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Wednesday, Aug 06, 2003
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Cyber Quest Quiz V.V. Ramanan
Questions
1. Simple trivia to begin with. Which is the US' largest telephone company? 2. With what word are the French replacing the word `e-mail'? 3. On the above theme, the new word is a portmanteau of which two words? 4. `Taroon' was released recently. What is it? 5. With whom did Microsoft settle a patent-infringement suit for $26 million and receive the rights to use the technology for providing tactile responses in devices like joysticks? 6. What is the latest Lara Croft game titled? 7. What is the tree control tool from Mozilla.org that lets one perform queries on the contents of a CVS archive? 8. Expand OD2 as in the name of Europe's leading digital distributor of music. 9. What is code-named `Whidbey'? 10. Gary Kremen owns which URL, which according to many a domain-name expert is the `hottest' address?
Answers
1. Verizon Communications. 2. Courriel. 3. Courrier Electronique 4. It's the test version of Red Hat Linux Enterprise 3.0, the company's next high-end product. 5. Immersion. 6. `Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness'. 7. Bonsai. 8. On Demand Distribution. 9. It's an update to Microsoft's Visual Studio.Net development tool bundle, scheduled for release in 2004. 10. www.sex.com
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