IT QUIZ

1.What is common to the games `Missile Command', `Sprint 2' and `Asteroid'?

A.All made by atari

2.Name the free OS, that which uses the Linux kernel and is named after its initiator, Ian Murdock and his wife Debra.

A.Debian

3.Adobe's planned high-end DVD authoring toolset is called... ?

A.Encore

4.Name the only Indian on Google's Board of Directors.

A.Ram Shriram.

5.With what word are the French replacing the word `e-mail'?

A.Courriel.

6.Expand UWB.

A.Ultra Wide Band

7.Which was the world's first spreadsheet?

A.VisiCalc.

8.Who makes the Optiplex brand of desktops?

A.Dell Inc

9.What did the first Google Doodle depict?

A.Burning Man symbol

10.If Apple has iPad, then who has ZiiO Pure Wireless Entertainment Tablets?

A.Creative

11.Who makes the Angry Birds game?

A.Rovio Mobile

12.Who uses the custom typeface Norad for branding their logo?

A.Android

It is the API for building software programs to run on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad from Apple Inc.

14.If it is iPad for Apple, for whom is it Adam?

A.NotionInk

15.If the upcoming Microsoft Office 2010 is codenamed ‘Office 14', what was ‘Office 13'?

A.There was no such codename because of superstitious reasons!

16.Which build-a-social-network service, co-founded by the legendary Marc Andreessen, has decided to stop its free, ad-supported service?

A.Ning

17.‘Menlo' is the codename for…?

A.Microsoft's touch-screen phone.

18.Name the rendering engines used in Firefox and Internet Explorer.

A.Gecko and Trident.

19.What is Asus' tablet called?

A.Eee Pad.

20.Facebook's new location-based platform is called…?

A.Facebook Places.

21.If its iPad for Apple, for whom will it be Optimus?

A.LG

22.If it is iPad for Apple, then for who it was JooJoo tablet?

A.Fusion Garage.

23.Expand IMAP.

A.Internet Message Access Protocol.

24.The layout engine for the Opera web browser is…?

A.Presto

25.What did Mark Gorton found?

A.Lime Wire.

IT QUIZ

1.What was co-founded by Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield?

A.Flickr

2.What is `Project Panama'?

A.Yahoo!'s new search marketing system.

3.What is `Brickipedia'?

A.It's a wiki for all things Lego.

4.Which search engine was founded by Dave Sifry?

A.Technorati, the blog search and ranking site.

5.Feisty Fawn' is the code name for... ?

A.Ubuntu Linux v7.04.

6.Google is re-branding Froogle as... ?

A.Google Product Search.

7.Which Microsoft product is abbreviated as MOSS?

A.Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

8.Pescadero, Oceano and Indio are codenames of earlier versions of which popular software?

A.Firefox browser.

9.Of the top five global PC makers, in terms of shipments, which is the only Japanese company in the list?

A.Toshiba

10.Which IT company’s tagline on its Web site reads ‘Win in the flat world’?

A.infosys

11.Vic Hayes is regarded as the ‘Father of….’?

A.Wi-Fi

12.Which programming language, named after a lady, was designed by Jean Ichbiah and then extended by S. Tucker Taft?

A.Ada

13.Which cyber giant is launching TechTicker, a online program for technology investors, from next month?

A.Yahoo

14.Which Japanese company makes ‘enon’, the personal assistant robot?

A.Fujitsu

15.Who recently launched SimpleDB, a new Web service for querying structured data?

A.Amazon

1.What was co-founded by Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield? 

A.Flickr

2.What is `Project Panama'?

A.Yahoo!'s new search marketing system.

3.What is `Brickipedia'?

A.It's a wiki for all things Lego.

4.Which search engine was founded by Dave Sifry?

A.Technorati, the blog search and ranking site.

5.Feisty Fawn' is the code name for... ?

A.Ubuntu Linux v7.04.

6.Google is re-branding Froogle as... ?

A.Google Product Search.

7.Which Microsoft product is abbreviated as MOSS?

A.Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

8.Pescadero, Oceano and Indio are codenames of earlier versions of which popular software?

A.Firefox browser.

9.Of the top five global PC makers, in terms of shipments, which is the only Japanese company in the list?

A.Toshiba

10.Which IT company’s tagline on its Web site reads ‘Win in the flat world’?

A.infosys

11.Vic Hayes is regarded as the ‘Father of….’?

A.Wi-Fi

12.Which programming language, named after a lady, was designed by Jean Ichbiah and then extended by S. Tucker Taft?

A.Ada

13.Which cyber giant is launching TechTicker, a online program for technology investors, from next month?

A.Yahoo

14.Which Japanese company makes ‘enon’, the personal assistant robot?

A.Fujitsu

15.Who recently launched SimpleDB, a new Web service for querying structured data?

A.Amazon

IT QUIZ

1.Which famous hit PC game was created by Will Wright?

A.Sims.

2.Whose new email service is called `Managed Mail Protection'?

A.McAfee

3.Which telecom major is headquartered at Schaumberg, Illinois?

A.Motorola

4.Which cyber-legend founded the wireless technology company, Wheels of Zeus?

A.Steve Wozniak

5.Who makes the Olympus range of processors?

A.Fujistu

6.Who has registered the domain name gbrowser.com leading to the speculation of a browser on the anvil?

A.Google

7.Whose one time slogan/tagline was `Happy Hunting'?

A.eBay

8.Which e-tailer has introduced a feature called `Customer Images' that lets customers post photos alongside product reviews?

A.Amazon

9.Which popular game's tagline is `Your Life. Your Imagination'?

A.Linden Labs' `Secondlife'.

10.What is Mozilla Foundation's e-mail and newsgroup client called?

A.ThunderBird

KERALA IT QUIZ 2013 QUESTIONS
1.What is 'Arrandale' ?
Ans:Intel Processor
2.Who wrote the book "Mattoru Dot Com Sandyayil"
Ans:Sethu
3.What is 'Cyber Squatting' ?
Ans:Cybersquatting is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else.
4.In which category does 'Youku.com' belogs ?
Ans:Video site
5.What is the full formof EBT ?
Ans:Electronic Benefit Transfer
6.Expand EDGE
Ans:Enhanced Data rate for GSM Evolution
7.The International CES ?
Ans: is a major technology-related trade show held each January in the United States.Hosts preview of products and new product announcements
8.What is 'Siri' ?
Ans:Siri is an intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator which works as an application for Apple's iOS. 
9.What was created by 'Pyra Labs' and later sold to other company ?
Ans:Blogger
10.What is 'Passbook' according to iPhone ?
Ans:Passbook is an application in iOS that allows users to store coupons,boarding passes,event tickets,store cards,'generic' cards and other forms of Mobile Payment
11.DIASPORA is a nonprofit,user owned,distributed ___________ ?
Ans:Social Network
12.C-DAC headquarters is in __________ ?
Ans:Pune
13.Eka is a _____________ ?
Ans: Supercomputer
14.Computational Research Laboratory is a wholly owned subsidiary of _______?
Ans:TATA Sons
15.Share-alike is related to what ?
Ans:Share-alike is a copyright licensing term
16.Expand FOSS ?
Ans:Free and Open Source Software
17.What is 'Jelly Bean' ?
Ans:Android Version
18.When is world computer literacy day celebrated ?
Ans: December 2
19.What is 'Yandex' ?
Ans:Search Engine
20.Who developed 'Libre Office' ?
Ans:The Document Foundation

IT QUIZ

1.Expand MLAPI ?
Ans:MultiLingual Application Programming Interface
2.Identify this Gadget

Ans:Ubuntu Edge
3.Identify this person

Ans:Kyle Mcdonald(One Red Paper Clip)
4.Expand VGA
Ans:Video Graphic Array
5.Identify (C2F)

Ans: Smart Namo is an Android Phone named after Narendra Modi
6. X is often used as a synonym for IEEE 802.11 technology. What is X ?
Ans: Wi Fi
7.Identify

Ans:Elk Cloner (Virus)
8.Identify the logo

Ans:Joomla(CMS)
9.Who coined the term AJAX ?
Ans:Jesse James Garret
10.Identify the logo

Ans: Wink e-book reader

IT QUIZ

1.Identify this gadget
2.Identify this person #recently died

3.Which are the founders of Whatsapp ?
Ans:Brian Acton and Jan Koum
4.identify this app

5.Identify the company from the tagline  " Access . Content . Solutions ?
Ans:Tata Docomo
6. X is a company founded by Rob Campbell and Taylor Pohlman . X was acquired by Microsoft and the product of X is now knows as Powerpoint. What is X ?
Ans:Forethought Inc
7.identify this person

8.Who is known as the father of Phreaking ?
Ans: Joe Engressia
9.Identify this person

10.Identify this Symbol ?

Ans: Control (ISO Keyboard symbol )

Ans:ChromeCast

Ans:Ilya Segalovich (Yandex co-founder)

Ans:Wechat

Ans: Reed Hastings (Netflix)

Ans: Hakon Wium Lie(CSS)

SPECIAL QUESTIONS 2

1. X was an experimental self-replicating program written by Bob Thomas at BBN in 1971. It was designed not to damage but to demonstrate a mobile application.It is generally accepted to be the first computer virus.

Ans:Creeper

2.X is a web browser developed by Y in Tokyo, Japan. It is unique in that it contains three rendering engines: Gecko,Webkit,and Trident.The user can switch between layout engines seamlessly.Identify X and Y

Ans:X : Lunascape , Y : Lunascape Corporation

3.Identify the game

Ans:Gagaville

4.Identify this person

Ans:Jack Smith (co-founder of Hotmail)
5.The X utility was authored by Mike Muuss in December 1983 as a tool to troubleshoot problems in an IP network.What's X ?
Ans:Ping
6.Identify this person

Ans:Alonzo Church (Influenced the creation of LISP)
7.Identify the robot

Ans:TOPIO (Tosy Ping Pong Playing Robot)
8.Who coined the term PDA ?
Ans:John Sculley
9.The idea of this comapny came to founder when he was forced to pay $40 in overdue fines after returning Apollo 13 well past its due date. What was founded?
Ans:Netflix
10.“Flyte” is the online music store set up by which company?
Ans:Flipkart