The Hindu Business Line : Quiz

1. Which electronics giant has claimed it has developed the first 1-gigabit DRAM chip for mobile products by using the 80-nanometer process technology?

2. Name the next game promised by Will Wright, creator of `The Sims', in which the player guides a species through a grand process of evolution?

3. Which much hyped-up product has won the `Wired News Vaporware Award' for the second year in a row?

4. Which company's NYSE symbol is STX?

5. Who originally delivered Maya, the 3D modelling and animation package, in 1998?

6. What was the very popular Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 codenamed?

7. Name the current president and chief operating officer of AMD.

8. If Google owns the PageRank trademark, who owns the patent to the process?

9. Which portmanteau word has now become synonymous with `search engine spamming'?

10. Name the e-mail client based on Mozilla Thunderbird and created by the Debian Project.

Answers

1. Samsung Electronics

2. `Spore'

3. 3D Realms' 'Duke Nukem Forever'

4. Seagate Technology

5. Alias Systems Corporation (formerly Alias|Wavefront).

6. Frosting

7. Dirk Meyer

8. Stanford University

9. Spamdexing

10. IceDove