Q No.01 : Who proposed the Relational Database Theory?
ANS : Dr. Edger F Codd
Q No.02 : Which famous Email client software program was founded by Jeff Beckley?
ANS : Eudora
Q No.03 : How is the Quantum Computer Serives known as today?
ANS : America Online, AOL
Q No.04 : Which is the world's first Spreadsheet?
ANS : VisiCalc
Q No.05 : Big Black : UPS :: Big Blue: ?
ANS : IBM
Q No. 06: What is the alternative developed by Hewlett Packard to the Java technology?
ANS : Chai
Q No.07 : What does DVD stand for?
ANS : Digital Versatile Disk
Q No.08 : Which term was coined by Ted Nelson in his book 'Literary Machines'?
ANS : Hypertext
Q No.09 : Which airline was the first to discover the Y2K problem?
ANS : Boeing
Q No.10 : What is the unit for measuring computing speed?
ANS : Flops
Q No.11 : Which Indian software company was the first to post profit over 1000 crores?
ANS : Tata Consultancy Services
Q No.12 : Which country is referred as the 'International Call Center Capital' and world's second largest producer of software?
ANS : Ireland
Q No.13 : SPICE is the European standard for Software quality certification from TUV Rheinland and equivalent to SEI CMM. Expand SPICE.
ANS : Software Process Improvement Capability Evaluation
Q No.14 : Which is the largest IT Corporation in China and the largest manufacturer of personal computers in Asia-Pacific region?
ANS : Legend Holdings Limited
Q No.15 : There are lots of techies from Wipro started their own ventures. But this one is something different. He was one of the short-listed candidates to head Wipro's hardware business in 1979 but he never got the job. Later he became the pioneer of Indian Software industry. Identify him.
ANS : N.R.Narayana Murthy of Infosys
Q No.16 : Which famous P2P network was founded by Sean Parker and Shawn Fenning?
ANS : Napster
Q No.17 : Which is the world's first PC Desktop Publishing Program and who developed it?
ANS : PageMaker by Paul Brainard
Q No.18 : What does "3 - Finger Exercise" or "3 - Finger Salute" mean in computing technology?
ANS : Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del for rebooting the system
Q No.19 : "Strange Brew" was founded in August 1998 by a hunting machine/engine called Seeker. What's special about Strange Brew?
ANS : First Java based virus founded at Symantec Antivirus Research Center
Q No.20 : In standard keyboards, what is an " Octothorpe "?
ANS : # symbol (Hash)
Q No.21 : Name the person who founded the 'Free Software Movement'?
ANS : Richard Stallman
Q No.22 : Which group launched the technology daily 'The Tech Mail' and advertised as "The world's First and Only Technology Daily"?
ANS : Ireland
Q No.23 : Which Indian pioneer once said that "The best thing that happened to me was joining Intel and the best thing that happened to me was leaving Intel"?
ANS : Vinod Dham
Q No.24 : In July 18, 1968, Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore and Andy Grove incorporated this famous company. Name it?
ANS : NM Electronics, now Intel
Q No.25 : Which two companies developed the CD-ROM in the year 1984?
ANS : Sony and Philips
Q No.26 : What was developed by mathematicians John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas as a teaching tool for undergraduates in 1963, at Dartmouth College?
ANS : BASIC, Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
Q No.27 : Which company had collaborated the Bell Laboratories and MIT to create a time sharing, multi-user computer system called Multics in 1964?
ANS : General Electric
Q No.28 : Which company had the wildly successful advertising campaign " Where do you want to go today" ?
ANS : Microsoft
Q No.29 : Who is considered as the ' Father of Electronic Gaming '?
ANS : Nolan Bushnell
Q No.30 : Name the world's first computer with GUI, Graphical User Interface?
ANS : Apple Lisa
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