Best Questions of Tech and IT Quizzes #4
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Best Questions and Answers of Tech and IT Quizzes #4
1. It is a collaborated launch by TCS and CA technologies. It is described as a design to help customers automate the testing lifecycle. Which technology is being talked about here?
Ans: Intelligent Testing System(ITS)
2. The Centre for development of Telematics (CDOT) was established in August 1984 as an autonomous body and now works under the government of India to develop intelligent computer software applications and digital exchanges. Which Indian IT giant started it?
Ans: Sam Pitroda
3. He was born in Queensland, Australia. In 1987, after turning 16 he began hacking under the name Mendax. He and two other hackers joined to form a group which they named as International Subversives. Which popular personality am I talking about?
Ans: Julian Assange
4. This company had released its intentions to house the blue waters project supercomputer. It was a project started as an attempt to make the fastest supercomputer at the prestigious University of Urbana. Name the company.
Ans: IBM
5. The foldout laptop computer keyboard designed by John Karidis for IBM as part of the ThinkPad 701 series, released in 1995, allowed the 701 series to be both compact (when closed) and comfortable to use (when open). The design was considered revolutionary and rocked the laptop world. What was it called?
Ans: Butterfly keyboard
6. X began as a research project by Michael Loren Mauldin of Carnegie Mellon University in 1994. X was sold to Terra Networks of Spain in May 2000 for $13 billion, forming a new company, Terra X. On August 16, 2010, Ybrant Digital announced the signing of a stock purchase agreement to acquire X Inc. What am I describing?
Ans: Lycos
7. Known as “Xanadu 2.0”, after the title character’s estate in the film Citizen Kane, this is a 66,000 sq. ft. mansion which features – among other things – a 60 foot swimming pool with an underwater music system. Guests wear pins that automatically adjust temperature, music, and lighting based on guest's preferences upon entering a room.
What place is this?
Ans: Bill Gates' House
8. Jaguar, or Family 16h, is the codename for a low-power SoC microarchitecture. It forms the basis for four product families: Kabini aimed at notebooks and mini PCs; Temash aimed at tablets; Kyoto aimed at micro-servers; and the G-Series aimed at embedded applications.
However, it is better known for a completely different application. What?
Ans: Forms the CPU for both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
9. The concept of 'Friday dressing' that allows employees to dress informally at least one day a week thus fostering an open and informal organization originated in which company?
Ans: Google
10. This company was a division of Racal Electronics PLC in the early 1980s. In 1982, they started their business in UK. They launched themselves with their current name on January 1, 1985. Their logo is called the 'speechmark logo'. Name the company.
Ans: Vodafone
11. 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.
Ans: MACH
12. What does the K in CMYK stand for?
Ans: Black
13. 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 refered to as one of the fairchildren. He is also famous for giving a law which now bears his name. Who am I talking about?
Ans: Gordon Moore
14. 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?
Ans: Segway
15. Originally the project A started as an academic project, in 1996. Now widely used, the icon of this software changes to one wearing a Santa hat over the Christmas period.
Ans: VLC media player
16. The comic's name has no particular significance and is simply a four-‐letter word without a phonetic pronunciation, something he describes as "a treasured and carefully guarded point in the space of four-‐character strings. He claims that the name was
originally a screen name, which he selected as a combination of letters that would be meaningless, as well as phonetically unpronounceable.
Ans: xkcd
17. Homonymous with "pal" or "partner" in Japanese, it incorporates emotions such as happiness and anger and instincts such as the need for companionship. It operates autonomously in response to external stimuli and its own temperament and express
emotions as well. Equipped with adaptive learning and growth capabilities that allow each unit to develop a unique personality including behavior shaped by the praise and scolding of its owner. What is it?
Ans: AIBO
18. Originally launched in 1993 as as IRC bot, this website’s extraordinary growth
in the 1990s made it an attractive site. Satyam took a 25% stake in the
company. It receives over 7 million hits daily on average and records in excess of
250 million pageviews per month.
Ans: CricInfo
19. 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?
Ans: Thomas 'Neo' Anderson
20. The Chinese call it a little mouse, Danes and Swedes an elephant’s trunk, Germans a spider monkey, Italians a snail and Israelis pronounce it as strudels. What am I talking about?
Ans: @