Tech Quiz

Tech Quiz Questions -#1

1.Who wrote the book " Being Digital" ?
 Nicholas Negpronte
2.The power to do more' . Is the tagline of ?
Dell
3.Crespo is the codename of which android device?
Nexus from Google
4.Which company was started as 'Mascot System Ltd' ?
igate
5.'Keep Moving' is the tagline of ?
BB 10
6.Who is knows as the Web Master of Google Doodles ?
 Dennis Hwang
7.The guy who created Skype and Kazaa ?
Nicklaus zennstorm

8.What is the full form of 'IVR'?
Interactive voice response

9.Ethernet was patented by which IT giant company?
Xerox

10..What was established as "MIRC Electronics" in ?
ONIDA

11..Which is the first Web Browser with GUI?
Mosaic

12.Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger are the developers of what?

 instagram

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY QUIZ Questions

1. As of March 2011, world's largest mobile operator with more than 600 million
subscribers?
A: China Mobile

2. "Gesher" was it's first codename, it was released in 9th January 2009 by Intel. On what code name you know it now?
A: Sandy Bridge

3. We often say a processor is manufactured under "32 nm"(nanometer) process. What does 32 nm indicate?
A: It refers to the expected average halfpitch (i.e., half the distance between identical features) of a memory cell at this technology level.

4. What do you mean by Data archaeology?
A: It refers to the art and science of recovering computer data encrypted in now obsolete media or formats.

5. What are Haswell & Broadwell ?
A: These are the codename for a processor microarchitecture to be developed by Intel.

6. Who is in the designation  CEO, Yahoo ( as of 10 September 2011).?
A: Tim Morse

7. Who is known as the father of IBM PC?
A: Don Estridge

8. Name the optical semiconductor that is the core of DLP projecion Technology and was invented by Dr. Larry Hornbeck and Dr. William E Nelson of Texas Instrument in 1987?
A: DMD (Digital Micromirror Device)

9. This term was coined in 1960 when Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline used it in an article about the advantages of selfregulating humanmachine systems in outer space. Which is the term?
A: Cyborg

10.This company was started by G.L. Mirchandani and Vijay Mansukhani in 1981 in Mumbai and it is one of India’s leading electronics brand. Identify the company?
A: Onida Electronics

TCS IT Wiz 2011 Lucknow Prelim 2011

1.The current incarnation of this famous website is the result of a March 2000 merger between Confinity and X.com.In Oct 2002 became a wholly owned subsidiary of ebay. Which famous website is this?
Ans.Paypal

2.World’s largest producer of guided missiles .Established in 1922 the company reincorporated in 1928 & adopted its present name in 1959. What?
Ans.Ratheon

3.Started as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation....?
Ans.Motorola

4.Identify the person?


Ans.Jack Kilby

5.What was created by John Backus?
Ans.Fortran

6.Verizon Wireless has released a line of smartphones that go by a name which is a trademark of Lucasfilms Ltd. It It was involved in a lawsuit with Google with a very popular OS. Identify this series of smartphones?
Ans.Droid

7.Started as Haloid Photographic company..?
Ans.Xerox

8.Lindon Labs headquartered in California launched in June 2003 . It was developed by Philip Rosedale, as a computer hardware allowing people to immerse in a virtual world. In its earliest form, the company struggled to produce a commercial version of the hardware, known as "The Rig", which was realized in prototype form as a clunky steel contraption with computer monitors worn on shoulders.What is this famous in virtual world?
Ans:Second Life

9.Which is the Mascot of JAVA?
Ans.Duke

10.Identify the person who is the co-inventer of USB?

Ans.Ajay Bhatt

11.The Fujifilm FinePix Real X cameras can take X-dimensional pictures using two lenses, and display them to the naked eye in X format .What is X?.
Ans.3 D

12.Contrived acronym was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper, and John Langford?Carnegie Mellon University attempted to trademark the term, but the trademark application was abandoned on 21 April 2008.Identify the term?
Ans.CAPTCHA

13.Precept software by Judith Estrin and Bill Carrico designed and built and internet video product.Identify?
Ans.IPTV(Internet Protocol TeleVision)

14.Identify the person who is the creator of Computer Mouse?

Ans.Douglas Engelbert

15.Started in 1928, as AT&T's Western Electric division , established a division for the specific purpose of installing and servicing their loudspeakers and electronic products for motion picture use. Called "E.R.P.I." (Electrical Research Products, Inc.), it was purchased as part of a consent decree in 1936 by a group of E.R.P.I. executives, including George Carrington, Sr. and Mike Conrow. They changed the name to "All Technical Service Company". How do we know this company today?

Ans.Altec Lansing

16.Identify the logo?


Ans.Blu Ray

17.What is defined as “Collection of duplicating original values stored elsewhere or computed earlier where the original data is inexpensive to fetch “?
Ans.Cache Memory

18.Identify the company?

Ans.Cisco

19.Veronica was based on ?
Ans.Gopher

20.Which technology czar has committeed to put aside well over 10%of his wealth for philanthrophic issues . His foundation’s education venture include SSN educational Institute named after his father and is setting up Seven Vidyagyan schools in UP for rural students?
Ans:Shiv Nadar









 TCS IT WIZ KOCHI PRELIMS 2011

1. In 1999,“The old man and the sea” became the first movie of film in the world to appear in what format?
A.IMAX

2.What stands for the last two “E” in the “IEEE”?
A.Electronic Engeneering

3.In 1992,Bell south and a giant company came out with Simon,the first ever smart phone in the world.Who was the other company?   
A.IBM
4.Identify the person who is the co-founder, present CEO & President of Sandisk Corporation?

                    
                         
A: Sanjay Mehrotra
5.“Go” is handheld game console from whom?
A.Sony
6.Microsoft realised very early that e books on the windows platform would be a big thing.They created a free downloadable software to help you browse through these ebooks on windows based
devices.What is it called from Microsoft?
A.Reader
7.What is full form of PCB as in PCB Boards?
A.Printed Circuit Board
8.Identify the inventor & mathematician?

   A.Blaise Pascal
9.DC Comics was tied up with which electronic giant to create the Super Hero universe for MMO game platforms.Who is its partner? 
A.Sony
10.Which technology giant ran the campaign “Life without walls”?
A.Microsoft Windows
11.Which company came out with the 'Zune' range of media players?
A.Microsoft
12.Which company is making this wrist watch

  A.Nike
13.It was a huge file sharing service, a P2P  which has to to stop services for leaking the song " I disappear" before the official release of the song. Which is the P2P service mentioned?
A: Napster
14.Paneesh Murthy is the chairman of which software company that recently took over Patni computers?
A.iGATE
15.Which was the first restaurant chain to start online services as a trial way back in 1999 at University of California?
A: Pizza hut
16.Identify the logo?

                       
17.It is a device used to forward data packets to the appropriate parts of a computer network. What is the device?
A: Router
18Which Hindi Daily today has partnered with Yahoo India & to promote the content in Hindi for Yahoo India.?
A: Jagran
19.Sony along with which other company develops Internet TV for Google. This company is better known for providing keyboards, mouse etc...?
A: Logitech
 20.Identify this person who is known as the father of logic?

A.George Boole       

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Kerala State IT Quiz 2013

Kerala State Level IT Quiz Questions held @ Trivandrum Technopark 2013

State IT Quiz (Quiz Master: Sri V K Adarsh)   

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kerala state school IT Fest 2013

About IT FEST

The State IT Fest is a platform provided by the IT@School Project enabling the students state-wide to showcase their talents in ICT enabled contents, which is part of their curriculum. The event is aimed at developing interest, provide encouragement to the student community for exhibiting independent initiatives and imbue the necessary thrust to embrace IT beyond the curriculum. Students from Government Schools and Government Aided schools compete in various IT based competitions including Digital Painting, Multimedia presentation, Web Designing, Malayalam Tying and IT Quiz during the 2-day event. The IT Fest is conducted in four phases- School level, Educational District level, District level and State level. Winners from the school- level would compete in the Educational district level. The winning teams would proceed to the District level and from there to the final State level meet.

Variety of competitions:

The contestants of the IT Fest get an opportunity to try their expertise on the following IT skills:-
Digital Painting- This one hour contest gives the students an opportunity to showcase their creativity in a digital canvas. Free software applications like Xpaint and Gimp are is used in this competition. The contestants would be given the theme for the competition 10 minutes prior to the start of the contest.
Multimedia Presentation- In this, students gets a chance to prove their skills in developing multimedia presentations using Open Office Impress free software application. The theme would be provided to the participants 10 minutes before the start of the competition. Students would get 1 hour to make their presentations, for which resources such as picture, audio/video clips would be provided to them.
Web Designing- The students would get 1 hour to design a web-page using HTML in this competition, for which resources such as pictures and videos would be provided to them. Similar to other contests, the theme would be provided to the participants 10 minutes before the start of the competition
IT Quiz- In this unique quiz which is based on IT and ICT contents, the teams would go through various rounds comprising of IT topics including IT applications used in day-to day activities, contents from IT textbook, Individuals/ institutions contributing to the growth of IT, etc. From this year onwards, there would be preliminary rounds followed by the Finals.
IT Project- Similar to the multi-media presentation competition, students are required to present an IT Project before a panel of judges. Each student would get 10 minutes for presenting the project followed by 5 minutes of interaction with the judges. The Project should be on any of the IT/ICT related topics in the curriculum or something of social relevance. Three copies of the Project report and the printout of the slides of the presentation needs to be submitted to the Jury in advance.
Malayalam Typing- This competition would test the speed and accuracy of students in Malayalam typing. A customised free software application is used for this exercise, wherein students need to key-in the text given to them in the prescribed column with accuracy and

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Sub District IT Fair Results 2012

IT Fair Results of Sub districts in Ernakulam 2012

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KERALA STATE IT FARE

IT QUIZ

(Conducted on Technopark,Trivandrum  February 2 2012)

PRELIMINARY ROUND QUESTIONS

1. Speak to tweet is the service provided by which internet giant?

            Google

2. Who is the father of free software foundation?

            Richard Mathew Stalman

3. Expand SOPA

            Stop online piracy act

4. What is the relation between Craig Silverstain and Google?

            He is the first employee of Google

5. Xoom is the tablet computer introduced by which company?

            Motorola

6. Who is the author of the book “Go kiss the world”?

            Subrato Bagchi

7. Expand CAT related to law

            Cyber applet tribunal

8. Which is the tablet computer introduced by Amazon?

            Amazon kindle fire

9. Expand SAMEER

            Society for applied microwave electronics engineering and research

10. Expand VSAT

            Very small aperture terminal

11. WIT is the NASDAQ code of which Indian company?

            Wipro

12. Who is the prince invested 300 million dollars in Twitter?

            Al Waleed Bin Talal

13. What is SIRI?

            Voice commanding system in Apple i phone 4s

14. Who is the father of C programming passed away recently?

            Dennis Ritchie

15. What is F8 related to Facebook?

            Annual developers conference

16. What is IMPS banking system?

            Inter banking mobile payment system

17. World computer literacy day is celebrated on

            December 2

18. What is ice cream sandwich ?

            Android OS 4.0

19. Satyam computers is known today as

            Mahindra Satyam

20. In Trivandrum technopark what is T BIC?

            Technopark business incubation centre

21.Expand CATFOSS

            Centre for advanced training in free and open source software

22. Who is the current (as on 2012 January) Kerala IT minister?

            P K Kunjalikutty

23. What is Opera mini?

            Mobile phone web browser

24. One of the directors of Walt Disney company passed away recently who is that?

            Steve Jobs

25. What is Spam related to e-mails?

            Unwanted emails

1. This was created by Hasbro in 1967,which allows the user to create glowing designs?
Ans: Lite-Brite
2. This P2P file sharing service ran into trouble after it circulated the song 'I Disappear' by Metallica,even before it was officially released .Which is that P2P file sharing service?
Ans: Napster
3. At 15,he published a book on ethickal hacking and started a website called 'Hacking Truths'.Identify him?
Ans: Ankit Fadia
4. These awards are called the Nobel Prizes of Information Technology?
Ans: Turing Award
5. Expand WPAN?
Ans: Wireless Personal Area Network
6. What is a propriety software called that has a trial version?
Ans: Shareware
7.The first commercially available digital camera was in the 1990s.Identify this? (options:1)Digicam 2)Dycam 3)Maxcam)
Ans: Dycam
8. Which sound technology was used for the first time in 'Batman Returns'? You now usually see it on film posters a lot.
Ans: Dolby
9. What is the compact wireless router called that connects to 5 devices at a time within the range of 10m?
Ans: MiFi
10. Which device from Amazon made TOI publish a headline (something like) ‘E-book market has been transformed’?
Ans: Kindle

1.) This penguin character is the mascot of Linix Kernel. Name this penguin? 

A: TUX 

2.) We have independence day, republic day, science day etc. Like that, this day was first observed on 28 August 2004. Since 2006, it has been observing in the third saturday of September every year. What is significance of this day? 

A: Software Freedom Day(SFD) 

3.) Shelfari is a social cataloging website for books. Shelfari users build virtual bookshelves of the titles they own or have read, and can rate, review, tag, and discuss their books. Which company is offering this service? 

A: AMAZON 

4.) Which is the world's largest mobile operator with more than 600 million subscribers as of March 2011? 

A: China Mobile 

5.) What do you mean by Data archaeology? 

A: It refers to the art and science of recovering computer data encrypted in now obsolete media or formats. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_archaeology 

6.) "Patni Computer Systems " was it's former name. How do you know the company now? 

A: iGATE Patni 

7.) It was started in 1999 by 10 industry professionals who came from Cambridge Technology Partners, Lucent Technologies and Wipro. This company crossed USD 100 million in revenues in April 2006 & has been involved in the creation of Bluetooth technology and is an Associate Member of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group. 

A: Mind Tree Ltd. 

8.) It is a technology introduced by Intel Corporation that uses NAND flash memory modules to reduce the time it takes for a computer to power up, access programs, and write data to the hard drive. During development, the technology was codenamed Robson. How do you know this technology? 

A: Intel Turbo Memory 

9.) This gaming console was known by the code name of "Revolution" until April 27, 2006, immediately prior to E3(Electronic Entertainment Expo). How this console is popular now? 

A: Nintendo Wii 

10.) It is the brand name of an LCD color display technology produced by Sharp Electronics. The technology utilizes a fourth color subpixel, yellow, in addition to the standard RGB color subpixels, which Sharp claims increases the range of displayable colors, and which may mimic more closely the way the brain processes color information. Name the technology? 

A: Quattron 

 1. X was in development from April 2007, and released on 3 March 2008. Its main developer was Ian Hickon. What is X?

A: Acid3

2. He was an American computer scientist who received Turing Award in 1998 and he was lost at sea during a solo sailing trip?

A: Jim Gray

 

3. What process is called Tethering?

A: The use of mobile phone as a Internet gateway for another device (PC/Laptop)

4. This is an American company involved in the research of low power computer display technology. This was founded by Mary Lou Jepsen, who was previously the CTO of OLPC project?

A: Pixel Qi  

5. If Google has Goggles , who own “Point & Find”?

A: Nokia

6. Mark Weiser coined this phrase around 1988 during his tenure as Cheif Technologist of Xerox PARC. Which is the phrase?

A: Ubiquitous Computing

7. Who started the Wb Standards Project (WaSP) in 1998?

A: George Olsen

8. Name the utility that automatically builds the executable and libraries from source code which was originally created by Stuart Feldman in 1997 at Bell Labs?

A: Make

9. “Sundance” is a code name of one product (video editing) from Microsoft. Which is the product?

A: Windows Live Movie Maker

10. X was orginated in 1987, when Joe Becker from Xerox and Lee Collins and Mark Davis from Apple started investigating the practicalities of creating a universal character set. What is X?

A: Unicode 

1) Whose online nickname is 'Jimbo' ?

→ Jimmy Wales (Founder of wikipedia).

2) He was in Xerox when he invented Laser Printer. Who is he ?

→ Gary Starkweather

3) He called Internet as 'Information Super Highway'. He was vice president of America. He also

received Nobel Prize for peace. Who is described here ?

→ Al Gore.

4) He born in England. He is regarded as the father of computer science. Who is he ?

→ Alan Turing.

5) Expand SVTC. It is related to Electronic waste ?

→ Silicon Valley Toxic Coalition.

6) This company brought the first wireless hard disk. Name the company?

→ Imation.

7) This comapy is known for bringing first USB 3.0 thumb drive. Which is the company ?

→ Super talent.

8) T9 in mobile devices helps to increase the typing speed. What is T9 ?

→ Text in 9 keys.

9) CMM is a service mark owned by Carnegie Mellon University. What is CMM ?

→ Capability Maturity Model.

10) What is gTLD in relation with domain names ?

→ Generic Top Level Domain. 

1) Who Developed the GNU/LINUX kernel ?

→ Linus Torvalds

2) Geocities was a free web hosting service and it was stopped . Whose service was this ?

→ YAHOO

3) In which code does SUN Inc is listed in the NASDAQ, America's famous stock exchange?

→ JAVA

4) Ymail and rocketmail are the email domains from which company ?

→ Yahoo

5) Expand ICANN

→ Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

6) Name the application Virtulisation Project of Microsoft and Sandisk ?

→ Start Key.

7)Karmic kola, Jaunty Jackpole, Hardy Heron are the code names of different versions of an Operating System. Which is the operating system ?

→ Ubuntu

8)“who do you know” is the slogan of which famous social networking website ?

→ Orkut

9) This is a small format of projector that can be used as a stand alone projector or as an integrated component in mobile devices, and uses the same technology that powers standard projectors. Name it ?

→ Pico Projector.

10) Mojopac is an application virtualisation software. Which company's product is this ?

→ Ringcube Technologies. 

1) Which is the major element used in microprocessors ?

→ Silicon

2) Expand Wi-Fi ?

→ Wireless Fidility

3) Expand UNIVAC ?

→ Universal Automatic Computer

4) Expand ISIJU ?

→ Indian Statical Institute and Jadavpur University

5) which is the encyclopedia from Microsoft ?

→ Encarta

6) Who is the former of Free Software Foundation ?

Richard Stallman

7) The Blog with stolen content is called ?

→ Splog

8) What is Cyborg ?

→ Cyber Organism

9) What is the full form of BASIC ?

→ Beginner's All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

10) Which is the Operating System Provided by SUN Inc ?

→ Solaris or OpenSolaris 

1) Which is the world's first Super Computer ?

→ Cray I

2) Which company's search Engine is BING ?

→ Microsoft

3) Whose book is 'One Night @ call center' ?

→ Chethan Bhagath

4) Expand LOGO ?

→ Logic Oriented Graphic Oriented

5)Who is known as the world's first Programmer ?

→ Lady Ada Lovelace

6) X box is the product from which company ?

→ Microsoft

7) Which company provide the Operating System ' Ubuntu ' ?

→ Canonical

8) Expand GNOME ?

→ Gnu Network Object Model Environment

9) The Netbook 'Asipre One ' is from which company ?

→ Acer

10) 8 Bits are called a Byte. Then 4 Bits are called ?

→ Nibbl

 

Information Technology Quiz questions and answers 2012

IT QUIZ Questions
1. Vevo, a new music and video entertainment service, set for launch later in 2009, is a tie-up between…?
2. Which test page for Web browsers was developed by Todd Fahrner in 1998?
3. If the layout engine for Firefox is Gecko, what is it for Opera?
4. According to the ‘The Bugzilla Guide - 3.0.8 Release’, what is ‘zarro boogs’?
5. Name the founders of Skype who now want to buy back their creation from eBay.
6. iLike, the social music service, has changed its Facebook application to..?
7. MIT professor Barbara Liskov is the 2008 recipient of which prestigious award that has been awarded since 1966 by the Association for Computing Machinery?
8. With which popular data compression utility is the name of Eugene and Alexander Roshal associated?
9. Expand the acronym yacc as used in the parser generator.
10. Which free BitTorrent client was once known as Azureus?
Answers
1. Universal Music Group and Google (specifically YouTube).
2. Acid1, originally called the Box Acid Test.
3. Presto
4. It’s a funny way of saying, by design, that there were no bugs found matching one’s query.
5. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis.
6. Music
7. The ACM AM Turing Award (for lasting and major technical contributions to the computing community).
8. WinRAR
9. ‘Yet Another Compiler Compiler’
10. Vuze.
 Questions
1. With which American giant has Intel announced an alliance to develop and market home-based health technologies to help seniors?
2. The first two letters in any EXE program that runs on DOS, OS2 or Windows NT are MZ. Expand MX.
3. What is Google’s newly launched venture capital arm to invest in a diverse array of industries called?
4. What is the ‘Expectation Minute’ on sites such as Anyfiles or Letitbit?
5. Which much-used free Java software framework was created by Doug Cutting and named after his child’s stuffed elephant?
6. One of Google’s famous April Fools Day pranks was Project Virgle. What was/is Project Virgle?
7. James Bidzos is the CEO and Chairman of…?
8. Paul V. Mockapetris is the co-inventor of which hierarchical naming system?
9. A dorm-room venture ‘PCs Limited’ changed its name to have the name of the founder in it. Name the founder.
10. What was CADIE?
Answers
1. GE
2. Mark Zbikowski, the Microsoft legend who designed the DOS executable file format.
3. Google Ventures.
4. In the case of non-subscribers, the waiting time (in the form of an advertisement page) before the download link becomes available after one has entered the captcha.
5. Hadoop
6. It was/is teaming up with Virgin Galactic to come up with the first permanent human colony on Mars!
7. VeriSign
8. Domain Name System (DNS).
9. Michael Dell.
10. Dubbed “world’s first ‘artificial intelligence’ tasked-array system”, it was an April Fools’ joke from Google this year!
Questions
1. Whose smartphone brand is called ‘Pre’?
2. The inventor, founder, & chairman of Twitter is…?
3. According to tagline, which two cyber giants ‘bring the Internet to Television’ with its Widget Channel?
4. David L. Smith has the dubious distinction of writing which famous virus, which debuted on March 26, 1999 and was named after a lap dancer?
5. Name the new decision-making site that gets smarter the more it’s used, launched by Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr.
6. What is the designation of Robert Bernard in Microsoft?
7. Google recently started a free MP3 download service in China in association with www.top100.cn, a Web site co-founded by which popular NBA star?
 8. Which very popular global magazine’s archive, covering the years 1954 to 2007, has been put up for free access through a partnership between Microsoft and Bondi Digital Publishing and is viewable through Microsoft’s Silverlight viewer?
9. ‘See what the world is searching for’ is the tagline for…?
10. Name the ex-Microsoft legend, and head of Intentional Software, who became the first tourist to do a second trip to space recently.
Answers
1. Palm
2. Jack Dorsey.
3. Intel and Yahoo!
4. Melissa
5. Hunch.com
6. Chief environmental strategist.
7. Yao Ming.
8. Playboy!
9. Google Insights for Search.
10. Charles Simonyi.
Questions
1. What are Futhark and Carakan?
2. Quietube has been one of the more popular downloads recently. What is it?
3. Name the former CEO of ZDNet and COO of Yahoo! who is to take over as CEO and President of Activision Blizzard’s Guitar Hero franchise.
4. Which cyber-giant recently announced a $590-million acquisition of Pure Digital Technologies, the maker of the popular Flip Video mini camcorders?
5. With whom has Sony announced a partnership that will bring a half-million classic books to its Sony Reader Digital Book?
6. What is the ‘Wolfram Alpha’?
7. As of March 23, which is the only Asian country to have a fully functional Google Street View?
8. What is the ‘accelerators’ in the recently launched IE8?
9. What is the general term used for software with no great or null benefit, sold using unethical marketing practices, and designed to cause threat, anxiety or shock to an unsuspecting user?
10. Motorola’s equivalent of the T9 feature in Nokia is called..?
Answers
1. Javscript engines used in the Opera browser.
2. It’s a new Firefox add-on to enhance YouTube-watching experience where one can watch just the video, with none of the other YouTube page elements.
3. Dan Rosensweig.
4. Cisco
5. Google (who else!).
 6. It’s a new Web service described as ‘computational knowledge engine’ which answers factual questions by relying on analytical methods instead of human-generated documents.
7. Japan
8. It helps perform Web-related tasks directly from a page by simply right-clicking a word or phrase.
9. Scareware
10. iTap
Questions
1. Which computer-maker is touted as having the ‘greenest family of notebooks’?
2. Which Indian, part of the Google family, is associated with US tech outfits such as 24/7 Customer, Frontline Wireless, Zazzle.com?
3. Apple’s term for the text-to-speech engine built into Mac OS XLeopard to help visually-impaired users is called…?
4. Flickr photographers can license their images to paying customers through which famous stock photo agency?
5. If Firefox 3.0 was codenamed Gran Paradiso, what was Firefox 2.0?
6. Derrick R. Meyer is the CEO of…?
7. The first web syndication format to be called ‘RSS’ was…?
8. Which reputed British newspaper is launching an open platform for free content and data in exchange for carrying the publication’s advertising?
9. Which MS product is to come in frost white, eggplant purple, deep olive green and marine blue, apart from the existing red and black?
10. Google’s web clipping application for saving online research on which it has stopped development recently is called..?
Answers
1. Apple (for its MacBook).
2. Kavitark Ram Shriram.
3. VoiceOver.
4. Getty Images.
5. Bon Echo.
6. AMD
7. RDF Site Summary.
8. The Guardian.
9. Arc Mouse.
10. Notebook.
Questions
1. Wilber is the official mascot of…
2. Which retailer recently paid $5.1 million for the Toys.com domain name?
3. What was once dismissed by Steve Jobs by saying “the whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore?”
4. Expand TTL, which tells a router if packet has been in the network too long and should be discarded.
5. Name Amazon’s self-publishing service wherein any US citizen can sign up for an account, upload and sell eBooks through Amazon.
6. Gutsy Gibbon, Hardy Heron and Jaunty Jackalope are codenamed for…?
7. What is a Web beacon?
8. What is ‘Vishing’?
9. The name of Bruce Artwick is linked with the first successful virtual reality software application. What was it?
10. Fill in the blank with the creator’s first name to give part of the name of one of the most downloaded free applications: ______ Skiljan
Answers
1. GIMP
2. ToysRUs
3. Kindle
4. Time-to-live.
5. Digital Text Platform (DTP).
6. Ubuntu, the open source Debian-based Linux distribution.
7. A file object, usually a graphic image, which is embedded on a webpage/e-mail message to monitor user behaviour.
8. VoIP phishing.
9. Flight simulator.
10. Irfan (of Irfanview fame

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IT ക്വിസ്

IT ക്വിസ് -1

1. മൊബൈല്‍ ഫോണുകള്‍ക്കായി ഗൂഗിള്‍ കമ്പനി പുറത്തിറക്കിയ ഓപറേറ്റിംഗ് സിസ്റ്റം?

2. സാങ്കേതിക വിദ്യയുടെ വിവിധ വശങ്ങള്‍ ചര്‍ച്ച ചെയ്യുന്ന 'A Better India, A Better World' എന്ന പുസ്തകത്തിന്റെ രചയിതാവ്?

3. ഓണ്‍ലൈന്‍ സ്വതന്ത്ര സര്‍വ വിജ്ഞാന കോശമായ വിക്കിപീഡിയയുടെ മലയാളം പതിപ്പ് ആരംഭിച്ച തിയ്യതി?

4. അമ്പത്തഞ്ചിന് മേല്‍ പ്രായമുള്ള മുതിര്‍ന്ന പൌരന്‍മാര്‍ക്കായി അവതരിപ്പിച്ച ഒരു ഇന്ത്യന്‍ സോഷ്യല്‍ നെറ്റ്വര്‍ക്ക്?

5. ലോകത്തെ ഏറ്റവും പ്രായം കുറഞ്ഞ വെബ് ഡിസൈനര്‍ എന്ന ഖ്യാതി നേടിയ പെണ്‍കുട്ടി?

6. ഓപ്റ്റിക്കല്‍ ഫൈബറുകളുടെ ആവിര്‍ഭാവത്തിന് തിരികൊളുത്തിയ ആദ്യ ഗവേഷകന്‍ (നോബല്‍ സമ്മാന ജേതാവ്)?

7. മുള കൊണ്ട് മൌസും കീബോര്‍ഡും നിര്‍മ്മിച്ച കമ്പനി?

8. 'ഡോകോമോ' ഏത് ഭാഷയിലെ പദമാണ്? എന്താണ് അത് അര്‍ഥമാക്കുന്നത്?

9. കോരളത്തിലെ മുഴുവന്‍ വിദ്യാലയങ്ങളുടെയും ചരിത്രം ഉള്‍പ്പെടെയുള്ള വിവരങ്ങള്‍ ഓണ്‍ലൈനില്‍ ലഭ്യമാകുന്ന സംവിധാനം?

10. സംസ്ഥാനത്ത് ഐ.ടി, ധന വകുപ്പുകള്‍ സംയുക്തമായി നടപ്പാക്കിയ SPARK^ന്റെ പൂര്‍ണ്ണ രൂപം?

ഉത്തരം

1. ആന്‍ഡ്രോയ്ഡ്

2. എന്‍.ആര്‍. നാരായണ മൂര്‍ത്തി

3. 21 ഡിസംബര്‍, 2001

4. verdurez.com

5. എട്ടാം വയസ്സില്‍ കോഴിക്കോട് പ്രസന്റേഷഷന്‍ സ്കൂളിന്റെ വെബ്സൈറ്റ് രൂപകല്‍പന ചെയ്ത ശ്രീലക്ഷ്മി സുരേഷ്.

6. ചാള്‍സ് കാവോ

7. അസൂസ്

8. ജപ്പാനീസ്, 'എല്ലായിടത്തും'

9. സ്കൂള്‍ വിക്കി (www.schoolwiki.in)

10. Service and Payroll Administrative Repository of Kerala

1. ആപ്പിള്‍ കമ്പനിയുടെ ഐപോഡ്, ഐപാഡ് എന്നീ ഉപകരണങ്ങള്‍ ഡിസൈന്‍ ചെയ്തതാര്?

2. ബ്ലോഗിലും വെബ്പേജുകളിലും പ്രസന്റേഷന്‍ സ്ലൈഡുകള്‍ ഉള്‍പ്പെടുത്താന്‍ സഹായിക്കുന്ന വെബ്സൈറ്റ്?

3. കേരളത്തില്‍ അപ്പര്‍ പ്രൈമറി തലത്തില്‍ ഇന്‍ഫര്‍മേഷന്‍ കമ്മ്യൂണിക്കേഷന്‍ ടെക്നോളജി (ICT) പാഠ്യ പദ്ധതിയില്‍ ഉള്‍പ്പെടുത്തിയ വര്‍ഷം?

4. മൊബൈല്‍ കണക്ഷന്‍ നല്‍കുന്ന നെറ്റ്വര്‍ക്ക് കമ്പനി മാറുമ്പോഴും ഒരേ നമ്പര്‍ തന്നെ നിലനിര്‍ത്താന്‍ സാധ്യമാകുന്ന സംവിധാനം?

5. ഐ.ബി.എം കമ്പനിക്ക് കമ്പ്യൂട്ടര്‍ നിര്‍മ്മാണ രംഗത്തേക്ക് ഇറങ്ങാന്‍ പ്രേരണ നല്‍കിയ ശാസ്ത്രജ്ഞന്‍?

6. സാധാരണക്കാര്‍ക്ക് പേഴ്സണല്‍ കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറുകളില്‍ ബ്രോഡ്ബാന്‍ഡ് കണക്ഷന്‍ ലഭ്യമാക്കാന്‍ ബി.എസ്.എന്‍.എലും ഇന്റലും ചേര്‍ന്ന് ഒരുക്കുന്ന പദ്ധതി?

7. അടുത്ത കാലത്ത് ഏത് ഏഷ്യന്‍ രാജ്യത്താണ് ജിമെയിലിന് നിരോധമേര്‍പ്പെടുത്തിയത്?

8. പ്രശസ്ത ഇന്ത്യന്‍ ഐ.ടി സ്ഥാപനമായ HCL കമ്പനി സ്ഥാപിച്ചതാര്?

9. ഉന്നത പഠനത്തിനുള്ള കോഴ്സുകള്‍ തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കാന്‍ സഹായകമായ വെബ്സൈറ്റ്?

10. ചിത്ര ഫയലുകളുടെ എക്സ്റ്റന്‍ഷനായ GIF^ന്റെ പൂര്‍ണ്ണ രൂപം?

ഉത്തരം

1. ജോനഥാന്‍ ഐവ്

2. www.slideshare.net

3. 2009

4. 'മൊബൈല്‍ നമ്പര്‍ പോര്‍ട്ടബിലിറ്റി'

5. കത്ത്ബെര്‍ട്ട് ഹര്‍ഡ്

6. മേരി മന്‍സില്‍ മേരാ കദം

7. ഇറാന്‍

8. ശിവ് നാടാര്‍

9. www.indiastudychannel.com

10. Graphic Interchange Format

1. ഡിജിറ്റല്‍ എന്ന പദം ആദ്യമായി ഉപയോഗിച്ചതാര്?

2. 'സൈബര്‍ സ്പെയ്സ്' എന്ന പദം ആദ്യമായി ഉപയോഗിച്ചതാര്?

3. ICQ എന്ന മെസഞ്ചര്‍ പ്രോഗ്രാം എന്ത് സൂചിപ്പിക്കുന്നു?

4. വിവരങ്ങള്‍ അയക്കുന്നതിനും റൌട്ടിംഗിനുമായി കസ്റ്റമൈസ് ചെയ്ത സോഫ്റ്റ്വെയറുകളും ഹാര്‍ഡ്വെയറുകളും സംയോജിക്കുന്ന നെറ്റ്വര്‍ക്കിംഗ് ഉപകരണം?

5. ഇന്റര്‍നെറ്റ് ടെലിഫോണിയോടൊപ്പം മള്‍ട്ടിമീഡിയ കമ്മ്യൂണിക്കേഷന്‍ സര്‍വീസുകളും ആപ്ളിക്കേഷനുകളും ഉപയോഗിക്കാവുന്ന ആപ്പിള്‍ കമ്പനിയുടെ ഐപാഡിനെപ്പോലുള്ള മറ്റൊരുപകരണം?

6. എല്‍.ജി. കമ്പനി പുറത്തിറക്കിയ നൂതന മൊബൈല്‍ ഫോണ്‍?

7. യൂട്യൂബ് പ്രവര്‍ത്തന സജ്ജമായ വര്‍ഷം?

8. വായിക്കാന്‍ പറ്റാതായ ടെക്സ്റ്റ് ഫയലുകളുടെ പേര്?

9. മീന്‍ പിടിത്തക്കാര്‍ക്ക് വേണ്ടി പ്രത്യേകം തയ്യാറാക്കപ്പെട്ട വസ്ത്രം?

10. ഫോട്ടോ എഡിറ്റിംഗ് എളുപ്പത്തില്‍ കൈകാര്യം ചെയ്യാന്‍ സഹായകമാവുന്ന വെബ്സൈറ്റ്?

ഉത്തരം

1. ബെല്‍ ലബോറട്ടറിയിലെ ഗവേഷകനായ ജോര്‍ജ്ജ് സ്റ്റിബിറ്റ്സ്

2. വില്ല്യം ഗിബ്സണ്‍

3. I Seek You

4. റൌട്ടര്‍

5. ഓപണ്‍ പീക് കമ്പനിയുടെ 'ഓപണ്‍ടാബ്ലറ്റ് 7'

6. എല്‍.ജി കുക്കി പെപ് GD510

7. 2005

8. സൈഫര്‍ ടെക്സ്റ്റ് (Cipher Text)

9. ഫിഷിംഗ് വെസ്റ്റ്

10. www.picnic.com