INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY QUIZ PACK

Q No.01 :Who is considered as the " Father of the Internet "?
ANS : Vinton G. Cerf
Q No.02 :Which famous personality coined the word 'Information Superhighway'?
ANS : Al Gore
Q No.03 :Along with whom Sabeer Bhatia co-founded the famous e-mail software technology Hotmail?
ANS : Jack Smith
Q No.04 :Which term was coined by William Gibson in his book "Nueromancer" in 1984?
ANS : Cyberspace
Q No.05 : Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Support, CALS, is the general framework for E-commerce. Who initiated and developed this?
ANS : US Department of Defence
Q No.06 : Which Indian technocrat is associated with teamon.com, neomeo.com, responses.com, highku.com and Navin Mail, a voice mail service?
ANS : Sabeer Bhatia
Q No.07 : Name this famous corporate which get its name from a brute race mentioned in Jonathan Swift's novel " Gulliver's Travel "?
ANS : YAHOO
Q No.08 : What is the term used to the software that collects email addresses from the web and then send spam mails to those addresses?
ANS : Crawler
Q No.09 : Who owns the following B2B portals firmseekindia.com, seekandsource.com, e-chem.com and formsindia.com?
ANS : Sify Webex, a subsidary of Satyam
Q No.10 : Which internet venture was founded by Raj Koneru, B.G.Mahesh and Madhu Kodali?
ANS : Indiainfo.com
Q No.11 :When was the first Personal Computer introduced in India?
ANS :1984
Q No.12 : Which was the first Indian Software company listed on NYSE?
ANS : Silverline Technologies Ltd (SLT)
Q No.13 : What is the Indian equivalent of CIO, Chief Information officer?
ANS : General Manager – Systems
Q No.14 : What is known as " Shelfware "?
ANS : A software that is so worthless and it remains in its box on the shelf
Q No.15 : What is the term used to desribe a " Chinese Portal "?
ANS : Chortal
Q No.16 : What is the earlier name for Javascript?
ANS : Livescript
Q No.17 : What is the code name of Windows XP?
ANS : Whistler
Q No.18 : Which famous personality is known as the " Guy with the Algorithm "?
ANS : Kanwal Rekhi
Q No.19 : Name the person who first drew the Linux Penguin, TUX?
ANS : Larry Ewing
Q No.20 : Name the world's first PC which was built in 1975?
ANS : Altair 8800
Q No.21 : What was called “ God's Programming Language ” in the glossary of `The OpenGL Programmers Guide'?
ANS : The programming language C.
Q No.22 : Whose logo and mascot is Puffy the pufferfish?
ANS : OpenBSD, the Unix-like computer operating system.
Q No.23: In the context of Apple, what was codenamed `Shiner '?
ANS : The short-lived `Apple Network Server ', a line of PowerPC-based server computers.
Q No.24 : Name the project idea by Larry Sanger, a co-founder of Wikipedia, which will begin as a ` Progressive or gradual fork ' of the English Wikipedia.
ANS : Citizendium (from `Citizen + Compendium').
Q No.25 : In which European city does the Wizards of OS (Wizards of Operating Systems) conference take place regularly?
ANS : Berlin
Q No.26 : One more on Apple. What is the street that encircles Apple's buildings at the Cupertino HQ called?
ANS : Infinite Loop
Q No.27 : Which pioneering popular web-browser, even before Mosaic, was developed by Pei-Yuan Wei, a student at UC, Berkeley?
ANS : ViolaWWW
Q No.28 : Name the news-making human-powered search engine initiative launched by Inventerprise founder Shelley Harrison.
ANS : Jatalla.com. The site `provides a basic prototype of the Web's first lexivote-based search engine'.
Q No.29 : What was created in 1999 as the "Ethicode Artificial Conscience Project"?
ANS : The Jatalla search engine.
Q No.30 : What is the best-known creation of Joshua Schachter that came online in 2003?
ANS : The del.icio.us social bookmarking web service.