The Hindu Business Line : Quiz

1. Which cyber major is sponsoring the `Open Architecture Prize', a $250,000-prize challenge for architecture firms to design a computer lab for use in developing nations?

2. At present, domain names are composed of how many core symbols in total?

3. If Motorola had a designer Razr phone last year with Dolce & Gabbana, with which fashion label has LG tied up?

4. Which cyber-icon owns the world's second largest yacht, the 453-ft long Rising Sun, and commented on his billionaire status thus "Money is just a method of keeping score now"?

5. `StrawBerry' was a name considered for which device because of its seed-like buttons before it adopted the present name?

6. Which studio, known for its technological innovations, has had an average per-film gross of $540 million, the highest for any film studio?

7. Name the new president and CEO of McAfee.

8. Who makes the award winning `LEGO Star Wars: The Videogame'?

9. What is the single biggest contribution of Paul Mockapetris to the world of the Internet?

10.Expand SAS as used in the serial communication protocol for devices.

Answers

1. Advanced Micro Devices.

2. 37 core symbols, including numbers, letters from the Latin alphabet and the hyphen.

3. Prada

4. Larry Ellison.

5. BlackBerry

6. Pixar

7. Dave DeWalt.

8. TT Games (established in 2005).

9. He invented DNS and wrote the first implementation in 1983.

10. Serial Attached SCSI where SCSI stands for Small Computer System Interface.