The Hindu Business Line : Quiz

3. One of the biggest pranks was played by Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, when he distributed pamphlets of a computer that never existed. What did he call the computer?

4. Who recently acquired the video search company Truveo?

5. When launched in August 1999, which PC claimed to be the first one capable of over one billion floating-point operations per second?

6. Where in Asia has Microsoft unveiled its AdCenter Incubation Lab?

7. What is the claim to fame of the short-lived `The Virtual Journal'?

8. Which museum recently published an online edition of Wolfgang Mozart's `Catalog of Works' that includes digital versions of 30 pages from the priceless original?

9. What was codenamed `Asteroid'?

10. How did Quanta Computers come into focus in December 2005?

Answers

1. Craiglist

2. Oracle's attempt to combine products from PeopleSoft with its own applications.

3. Zaltair

4. America Online

5. The Apple PowerMac G4

6. Beijing

7. Launched in 1993, it is reckoned to be the first Web magazine.

8. The British Museum

9. Windows 2000 Service Pack 1

10. It been chosen as the original design manufacturer (ODM) for the ambitious $100-laptop project of Nicolas Negroponte.

V.V. Ramanan