Quiz for IT

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