QUIZ FIVE

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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 ?

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

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

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 ?


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 ?


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

QUIZ TWO

Here's the second quiz! -

Q1. Fill in the blanks and specify the connection-

Cupcake, Donut, ______, ______, ______ ?

Q2. Which famous director claimed to have a dream of a robot hitman

sent back in time to kill him, setting up one of the best-known films ever ?

Q3. Name the two brothers and their two most famous innovations for Google Inc. ?

Q4. Identify the aeroplane and name the parent company ?

Q5. Name the software and it's country of origin ?

Q6. What is the claim to fame of the recently-in-news Makenzie Melton ?

Q7. Which software engineer created the High Capacity Color Barcode technology and at which research facility ?

Answers

1. Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread
They are all different updates of the Android OS.
2.James Cameron,(his inspiration for The
Terminator)
3. Lars Rasmussen and Jens Rasmussen, who developed Google Maps and Google Wave.
4.The Ipanema by Embraer
5. Soluto. Country - Israel
6.She has won the Google 4Doodle Contest for her doodle "Rainforest Habitat"
7.Gavin Jancke at Microsoft Research.

QUIZ ONE

Here's the first quiz !

Q1. Identify the man in the picture, for what recent innovation is he responsible ?

Q2. Which American multinational was recently left red- faced after it accidentally distributed malware-infected USB drives at the AusCert Conference 2010 ?

Q3. The recently released Pino ( a social networking app) has been created specifically for which operating system ?

Q4. Which famous American multinational has descended from a John D. Rockefeller company and is one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world ?

Q5.Name the operating system which has this logo ?

Q.6 Which famous best-selling gadget has been recently discontinued by the producing company ?

Answers

1.Vincent Dureau, responsible for Google TV.
2.International Business Machines(IBM)
3.Fedora 13
4.Exxon Mobil
5.Fedora(v13)
6.iPhone 3G