Best Questions of Tech and IT Quizzes #6

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Best Questions and Answers of Tech and IT Quizzes #6

1. It is based on Mozilla Firefox developed by Hidden Reflex. Similar to Flock, this has several preinstalled widgets such as social networking, chat clients and email facilities are integrated.  It is available as a free download which currently supports Microsoft Windows platform. What?

Ans: EPIC (Browser)

2. It was founded by Rajat and Jayant  Agarwalla, both commerce graduates of St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, India. It was created at the end of 2005 by the Agarwalla brothers. It was initially made available as BingoBinge.com. On July 5, 2006, the site was moved to ______________.

Ans: scrabulous

3. The website's Technorati rank is 2, and is 1st in the Info/Tech category. As of February 11, 2010 it has over 4,563,000 RSS feed subscribers as measured by tracking company FeedBurner.

Which website?

Ans: TechCrunch

4. Who said the quote: ” The best thing about computers, is that no matter  how much ever information you pack into them , they don’t get more heavier”?

Ans: Bill Gates

5. X is a name given retrospectively to Y’s December 6, 1968 demonstration of experimental computing technologies that are now commonplace. The live demonstration featured the introduction of the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, boot strapping, and a collaborative real-time editor. This name coined in 1994 references a name used by Saddam Hussein to describe the 1991 Gulf War. Give X and Y.

Ans: X- Mother of all demoes, Y- Douglas Englebart

6. William Higginbotham, an American physicist, is credited with creating one of the first computer games, Tennis for Two. Like Pong, it is a portrait of a game of tennis or ping pong, but featured different game mechanics that have very little resemblance to the later game. As the head of the Instrumentation Division of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, he created it on an X in 1958, to entertain visitors during visitor days at the national laboratory. Which instrument X?

Ans: Oscilloscope

7. The most famous product of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation was the X Mainframe computerof 1951, which became known for predicting the outcome of the U.S. presidential election the following year. This incident is particularly infamous because the computer predicted an Eisenhower landslide when traditional pollsters all called it for Adlai Stevenson. The numbers were so skewed that CBS's news boss in New York, Mickelson, decided the computer was in error and refused to allow the prediction to be read. Instead they showed some staged theatrics that suggested the computer was not responsive, and announced it was predicting 8-7 odds for an Eisenhower win (the actual prediction was 100-1). When the predictions proved true and Eisenhower won a landslide within 1% of the initial prediction, Charles Collingwood, the on-air announcer, embarrassingly announced that they had covered up the earlier prediction. Identify X.

Ans: UNIVAC

8. This company began as BHI, which stood for “Beverly Hills Internet” in 1994, a small Web hosting and development company in Southern California. David Bohnett and John Rezner were the founders. The company also created their own Web directory, organized thematically in six “neighbourhoods” such as “Silicon Valley” (for technology) and “Sunset Strip” (for nightlife and music). In mid-1995, the company decided to offer users the ability to develop free home pages within those neighborhoods. Chat, bulletin boards, and other elements of “community” were added soon after, helping foster rapid growth. In January 1999, the company was purchased by Yahoo! for $3.57 billion. Identify this company which is now defunct in the US and Canada but still very popular in Japan.

Ans: Geocities

9. X played a huge prank by distributing 25,000 leaflets for a computer Zaltair which was not in existence at all. The hoax was directed toward the Ed Roberts and his Mitts Altair 8800 microcomputer. X called his friend Adam Schoolsky to come help with this hoax. Adam and X created the Zaltair handout and printed 8,000 of them for $400. They called in Chris Espinoza and Randy Wiggington -- a couple of teenage friends to help distribute the brochure. X told them all that no matter what, they could not admit the hoax to anyone.

They started by putting a good number of them out on a table where many vendors were displaying literature. It was discovered that they disappeared very fast so they watched and saw a representative from the Mitts Altair Company was taking them all. It was clear a much more secret way to put them out would be needed. At this point they started to carry them around under their coat and put a few here and there usually putting them a few down in someone else's stack of literature. When Steve Jobs first saw the Zaltair brochure he thought it was real and made the comment that the Apple 2 did not look to bad compared to the other computers. Who was the mastermind behind this famous joke?

Ans: Steve Wozniak

10. X was an American computer programmer, writer, archivist, political organizer, and Internet activist. He built Infogami, a company that merged with _____ in its early days. He cofounded the online group Demand Progress (known for its campaign against the SOPA). On January 6, 2011, as a result of a federal investigation, he was arrested in connection with systematic downloading of academic journal articles from JSTOR, thus potentially faced a maximum of $1 million in fines and more than 35 years in prison. He committed suicide on January 13, 2013. Who am I talking about?

Ans: Aaron Swartz