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1. Expand the following acronyms: SLI (3DFX) Scalable Link Interface WIMAX Wireless Interoperability for Microwave Access COBOL Common Business Oriented Language EDGE Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network PARC Palo Alto Research Centre TARGA True-vision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter TYCLO Turn Your Caps Lock Off! PHP PHP Hypertext Pre-Processor DDoS Distributed Denial of Service MMORPG Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game WYSBYGI What You See Before You Get It VERONICA Very Easy Rodent Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerize Archives TUCOWS The Ultimate Collection of Windows Software CAPTCHA Completely Automatic Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart JUGHEAD Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation and Display GNOME GNU Network Object Model Environment UNIX Uniplexed Information and Computer Systems BSD - Berkely Software / Standard Distribution UMTS - Universal Mobile Telecommunications System ANITA - A New Inspiration To Arithmetic / Accounting IMEI - International Mobile Equipment Identifier CRAYON - Create Your Own Newspaper IMAX - Maximum Image FILO - First In Last Out API Application Programming Interface CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor RAMDAC RAM Digital to Analog Converter SCSI Small Computer System Interface MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface Mayank Vachher | Gyaan.in

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PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association ISA Industry Standard Architecture GENIE General Electric Network for Information Exchange NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol SSL Secure Sockets Layer SSH Secure Shell JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group GIF Graphics Interchange Format PNG Portable Network Graphic IRC Internet Relay Chat SATA Serial Advanced Technology Attachment WLAN Wireless Local Area Network TFT Thin Film Transistor GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program FLOPS (Think supercomputing) Floating Point Operations per Second CODEC Compression / Decompression or Coder / Decoder DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol GCC (Unix) GNU C Compiler OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer W3C World Wide Web Consortium ASP Active Server Pages AMD Advanced Micro Devices TIFF Tag Image File Format MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group XML eXtensible Markup Language YAHOO - Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle ADSL Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association UML Unified Modeling Language PING Packet Internet Groper MIRC My Internet Relay Chat Mayank Vachher | Gyaan.in

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ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange BASIC Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code VRML Virtual Reality Modeling Language GNU GNUs Not Unix PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect PGP Pretty Good Privacy DLL Dynamic Link Library SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol CSMA -Carrier Sense Multiple Access SLIP -Serial Line Interface Protocol RSS -Really Simple Syndication / Reducing Space Symbology / RDF Site Summary / Rich Site Summary IETF -Internet Engineering Task Force NCSA -National Centre for Supercomputing Applications MSIMN -Microsoft Internet Mail and News ANSI -American National Standards Institute PSP Play Station Portable HP Hewlett Packard AVI Audio Video Interleave CMYK Cyan Magenta Yellow Key (Black) ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network NAS - Network Attached Storage POP - Post Office Protocol FLAC - Fully Lossless Audio Codec DSL - Digital Subscriber Line CCD - Charge Coupled Device PCIE - Peripheral Component InterconnectExpress FTW - For The Win PERL - Practical Extraction and Report Language

2. This was invented by David Bradley and is known as the three-finger-salute. What am I talking about? Ctrl + Alt + Del Mayank Vachher | Gyaan.in

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3. What was codenamed 'Whistler' during its developmental stages? Windows XP 4. 'Tux' is the mascot of which software community? Linux 5. The literal translation means 'Humanity to others'. What am I talking about? Ubuntu 6. Which was the first graphical web browser? Mosaic 7. Who created the language C++? Bjarne Stroustrop 8. What did Tim Berners-Lee start while working at the CERN? World Wide Web (WWW) 9. This term comes from the word 'binary digit'. What am I talking about? Bit 10. Which was the first fully computer-graphics full length feature film? Toy Story 11. 'Simula 6' was the first language to use what programming paradigm? Object-oriented programming 12. Who are the two people who created the web portal Yahoo!? David Filo and Jerry Yang 13. Who is the current CEO of Microsoft? Steve Ballmer 14. What is The Answer, to Life, The Universe, and Everything? 42 15. What is the claim to fame of Dan Bricklin? Created VisiCalc 16. He was born on March 11, 1962, in Lower Downtown Capitol City to John and Michelle. He attended Central West Junior High and Owen Paterson High and worked for a 'respectable software company'. Who is this guy? Thomas 'Neo' Anderson 17. Apple has accused Benjamin 'dotcom billionaire' Cohen of squatting a domain name. What domain name is that? itunes.co.uk 18. What is the correct acronym for 'European Laboratory for Particle Physics'? CERN (Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire) 19. Which company is 'Shaping the Digital World'? Seagate 20. Which one gives you the 'Power to choose, freedom to explore'? AMD 21. What are the 'Halloween Documents'? What did they conclude? The Halloween documents are the name used outside Microsoft for a series of confidential memoranda on potential strategies related to Mayank Vachher | Gyaan.in

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open source software, and to Linux in particular. The first Halloween document, written by Microsoft engineer Vinod Valloppillil, was leaked to Eric S. Raymond in October 1998; who immediately published an annotated version on his web site. The document contained references to a second memorandum specifically dealing with Linux, and that document, authored by Vinod Valloppillil and Josh Cohen at Microsoft, was also obtained, annotated and published by Raymond. Microsoft has since admitted the documents' authenticity. Marked 'Microsoft confidential', they identify open source software (OSS), and in particular the Linux operating system as a major threat to Microsoft's dominance of the software industry, and suggest ways in which Microsoft could disrupt the progress of open source software. 22. What is War Driving? Wardriving is an activity consisting of driving around with a laptop or a PDA in one's vehicle, detecting Wi-Fi wireless networks. It is also known as WiLDing(Wireless LAN Driving), originating with the Bay Area Wireless Users Group(BAWUG). 23. Which was the first Hindi movie to be officially released on Kazaa, and users could download the movie after paying a certain amount of money? Supari 24. Name the lead protagonist of the game series Grand Theft Auto. Tommy Verceti 25. What is the name of the new blogging service by MSN? MSN Spaces 26. What do you mean by private-key encryption? The practice of using the same password (key) for both encryption as well as decryption. 27. Which company makes CoCoPod? CoCoPod from S-Media is a hard-drive based MP3 player and is heavily inspired by iPod from Apple. It resembles the iPod both in terms of size and body colour. 28. Who is known as the father of markup language? Charles Goldfarb 29. This computer was designed to find the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and everything. It's called the ? Earth 30. Name any three innovations introduced by the IBM PS2 PC. PS/2 port, VGA card, ISA Bus, 3 inch floppy drive Mayank Vachher | Gyaan.in

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31. Nokia: Finland:: Alcatel: France 32. What is RJ-45? Registered Jack 45; used in Ethernet ports 33. This is the official mascot of a UNIX version. Which one? Free BSD 34. What are Xenon and Xenos? CPU and GPU of Xbox 360, respectively 35. Where on the Internet would you find this quote? Wikipedia (Latin for crack house), 'the free encyclopaedia that anyone can edit', is a satirical parody of ____________, though Wikipedia claims the reverse (and correctly claims that ____________ claims the reverse, and so on and so forth). Uncyclopedia.org a satirical parody of Wikipedia 36. Whose motto is 'If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy'? Phil Zimmerman (creator of PGP) 37. Which widely-used standard did Dave Winer develop in 2002, predecessors of which were known as 'Backweb' and 'Pointcast'? Really Simple Syndication / RDF Site Summary (RSS 2.0) 38. On Usenet, what is a 'C & C warning'? C & C -Cats and Coffee -usually appears as 'C & C Warning!' refers to the fact that what you are about to read is so funny that you'll spill your coffee, at which point the cat that's in your lap will leap up, scratching you with its claws. So put the coffee down and get the cat off your lap before reading this. 39. Who, or what, is '6bone'? Testing backbone for IPv6 40. What are Raphael, Michael and Gabriel in the world of technology? Servers of the Vatican website 41. Why Mozilla was named so? From 'Mosaic' + 'killa', referring to that fact that it wanted to unseat Mosaic as the dominant browser. The lizard logo came from its resemblance to the name Godzilla. 42. Who said the following, and about what? It is like a sausage; you might like the taste of it, but you don't necessarily want to see how it's made. Jimmy Wales, about Wikipedia 43. In Internet history, why are 'Akebono' and 'Konishiki' famous? 'Akebono' was Jerry Yang's, and 'Konishiki' was David Filo's computer, which powered Yahoo when it started off.

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44. Who, or what, were known as 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'? 'Snow White' was IBM, and the 'Seven Dwarfs' referred to other mainframe computer manufacturers of the time, namely, Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data Corporation, Honeywell, RCA and General Electric. 45. He was born on 11 March 1962 in Lower Downtown, Capital City to John and Michelle. He attended Central West Junior High and Owen Paterson High, and worked for a 'respectable software company'. Whom am I talking about? Thomas 'Neo' Anderson 46. He is known as the 'father of the cellphone'. Whom am I talking about? Dr Martin Cooper 47. What are 'JavaBeans'? JavaBeans are reusable software components that can be manipulated visually in a builder tool, written in Java. 48. Where would you find the words 'Now with 5% more Google', and why? Winamp, after Google acquired a 5% stake in AOL. 49. Name the people who founded YouTube. Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Javed Karim 50. How do we better know 'Rocky Raccoon Clark'? Steve Wozniak. It was a pseudonym created by him when he re-joined college to complete electronics engineering. 51. Where are the main servers of Wikipedia located? (Be specific) Tampa, Florida 52. Which was the first comic strip to go online? Dilbert 53. Alongside Pandemic Studio's Full Spectrum Warrior, a more advanced, strategy-led version was developed for US Army use, and never released to the public. What was it named? Full Spectrum Command 54. There's a widely prevalent standard called 'IEEE 802.15.1', but we know it by a better name. What is that name? Bluetooth 55. Which company bought Amiga in 1997? Gateway 2000 56. "Read it sideways." Who said this, and about what? Scott Fahlman, inventor of the smiley, about smileys. Mayank Vachher | Gyaan.in

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57. Which was the first imaginary virus? Good Times Hoax 58. Who is associated with this emoticon: (0-0)? John Lennon 59. Whose new start-up is 'Revolution Health'? Steve Case 60. What does the 'i' in 'iMac' stand for? Internet 61. What is MPLS? What are its benefits? Multiprotocol Label Switching; Packets directed along predefined routes in accordance with the required QoS. Label contains info about the route along which the packet may travel instead of a router algorithm that chooses. 62. Which company released the first affordable handheld calculator in the early 1970s? Texas Instruments 63. What is the '.tv' domain name officially meant for? Tuvalu Island domains 64. Decrypt this: "Bpqa qa vwb epib gwc bpqvs qb qa" "This is not what you think it is". The encryption system used here is ROT-8, not ROT-13. 65. What is the NASDAQ stock ticker symbol for Sun Microsystems? JAVA 66. Of which US-based media organization is Microsoft the part owner of? MSNBC 67. Who is the creator of eBay? Pierre Omidayar 68. One of the many nicknames that this person has is 'Monkey Boy'. Who is he / she? Steve Ballmer 69. Digit magazine is owned by which company? Nine Dot Nine Mediaworx 70. Connect: Dodgeball, Urchin, Jaiku, GrandCentral. All of these companies were acquired by Google. (Urchin was renamed as Google Analytics.) 71. Name the web-based content management system software that is used to run Wikipedia and many other similar wikis. MediaWiki 72. For which operating system was Microsoft Office first released? Mac OS 73. Which company makes the processor for the Apple iPhone? Samsung 74. What is the name of Microsoft's diagram and flowcharting software? Visio 75. Name the GUI used on the OLPC XO laptop. Sugar Mayank Vachher | Gyaan.in

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76. Jelsoft Enterprises makes a product which is highly popular with web developers. What is that product? vBulletin (forum software) 77. What was Yahoo! Widgets earlier known as? Konfabulator 78. Glutamate Grape, Sugar-Free Radical, Beta Carroty, and Sero-Tonic Water are different varieties of what? Google Gulp flavors 79. Name Mozilla Labs' new instant messaging project. Snowl 80. What do you get when you multiply six by nine? 42 81. What is a 'hashtag'? Explain using an example. A 'hashtag' is a system of tagging used on Twitter, by adding # in front of a word or phrase. For instance, '#codewars' could be used to tag a tweet as being about Code Wars. 82. Who is the third co-founder of Apple? Ronald Wayne 83. How much did Intel fork out to acquire McAfee? $7.68 billion (anything in the range of $7 billion accepted) 84. What is the codename for the most recently released version of Android OS? Froyo 85. Which company developed the popular Nintendo game Contra? Konami 86. ______________ claims it is the "first Indian web browser". Epic Browser 87. Who discovered the first computer 'bug'? Grace Hopper 88. Which company manufactures the Blackberry range of smartphones? Research in Motion (RIM) 89. Expand PCI. Peripheral Component Interconnect 90. What was the first computer-animated full-length feature film? Toy Story 91. Which was the first mobile phone company in the world to outsource everything except sales and marketing? Airtel 92. Which was the first registered domain name on the Internet? nordu.net (NOT symbolics.com, which was the first commercial domain name registered) Mayank Vachher | Gyaan.in

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93. Waterborne, a film directed by Kanwal Rekhi's son Ben Rekhi and starring Shabana Azmi, has to its credit one of the most unconventional firsts. What? First video to go on sale on the now-defunct Google Video store. 94. Whose email address is 'chunkylover53@aol.com'? Homer Simpson 95. The first three letters of this company's name mean 'when' in Latin. 96. Name the company. Ubisoft 97. How do we better know 'IEEE 1394'? Firewire 98. What operating systems (and version) do most touchscreen Nokia phones use? Be specific. Symbian Series 60 v5 99. Name the open-source web browser project started and supported by Google. Chromium (Google Chrome is the proprietary counterpart) 100. Expand PDF. Portable Document Format 101. What is the latest version of Windows called? Windows 7 102. Connect: Flash, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Premiere, and Acrobat. They are all Adobe Products. 103. What are David Filo and Jerry Yang famous for? They are the creators of Yahoo! 104. Who is the Father of the Computer? Charles Babbage 105. Expand RAM. Random Access Memory 106. What is the latest version of the iPhone called? iPhone 107. Who is acknowledged as the main founder of Facebook? Mark Elliot Zuckerburg 108. Expand CD-ROM. Compact Disc Read Only Memory 109. Which company publishes the Need for Speed series of games? EA Games 110. What is the name of the web browser by Google? Google Chrome 111. Expand USB. Universal Serial Bus 112. What is the name of the portable music device made by Microsoft? Microsoft Zune Mayank Vachher | Gyaan.in

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113. Who is the inventor of the mouse? Douglas Adams 114. Which company manufactures the Wii gaming console? Nintendo 115. What are Itanium, Xeon, Core 2, Pentium and Celeron? They are processors from Intel 116. What is the latest Blackberry phone called? Blackberry Torch 9800 117. Which company has bought out Sun Microsystems? Oracle 118. Who is the current CEO of Microsoft? Steve Ballmer 119. Briefly explain PageRank. Linkbacks count as votes towards a site. 120. What is the processor used on an Apple iPad? Apple A4 121. What is 'heuristic detection' in the context of anti-virus software? Analysing behaviour of programs to determine whether it is a virus is known as heuristic detection. 122. What is the proper pronunciation for the term 'SCSI'? Write it down phonetically as best as you can. 'Scuzzy'.'Scusi', on the other hand, is just Italian for sorry. 123. What is Sony going to stop selling in Japan in March 2011? Floppy disks 124. Firefox: Gecko::Opera:? Presto (layout engine) 125. Where is the controversial 'No Russian' chapter of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 set? Zakhaev International Airport 126. Catherine Lesjak was the (interim) CEO of which company? HP 127. In the early days of computing, what 'component' used to be manufactured using Mylar? 'Paper' tapes, since actual paper tore too easily. 128. In which South Park episode does Blizzard Entertainment play an important role both on and off screen? Make Love, Not Warcraft 129. What is the CPU of PlayStation 2 called? Emotion Engine 130. and which companies developed it? Sony and Toshiba 131. Who directed the iconic '1984' Apple Super Bowl commercial? Ridley Scott Mayank Vachher | Gyaan.in

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132. What is a 'Codie'? The CODiE awards are annual awards issued by the Software and Information Industry Association for excellence in software development within the software industry. 133. What are 'textonyms'? Explain with an example. Words produced by the same combination of key presses may be referred to as "textonyms" (or "txtonyms",) or "T9onyms" (pronounced "tynonyms"), though the phenomenon has nothing to do specifically with T9 per se and occurs in other systems. 134. What is a 'noddy program' (also called a 'Mickey Mouse program')? Simple program that doesn't do much. 'Hello World' is an example. 135. What is a 'feelie'? A freebie that you get with a game, that is generally some form of merchandise, collector memorabilia. 136. What is 'Google Goggles'? Allows you to snap pictures with Android phones and get instant info about what you clicked. Reverse image search. 137. What is the codename for Intel's hexa-core processors? Gulftown 138. What goes 'TMZ' in the gossip blog TMZ.com stand for? Thirty Mile Zone 139. Where was the Mariposa botnet being operated from? Spain 140. How is the standard IEEE 802.16 more popularly known? WiMAX 141. Which company acquired Associated Content for around $100 million in May 2010? Yahoo! 142. What is the claim-to-fame of Nokia 1011, sold under the name Mobira Cityman 2000? First massproduced GSM cellphone 143. Where has this picture been taken from? Uncyclopedia entry on blogs/blogging 144. This project was named after a yellow-coloured toy elephant owned by the son of one of the lead developers. Which project? Apache Hadoop 145. In terms of networking, what is "11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111"? 'Magic packet' for triggering Wake-on-LAN

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146. Daniel Lyons worked as a senior editor at Forbes magazine and is now a writer at Newsweek. We, however, know him better as 'somebody else' who writes a popular blog. Who am I referring to? Fake Steve Jobs 147. What was Bill Gates designation at Microsoft? Chairman 148. Which company made the first commercial modem? Bell 103 by AT&T 149. Who developed WWW (World Wide Web)? Tim Berners-Lee 150. Who invented the mouse? Douglas Engelbart 151. Which company makes Crusoe? Transmeta 152. What is the DVD region code in India? Region 5 153. What is Beowulf? Cluster of computers for unified processing 154. Which company owns LOTUS? IBM 155. What is HT in P4 HT? Hyperthreading 156. Who were the founders of HP? Bill Hewett and Dave Packard in 1939 157. Which was the first computer with GUI? Xerox Star 158. Who were the founders of Apple? Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak 159. What are the dimensions of a 1.25 MB floppy? 3 inch 160. What is ergonomics? Study of humans with their work environments 161. What would AT&F do in HyperTerminal? Initialize the modem 162. In which game would you find Gordon Freeman? Half-Life 163. Which company makes SimCity? Maxis 164. What is a nibble? Half a byte (4 bits) 165. What was the first commercial spreadsheet? VisiCalc 166. Which company does Linus Torvalds work for? Open Source Development 167. What is IEEE 1394? FireWire Mayank Vachher | Gyaan.in

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168. What is a 'jumper'? Switch on motherboard that controls certain settings 169. Who is the creator of Napster? Shawn Fanning 170. Who were the developers of UNIX? Ken Thompson (also C) 171. What is virtual memory? RAM 172. What is the difference between FAT16 & FAT32? Different file systems 173. What will happen if you press Win+D? Hides all windows 174. Which company makes AutoCAD? Autodesk 175. Who said 640 Kb of memory is enough for anyone? Bill Gates 176. Who invented the difference engine? Babbage 177. Which company produced the Voodoo range of Gfx Cards? 3dfx 178. Which company makes the iPod? Apple 179. What is the 3 finger salute in windows? Ctrl+Alt+Del 180. Which companys tagline is Its in the Game? EA Sports 181. How much audio can a 650 MB CD hold, why? 74 minutes 182. What is hot swappable technology? Changes can be made to hardware while system is running. 183. What is a thin client? A thin client is a network computer without a hard disk drive, whereas a fat client includes a disk drive 184. What is the Seti@Home project? A project which utilises spare processing power of user PCs around the world to detect signs of extraterrestrial contact in data from radio telescopes. 185. Who made the first Internet worm? Robert T. Morris, Jr. 186. Which Indian developed news.google.com? Krishna Bharat 187. Where did Bill Gates meet Steve Ballmer? In his dorm *while* at Harvard 188. Who made the Anna Kournikova worm? Jan de Wit / OnTheFly 189. Which company famous for distributing games for Linux is now, sadly, bankrupt? Loki Games Mayank Vachher | Gyaan.in

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190. Who do you associate with a pink shirt? Peter Norton [Peter is imp!] 191. Mosaic was created at the University of Illionis, Urbana-Champaign. Where was Napster created? Northeastern University 192. Who wrote The Art of Computer Programming? Donald P Knuth / Knuth / Don Knuth 193. How much time is a jiffy? 0.01 seconds / 10ms / 10 milliseconds 194. What is the origin of the term blog? weBLOG 195. Who is known as the father of the Pentium? Vinod Dham 196. What is the difference between a byte and a word? A byte is 8 bits. A word is the smallest unit of memory with a unique address. 197. What is middleware? Give examples. Software that sits between client and server applications and translates data into formats that they understand. SOAP, etc. 198. What is mobile code? Give examples. Code like JAVA bytecode, which works across different platforms, and does not have to be edited / recompiled. 199. What is biometrics concerned with? Give examples. Identification or validation using biological characteristics like fingerprints, retinal scans etc. 200. What is the 'Dining Philosophers problem', and who came up with it? 1) Actual Description / Inter process communication 2) Edsger Dijkstra 201. In Internet URL addresses, what single prefix character is often used to indicate the home directory of the user? ~ 202. What is the full form of PCI? Peripheral Component Interconnect 203. According to the Graphic, Visualization, & Usability Centres 7th WWW User Survey, conducted AprilMay 1997, what percentages of Internet users worldwide are female? 31.3% 204. What was the project code name for Windows 95? Chicago 205. Who founded Microsoft? Bill Gates and Paul Allen Mayank Vachher | Gyaan.in

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206. Who invented the World Wide Web? Sir Tim Berners-Lee 207. What is the full-form of W3C & what is it? World Wide Web Consortium; the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops inter-operable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding. 208. What does it mean by being Slashdotted (Slashdot Effect)? When Slashdot links a site, often a lot of readers will hit the link to read the story. This can easily throw thousands of hits at the site in minutes. Most of the time, large professional websites have no problem with this, but often a site we link will be a smaller site, used to getting only a few thousand hits a day. When all those Slashdot readers start crashing the party, it can saturate the site completely, causing the site to buckle under the strain. When this happens, the site is said to be 'Slashdotted'. 209. What is the full-form of SSE? Streaming SIMD Extensions, http://www.tommesani.com/SSE.html 210. What is the full-form of SIMD? Single Instruction Multiple Data 211. What is the full-form of POWER in PowerPC? Ans: Performance Optimized With Enhanced RISC Personal Computer 212. Which companys name means, 'Sound in Motion'? This company makes processors for Apple computers. Motorola 213. What is the full form of RISC and CISC? Ans: Reduced Instruction-Set Computing; Complex InstructionSet Computing 214. Why did Intel use the term Pentium? The generic term x86 (80586) could not be patented or trademarked. 215. Everyone knows what copyright means. What does copyleft mean? Copyleft stipulates that anyone redistributing free software must also pass along the freedom to further copy and change the program, thereby ensuring that no one can claim ownership of future versions and place restrictions on users. Mayank Vachher | Gyaan.in

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216. What is Usenet? Usenet is a collection of user-submitted notes or messages on various subjects that are posted to servers on a worldwide network. Each subject collection of posted notes is known as a newsgroup. There are thousands of newsgroups and it is possible for you to form a new one. Most newsgroups are hosted on Internet-connected servers, but they can also be hosted from servers that are not part of the Internet. 217. What is elgooG? It's a Google mirror. A common practice for busy websites is to create a mirror site, which is an exact replica of the original site but on a different server. This way if one server is really busy, you can go to the other server. elgooG is a play on this idea, except instead of an exact replica of the site, it's a mirror image of the site. 218. While planning to work on Linux, Linus Torvalds installed a preview version of UNIX in his grandfathers 386 PC. What was the software called? Minix 219. To activate the read / write head of the floppy diskette drive, which type of electric motor is used? Stepper motor 220. What does it mean when a website / homepage displays 'I have been Slashdotted'? It means that the site has been featured on Slashdot.com 221. This legendary computer scientist has authored the The Art of Computer Programming? Who was I talking about? Don Knuth 222. What has been dubbed as Dirty Harry of Internet World? Nachi worm which was released to tame Blaster worm 223. This Indian Company is supporting various Indian State Governments in achieving e-governance via bundling communication services with a number of other on-line facilities operated through 'Gramdoot' (name of the rural connectivity service in one of the states) kiosks. The company facilitates a number of services, including on-line land records, market information, certificates of caste, domicile, income etc.,

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filing complaints on-line to the district centre, on-line video-conferencing with other villagers, and cable TV. Which company? Akash Broadband 224. This famous and one of the most popular management game was devised by MITs Sloan School of Management in 1960s. By what name we know it today? Beer Game 225. The ARPANET funded Project MAC (which led to the development of MULTICS which in turn inspired Unix) was led by Prof Fernando J. Corbato on the IBM 7094 computer in 1963. Prof Corbato first devised the concept (now widely used in server operating systems) of 'a continuously running process that stays in the background'. He named it after 'an imaginary agent which worked tirelessly in the background to sort molecules of different speeds', theorized by 19th century physicist James Clerk Maxwell. What's the concept? Daemon 226. Surname of which CEO is derived from Spanish for kisses (If you read enough youll get this)? Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com. 227. Famous quote.... Technology has the shelf life of a banana who said? Scott Mcnealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems 228. Alexey Pajitnov, was inspired to become a mathematician by a lifelong love of puzzles. In 1985, Pajitnov was a specialist in computer sciences at the Computer Center of the Academy of Sciences in Moscow. While at the Computer Center (also known as AcademySoft), Alexey still played with puzzles. While playing with a traditional puzzle called Pentomino he hit upon a brilliant idea which is often been rumored to have been a Russian plot to destabilise the US economy. What 'diabolical' product did he create? Tetris 229. What is K&R? Refers to a book called The C Programming Language written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. It is also called The White Book. 230. In the early 80's when Will Wright proposed a game dominated by activities such as municipal zoning and transit planning and with no preset conditions for victory, the gaming industry thought he was nuts. Mayank Vachher | Gyaan.in

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Various incarnations of the game have sold a combined 7 million copies, many bought by people who had previously never considered playing a computer game. Name the game? SimCity 231. MP3.com founder, Michael Robertson has come up with a Linux operating system uses pieces of WINE (a windows emulator) to achieve windows compatibility. What is the OS called? Lindows OS 232. Digital : Compaq :: Compaq : ________ HP 233. Fill in the Blanks (eminently workable) for processors that give the same performance, INTEL: _______ * Low IPC and AMD High = Low _________ * High IPC, where IPC = Instructions per Cycle. Megahertz 234. The Chinese call it 'a little mouse', Danes and Swedes 'an elephants trunk', Germans 'a spider monkey', Italians 'a snail' and Israelis pronounce it as 'strudels'. What am I talking about? @ 235. There are five thieves, each loot a bakery one after the other such that the first one takes 1/2 of the total number of the breads plus 1/2 of a bread. Similarly 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5fth also did the same. After the fifth, one number of breads remained are 3. Initially, how many breads were there? 31 236. What is the three-finger salute? Control + Alt + Delete 237. What will happen if you press Win + D? Hides all windows 238. Which companys tagline is 'Its in the Game'? EA Sports 239. What is HT in P4HT? Hyper Threading 240. Which two people founded Microsoft? Bill Gates & Paul Allen 241. What is virtual memory? It is the temporary page file stored on the hard drive to extend a computers RAM beyond the physical installed memory. 242. What is Opera? Its a web browser 243. Who is the CEO of Dell Inc.? Michael Dell 244. Which famous real-time strategy game series is Ensemble Studios famous for? Age of Empires series and Age of Mythology 245. What is the meaning of a 'solid state' device? A device with no moving parts is called a solid state device. Mayank Vachher | Gyaan.in

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246. What is a 'Simputer'? A Simputer is an India-based handheld computer that uses graphics and icons to depict information. 247. Macromedia : MX 2004 :: Adobe : ___________? Creative Suite or CS 248. Name the just released expansion pack for Age of Mythology and new game title for Halo. Halo Combat Evolved, Age of Mythology The Titans Expansion 249. Which bandwidth-based Company did Reliance buy for its ambitious telecom Plans? Flag Telecom 250. What position does Microsoft founder Paul Allen currently hold at Microsoft? No Position 251. Who is the current president of NASSCOM? Som Mittal 252. What is the origin of the name Pac Man? From the Japanese word Pakoru, meaning to eat/to gobble. 253. What is the origin of Apache web servers name? A 'patchy' server 254. What are Shell, Bubble, Quick, and Insertion etc. types of? Types of Sorts 255. Why was the Cline Dion CD, A New Day Has Come, so controversial? It was the first Audio CD to have built-in copy protection and could not be played on a PC. 256. FTP : 21 :: Telnet : 23 :: HTTP : _____? 80 257. I went to USA and bought a DVD Player. I came to India and bought a DVD for Koi Mil Gaya...but the DVD didnt work in the player. Why? (The DVD was scratch less and nothing wrong was there in DVD) The DVD region codes for the two countries are different. 258. What is a nibble? A nibble is 4 bits 259. What is DB2 and which company makes it? It is an RDBMS made by IBM. 260. What is the codename for Apples recent Mac OS X release? Lion 261. What is Symbian? Symbian is an operating system for hand-held devices. It is used on Nokias 9xx0 Communicator series.

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262. What is Bluetooth? Bluetooth technology is a cutting-edge open specification that enables short-range wireless connections between desktop and notebook computers, and peripherals. 263. ThinkPad : IBM :: _______ : Sony. Vaio 264. State Moores law. Numbers of transistors on a chip will double every 18 months. (Size of chip constant) 265. What is AMD Opteron? A 64-bit / 32-bit Processor by AMD. 266. Who are the makers of QuickTime? Apple Computer 267. Which is the largest merger between two companies till date? AOL & Time Warner 268. Who is the CEO of HP? Leo Apotheker 269. What is Cache? A cache (pronounced CASH) is a place to store something temporarily, such as in a web browser or as a hardware cache (L1, L2, L3, etc.) 270. Who is regarded as the father of [the] WWW? Tim Berners-Lee 271. What is a macro? A macro is a saved sequence of commands or keyboard strokes that can be stored and then recalled with a single command or keyboard stroke in Microsoft Office Applications. 272. What is UNIX and how long ago was it made? UNIX (often spelled 'UNIX', especially as an official trademark) is an operating system that originated at Bell Labs in 1969 as an interactive time-sharing system. Its uniqueness was in multitasking and creating a multi-user [command line] environment. 273. What is a Trojan horse? Trojan horse is a program in which malicious or harmful code is contained inside apparently harmless programming or data in such a way that it can get control and do its chosen form of damage. 274. What is the unit of mouse movement? Mickey 275. What is P2P? Peer-to-Peer files sharing. Each node on this kind of a network has server and client capabilities. 276. Who founded Apple Computer Corporation? Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

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277. What is telnet? Telnet is the way you can access someone else's computer, assuming they have given you permission. With telnet, you log on as a regular user with whatever privileges you may have been granted to the specific application and data on that computer. 278. What is special about Intels Itanium line of processors? They are 64-bit instead of the conventional 32bit. 279. What do you think is the average length of the spiral of silicon bits beginning from the inner edge of a CD to the outer edge? Many of you will give approximate answers, so heres the approximation rule we will accept approximations in the integer range. So, if you say 5 metres, we will take your answer as correct if it is anywhere between 5 and 6 metres. Approximately 3.5 miles or 5.6 kilometres 280. What is Prescott? It is a processor designed by Intel to have higher clock speeds than the current crop of Pentium 4s. However, it will not be named Pentium 5 because it has less cache than the Extreme Edition. 281. Where would you hear the works of composer Brian Eno? Windows 95 Start-up Sound 282. What does HAL stand for, in HAL 9000 say? Heuristical Algorithm 283. Why the Apple Macintosh is called so? The Macintosh apple was the most popular type of apple in the US, and one of the Macs designers loved that variety of apple. 284. A hacker, cracker, etc. are generally called 'Trudy' in network security textbooks and manuals. Why? 'Trudy' is short for Intruder. 285. Connect 'Quicker than a ray of light' by Madonna, and 'Start Me Up' by the Rolling stones. The first was used at the Windows XP launch event while the second was used at the Windows 95 launch event. 286. What is known as the 'back rub' of the Internet? Google; they had dubbed this system BackRub, after the 'back links' that pointed to a site. 287. Why Google is called so? They adopted the name Google in early 1997, in a tribute to scale, a play on the number known as a googol a one followed by a hundred zeros. Mayank Vachher | Gyaan.in

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288. When we say DVD 4x or 8x, what reading or writing speed are we implying by 1x DVD? 1.25 MB/s 289. When was Microsoft Windows 1.0 released? November 1985 290. IBM disregarded a certain problem as useless and a waste of time, but it later came back to haunt them as well as the rest of the world. What am I talking about? Y2K problem 291. What problem will all corporations face again on 1st January 2005 (which will be similar to the Y2K problem)? The bar code will not support dates in 2005 and later. 292. If 8-bit colour refers to 256 colours then what does 16-bit refer to? 65536 colours 293. iLink : FireWire :: Sony : __________ Apple 294. This company was founded by a couple, who were later ousted by the Venture Capitalist because of a request by their board of directors. One of them now tries to find intelligent life outside of earth while the other makes her money on the cosmetics market. Name the company? CISCO 295. In the mid-1980s Carnegie Mellon University embarked on an ambitious project to make a new kind of operating systems, which was later released by a consortium of companies and named OSF/1. Almost all operating systems made post-1990 borrow features from this particular model, and all versions of Mac OS X directly borrow on kernel design and code from this project. Name the project. MACH 296. A post, by Linus Torvalds, on a news group is considered by most to have announced the beginning of Linux. What exactly did the post announce or request? Requested an electronically readable copy of the Posix standard 297. What is the origin of the term Trojan horse? Homer's Iliad involves a scene in the Trojan War where warriors hide inside a horse to enter a sieged city (Ilium) hence Trojan horse 298. What was Java's codename? Green 299. What was the original intent of Sun while making Java? Programming language for embedded application, they specifically wanted one that could drive toasters

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300. QNX RTP is one of the few OSs other than Linux and Microsoft produced OSs to meet with any success in India. What does RTP in this name stand for? Real Time Platform 301. Hardware and software are commercially evaluated on the basis of what people call 'TCO'. What is the full form of TCO? Total cost of ownership 302. (Can be worked out) RAID stands for redundant array of inexpensive disks, and refers to a distributed storage model where all data is redundantly stored over multiple disks. The RAID storage is often used in servers. What is the storage model which functions opposite to the RAID model, i.e. what is the storage model most personal computers use? SLED: Single Large Expensive Disk 303. Cryptography refers to the science/art of writing coded messages, i.e. building algorithms and systems which can encode messages. What is cryptanalysis? The art/science of analysing and breaking through encrypted messages 304. This particular 99 a song, music store has been proclaimed as one of the greatest Trojan marketing strategies ever devised by a company. Which store am I referring to and what is the product which the company is trying to increase sales of by using this strategy? The iTunes music store, the iPOD 305. What does MMORPG stand for? Massively multiplayer online role playing game 306. Less than a year ago Google released a beta service titled Froogle. What did Froogle do? Search through online stores to give you price and availability choices 307. Who is Qrio (rhymes with curio)? Sony's humanoid robot 308. The breakup of Fairchild semiconductors gave rise to most of the current microprocessor companies including Intel and AMD. What was the single biggest contribution of Fairchild to the semi-conductor industry? Process for mass producing silicon transistors 309. Which company supplies chips for Tomahawk missiles? AMD

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310. In the movie 'Independence Day' the computer shown has something wrong with it, something not realized by most, but very distinctly wrong. What is the problem with the computer shown? Pre MacOS X, Mac running a DOS shell, which accepts DOS commands 311. This product by 3M Corporation allowed you to use standard floppy disks with your computer, but at the same time also allowed you to use a specific kind of disk manufactured by 3M which allowed you to store close to 120 Megs of data. What product am I referring to here? The SuperDrive 312. One of Apple's computers was named Lisa. Why was it named so? Steve Job's daughter 313. Earlier Intel used to christen its processors with numbers. However with the Pentium they changed this trend. Why was this so? Trademark restrictions allow trademarking of names not numbers 314. The Pentium refers to something other than a processor, something natural. What does it refer to? A river in Europe 315. Adobe bought PageMaker from another software manufacturer. What was the manufacturers name? Aldus 316. BC is a program included in almost all flavours of UNIX (Linux included). What is BC? calculator (arbitrary precision calculator) 317. What operating system does Bill Gates use? Xenix 318. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniack used to sell devices called Blue Boxes to college students, to earn money. What did these blue boxes do? Allow you to make free long distance calls on the AT&T network 319. What did Steve Wozniack do after leaving Apple? Teacher 320. Almost all sites and a lot of UNIX distributions use a class of functions, called one way functions, to keep passwords safe. These one way functions include MD5 and SHA1. In brief what are one way functions? Not invertible. Produce one result from which it is nearly impossible to back calculate the input to the function

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321. What is thrashing? When a program uses immensely large amounts of memory which are stored on disseparate page locations, the virtual memory driver keeps on loading and unloading pages leading to a peculiar sound as the hard disk continuously operates without any visible results. 322. What does the X following all CDROM speed designations (48 X, etc.) refer to? The speed at which audio CD's are read 323. What does RSA, in the RSA encryption standard stand for? Rivest, Shamir, Adelman 324. When Richard Stallman founded the FSF he was inspired by a certain policy followed by the University right across the road from where he taught. Name the University (the one with the policy). Harvard 325. While recording or ripping songs, you come across the term 'sampling rate'. What is the sampling rate? (Number of times per second when the computer digitizes a songs level to produce a sound file) 326. Who created PGP? Phil Zimmerman 327. What was Steve Job's salary (no bonuses etc.) from Apple computers last year? $1 328. Where was Tim Berner's Lee employed when he made the first beginnings into what grew up to be the Internet? CERN, Switzerland 329. A certain American politician was invited to join Apple Computer's board of directors a year back. Who was this politician? Al Gore 330. Unlimited Limited and Unincorporated Incorporated were two of the names this giant considered giving itself before it took on its current name. Which company am I talking about? Microsoft 331. What is Groove? Software providing an online shared workspace to complete projects(not necessarily computer based) 332. What does the K in CMYK stand for? Black 333. What does the .mil top-level domain name designate? Military related sites 334. Who created mathematica? Stephen Wolfram

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335. How many region codes are defined by the DVD standard? 7 regions{ 5 proper, 1 (6) reserved, 1(7) for international venues} 336. Most computers store time as number of seconds passed since epoch. When is epoch taken to be? 00:00.00 UTC Jan 1, 1970 337. What is the BluRay standard? DVDs which have a much higher capacity mostly because they have to be read using Blue Lasers 338. Groups.google.com borrows most of its functionality from a site which Google acquired. Which site am I talking about? Deja 339. After the breakup of AT&T which of the Baby Bells took over Bell Labs? Lucent Technologies 340. This guy worked on designing rockets and guidance systems at Johns Hopkins University, then went on to join Fairchild Semiconductors, and eventually to co-found a company which is still referred to as one of the fairchildren. He is also famous for giving a law which now bears his name. Who am I talking about? Gordan Moore 341. This Hungarian immigrant is currently the chairman of a company which almost all of you know about and was also the time Man of The Year a few years back. Name him. Andy Groove 342. Who was Time Man of the Year 1982? The personal computer 343. This man is credited with being the father of nanotechnology. However most of us think of him as a teacher par-excellence, a noble laureate, and a funny guy. Who am I referring to? Richard P. Feynman 344. Lucifer, Skipjack, Blowfish, Rhinedael (pronounced Rhine Doll) are all examples of? Cryptographic Algorithms 345. What are black hole lists? lists of IP addresses know to be generators of SPAM 346. What is a honey pot? System set up to attract hackers and crackers. Usually contains no important data, but contains programs which track exploits and usage 347. Who holds the trademark for spam? Hormel Inc. Mayank Vachher | Gyaan.in

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348. Why ICQ is named so? I seek you 349. Which company originally initiated the Mozilla project to show its commitment towards Open source development and to aid in its browser development? Netscape 350. What is XHTML? XML compliant HTML, basically closing tags required for everything including tags like <BR> 351. What is Vanderpool? Technology under development by Intel which aims to allow a single processor to simultaneously run multiple OSs 352. What operating system do most bank ATMs run? IBM OS/2 353. Who is the CEO of Google? Eric Schmidt 354. What was the first processor made by AMD? 8080A 355. Expand EFF. Electronic Frontier Foundation 356. What is Lindows? Linux designed to make it easier for people using windows 357. What is Red Hats current free Operating System named? Fedora Linux 358. What is the basic difference between 32-bit & 64-bit processors? Size of memory addresses 359. How do you get command line arguments in a dos batch file? %1, %2 etc. 360. Expand DMRCA? Digital Millennium Rights Control Act 361. On what computer was the Pixar animation (the one with the bouncing, moving lamp) rendered? Cray 362. This Stanford professor is now the CEO of one of the largest chip makers. Who am I referring to? Craig Barrett 363. Steve Jobs said this would be the greatest invention of them all, Microsoft wanted to buy manufacturing rights to this invention, before they even knew what the invention actually did or was. Yet at the end of the day the invention turned out to be nothing more than a very expensive dud. What invention am I referring to? The Segway

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364. From where does the about:mozilla page, available on all Netscape browsers and on all browsers made as a part of the Mozilla project, quote? The Book of Mozilla 365. The US Government recently shifted over the approved government standard for encryption to the chosen AES algorithm, prior to which they used to use the DES algorithm. For certain applications which required a greater amount of security they used something called 3DES. What is 3DES? The DES algorithm chained to run 3 times over with different keys 366. What is Bill Gate's daughter's name? Jennifer Gates 367. As a part of the Y2K bug people were worried about the 9th of September, 1999. What is so great about this date? 9/9/99 also represented as 9999 on concurrent byte fields, the shutdown code for Intel processors. Though no application should have passed the date onto the processor, if there was any application which did have a bug doing this, it would affect a hell of a lot of computers. 368. All Intel 32 bit processors, better known as the 80X86 or the IA32 processors, have the ability to start up in either 16 bit or 32 bit modes. What modes do they normally start-up in? 16 bit 369. DTD is one of the file types associated with the XML standard. What does DTD stand for? Document Type Definition 370. This company was founded in an apartment rented by two students, and eventually the landlady joined the company started by her tenants. Which company am I referring to? GOOGLE 371. Why Google is named so? Largest number with a name, 1 followed by 100 zeroes 372. Laser printers were invented by Xerox researcher Gary Starkweather by modifying a Xerox copier. 373. A famous quote In a world without fences, who needs Gates! Who said it? Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems 374. Which company has published the popular first person shooter game Quake? id Games 375. Which was the first computer with a keyboard and a mouse? Apple Lisa 376. Who invented the Ethernet? Robert (Bob) Metcalfe Mayank Vachher | Gyaan.in

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377. What much touted feature of Windows Longhorn has now been dropped due to time constraints? WinFS (short for either Windows Future Storage or Windows File System): a combined relational database and filesystem, based on the next version of SQL Server (codenamed Yukon). Working on top of NTFS, it will provide abilities to represent objects and their relationships, rather than just a hierarchy of files and folders. The removal of WinFS from Windows Longhorn was announced in August 2004, and is expected to be released as an update to Longhorn, entering beta stages at about the same time as Longhorn is released. 378. What is the name of the 64bit microprocessor, codenamed Merced, from Intel? Itanium 379. Which is the worlds second largest software company? ORACLE 380. What is a killer app? A killer application (commonly shortened to killer app) is a computer program that is so useful that people will buy a particular brand of computer simply to run that program. 381. Which company made the first Optical Mouse? Early optical mice, such as those invented by Steve Kirsch of Mouse Systems Corporation. 382. Which was the first computer virus? Brain made by Pakistani brothers. 383. Who is Vinod Dham? Led the team that Designed the Pentium chip. Called the father of Pentium 384. Which hacker group hacked into BARC? Milw0rm 385. Which Indian company is the 2nd largest manufacturer of optical media in the world? Moser Baer 386. Logic Question: In a jungle we have lions and deers. The following are the rules of the jungle: a) All lions want to survive. b) If a lion eats a deer, the lion becomes a deer himself. c) All lions are hungry and will eat unless theres an imminent threat to its life. d) The lions are intelligent enough to understand which situation would be life threatening, and which wont.

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For example, if theres just one lion and a deer, the lion will merrily eat the deer and become a deer himself. Since there are no more lions, he is safe in his new avatar as a deer. But, if there are 2 lions and a deer, none of the lions will eat the deer, since the one that eats it will become a deer and the other lion will eat it. I want you to tell me whether the deer is safe or not when we have one deer and : 1. 10 lions -safe 2. 15 lions -unsafe 3. 18 lions safe Funda: if 3 lions and 1 deer, then 1 lion merrily eat the deer to become a deer himself. We are left with 2 lions and 1 deer; the lion turned deer is safe. So the initial deer was unsafe. By induction, we see for all even numbers of lions, deer is safe, and unsafe for odd. 387. If PSP is to Sony, what is to Nintendo? Game Boy 388. Which company manufactures the Satellite and Qosmio series of notebooks? Toshiba 389. Who was the first President of IBM? Thomas Watson Sr. 390. Who founded Dolby Laboratories? Ray Dolby 391. .ram files are generally what type of files? Real Media Player Files 392. In how many Indian scripts is Google available? Name them. 5 (Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil) 393. Why Lisa is named so? Named after Steve Jobs first daughter. 394. Who created the worlds first GUI-based computer? Xerox PARC 395. What is AJAX? Asynchronous JavaScript and XML 396. Who is Tux? Who created it and why was it chosen? Tux is the mascot of Linux (A Penguin). It was created by Larry Ewing, and it was chosen since Linus Torvalds liked penguins. 397. 1 Kibibyte per second = _______ Bits per second. 1024 398. Decode the anagram 'I turn PC people Mac'. Apple Computer Inc. Mayank Vachher | Gyaan.in

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399. Who coined the term 'Cyberspace'? William Gibson (In his book 'Neuromancer') 400. Which company manufactures the Blackberry series of wireless handheld device? Research In Motion 401. Which famous Indian features in What the hack on MTV? Ankit Fadia 402. What is the Nokia netbook called? Booklet 3g 403. What does CE in Windows CE stand for? Embedded compact or consumer electronics 404. What Pixar release was the first feature film to be entirely computer-animated? Toy story 405. On 26th October 2009, a legendary web service was shut down. What am I talking about? Geocities 406. What is the unit of Mouse Movement? Mickey 407. Which was Intel's first microprocessor? 4004 in 1971 408. There's a widely prevalent standard called 'IEEE 802.15.1', but we know it by a better name. What is that name? Bluetooth 409. Which company is the largest producer of digital cameras? Nokia 410. Which major Tech Corp was established as a pulp mill in 1865? Nokia 411. Born on November 22, 1980, I rose to fame after making to the cover of the wired magazine. In 2003, I opened a new company called SNOCAP with Jordan Mendellson. I had a cameo role playing myself in the movie The Italian Job. Who am I? Shawn fanning (creator of Napster) 412. Windows: Explorer as Macintosh: _______________ finder 413. Who do you associate with a pink shirt? Peter Norton 414. Who wrote The Art of Computer Programming? Donald Knuth 415. Into how many zones are DVD's divided worldwide? 8 416. What is the latest Ubuntu release called? Karmic koala 417. What is the first iPhone worm called? ikee 418. Google was recently required to pay $500,000 to this celebrity as damages for his fake profile on ORKUT. Who am I talking about? Rubens Barrichello Mayank Vachher | Gyaan.in

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419. What day was Larry Ellison born? Thursday 420. Who is associated with this emoticon: (0-0)? John Lennon 421. This rock band is known to create not only the loudest music, but also, the loudest sound of any kind in the whole universe. Its members play from a spaceship orbiting the planet, and the recommended distance from the concert venue is a bunker 36 miles away. Name the band? Disaster area 422. Gene Amdahl coined a 'computerism' called 'FUD'. According to the New Hacker's Dictionary, what does 'FUD' stand for? Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt 423. This game's name literally translates into English from Japanese as 'Battle Spirit Cloth'. In the game manual, its name is said to be 'a title awarded to a superior soldier possessing almost superhuman drive and ability, while excelling in guerrilla tactics'. Which game am I talking about? Contra 424. How much time is a jiffy? 0.01 seconds/10 milliseconds 425. Who said this famous quote: Technology has the shelf life of a banana? Scott McNealy CEO of SUN 426. Who has authored the book Tough Choices: A Memoir? CARLY FIORINA 427. Where would you hear a 19th century guitar work named Gran Vals by Spanish musician Francisco Tarrega? Nokia tune 428. Which is the first game soundtrack to attain platinum status? NBA Live 2003 429. Wyvern was the codename for which OS? Windows CE 430. Which company is the largest producer of digital cameras? Nokia

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