The Hindu Business Line : Quiz

1. Who makes ‘Sally’, a voice-recognition navigation and entertainment system, which can provide directions hands-free, help drivers to check real-time flight delays, and send and receive e-mail?

2. Which Microsoft product is abbreviated as MOSS?

3. Which Oscar winner appears in the commercial for Nintendo DS’s “More Brain Training” video game?

4. With whom has NASA signed a deal for the provision of supercomputing support over the next decade?

5. Jay Adelson is co-founder and CEO of which popular social content Web site?

6. Who is opening a dedicated centre called the Internet Services Research Centre, to research online advertising and search?

7. According to Richard Stallman of Free Software Foundation, what is ‘Freedom 0’ in the context of software to be given as free?

8. Which wiki’s mission is “to support open research, education, publication, and discussion in biological sciences and engineering.”?

9. Which famous spreadsheet program was conceived by Dan Bricklin and developed by Software Arts at the end of the 1970s?

10. Pescadero, Oceano and Indio are codenames of earlier versions of which popular software?

Answers

1. IBM

2. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

3. Nicole Kidman.

4. Computer Sciences Corp.

5. Digg

6. Microsoft

7. The freedom to run the program for any purpose.

8. OpenWetWare.

9. VisiCalc

10. Firefox browser.