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Questions

1. Simple one to begin with. Who is Google's `Chief Internet Evangelist'?

2. In 1973, which two countries became the first non-US connections to the Arpanet, the forerunner of the modern Internet?

3. Which video game, introduced in 1996, had a soundtrack by Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails?

4. One more on gaming. What was the flagship launch title for the Xbox when the console was released in 2001?

5. Which famous worm, developed by a New Jersey hacker in 1999, was named after a lap dancer in Florida?

6. In what way was October 7, 1998, significant in the history of the Internet in India?

7. Name the Norwegian telecom company where Opera had its genesis in 1995.

8. What did Jim Ellis, Tom Truscott and Steve Bellovin create?

9. Who was Thomas Penfield Jackson?

10. What event sent a record number of 47 million hits to the NASA Web site on July 8, 1997?

Answers

1. The legendary Vint Cerf

2. The UK and Norway.

3. Quake

4. Halo

5. Melissa

6. On that day, the Government ended the monopoly of (then Government-owned) VSNL as an ISP.

7. Telenor

8. USENET

9. The judge who ruled that Microsoft was a monopoly and ordered its breakup.

10. First images shot by Pathfinder on Mars.

V.V. Ramanan

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