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Mayank Vachher | Gyaan.in 1 The DPS Tech. Mega Archive 1. Expand the following acronyms: SLI (3DFX) – Scalable Link Interface WIMAX – Wireless Interoperability for Microwave Access COBOL – Common Business Oriented Language EDGE – Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution ARPANET – Advanced Research Projects Agency Network PARC – Palo Alto Research Centre TARGA – True-vision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter TYCLO – Turn Your Caps Lock Off! PHP – PHP Hypertext Pre-Processor DDoS – Distributed Denial of Service MMORPG – Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game WYSBYGI – What You See Before You Get It VERONICA – Very Easy Rodent Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerize Archives TUCOWS – The Ultimate Collection of Windows Software CAPTCHA – Completely Automatic Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart JUGHEAD – Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation and Display GNOME – GNU Network Object Model Environment UNIX – Uniplexed Information and Computer Systems BSD - Berkely Software / Standard Distribution UMTS - Universal Mobile Telecommunications System ANITA - A New Inspiration To Arithmetic / Accounting IMEI - International Mobile Equipment Identifier CRAYON - Create Your Own Newspaper IMAX - Maximum Image FILO - First In Last Out API – Application Programming Interface CMOS – Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor RAMDAC – RAM Digital to Analog Converter SCSI – Small Computer System Interface MIDI – Musical Instrument Digital Interface

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1. Expand the following acronyms:

SLI (3DFX) – Scalable Link Interface

WIMAX – Wireless Interoperability for Microwave Access

COBOL – Common Business Oriented Language

EDGE – Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution

ARPANET – Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

PARC – Palo Alto Research Centre

TARGA – True-vision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter

TYCLO – Turn Your Caps Lock Off!

PHP – PHP Hypertext Pre-Processor

DDoS – Distributed Denial of Service

MMORPG – Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game

WYSBYGI – What You See Before You Get It

VERONICA – Very Easy Rodent Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerize Archives

TUCOWS – The Ultimate Collection of Windows Software

CAPTCHA – Completely Automatic Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart

JUGHEAD – Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation and Display

GNOME – GNU Network Object Model Environment

UNIX – Uniplexed Information and Computer Systems

BSD - Berkely Software / Standard Distribution

UMTS - Universal Mobile Telecommunications System

ANITA - A New Inspiration To Arithmetic / Accounting

IMEI - International Mobile Equipment Identifier

CRAYON - Create Your Own Newspaper

IMAX - Maximum Image

FILO - First In Last Out

API – Application Programming Interface

CMOS – Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

RAMDAC – RAM Digital to Analog Converter

SCSI – Small Computer System Interface

MIDI – Musical Instrument Digital Interface

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PCMCIA – Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

ISA – Industry Standard Architecture

GENIE – General Electric Network for Information Exchange

NNTP – Network News Transfer Protocol

SSL – Secure Sockets Layer

SSH – Secure Shell

JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group

GIF – Graphics Interchange Format

PNG – Portable Network Graphic

IRC – Internet Relay Chat

SATA – Serial Advanced Technology Attachment

WLAN – Wireless Local Area Network

TFT – Thin Film Transistor

GIMP – GNU Image Manipulation Program

FLOPS (Think supercomputing) – Floating Point Operations per Second

CODEC – Compression / Decompression or Coder / Decoder

DHCP – Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

GCC (Unix) – GNU C Compiler

OEM – Original Equipment Manufacturer

W3C – World Wide Web Consortium

ASP – Active Server Pages

AMD – Advanced Micro Devices

TIFF – Tag Image File Format

MPEG – Moving Picture Experts Group

XML – eXtensible Markup Language

YAHOO - Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle

ADSL – Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line

ECMA – European Computer Manufacturers Association

UML – Unified Modeling Language

PING – Packet Internet Groper

MIRC – My Internet Relay Chat

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ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange

BASIC – Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

VRML – Virtual Reality Modeling Language

GNU – GNU’s Not Unix

PCI – Peripheral Component Interconnect

PGP – Pretty Good Privacy

DLL – Dynamic Link Library

SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

CSMA -Carrier Sense Multiple Access

SLIP -Serial Line Interface Protocol

RSS -Really Simple Syndication / Reducing Space Symbology / RDF Site Summary / Rich Site

Summary

IETF -Internet Engineering Task Force

NCSA -National Centre for Supercomputing Applications

MSIMN -Microsoft Internet Mail and News

ANSI -American National Standards Institute

PSP – Play Station Portable

HP – Hewlett Packard

AVI – Audio Video Interleave

CMYK – Cyan Magenta Yellow Key (Black)

ISDN – Integrated Services Digital Network

NAS - Network Attached Storage

POP - Post Office Protocol

FLAC - Fully Lossless Audio Codec

DSL - Digital Subscriber Line

CCD - Charge Coupled Device

PCI–E - Peripheral Component Interconnect–Express

FTW - For The Win

PERL - Practical Extraction and Report Language

2. This was invented by David Bradley and is known as the ‘three-finger-salute’. What am I talking about?

Ctrl + Alt + Del

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3. What was codenamed 'Whistler' during its developmental stages? Windows XP

4. 'Tux' is the mascot of which software community? Linux

5. The literal translation means 'Humanity to others'. What am I talking about? Ubuntu

6. Which was the first graphical web browser? Mosaic

7. Who created the language C++? Bjarne Stroustrop

8. What did Tim Berners-Lee start while working at the CERN? World Wide Web (WWW)

9. This term comes from the word 'binary digit'. What am I talking about? Bit

10. Which was the first fully computer-graphics full length feature film? Toy Story

11. 'Simula 6' was the first language to use what programming paradigm? Object-oriented programming

12. Who are the two people who created the web portal Yahoo!? David Filo and Jerry Yang

13. Who is the current CEO of Microsoft? Steve Ballmer

14. What is The Answer, to Life, The Universe, and Everything? 42

15. What is the claim to fame of Dan Bricklin? Created VisiCalc

16. He was born on March 11, 1962, in Lower Downtown Capitol City to John and Michelle. He attended

Central West Junior High and Owen Paterson High and worked for a 'respectable software company'.

Who is this guy? Thomas 'Neo' Anderson

17. Apple has accused Benjamin 'dotcom billionaire' Cohen of squatting a domain name. What domain

name is that? itunes.co.uk

18. What is the correct acronym for 'European Laboratory for Particle Physics'? CERN (Conseil Europeen

pour la Recherche Nucleaire)

19. Which company is 'Shaping the Digital World'? Seagate

20. Which one gives you the 'Power to choose, freedom to explore'? AMD

21. What are the 'Halloween Documents'? What did they conclude? The Halloween documents are the

name used outside Microsoft for a series of confidential memoranda on potential strategies related to

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open source software, and to Linux in particular. The first Halloween document, written by Microsoft

engineer Vinod Valloppillil, was leaked to Eric S. Raymond in October 1998; who immediately published

an annotated version on his web site. The document contained references to a second memorandum

specifically dealing with Linux, and that document, authored by Vinod Valloppillil and Josh Cohen at

Microsoft, was also obtained, annotated and published by Raymond. Microsoft has since admitted the

documents' authenticity. Marked 'Microsoft confidential', they identify open source software (OSS), and

in particular the Linux operating system as a major threat to Microsoft's dominance of the software

industry, and suggest ways in which Microsoft could disrupt the progress of open source software.

22. What is War Driving? Wardriving is an activity consisting of driving around with a laptop or a PDA in

one's vehicle, detecting Wi-Fi wireless networks. It is also known as WiLDing(Wireless LAN Driving),

originating with the Bay Area Wireless Users Group(BAWUG).

23. Which was the first Hindi movie to be officially released on Kazaa, and users could download the movie

after paying a certain amount of money? Supari

24. Name the lead protagonist of the game series Grand Theft Auto. Tommy Verceti

25. What is the name of the new blogging service by MSN? MSN Spaces

26. What do you mean by private-key encryption? The practice of using the same password (key) for both

encryption as well as decryption.

27. Which company makes CoCoPod? CoCoPod from S-Media is a hard-drive based MP3 player and is

heavily inspired by iPod from Apple. It resembles the iPod both in terms of size and body colour.

28. Who is known as the father of markup language? Charles Goldfarb

29. This computer was designed to find the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and everything. It's

called the …? Earth

30. Name any three innovations introduced by the IBM PS2 PC. PS/2 port, VGA card, ISA Bus, 3 ½ inch floppy

drive

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31. Nokia: Finland:: Alcatel: France

32. What is RJ-45? Registered Jack 45; used in Ethernet ports

33. This is the official mascot of a UNIX version. Which one? Free BSD

34. What are Xenon and Xenos? CPU and GPU of Xbox 360, respectively

35. Where on the Internet would you find this quote? – “Wikipedia (Latin for crack house), 'the free

encyclopaedia that anyone can edit', is a satirical parody of ____________, though Wikipedia claims the

reverse (and correctly claims that ____________ claims the reverse, and so on and so forth).”

Uncyclopedia.org – a satirical parody of Wikipedia

36. Whose motto is 'If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy'? Phil Zimmerman (creator of PGP)

37. Which widely-used standard did Dave Winer develop in 2002, predecessors of which were known as

'Backweb' and 'Pointcast'? Really Simple Syndication / RDF Site Summary (RSS 2.0)

38. On Usenet, what is a 'C & C warning'? C & C -Cats and Coffee -usually appears as 'C & C Warning!' -

refers to the fact that what you are about to read is so funny that you'll spill your coffee, at which point

the cat that's in your lap will leap up, scratching you with its claws. So put the coffee down and get the

cat off your lap before reading this.

39. Who, or what, is '6bone'? Testing backbone for IPv6

40. What are Raphael, Michael and Gabriel in the world of technology? Servers of the Vatican website

41. Why ‘Mozilla’ was named so? From 'Mosaic' + 'killa', referring to that fact that it wanted to unseat

Mosaic as the dominant browser. The lizard logo came from its resemblance to the name Godzilla.

42. Who said the following, and about what? – “It is like a sausage; you might like the taste of it, but you

don't necessarily want to see how it's made.” Jimmy Wales, about Wikipedia

43. In Internet history, why are 'Akebono' and 'Konishiki' famous? 'Akebono' was Jerry Yang's, and

'Konishiki' was David Filo's computer, which powered Yahoo when it started off.

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44. Who, or what, were known as 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'? 'Snow White' was IBM, and the

'Seven Dwarfs' referred to other mainframe computer manufacturers of the time, namely, Burroughs,

UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data Corporation, Honeywell, RCA and General Electric.

45. He was born on 11 March 1962 in Lower Downtown, Capital City to John and Michelle. He attended

Central West Junior High and Owen Paterson High, and worked for a 'respectable software company'.

Whom am I talking about? Thomas 'Neo' Anderson

46. He is known as the 'father of the cellphone'. Whom am I talking about? Dr Martin Cooper

47. What are 'JavaBeans'? JavaBeans are reusable software components that can be manipulated visually in

a builder tool, written in Java.

48. Where would you find the words 'Now with 5% more Google', and why? Winamp, after Google acquired

a 5% stake in AOL.

49. Name the people who founded YouTube. Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Javed Karim

50. How do we better know 'Rocky Raccoon Clark'? Steve Wozniak. It was a pseudonym created by him

when he re-joined college to complete electronics engineering.

51. Where are the main servers of Wikipedia located? (Be specific) Tampa, Florida

52. Which was the first comic strip to go online? Dilbert

53. Alongside Pandemic Studio's Full Spectrum Warrior, a more advanced, strategy-led version was

developed for US Army use, and never released to the public. What was it named? Full Spectrum

Command

54. There's a widely prevalent standard called 'IEEE 802.15.1', but we know it by a better name. What is that

name? Bluetooth

55. Which company bought Amiga in 1997? Gateway 2000

56. "Read it sideways." Who said this, and about what? Scott Fahlman, inventor of the smiley, about

smileys.

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57. Which was the first imaginary virus? Good Times Hoax

58. Who is associated with this emoticon: (0-0)? John Lennon

59. Whose new start-up is 'Revolution Health'? Steve Case

60. What does the 'i' in 'iMac' stand for? Internet

61. What is MPLS? What are its benefits? Multiprotocol Label Switching; Packets directed along predefined

routes in accordance with the required QoS. Label contains info about the route along which the packet

may travel instead of a router algorithm that chooses.

62. Which company released the first affordable handheld calculator in the early 1970s? Texas Instruments

63. What is the '.tv' domain name officially meant for? Tuvalu Island domains

64. Decrypt this: "Bpqa qa vwb epib gwc bpqvs qb qa" "This is not what you think it is". The encryption

system used here is ROT-8, not ROT-13.

65. What is the NASDAQ stock ticker symbol for Sun Microsystems? JAVA

66. Of which US-based media organization is Microsoft the part owner of? MSNBC

67. Who is the creator of eBay? Pierre Omidayar

68. One of the many nicknames that this person has is 'Monkey Boy'. Who is he / she? Steve Ballmer

69. Digit magazine is owned by which company? Nine Dot Nine Mediaworx

70. Connect: Dodgeball, Urchin, Jaiku, GrandCentral. All of these companies were acquired by Google.

(Urchin was renamed as Google Analytics.)

71. Name the web-based content management system software that is used to run Wikipedia and many

other similar wikis. MediaWiki

72. For which operating system was Microsoft Office first released? Mac OS

73. Which company makes the processor for the Apple iPhone? Samsung

74. What is the name of Microsoft's diagram and flowcharting software? Visio

75. Name the GUI used on the OLPC XO laptop. Sugar

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76. Jelsoft Enterprises makes a product which is highly popular with web developers. What is that product?

vBulletin (forum software)

77. What was Yahoo! Widgets earlier known as? Konfabulator

78. Glutamate Grape, Sugar-Free Radical, Beta Carroty, and Sero-Tonic Water are different varieties of

what? Google Gulp flavors

79. Name Mozilla Labs' new instant messaging project. Snowl

80. What do you get when you multiply six by nine? 42

81. What is a 'hashtag'? Explain using an example. A 'hashtag' is a system of tagging used on Twitter, by

adding # in front of a word or phrase. For instance, '#codewars' could be used to tag a tweet as being

about Code Wars.

82. Who is the third co-founder of Apple? Ronald Wayne

83. How much did Intel fork out to acquire McAfee? $7.68 billion (anything in the range of $7 billion

accepted)

84. What is the codename for the most recently released version of Android OS? Froyo

85. Which company developed the popular Nintendo game Contra? Konami

86. ______________ claims it is the "first Indian web browser". Epic Browser

87. Who discovered the first computer 'bug'? Grace Hopper

88. Which company manufactures the Blackberry range of smartphones? Research in Motion (RIM)

89. Expand PCI. Peripheral Component Interconnect

90. What was the first computer-animated full-length feature film? Toy Story

91. Which was the first mobile phone company in the world to outsource everything except sales and

marketing? Airtel

92. Which was the first registered domain name on the Internet? nordu.net (NOT symbolics.com, which was

the first commercial domain name registered)

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93. Waterborne, a film directed by Kanwal Rekhi's son Ben Rekhi and starring Shabana Azmi, has to its credit

one of the most unconventional firsts. What? First video to go on sale on the now-defunct Google Video

store.

94. Whose email address is '[email protected]'? Homer Simpson

95. The first three letters of this company's name mean 'when' in Latin.

96. Name the company. Ubisoft

97. How do we better know 'IEEE 1394'? Firewire

98. What operating systems (and version) do most touchscreen Nokia phones use? Be specific. Symbian

Series 60 v5

99. Name the open-source web browser project started and supported by Google. Chromium (Google

Chrome is the proprietary counterpart)

100. Expand PDF. Portable Document Format

101. What is the latest version of Windows called? Windows 7

102. Connect: Flash, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Premiere, and Acrobat. They are all Adobe Products.

103. What are David Filo and Jerry Yang famous for? They are the creators of Yahoo!

104. Who is the Father of the Computer? Charles Babbage

105. Expand RAM. Random Access Memory

106. What is the latest version of the iPhone called? iPhone

107. Who is acknowledged as the main founder of Facebook? Mark Elliot Zuckerburg

108. Expand CD-ROM. Compact Disc – Read Only Memory

109. Which company publishes the Need for Speed series of games? EA Games

110. What is the name of the web browser by Google? Google Chrome

111. Expand USB. Universal Serial Bus

112. What is the name of the portable music device made by Microsoft? Microsoft Zune

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113. Who is the inventor of the mouse? Douglas Adams

114. Which company manufactures the Wii gaming console? Nintendo

115. What are Itanium, Xeon, Core 2, Pentium and Celeron? They are processors from Intel

116. What is the latest Blackberry phone called? Blackberry Torch 9800

117. Which company has bought out Sun Microsystems? Oracle

118. Who is the current CEO of Microsoft? Steve Ballmer

119. Briefly explain PageRank. Linkbacks count as votes towards a site.

120. What is the processor used on an Apple iPad? Apple A4

121. What is 'heuristic detection' in the context of anti-virus software? Analysing behaviour of programs to

determine whether it is a virus is known as heuristic detection.

122. What is the proper pronunciation for the term 'SCSI'? Write it down phonetically as best as you can.

'Scuzzy'.'Scusi', on the other hand, is just Italian for sorry.

123. What is Sony going to stop selling in Japan in March 2011? Floppy disks

124. Firefox: Gecko::Opera:? Presto (layout engine)

125. Where is the controversial 'No Russian' chapter of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 set? Zakhaev

International Airport

126. Catherine Lesjak was the (interim) CEO of which company? HP

127. In the early days of computing, what 'component' used to be manufactured using Mylar? 'Paper' tapes,

since actual paper tore too easily.

128. In which South Park episode does Blizzard Entertainment play an important role – both on and off

screen? Make Love, Not Warcraft

129. What is the CPU of PlayStation 2 called…? Emotion Engine

130. …and which companies developed it? Sony and Toshiba

131. Who directed the iconic '1984' Apple Super Bowl commercial? Ridley Scott

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132. What is a 'Codie'? The CODiE awards are annual awards issued by the Software and Information Industry

Association for excellence in software development within the software industry.

133. What are 'textonyms'? Explain with an example. Words produced by the same combination of key

presses may be referred to as "textonyms" (or "txtonyms",) or "T9onyms" (pronounced "tynonyms"),

though the phenomenon has nothing to do specifically with T9 per se and occurs in other systems.

134. What is a 'noddy program' (also called a 'Mickey Mouse program')? Simple program that doesn't do

much. 'Hello World' is an example.

135. What is a 'feelie'? A freebie that you get with a game, that is generally some form of merchandise,

collector memorabilia.

136. What is 'Google Goggles'? Allows you to snap pictures with Android phones and get instant info about

what you clicked. Reverse image search.

137. What is the codename for Intel's hexa-core processors? Gulftown

138. What goes 'TMZ' in the gossip blog TMZ.com stand for? Thirty Mile Zone

139. Where was the Mariposa botnet being operated from? Spain

140. How is the standard IEEE 802.16 more popularly known? WiMAX

141. Which company acquired Associated Content for around $100 million in May 2010? Yahoo!

142. What is the claim-to-fame of Nokia 1011, sold under the name Mobira Cityman 2000? First mass-

produced GSM cellphone

143. Where has this picture been taken from? Uncyclopedia entry on blogs/blogging

144. This project was named after a yellow-coloured toy elephant owned by the son of one of the lead

developers. Which project? Apache Hadoop

145. In terms of networking, what is "11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111"? 'Magic

packet' for triggering Wake-on-LAN

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146. Daniel Lyons worked as a senior editor at Forbes magazine and is now a writer at Newsweek. We,

however, know him better as 'somebody else' who writes a popular blog. Who am I referring to? Fake

Steve Jobs

147. What was Bill Gates designation at Microsoft? Chairman

148. Which company made the first commercial modem? Bell 103 by AT&T

149. Who developed WWW (World Wide Web)? Tim Berners-Lee

150. Who invented the mouse? Douglas Engelbart

151. Which company makes Crusoe? Transmeta

152. What is the DVD region code in India? Region 5

153. What is Beowulf? Cluster of computers for unified processing

154. Which company owns LOTUS? IBM

155. What is HT in P4 HT? Hyperthreading

156. Who were the founders of HP? Bill Hewett and Dave Packard in 1939

157. Which was the first computer with GUI? Xerox Star

158. Who were the founders of Apple? Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

159. What are the dimensions of a 1.25 MB floppy? 3 ½ inch

160. What is ergonomics? Study of humans with their work environments

161. What would AT&F do in HyperTerminal? Initialize the modem

162. In which game would you find Gordon Freeman? Half-Life

163. Which company makes SimCity? Maxis

164. What is a nibble? Half a byte (4 bits)

165. What was the first commercial spreadsheet? VisiCalc

166. Which company does Linus Torvalds work for? Open Source Development

167. What is IEEE 1394? FireWire

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168. What is a 'jumper'? Switch on motherboard that controls certain settings

169. Who is the creator of Napster? Shawn Fanning

170. Who were the developers of UNIX? Ken Thompson (also C)

171. What is virtual memory? RAM

172. What is the difference between FAT16 & FAT32? Different file systems

173. What will happen if you press Win+D? Hides all windows

174. Which company makes AutoCAD? Autodesk

175. Who said “640 Kb of memory is enough for anyone”? Bill Gates

176. Who invented the difference engine? Babbage

177. Which company produced the Voodoo range of Gfx Cards? 3dfx

178. Which company makes the iPod? Apple

179. What is the 3 finger salute in windows? Ctrl+Alt+Del

180. Which company’s tagline is “It’s in the Game”? EA Sports

181. How much audio can a 650 MB CD hold, why? 74 minutes

182. What is ‘hot swappable’ technology? Changes can be made to hardware while system is running.

183. What is a thin client? A thin client is a network computer without a hard disk drive, whereas a fat client

includes a disk drive

184. What is the Seti@Home project? A project which utilises spare processing power of user PCs around the

world to detect signs of extraterrestrial contact in data from radio telescopes.

185. Who made the first Internet worm? Robert T. Morris, Jr.

186. Which Indian developed news.google.com? Krishna Bharat

187. Where did Bill Gates meet Steve Ballmer? In his dorm *while* at Harvard

188. Who made the Anna Kournikova worm? Jan de Wit / OnTheFly

189. Which company famous for distributing games for Linux is now, sadly, bankrupt? Loki Games

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190. Who do you associate with a pink shirt? Peter Norton [Peter is imp!]

191. Mosaic was created at the University of Illionis, Urbana-Champaign. Where was Napster created?

Northeastern University

192. Who wrote The Art of Computer Programming? Donald P Knuth / Knuth / Don Knuth

193. How much time is a jiffy? 0.01 seconds / 10ms / 10 milliseconds

194. What is the origin of the term ‘blog’? weBLOG

195. Who is known as the father of the Pentium? Vinod Dham

196. What is the difference between a byte and a word? A byte is 8 bits. A word is the smallest unit of

memory with a unique address.

197. What is middleware? Give examples. Software that sits between client and server applications and

translates data into formats that they understand. SOAP, etc.

198. What is mobile code? Give examples. Code like JAVA bytecode, which works across different platforms,

and does not have to be edited / recompiled.

199. What is biometrics concerned with? Give examples. Identification or validation using biological

characteristics like fingerprints, retinal scans etc.

200. What is the 'Dining Philosophers problem', and who came up with it? 1) Actual Description / Inter

process communication 2) Edsger Dijkstra

201. In Internet URL addresses, what single prefix character is often used to indicate the home directory of

the user? ~

202. What is the full form of PCI? Peripheral Component Interconnect

203. According to the Graphic, Visualization, & Usability Centre’s 7th WWW User Survey, conducted April-

May 1997, what percentages of Internet users worldwide are female? 31.3%

204. What was the project code name for Windows 95? Chicago

205. Who founded Microsoft? Bill Gates and Paul Allen

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206. Who invented the World Wide Web? Sir Tim Berners-Lee

207. What is the full-form of W3C & what is it? World Wide Web Consortium; the World Wide Web

Consortium (W3C) develops inter-operable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools)

to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and

collective understanding.

208. What does it mean by being Slashdotted (Slashdot Effect)? When Slashdot links a site, often a lot of

readers will hit the link to read the story. This can easily throw thousands of hits at the site in minutes.

Most of the time, large professional websites have no problem with this, but often a site we link will be

a smaller site, used to getting only a few thousand hits a day. When all those Slashdot readers start

crashing the party, it can saturate the site completely, causing the site to buckle under the strain. When

this happens, the site is said to be 'Slashdotted'.

209. What is the full-form of SSE? Streaming SIMD Extensions, http://www.tommesani.com/SSE.html

210. What is the full-form of SIMD? Single Instruction Multiple Data

211. What is the full-form of POWER in PowerPC? Ans: Performance Optimized With Enhanced RISC Personal

Computer

212. Which company’s name means, 'Sound in Motion'? This company makes processors for Apple

computers. Motorola

213. What is the full form of RISC and CISC? Ans: Reduced Instruction-Set Computing; Complex Instruction-

Set Computing

214. Why did Intel use the term Pentium? The generic term x86 (80586) could not be patented or

trademarked.

215. Everyone knows what copyright means. What does copyleft mean? Copyleft stipulates that anyone

redistributing free software must also pass along the freedom to further copy and change the program,

thereby ensuring that no one can claim ownership of future versions and place restrictions on users.

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216. What is Usenet? Usenet is a collection of user-submitted notes or messages on various subjects that are

posted to servers on a worldwide network. Each subject collection of posted notes is known as a

newsgroup. There are thousands of newsgroups and it is possible for you to form a new one. Most

newsgroups are hosted on Internet-connected servers, but they can also be hosted from servers that

are not part of the Internet.

217. What is elgooG? It's a Google mirror. A common practice for busy websites is to create a mirror site,

which is an exact replica of the original site but on a different server. This way if one server is really

busy, you can go to the other server. elgooG is a play on this idea, except instead of an exact replica of

the site, it's a mirror image of the site.

218. While planning to work on Linux, Linus Torvalds installed a preview version of UNIX in his grandfather’s

386 PC. What was the software called? Minix

219. To activate the read / write head of the floppy diskette drive, which type of electric motor is used?

Stepper motor

220. What does it mean when a website / homepage displays 'I have been Slashdotted'? It means that the

site has been featured on Slashdot.com

221. This legendary computer scientist has authored the ‘The Art of Computer Programming’? Who was I

talking about? Don Knuth

222. What has been dubbed as ‘Dirty Harry of Internet World’? ‘Nachi’ worm which was released to tame

‘Blaster’ worm

223. This Indian Company is supporting various Indian State Governments in achieving e-governance via

bundling communication services with a number of other on-line facilities operated through 'Gramdoot'

(name of the rural connectivity service in one of the states) kiosks. The company facilitates a number of

services, including on-line land records, market information, certificates of caste, domicile, income etc.,

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filing complaints on-line to the district centre, on-line video-conferencing with other villagers, and cable

TV. Which company? Akash Broadband

224. This famous and one of the most popular management game was devised by MIT’s Sloan School of

Management in 1960s. By what name we know it today? Beer Game

225. The ARPANET funded Project MAC (which led to the development of MULTICS – which in turn inspired

Unix) was led by Prof Fernando J. Corbato on the IBM 7094 computer in 1963. Prof Corbato first devised

the concept (now widely used in server operating systems) of 'a continuously running process that stays

in the background'. He named it after 'an imaginary agent which worked tirelessly in the background to

sort molecules of different speeds', theorized by 19th century physicist James Clerk Maxwell. What's the

concept? Daemon

226. Surname of which CEO is derived from Spanish for ‘kisses’ (If you read enough you’ll get this)? Jeff Bezos

of Amazon.com.

227. Famous quote.... ‘Technology has the shelf life of a banana’ – who said? Scott Mcnealy, CEO of Sun

Microsystems

228. Alexey Pajitnov, was inspired to become a mathematician by a lifelong love of puzzles. In 1985, Pajitnov

was a specialist in computer sciences at the Computer Center of the Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

While at the Computer Center (also known as AcademySoft), Alexey still played with puzzles. While

playing with a traditional puzzle called Pentomino he hit upon a brilliant idea which is often been

rumored to have been a Russian plot to destabilise the US economy. What 'diabolical' product did he

create? Tetris

229. What is K&R? Refers to a book called ‘The C Programming Language’ written by Brian Kernighan and

Dennis Ritchie. It is also called ‘The White Book’.

230. In the early 80's when Will Wright proposed a game dominated by activities such as municipal zoning

and transit planning and with no preset conditions for victory, the gaming industry thought he was nuts.

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Various incarnations of the game have sold a combined 7 million copies, many bought by people who

had previously never considered playing a computer game. Name the game? SimCity

231. MP3.com founder, Michael Robertson has come up with a Linux operating system uses pieces of WINE

(a windows emulator) to achieve windows compatibility. What is the OS called? Lindows OS

232. Digital : Compaq :: Compaq : ________ HP

233. Fill in the Blanks (eminently workable) for processors that give the same performance, INTEL: _______ *

Low IPC and AMD High = Low _________ * High IPC, where IPC = Instructions per Cycle. Megahertz

234. The Chinese call it 'a little mouse', Danes and Swedes 'an elephant’s trunk', Germans 'a spider monkey',

Italians 'a snail' and Israelis pronounce it as 'strudels'. What am I talking about? @

235. There are five thieves, each loot a bakery one after the other such that the first one takes 1/2 of the

total number of the breads plus 1/2 of a bread. Similarly 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5fth also did the same. After

the fifth, one number of breads remained are 3. Initially, how many breads were there? 31

236. What is the three-finger salute? Control + Alt + Delete

237. What will happen if you press Win + D? Hides all windows

238. Which company’s tagline is 'It’s in the Game'? EA Sports

239. What is HT in P4HT? Hyper Threading

240. Which two people founded Microsoft? Bill Gates & Paul Allen

241. What is virtual memory? It is the temporary page file stored on the hard drive to extend a computer’s

RAM beyond the physical installed memory.

242. What is Opera? It’s a web browser

243. Who is the CEO of Dell Inc.? Michael Dell

244. Which famous real-time strategy game series is Ensemble Studios famous for? Age of Empires series and

Age of Mythology

245. What is the meaning of a 'solid state' device? A device with no moving parts is called a solid state device.

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246. What is a 'Simputer'? A Simputer is an India-based handheld computer that uses graphics and icons to

depict information.

247. Macromedia : MX 2004 :: Adobe : ___________? Creative Suite or CS

248. Name the just released expansion pack for Age of Mythology and new game title for Halo. Halo –

Combat Evolved, Age of Mythology – The Titans Expansion

249. Which bandwidth-based Company did Reliance buy for its ambitious telecom Plans? Flag Telecom

250. What position does Microsoft founder Paul Allen currently hold at Microsoft? No Position

251. Who is the current president of NASSCOM? Som Mittal

252. What is the origin of the name ‘Pac Man’? From the Japanese word ‘Pakoru’, meaning ‘to eat’/’to

gobble’.

253. What is the origin of Apache web server’s name? A 'patchy' server

254. What are Shell, Bubble, Quick, and Insertion etc. types of? Types of Sorts

255. Why was the Céline Dion CD, A New Day Has Come, so controversial? It was the first Audio CD to have

built-in copy protection and could not be played on a PC.

256. FTP : 21 :: Telnet : 23 :: HTTP : _____? 80

257. I went to USA and bought a DVD Player. I came to India and bought a DVD for Koi Mil Gaya...but the DVD

didn’t work in the player. Why? (The DVD was scratch less and nothing wrong was there in DVD) The

DVD region codes for the two countries are different.

258. What is a nibble? A nibble is 4 bits

259. What is DB2 and which company makes it? It is an RDBMS made by IBM.

260. What is the codename for Apple’s recent Mac OS X release? Lion

261. What is Symbian? Symbian is an operating system for hand-held devices. It is used on Nokia’s 9xx0

Communicator series.

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262. What is Bluetooth? Bluetooth technology is a cutting-edge open specification that enables short-range

wireless connections between desktop and notebook computers, and peripherals.

263. ThinkPad : IBM :: _______ : Sony. Vaio

264. State Moore’s law. Numbers of transistors on a chip will double every 18 months. (Size of chip constant)

265. What is AMD Opteron? A 64-bit / 32-bit Processor by AMD.

266. Who are the makers of QuickTime? Apple Computer

267. Which is the largest merger between two companies till date? AOL & Time Warner

268. Who is the CEO of HP? Leo Apotheker

269. What is Cache? A cache (pronounced CASH) is a place to store something temporarily, such as in a web

browser or as a hardware cache (L1, L2, L3, etc.)

270. Who is regarded as the father of [the] WWW? Tim Berners-Lee

271. What is a macro? A macro is a saved sequence of commands or keyboard strokes that can be stored and

then recalled with a single command or keyboard stroke in Microsoft Office Applications.

272. What is UNIX and how long ago was it made? UNIX (often spelled 'UNIX', especially as an official

trademark) is an operating system that originated at Bell Labs in 1969 as an interactive time-sharing

system. Its uniqueness was in multitasking and creating a multi-user [command line] environment.

273. What is a Trojan horse? Trojan horse is a program in which malicious or harmful code is contained inside

apparently harmless programming or data in such a way that it can get control and do its chosen form of

damage.

274. What is the unit of mouse movement? Mickey

275. What is P2P? Peer-to-Peer files sharing. Each node on this kind of a network has server and client

capabilities.

276. Who founded Apple Computer Corporation? Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

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277. What is telnet? Telnet is the way you can access someone else's computer, assuming they have given

you permission. With telnet, you log on as a regular user with whatever privileges you may have been

granted to the specific application and data on that computer.

278. What is special about Intel’s Itanium line of processors? They are 64-bit instead of the conventional 32-

bit.

279. What do you think is the average length of the spiral of silicon bits beginning from the inner edge of a

CD to the outer edge? Many of you will give approximate answers, so here’s the approximation rule –

we will accept approximations in the integer range. So, if you say 5 metres, we will take your answer as

correct if it is anywhere between 5 and 6 metres. Approximately 3.5 miles or 5.6 kilometres

280. What is Prescott? It is a processor designed by Intel to have higher clock speeds than the current crop of

Pentium 4s. However, it will not be named Pentium 5 because it has less cache than the Extreme

Edition.

281. Where would you hear the works of composer Brian Eno? Windows 95 Start-up Sound

282. What does HAL stand for, in HAL 9000 say? Heuristical Algorithm

283. Why the Apple Macintosh is called so? The Macintosh apple was the most popular type of apple in the

US, and one of the Macs designers loved that variety of apple.

284. A hacker, cracker, etc. are generally called 'Trudy' in network security textbooks and manuals. Why?

'Trudy' is short for Intruder.

285. Connect 'Quicker than a ray of light' by Madonna, and 'Start Me Up' by the Rolling stones. The first was

used at the Windows XP launch event while the second was used at the Windows 95 launch event.

286. What is known as the 'back rub' of the Internet? Google; they had dubbed this system BackRub, after

the 'back links' that pointed to a site.

287. Why Google is called so? They adopted the name Google in early 1997, in a tribute to scale, a play on

the number known as a googol – a one followed by a hundred zeros.

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288. When we say DVD 4x or 8x, what reading or writing speed are we implying by 1x DVD? 1.25 MB/s

289. When was Microsoft Windows 1.0 released? November 1985

290. IBM disregarded a certain problem as useless and a waste of time, but it later came back to haunt them

as well as the rest of the world. What am I talking about? Y2K problem

291. What problem will all corporations face again on 1st January 2005 (which will be similar to the Y2K

problem)? The bar code will not support dates in 2005 and later.

292. If 8-bit colour refers to 256 colours then what does 16-bit refer to? 65536 colours

293. iLink : FireWire :: Sony : __________ Apple

294. This company was founded by a couple, who were later ousted by the Venture Capitalist because of a

request by their board of directors. One of them now tries to find intelligent life outside of earth while

the other makes her money on the cosmetics market. Name the company? CISCO

295. In the mid-1980s Carnegie Mellon University embarked on an ambitious project to make a new kind of

operating systems, which was later released by a consortium of companies and named OSF/1. Almost all

operating systems made post-1990 borrow features from this particular model, and all versions of Mac

OS X directly borrow on kernel design and code from this project. Name the project. MACH

296. A post, by Linus Torvalds, on a news group is considered by most to have announced the beginning of

Linux. What exactly did the post announce or request? Requested an electronically readable copy of the

Posix standard

297. What is the origin of the term Trojan horse? Homer's Iliad involves a scene in the Trojan War where

warriors hide inside a horse to enter a sieged city (Ilium) hence Trojan horse

298. What was Java's codename? Green

299. What was the original intent of Sun while making Java? Programming language for embedded

application, they specifically wanted one that could drive toasters

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300. QNX RTP is one of the few OSs other than Linux and Microsoft produced OSs to meet with any success in

India. What does RTP in this name stand for? Real Time Platform

301. Hardware and software are commercially evaluated on the basis of what people call 'TCO'. What is the

full form of TCO? Total cost of ownership

302. (Can be worked out) RAID stands for redundant array of inexpensive disks, and refers to a distributed

storage model where all data is redundantly stored over multiple disks. The RAID storage is often used in

servers. What is the storage model which functions opposite to the RAID model, i.e. what is the storage

model most personal computers use? SLED: Single Large Expensive Disk

303. Cryptography refers to the science/art of writing coded messages, i.e. building algorithms and systems

which can encode messages. What is cryptanalysis? The art/science of analysing and breaking through

encrypted messages

304. This particular 99¢ a song, music store has been proclaimed as one of the greatest Trojan marketing

strategies ever devised by a company. Which store am I referring to and what is the product which the

company is trying to increase sales of by using this strategy? The iTunes music store, the iPOD

305. What does MMORPG stand for? Massively multiplayer online role playing game

306. Less than a year ago Google released a beta service titled Froogle. What did Froogle do? Search through

online stores to give you price and availability choices

307. Who is Qrio (rhymes with curio)? Sony's humanoid robot

308. The breakup of Fairchild semiconductors gave rise to most of the current microprocessor companies

including Intel and AMD. What was the single biggest contribution of Fairchild to the semi-conductor

industry? Process for mass producing silicon transistors

309. Which company supplies chips for Tomahawk missiles? AMD

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310. In the movie 'Independence Day' the computer shown has something wrong with it, something not

realized by most, but very distinctly wrong. What is the problem with the computer shown? Pre MacOS

X, Mac running a DOS shell, which accepts DOS commands

311. This product by 3M Corporation allowed you to use standard floppy disks with your computer, but at the

same time also allowed you to use a specific kind of disk manufactured by 3M which allowed you to

store close to 120 Megs of data. What product am I referring to here? The SuperDrive

312. One of Apple's computers was named Lisa. Why was it named so? Steve Job's daughter

313. Earlier Intel used to christen its processors with numbers. However with the Pentium they changed this

trend. Why was this so? Trademark restrictions allow trademarking of names not numbers

314. The Pentium refers to something other than a processor, something natural. What does it refer to? A

river in Europe

315. Adobe bought PageMaker from another software manufacturer. What was the manufacturers’ name?

Aldus

316. BC is a program included in almost all flavours of UNIX (Linux included). What is BC? calculator (arbitrary

precision calculator)

317. What operating system does Bill Gates use? Xenix

318. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniack used to sell devices called Blue Boxes to college students, to earn

money. What did these blue boxes do? Allow you to make free long distance calls on the AT&T network

319. What did Steve Wozniack do after leaving Apple? Teacher

320. Almost all sites and a lot of UNIX distributions use a class of functions, called one way functions, to keep

passwords safe. These one way functions include MD5 and SHA1. In brief what are one way functions?

Not invertible. Produce one result from which it is nearly impossible to back calculate the input to the

function

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321. What is thrashing? When a program uses immensely large amounts of memory which are stored on dis-

separate page locations, the virtual memory driver keeps on loading and unloading pages leading to a

peculiar sound as the hard disk continuously operates without any visible results.

322. What does the X following all CDROM speed designations (48 X, etc.) refer to? The speed at which audio

CD's are read

323. What does RSA, in the RSA encryption standard stand for? Rivest, Shamir, Adelman

324. When Richard Stallman founded the FSF he was inspired by a certain policy followed by the University

right across the road from where he taught. Name the University (the one with the policy). Harvard

325. While recording or ripping songs, you come across the term 'sampling rate'. What is the sampling rate?

(Number of times per second when the computer digitizes a songs level to produce a sound file)

326. Who created PGP? Phil Zimmerman

327. What was Steve Job's salary (no bonuses etc.) from Apple computers last year? $1

328. Where was Tim Berner's Lee employed when he made the first beginnings into what grew up to be the

Internet? CERN, Switzerland

329. A certain American politician was invited to join Apple Computer's board of directors a year back. Who

was this politician? Al Gore

330. Unlimited Limited and Unincorporated Incorporated were two of the names this giant considered giving

itself before it took on its current name. Which company am I talking about? Microsoft

331. What is Groove? Software providing an online shared workspace to complete projects(not necessarily

computer based)

332. What does the K in CMYK stand for? Black

333. What does the .mil top-level domain name designate? Military related sites

334. Who created mathematica? Stephen Wolfram

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335. How many region codes are defined by the DVD standard? 7 regions{ 5 proper, 1 (6) reserved, 1(7) for

international venues}

336. Most computers store time as number of seconds passed since epoch. When is epoch taken to be?

00:00.00 UTC Jan 1, 1970

337. What is the BluRay standard? DVDs which have a much higher capacity mostly because they have to be

read using Blue Lasers

338. Groups.google.com borrows most of its functionality from a site which Google acquired. Which site am I

talking about? Deja

339. After the breakup of AT&T which of the Baby Bells took over Bell Labs? Lucent Technologies

340. This guy worked on designing rockets and guidance systems at Johns Hopkins University, then went on

to join Fairchild Semiconductors, and eventually to co-found a company which is still referred to as one

of the fairchildren. He is also famous for giving a law which now bears his name. Who am I talking

about? Gordan Moore

341. This Hungarian immigrant is currently the chairman of a company which almost all of you know about

and was also the time Man of The Year a few years back. Name him. Andy Groove

342. Who was Time Man of the Year 1982? The personal computer

343. This man is credited with being the father of nanotechnology. However most of us think of him as a

teacher par-excellence, a noble laureate, and a funny guy. Who am I referring to? Richard P. Feynman

344. Lucifer, Skipjack, Blowfish, Rhinedael (pronounced Rhine Doll) are all examples of? Cryptographic

Algorithms

345. What are black hole lists? lists of IP addresses know to be generators of SPAM

346. What is a honey pot? System set up to attract hackers and crackers. Usually contains no important data,

but contains programs which track exploits and usage

347. Who holds the trademark for spam? Hormel Inc.

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348. Why ICQ is named so? I seek you

349. Which company originally initiated the Mozilla project to show its commitment towards Open source

development and to aid in its browser development? Netscape

350. What is XHTML? XML compliant HTML, basically closing tags required for everything including tags like

<BR>

351. What is Vanderpool? Technology under development by Intel which aims to allow a single processor to

simultaneously run multiple OSs

352. What operating system do most bank ATMs run? IBM OS/2

353. Who is the CEO of Google? Eric Schmidt

354. What was the first processor made by AMD? 8080A

355. Expand EFF. Electronic Frontier Foundation

356. What is Lindows? Linux designed to make it easier for people using windows

357. What is Red Hats current free Operating System named? Fedora Linux

358. What is the basic difference between 32-bit & 64-bit processors? Size of memory addresses

359. How do you get command line arguments in a dos batch file? %1, %2 etc.

360. Expand DMRCA? Digital Millennium Rights Control Act

361. On what computer was the Pixar animation (the one with the bouncing, moving lamp) rendered? Cray

362. This Stanford professor is now the CEO of one of the largest chip makers. Who am I referring to? Craig

Barrett

363. Steve Jobs said this would be the greatest invention of them all, Microsoft wanted to buy manufacturing

rights to this invention, before they even knew what the invention actually did or was. Yet at the end of

the day the invention turned out to be nothing more than a very expensive dud. What invention am I

referring to? The Segway

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364. From where does the about:mozilla page, available on all Netscape browsers and on all browsers made

as a part of the Mozilla project, quote? The Book of Mozilla

365. The US Government recently shifted over the approved government standard for encryption to the

chosen AES algorithm, prior to which they used to use the DES algorithm. For certain applications which

required a greater amount of security they used something called 3DES. What is 3DES? The DES

algorithm chained to run 3 times over with different keys

366. What is Bill Gate's daughter's name? Jennifer Gates

367. As a part of the Y2K bug people were worried about the 9th of September, 1999. What is so great about

this date? 9/9/99 also represented as 9999 on concurrent byte fields, the shutdown code for Intel

processors. Though no application should have passed the date onto the processor, if there was any

application which did have a bug doing this, it would affect a hell of a lot of computers.

368. All Intel 32 bit processors, better known as the 80X86 or the IA32 processors, have the ability to start up

in either 16 bit or 32 bit modes. What modes do they normally start-up in? 16 bit

369. DTD is one of the file types associated with the XML standard. What does DTD stand for? Document

Type Definition

370. This company was founded in an apartment rented by two students, and eventually the landlady joined

the company started by her tenants. Which company am I referring to? GOOGLE

371. Why Google is named so? Largest number with a name, 1 followed by 100 zeroes

372. Laser printers were invented by Xerox researcher Gary Starkweather by modifying a Xerox copier.

373. A famous quote – “In a world without fences, who needs Gates!” – Who said it? Scott McNealy, Sun

Microsystems

374. Which company has published the popular first person shooter game “Quake”? id Games

375. Which was the first computer with a keyboard and a mouse? Apple Lisa

376. Who invented the Ethernet? Robert (Bob) Metcalfe

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377. What much touted feature of Windows Longhorn has now been dropped due to time constraints?

WinFS (short for either Windows Future Storage or Windows File System): a combined relational

database and filesystem, based on the next version of SQL Server (codenamed Yukon). Working on top

of NTFS, it will provide abilities to represent objects and their relationships, rather than just a hierarchy

of files and folders. The removal of WinFS from Windows Longhorn was announced in August 2004, and

is expected to be released as an update to Longhorn, entering beta stages at about the same time as

Longhorn is released.

378. What is the name of the 64bit microprocessor, codenamed Merced, from Intel? Itanium

379. Which is the world’s second largest software company? ORACLE

380. What is a killer app? A killer application (commonly shortened to killer app) is a computer program that

is so useful that people will buy a particular brand of computer simply to run that program.

381. Which company made the first Optical Mouse? Early optical mice, such as those invented by Steve

Kirsch of Mouse Systems Corporation.

382. Which was the first computer virus? © Brain made by Pakistani brothers.

383. Who is Vinod Dham? Led the team that Designed the Pentium chip. Called the father of Pentium

384. Which hacker group hacked into BARC? Milw0rm

385. Which Indian company is the 2nd largest manufacturer of optical media in the world? Moser Baer

386. Logic Question: In a jungle we have lions and deers. The following are the rules of the jungle:

a) All lions want to survive.

b) If a lion eats a deer, the lion becomes a deer himself.

c) All lions are hungry and will eat unless there’s an imminent threat to its life.

d) The lions are intelligent enough to understand which situation would be life threatening, and which

won’t.

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For example, if there’s just one lion and a deer, the lion will merrily eat the deer and become a deer

himself. Since there are no more lions, he is safe in his new avatar as a deer. But, if there are 2 lions

and a deer, none of the lions will eat the deer, since the one that eats it will become a deer and the

other lion will eat it.

I want you to tell me whether the deer is safe or not when we have one deer and :

1. 10 lions -safe

2. 15 lions -unsafe

3. 18 lions – safe

Funda: if 3 lions and 1 deer, then 1 lion merrily eat the deer to become a deer himself. We are left

with 2 lions and 1 deer; the lion turned deer is safe. So the initial deer was unsafe. By induction, we

see for all even numbers of lions, deer is safe, and unsafe for odd.

387. If PSP is to Sony, what is to Nintendo? Game Boy

388. Which company manufactures the Satellite and Qosmio series of notebooks? Toshiba

389. Who was the first President of IBM? Thomas Watson Sr.

390. Who founded Dolby Laboratories? Ray Dolby

391. .ram files are generally what type of files? Real Media Player Files

392. In how many Indian scripts is Google available? Name them. 5 (Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil)

393. Why ‘Lisa’ is named so? Named after Steve Jobs first daughter.

394. Who created the world’s first GUI-based computer? Xerox PARC

395. What is AJAX? Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

396. Who is Tux? Who created it and why was it chosen? Tux is the mascot of Linux (A Penguin). It was

created by Larry Ewing, and it was chosen since Linus Torvalds liked penguins.

397. 1 Kibibyte per second = _______ Bits per second. 1024

398. Decode the anagram – 'I turn PC people Mac'. Apple Computer Inc.

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399. Who coined the term 'Cyberspace'? William Gibson (In his book 'Neuromancer')

400. Which company manufactures the Blackberry series of wireless handheld device? Research In Motion

401. Which famous Indian features in ‘What the hack’ on MTV? Ankit Fadia

402. What is the Nokia netbook called? Booklet 3g

403. What does CE in Windows CE stand for? Embedded compact or consumer electronics

404. What Pixar release was the first feature film to be entirely computer-animated? Toy story

405. On 26th October 2009, a legendary web service was shut down. What am I talking about? Geocities

406. What is the unit of Mouse Movement? Mickey

407. Which was Intel's first microprocessor? 4004 in 1971

408. There's a widely prevalent standard called 'IEEE 802.15.1', but we know it by a better name. What is that

name? Bluetooth

409. Which company is the largest producer of digital cameras? Nokia

410. Which major Tech Corp was established as a pulp mill in 1865? Nokia

411. Born on November 22, 1980, I rose to fame after making to the cover of the wired magazine. In 2003, I

opened a new company called SNOCAP with Jordan Mendellson. I had a cameo role playing myself in the

movie The Italian Job. Who am I? Shawn fanning (creator of Napster)

412. Windows: Explorer as Macintosh: _______________ finder

413. Who do you associate with a pink shirt? Peter Norton

414. Who wrote ‘The Art of Computer Programming’? Donald Knuth

415. Into how many zones are DVD's divided worldwide? 8

416. What is the latest Ubuntu release called? Karmic koala

417. What is the first iPhone worm called? ikee

418. Google was recently required to pay $500,000 to this celebrity as damages for his fake profile on ORKUT.

Who am I talking about? Rubens Barrichello

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419. What day was Larry Ellison born? Thursday

420. Who is associated with this emoticon: (0-0)? John Lennon

421. This rock band is known to create not only the loudest music, but also, the loudest sound of any kind in

the whole universe. Its members play from a spaceship orbiting the planet, and the recommended

distance from the concert venue is a bunker 36 miles away. Name the band? Disaster area

422. Gene Amdahl coined a 'computerism' called 'FUD'. According to the New Hacker's Dictionary, what does

'FUD' stand for? Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt

423. This game's name literally translates into English from Japanese as 'Battle Spirit Cloth'. In the game

manual, its name is said to be 'a title awarded to a superior soldier possessing almost superhuman drive

and ability, while excelling in guerrilla tactics'. Which game am I talking about? Contra

424. How much time is a jiffy? 0.01 seconds/10 milliseconds

425. Who said this famous quote: ‘Technology has the shelf life of a banana’? Scott McNealy CEO of SUN

426. Who has authored the book ‘Tough Choices: A Memoir’? CARLY FIORINA

427. Where would you hear a 19th century guitar work named “Gran Vals” by Spanish musician Francisco

Tarrega? Nokia tune

428. Which is the first game soundtrack to attain platinum status? NBA Live 2003

429. ‘Wyvern’ was the codename for which OS? Windows CE

430. Which company is the largest producer of digital cameras? Nokia