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Cyber Quest Quiz V.V. Ramanan
Questions 1. John W. Backus, who passed away in March, was a pioneer credited with grouping and leading a team that developed which programming language? 2. In one of the high-profile incidents in Wikipedia in recent times, the entry for David Adkins was vandalised by suggesting that he was `dead' when he was not so. How does one better know David Adkins? 3. Which style of software distribution was supposedly first used by Aaron Giles, author of JPEGView? 4. In the context of video games, what is common to Thunder Bluff, Darnassus and Light's Hope Chapel? 5. What is `Project Panama'? 6. Werner Vogels is the CTO of which online giant? 7. Whose successful ad campaign/tagline was `The Power Of All Of Us'? 8. Chris Anderson is the Editor-in-Chief of which pioneering tech magazine? 9. Name the company founded by Reuben Steiger and `dedicated to helping businesses understand and harness the power of virtual worlds'? 10. What is considered Microsoft's longest product name ever? Answers 1. Fortran 2. The stand-up comedian `Sinbad'. 3. Postcardware 4. All cities in the popular Warcraft MMORPG series. 5. Yahoo!'s new search marketing system. 6. Amazon 7. eBay 8. Wired Magazine. 9. Millions of Us. 10. `Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate UPGRADE Limited Numbered Signature Edition'!
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