Q1. What unique feat connects Chorme, Droid and Nexus One?
Q2. Who recently said, "The "//" after the colon in Web addresses, was unnecessary. "
Q3. Which famous personality credited with the development of a file system in Linux was convicted for the murder of his wife?
Q4. If Firefox:Gecko and Safari:Webkit then IE: ________
Q5. Jane Silber will become the CEO of which company in March 2010?
Q6. _______________ is a neologism that posits a form of repetitive strain injury caused by the frequent use of the thumb(s) to press buttons on PDAs, smart phones, or other mobile devices
Q7. J. Allan Toogood a _____ programmer once said, "God is Real, unless declared integer." Give the funda.
Q8. Developed by Ludicorp, a Vancouver-based company, this service emerged out of tools originally created for Ludicorp's Gmae Neverending, a very famous MMORPG. Identify the service.
Q9. what is the claim to fame of the V838 Manocerotis (as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope)?
Q10.What is the claim to fame of this music album by ABBA?
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Q.11 Identify the product.
Q12. Who is the person and what is the claim to fame of this device?
Q13. What is this? ("Give the funda"- in the words of that quizmaster)
Q14. What is this device and what's special about this?
Q15. Who is he and what is his claim to fame?
Q16. Connect...
Q17. Intel recently posted a $10,000 bounty on eBay for someone who could provide it a copy of teh April 19, 1965 edition of the Electronics Magazine. Why?
Q18. Connect/Explain.
3 comments:
1. They run the Android 2.0 OS?
2. Berners-Lee? Stupid guess.
3. Hans Reiser, of the reiser file system.
4. Trident (rendering engine)
5. Canonical :)
6. Carpal Tunel?
7. Something related to FORTRAN, I don't remember.
8.
9.
10. One of the first albums to remastered..
11. Crunchpad
12.
13. Phrase was used in Star Trek right? Apart from that, no idea.
14. Dvorak keyboard.
15. Kevin Warwick, coined the word Cyborg.
16. Babelfish, Altavista's translation tool, named after a fictional animal in the book which did instant translations.
17. Cause it had the first reference to Moore's Law.
18.
i)
ii) Arecibo Observatory
iii) James Bond movie, GoldenEye.
2. Tim Berner's Lee
8. Flickr
9. Mozilla Firefox
12. Len Kleinrock With IMP which was used to develop Internet.
18. In james Bond Golden Eye..the Arceibo was shown can't guess the blue image...
Brilliant attempts!!!I wish I had you guys at team-mates at this quiz! :)
Here are the answers...
1. Apparently, these were the only things to be advertised on the google homepage.
2. Tim Berners Lee (not a stupid guess after all :P )
3. Hans Reiser (of the ReiserFS fame...)
4. Trident
5. Canonical
6. The Blackberry Thumb (a wonderful quiz question!!!)
7. FORTRAN (a weird way to ask a question...in fortran, all variables are implicitly real...)
8. Flickr (yet another brilliant question)
9. The galaxy/nebula/whatever-it-is actually looks like the Firefox logo!!!!
10. The first Audio CD
11. Cruchpad
12. Len Kleinrock, of the ARPANET team that developed the internet. The device is actually the world's first router!
13. It is basically an epitaph! The remains of this ultimate geeky guy named alan, are stored in this SPARC computer as per his requests!!!(and yeah..it is a quote from star trek...)
14. Dvorak keyboard (letters arranged by frequency of use)
15. Kevin Warwick, the world's first cyborg
16. Babelfish, Altavista's language translator that appears in this legendary work of fiction...
17. The first printed account of the Moore's Law (I can't imagine how Intel doesn't already possess this!!!)
18. This was a pretty ambiguous question. No precise answer...The logo is of SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence), the 2nd pic is of the Arecibo telescope (used to look for the little green men) and the movie Golden Eye featured an action sequence at the Arecibo observatory....Connect the dots plz..LOL :)
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