IT Quiz Questions 2016

Information Technology Quiz questions and answers 2016


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1. _____ was launched in 1990 by Colin Needham, a British computer programmer. The site originally comprised of four lists detailing actors, actresses, directors and retired actors/actresses. Today, it is one of the biggest websites in its respective field. Which website?                  (ANSWER: IMDb) 

2. This picture (below) is the logo of 'Stop The Cyborgs', a London-based group whose primary aim is to protest against the use of a very particular gadget. Which gadget?                              (ANSWER: Google Glass)
3. A __________ is a standalone malware computer program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers. Often, it uses a computer network to spread itself, relying on security failures on the target computer to access it. Unlike a computer virus, it does not need to attach itself to an existing program. What term is being described here?                    (ANSWER: Computer Worm)

4. The mascot of which social-networking/entertainment/news website is an adorable alien called 'Snoo'?                      (ANSWER: Reddit)

5. Which American Pop Singer is the most followed person on Twitter currently with 85.4 Million followers?                                  (Answer: Katy Perry)

6. One of the first computers to offer GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) was the Apple LISA. It was developed in the early 1980s by Apple Computers Inc., and it was aimed at individual business users. What is the significance of the name of this computer?                    (ANSWER: It was named after Steve Jobs' daughter)

7. What is being celebrated in this Google Doodle?    (ANSWER: Google's 17th Birthday)

8. Connect: Maverick, Yosemite, El-Capitan (Exhaustive List)                    (ANSWER: Versions of Mac OS X named after places in California, USA)

9. While small test programs existed since the development of programmable computers, the tradition of using the phrase __________ as a test message was influenced by an example program in the seminal book 'The C Programming Language'. Since then, this phrase has been used as a test message or as the first programme learnt by a programmer when he/she starts to learn how to code. ID this famous phrase.              (ANSWER: Hello World!)

10. Who or what tweeted this?                      (ANSWER: Mangalyaan (More specifically, its Twitter account))

11. This website gets part of its name from the Hawaiian word for 'fast'. It is one of the largest repositories of data and knowledge in the world. Which website? (ANSWER: Wikipedia)

12. X joined Google in 1999 as the company's 20th employee and it's first female employee. She became well-known in the company due to her attention to detail and was responsible for various projects including Google AdSense and the design of the Google homepage. X is now the CEO of another famous company. ID X.                          (ANSWER: Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!)

13. ____   __________ is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication. The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003. What important internet concept are we talking about here?             (ANSWER: Net Neutrality)

14. X is an aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company founded in 2002 with the goal of creating technologies that would reduce space transportation costs and enable the colonisation of the planet Mars. It was founded by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk. What is X?    (ANSWER: SpaceX)

15. When Chennai was severely affected by floods in December 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the city and conducted an aerial survey of the city. This photo of him during the survey was released by the Press Information Bureau and was met with great controversy. Why was this photo controversial? (ANSWER: The photo was edited using Adobe Photoshop, that is, the image outside the window was added digitally)

16. Which famous entrepreneur's autobiography is aptly titled 'Things A Little Bird Told Me'?                     (ANSWER: Biz Stone, Co-Founder Of Twitter)

17. Google Apps now sport a very minimalistic and flat UI. This look has been created using the ________ _________ design language by Google. This design language makes more liberal use of grid-based layouts, responsive animations and transitions, padding, and depth effects such as lighting and shadows. Here (below) is an example of this design being used in an app. What is the name of this design language used by google?        (ANSWER: Material Design)                 

18. You may (or may not) have noticed that when most experts, articles and advertisements refer to 4G speeds, they always say '4G LTE'. What is the expansion of 'LTE'?            (ANSWER: Long Term Evolution)

19. As of 2016, the most subscribed user on YouTube is PewDiePie with a documented 43 million subscribers. The owner of this channel is Felix Kjellberg, a Swede. What is the primary objective of this YouTube Channel, that is, what kind of content is shown in its videos?                                                     (ANSWER: This YouTube channel reviews Video Games)

20. Connect the following people [Inexhaustive List]: Jawed Karim (Co-Founder of YouTube), Peter Thiel (Angel Investor; One of the first outside investors in Facebook), Elon Musk (Founder Of Tesla and SpaceX), Reid Hoffman (Founder of LinkedIn), Russell Simmons (Co-Founder Of Yelp!)….                                          (ANSWER: All of them co-founded/worked at PayPal before going on to found their own respective companies)

21. Currently, which is the highest-rated movie on IMDb?   (ANSWER: The Shawshank Redemption)

22. "1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA" is the official address of which tech company? Notice how this is also a clever play on the computing error of the same name.      (ANSWER: Apple, Inc)

23. Identify this app used for live-streaming any event.     (ANSWER: Periscope)

24. It's common knowledge that Android OS versions are named after sweets. OS X versions used to be named after members of the cat family and now are named after places in California. Wordpress, also, has a naming system for its software updates. On what basis are Wordpress versions named?                                       (ANSWER: They are named after Jazz Musicians.)

25. Expand AVI (The video format).           (ANSWER: Audio-Video Interleave)