1. Italians call it the snail, the Germans call it spider monkey, Dutch call it monkey tail and in Chinese it is called the little mouse. What am I talking about? @
2. What is the present name of the Alexander Bell Telephone Company? AT & T
3. The immediate predecessors of it were “Optimum Coding in the Frequency Domain” (OCF), and Perceptual Transform Coding (PXFM). This format was made at the Fraunhofer Society. Which format? MP3
4. In 1971, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded a firm, Syzygy Engineering. How do we better know this company now? Atari
5. It was founded in 1906 in Rochester as The Haloid Photographic Company, which originally manufactured photographic paper and equipment .It holds a Royal Warrant from HM Queen Elizabeth II and the Prince of Wales. Identify the company. Xerox
6. It is a bit rate measure of available or consumed data communication resources expressed in bits/second or multiples of it (kilobits/s, megabits/s etc.). What is this term (one proper word)? Bandwidth
7. This is the logo of which famous website?
Foursquare
8. At the 1997 Macworld Expo, Steve Jobs announced that Apple would join _________ to release new versions for the Macintosh. For this the audience booed for 42 seconds. Identify this company? Microsoft
9. In 1911 Charles Flint engineered the merger of Hollerith’s Tabulating Machine Company with two other firms the International Time Recording Company and the Computing Scale Corporation and formed the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation. What is the present name of this company? IBM
10. “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” is better known to us as what? CAPTCHA
11. Which was the first DTH provider for rural part of India to start the iKisaan scheme which is India’s first TV interactive application for farmers? Airtel
12. Go is a programming language from which company? Guess the company from the name of this programming language. Google
13. Which company has rebranded it as “Be What’s next”? Microsoft
14. Which is the famous company with the tagline ‘The network is the computer’?Sun microsystems
15. What company was started in June 1972 by five IBM engineers as ”System Analysis and Program Development”?SAP AG
16. If Street view: Google, then Street side: ________ Bing
17. Which game features large, habitable ringed structures, similar to the Orbital’s in Iain M Banks’ Culture novels or to smaller versions of Larry Niven’s Ringworld? Halo
18.This spinoff of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone was started in 1991. Company name means ‘everywhere’ in the native language. Present in India in partnership with a major Indian company. Ans: DoCoMo
19.This brand’s name refers to an edible fruit in plants of the rose family. Was in the news due to a protracted dispute with Govt of India. Ans: Blackberry
20.SAGA 220 is India’s fastest supercomputer with a speed of 220 teraflops. Name the organisation that designed it. Ans: ISRO
1. Which is the IT firm lead by Jack Dorsey?
2. Who is the chairman of Unique identification authority?
Nandan Nilekani
3. First Indian company to avail the security of CISF?
Infosys
4. What is Project direct direct in video sharing?
It is a film festival through Youtube
5. Who is a “noob”?
A newcomer in internet
6. Hole in the wall was introduced by
NIIT
7. In which year wikipedia started?
2001
8. What is Blekko?
A Search engine
9. Expand SUN in Sun Microsystems
Stanford university network
10. What is the name of Google’s corporate office?
Google Plex
11. NASDAQ code of Google is
Goog
12. Who founded Adobe?
Jhon Warnok
13. Who used the word YAHOO at first?
Jonathan Swift in his famous book Gulliver’s travels
14. Free software foundation was started on
1985 October 4
15. Who were the 4 persons to found Sun Microsystems?
Vinod Khosla, Scott Mcnealy, Andy Bathoclshim, Bill Joy
16. Who is the father of Pentium processors?
Vinod Dham
1. Name the general purpose very-high level programming language released by Guido Von Russom.
Python
2. The name COMPAQ is derived from which 2 words?
Compatibility and Quality
3. Photorealistic Renderman or PRMan is a commercial product developed by which company?
Pixar
4. Toshiba launched the Qosmio G55-802 recently; It is the first laptop available with the Cell CPU. Which other gaming console is popular for having used this technology?
Sony PS 3
5. What is the new service started by Apple Inc for all its iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC to keep everything in sync?
MobileMe
6. This utility was named after a submariner's term for a sonar pulse that would typically help find objects around. In a network context it performs a similar function. Which tool?
PING
7. This word got its name from a skit on TV show “Monty Python flying circus “, in which a group of Viking in a restaurant that serves all kind of its food with “----” form of meat and sing song repeating the word many time?
SPAM
8. Which software had been employed to give special effects in Harry Potter movies?
Maya
9. How do you expand HTC?
High Tech Corporation (Taiwanese Company)
10. Which was the first company to develop the Graphic User Interface with Alan Kay and Englebert?
XEROX PARC
11. This term was coined by programmer Lou Montulli?
Network or COOKIES
12. Silverlite the answer to Adobe’s Flash system for display of media content for websites is from whom?
MICROSOFT
13. This term suggests that the software secretly monitors the user's behavior. What term?
Spyware
14. In PC cards what does PC stands for?
Portable Computer Cards
15. Which German-American statistician developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards?
Herman Hollerith
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