Wednesday, August 10, 2011

IT Quiz 1

1) Who is a ‘Googlegänger’?
A) A person with your name who shows up when you google yourself.

2)  According to a global study done by Panda Security, which are the top two sites for phishers, accounting for  44 per cent of all the malicious Web sites discovered?
a) Ebay.com

3)  One more on Nokia. Can you recall the digital-map supplier that the cell-phone maker bought for $8.1 billion in 2007?
a)Navteq

4) Google’s  resource for parents to help them keep their kids safe while surfing the Net is called…?
a) Family Safty Centre

5)  Asus’ Eee PC 4G is considered the first…?
a)Netbook

6) According to Google, globally everyone using which of its new feature would save more than 3.5 billion seconds a day, i.e. 11 hours saved every second?
a) Google Instant

7) ‘Charlie’ was Apple’s internal codename for…?
a)  iPhone 3G S.

8)  After the N8, Nokia is to replace the Symbian OS in its smartphones with which OS?
a)MEEGO

9) ‘Etherlink’ released by 3Com was the first….?
a) Ethernet card

10) Which company was named after a water body that ran behind the home of its co-founder in Los Altos, California?
a)Adobe

11)  How many terabytes in a zettabyte?
a)1 billion

12)  What is grown on the two fully grown plots of land when one starts to play FarmVille?
a)Eggplant and strawberries

13) Whose tagline is ‘quietly brilliant’?
a)HTC

14)  Which game is recognised by the Guinness World Records as the world’s most popular free MMORPG?
a)RUNESCAPE

 15) On March 15, the silver jubilee of the first .com web domain name was celebrated. What was it?
a) symbolics.com.

16)  If Apple can use the name iPhone for its smartphone, for what can Cisco use the same name?
a) Its VoIP phone.

17) In a big leap forward, how many cores will the AMD Opteron 6100 series processors soon have?
a) 12 and 8 cores

18)  According to recent deposition by its CEO Eric Schmidt, how much premium did Google pay for YouTube?
a)  $ 1 billion

19)  According to the International Telecommunication Union, what is defined as “transmission capacity that is faster than primary rate Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) at 1.5 or 2.0 Megabits per second (Mbits)”?
a) Broadband

20)  What is the claim to fame of the Cray XT5-HE Opteron Six Core 2.6 GHz also called the ‘Jaguar’?
a) It is the fastest Supercomputer in existence.
     
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