Friday, June 25, 2010

QUIZ FIVE

I'm back after a hiatus!

Q1. The touchscreen technology used on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad was developed by which company ?

Q2. Identify him and name his startup companies, the first one of which was sold to Intel ?
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Q3. Which recently-in-news woman was a partner in the law firm Slater & Gordon and originally wanted to be a schoolteacher ?

Q4. Connect Jay - Z and Antares Audio Technologies.

Q5. Richard Stallman started which organization ?

Answers
1. FingerWorks, acquired by Apple Inc. in 2005.
2. Dirk Gates
His start-ups - Xircom, sold to Intel for $748 million.
Xirrus
3. Julia Gillard, the Prime Minister of Australia.
4. The infamous Auto-Tune was created by Antares and Jay-Z sung (D.O.A), Death Of Auto-Tune to criticize it's overuse in music.
5. Free Software Foundation



Sunday, June 6, 2010



QUIZ FOUR

Q1.Which was the 13th firm to register it's domain name ?

Q2. A philosophical situation is described -
"A woman sees a runaway train approaching a fork in a track. The train is headed for the branch with five people working on it, but the onlooker can divert it to kill one person. What is the right course of action to take ?"
Who proposed this famous philosophical situation ?

Q3. Connect Coldplay and Microsoft Corporation.

Q4. Connect the American television series Lost and India.

Q5. Name this recently-introduced software and it's creators.


Q6. Identify him and name his famous software creations.


Answers-
1. Texas Instruments
2. Phillipa Foot
3. Brian Eno worked on Viva La Vida with Coldplay and is credited with the Windows 95 Start-Up Sound
4. One of the main lead characters - Sayid Jarrah is played by an Indian origin actor - Naveen Andrews
5. Rdio by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis.
6. Justin Frankel
Software Creations - Winamp, Gnutella, REAPER


Tuesday, June 1, 2010

QUIZ THREE

Q1.Fill in the blank -
It is rumoured that Apple will replace Google with______________or provide it as an alternative search engine on the next iPhone.

Q2.Identify these two people and name their three most famous software creations ?

http://cdn.venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/skype-founders-niklas-zennstrom-and-janus-friis-7005860300.jpg

Q3. What is the codename of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 10.10 ?

Q4. Which recently introduced Disney Channel family sitcom was originally called "Love, Teddy" ?

Q5. Identify the software and state it's purpose ?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Backtrack_logo.JPG

Q6. Which music band was initially hired to provide music for the original
Hellraiser released in 1987 ?

Answers -
1. Microsoft Bing
2. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis.
Their creations - Skype and Joost.
3. Ubuntu 10.04(Long Term Support) - Lucid Lynx
Ubuntu 10.10 - Maverick Meerkat
4. Good Luck Charlie
5. BackTrack
This particular version is v4
It is a penetration tester for Linux.
6. Coil