was Project Memphis?
Code name for the development of Windows 98. Project Chicago was Windows
95.
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