Enjoy the Computer Quiz................. 1) What is the term used to refer to one billon gigabytes? Exabyte 2) Robert Metcalfe’s first experimental network was called the Alto Aloha Network. In 1973, Metcalfe changed the name to what? Ethernet 3) Whose auto-biography is titled ‘Passages from the Life of a Philosopher’? Charles Babbage 4) ‘Big Blue’ is the nickname for which IT giant? IBM 5) Which well-known programming language was developed in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan? C 6) Which online major was created by Jeff Bezos? Amazon 7) What was developed by Larry Wall as a replacement for AWK, a text processing language? Perl 8) What was invented by Peter Kramer & Lou Ottens at Philips? Compact Disc 9) Which gaming company was originally called Amazin’ Software? Electronic Arts 10) ‘Connect’ is the online music store set up by which company? Sony 11) Telstra is a telecommunications company based in which country? Australia 12) In the world of IT, the name of what is derived from the words ‘center’ and ‘neutrino’? Centrino 13) Who is known as the “father of the World Wide Web”? Tim Berners Lee 14) What one word is used to describe a web based seminar? Webinar 15) What word was coined to describe the process of outsourcing work to India? Bangalored 16) What was created by James Gosling and originally named ‘Oak’? Java 17) Which company did Google acquire in 2005 to enter the mobile devices software business? Android 18) Alan J. Perlis was the first recipient of which award in the world of computing? Turing Award 19) What word is commonly used to refer to “unsolicited bulk e-mail”? Spam 20) What is the smallest unit of picture that can be represented or controlled and has its own address? Pixel 21) What term is used to describe a program that appears to perform a harmless action but actually performs another act such as transmitting a virus? Trojan 22) Which web search engine from Microsoft is advertised as “Decision Engine”? Bing 23) Babel Fish, a web translation service owned by Yahoo! was originally created by what? AltaVista
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