The Hindu Business Line : Quiz

2. Which university won $2 million when its robotic car `Stanley' autonomously drove across the Mojave Desert for six hours and 53 minutes on October 8?

3. Expand DARPA, the research and development unit of the US Department of Defence.

4. Google has submitted a proposal to provide which major US city with complete, free wireless Internet service?

5. Who created the virtual world of `Second Life'?

6. On the above theme, name the pilot online multiplayer video game built entirely inside `Second Life'.

7. Which Oscar winners will serve as the executive producers for the film based on Microsoft's blockbuster `Halo' video game?

8. What is special about Dell's Dimension E510n PC?

9. Who has the two product families OpenView and StorageWorks?

10. What is TrustedFlash?

Answers

1. Yahoo!

2. Stanford

3. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

4. San Francisco

5. Linden Labs

6. Stagecoach Island

7. Peter Jackson and his wife, Fran Walsh

8. It's a new PC with no operating system installed i.e. open-source PC.

9. HP

10. SanDisk's cards that can be pre-loaded with content like movies or music.

V.V. Ramanan

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