Friday, 22 March 2013

IT Quiz Questions


The Vth (in 964), IXth (a couple of times, in 1045 and in 1048), and now the XVIth (2013) have all done this. Unlike the previous two, the latest one has been due to old age and thus not so controversial.
What are we talking about?

Ans: Resignations by Popes whose papal names were Benedict. A Wikipedia list of Popes who resigned.

Sunday, 3 March 2013

Friday, 14 September 2012

.1 Who is The CTO Of Paypal?


Q.2 Expand CELT.


Q.3 Expand RAR.

Q.4 What is the OS used In BB Playbook?

Q.5 Who Owns  Engadget?

Q,6. The online photography unit of Hewlett-Packard is called..
Q.8. Name the former CIO of Dell named the CIO of HP
Q.9 For writing which e-mail virus did Sven Jaschan get a 21-month suspended sentence?   
Q,10. Which new DVD format has the backing of studios such as Paramount, Universal and Warner Home Video?
Q.11 Which cyber major is sponsoring the `Open Architecture Prize', a $250,000-prize challenge for architecture firms to design a computer lab for use in developing nations?
Q.12 At present, domain names are composed of how many core symbols in total?
Q.13. If Motorola had a designer Razr phone last year with Dolce & Gabbana, with which fashion label has LG tied up?
Q.14  Which cyber-icon owns the world's second largest yacht, the 453-ft long Rising Sun, and commented on his billionaire status thus "Money is just a method of keeping score now"?
Q.15`StrawBerry' was a name considered for which device because of its seed-like buttons before it adopted the present name?
Q.16. Which Linux ‘distro’ was originally developed by Patrick Volkerding and first released in April 1993?

Q.17 The Intel codename for the Dual-Core Xeon 5000-series is similar to which legendary boxer’s surname?

Q.18. Expand the acronym WiMAX

Q.19  Who is behind the Ultra Mobile Broadband technology?

Q.20 What is the correct term for the 802.16d ‘standard

Q.21 In the context of YouTube, what first does Bob Tur, a chopper-piloting journalist, have?
2. Which legendary group, known for hits such as ’Stairway to Heaven’, has decided to make its catalogue available for digital-download?
Q.22. Which Japanese video-game maker’s market value topped $85 billion (10 trillion yen) recently?
Q.23. Name Ubisoft’s much anticipated action-adventure game, where players control a Crusades-era hit man stalking and killing his targets, expected to hit the stores soon.
Q.24. Name the former CEO of HP who has been tapped to join News Corp’s upcoming Fox Business Network as an on-air contributor
Q.25  If G is Graphics, what does ONG stand for? 
Q.26  Majesco, recently converted a 1970 film to a game which has been released in India recently. Which movie? 
Q.27 If IBM: OS2, who produces VMS? 
Q.28  In which US City is Computer Associates headquartered?
Q.29  After which Indian has NASA’s supercomputer been named? 
Q.30.Which was the first e-mail server in India
Q.31  If Celeron is to Intel, to whom is Sempron? 

Q.32  With which IT stalwarth would you connect SpaceShipOne with? 

Q.33  First company to launch dial up connection.

Q.34  Tecra, Satellite and Portege are notebooks from whom? 

Q.35 Program makes request through object request (din’t get it after that)

Q,36 Central hierarchical database in Windows 95 and NT used to store

Q.37 Free standing computer or terminal that gives information to the public.

Q.38 Copywrited software where one can try it before buying it.

Q.39  Developed as a proposed standard by Microsoft in mid 90s.

Q.40 . K5 and K6 were the micro processors from AMD. What do the “K” stands
for?
Q.41  How do you know the company “Tokyo Shibaura Denki” now?
Q.42 Natty Narwhal is the code name of ?
Q.43  AJAR is a application software platform owned by?
Q.44  Expand “MOODLE”?
Q.45  Drupal, Joomla are examples of?
Q.45  Jane Silber is the CEO of ?
Q.46  Expand DOF. Hint: Related to robots?
Q.47   Tecra and Portege and the laptop series from ?
Q.47  Check Out” is online payment service by?
Q.48 What was the Engage! Conference and Expo held recently in New York?
Q.49Name the Microsoft-acquired company that is one of the three companies that contributed to the European Commission opening an antitrust investigation of Google.
Q.50  Who launched a tool at http://chilepersonfinder.appspot.com/ after the recent Chile earthquake?
Q.51   Name the Indian CEO of Bloom Energy that's been in the news of late?
Q.53   What is ‘Pineview'?
Q.53    What is the recent claim to fame of Johnny Cash's “Guess Things Happen That Way” song?
Q.54    Name the line of PDAs that HP used to make before it acquired Compaq and launched iPAQ?
Q.55    According to Microsoft, what do the letters CE in Windows CE imply?
Q.56   Who used the tagline ‘Simply the Best Internet Experience on Any Device'?
Q.57   If the first core game was Orcs & Humans, name the second and third and in which game franchise do they come?
Q.58   What has been dubbed ‘Operation Aurora'?
Q.59   In the world of mobile telephony, why would February 4, 2010 go down in history?
Q.60   Nobuyuki Oneda is the CFO of which electronics giant?
Q.61  What is Project Needlemouse?
Q.62  Who has bought Yahoo's HotJobs for $225 million?
Q.63  What is Lostpedia and who operates it?
Q.64   Name the CEO of Mozilla Corporation.
Q.65  Name the company, on whom Google has trained its sights, that makes the codecs TrueMotion S, VP4, VP5, etc.
Q.66  How did the Firefox add-ons Sothink Web Video Downloader 4.0 and Master Filer make news for the wrong reasons recently?
Q.67   Name the two entities behind Robonaut 2, a humanoid robot.
Q.68   Google, as part of its April Fool prank in 2009, introduced to us CADIE. Expand CADIE.

Q.69   Whose tagline reads ‘Go beyond status messages'?

Q.70   Which video service founded in 2004 by CEO Dmitry Shapiro, which had investors such as 
Goldman Sachs, Time Warner and former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, is to shut down?

Q.71  The latest iteration of the hugely popular Halo franchise for Microsoft's Xbox 360 is called…?

Q.72  Name the social-search provider, named after a rare animal, which Google has acquired for about $50 million.

Q.73   Ali Rowghani, set to join as Twitter's CFO, is at present the CFO of which very successful studio owned by Disney?

Q.74  In a sudden shock to many users, which online payment giant, on February 8, put some of its services in India on hold temporarily?

Q.75  Of which leading Indian IT company was Vijay K. Thadani one of the two founders in 1981?

Q.76  Which Indian IT pioneer is called ‘Magus' (Persian for wizard) by his friends?

Q.77  Where is IBM planning to house the Blue Waters project supercomputer, the world's fastest supercomputer?
Q.78  What is the name used by YouTube for its ‘ideas incubator' where ‘…engineers and developers test out recipes and concoctions that aren't quite fully baked and invite you to tell us how they're coming along'?
Q.79    Where is the Indian office of the World Wide Web Consortium located?

Q.80   What first has the Xperia X10 (or SO-O1B) achieved for Sony?

Q.81    Which cyber giant recently launched a digital music service called MusicStation in Europe?

Q.82    Name the co-founder at Napster who went on to become Facebook's founding president.

Q. 83   Name the new Web site launched by Bill Gates recently which is, in his own words, “…an extension of his Annual Letter” where he shares his thoughts on many topics.

Q.84  How did astronaut T.J. Creamer, on board the International Space Station, make social-media history on January 22?

Q.85  YouTube has launched a video rental service, beginning first with five films from which popular film festival's 2009 and 2010 edition?

Q.86  Which popular duo have plans to sell 5 million shares each in the company they co-founded, representing about 17 per cent of their overall holdings, over the next five years?

Q.87  Expand WHATWG.

 Q.88 Which legend of Silicon Valley is Fortune magazine's CEO of the Decade?
Q.89 Rajiv Mehrotra is the CEO of the company which has developed WorldGSM Technology and has been named as one of WEF's 26 ‘2010 Technology Pioneers'. Name the company.
Q.90 Thanks to ‘Rick-rolling', the posted link will lead to which YouTube video of Rick Astley?
Q.91 In Net lingo, what is ‘;alskdjf'?
Q.92 Name the two programs that Ray Tomlinson used to send the first ever (network) e-mail in 1971.
Q.93  What is significant about the sale of a broken laser pointer for $14.83 in 1995?
Q.94  In texting shorthand, what does G2GLYS stand for?
Q.95  Name the Toronto-based document collaboration firm which successfully won a $290-million patent case over Word '07 against Microsoft.
Q.95  What single-most important component does the version of the iPhone for the Chinese market miss?
Q.96  What was founded in April 1990 by TH Tung, Ted Hsu, Wayne Hsieh and MT Liao?
Q.97 According to ComScore, Inc, US shoppers spent a whopping $27 billion online in the holiday season with the second most productive day being ‘Cyber Monday' with sales of $887 million after the December 15 sales which saw $913 million being spent. When was ‘Cyber Monday'?
Q.98 If the signalling rate for USB 2.0 is 480 Mbit/s, what is it for the new USB 3.0?
Q.99 Teenager David Nelson, the founder of a music service, was chastised by Vevo which asked him to stop using the service's content and trademark. Name the teenager's site.
Q.100 Name the game that has broken many records, earning the distinction of being the ‘most pirated game of 2009' with downloads exceeding 4.1 million times till end December since its early November launch.
Q.101  The team from which prestigious varsity won a $40,000 online, nine-day challenge in early December, proposed by the US government's DARPA, in just nine hours?
Q.102  According to Netcraft's December 2009 Web Server Survey, how many million sites were there across all domains: 225, 234 or 240?
Q.103  Why is February 4, 2004 a significant date in the online world of social networking?
Q.104  Which OS has the default browser NetPositive (often called Net+)?
Q.105   Which dangerous worm has/had the aliases ‘Simpsons', ‘Kwyjibo' or ‘Kwejeebo'?
Q.106  The popular video capture and video processing utility for Microsoft Windows written by Avery Lee is called..?

Tuesday, 3 April 2012

Tech Quiz of The Day 23.

Q.1 Leif K brooks Started a website which is very popular today. ID the Website.
Q.2 Name the most recent Hoax By Google On April fool's day.
Q.3 Sheryl Sandberg is the COO of which famous social networking Website?
Q.4 Kunal Bahl started this website whose ads are very famous. ID the website.
Q.5 What is the chinese Term for peace?
Q.6 Name the recent celebrity who passed 20 Million followera recently.
Q.7 What was invented by lasmus lerdorf?.