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1. Name the CIO of Sun Microsystems.

2. Of the top five global PC makers, in terms of shipments, which is the only Japanese company in the list?

3. Who makes the highly successful series of ‘Grand Theft Auto’ games?

4. One more on games. Which game won the coveted ‘Best on Show’ honours in the Game Critics Awards at the industry’s annual E3 convention recenty?

5. Name the kids’ virtual world purchased by Disney, for $350 million in cash plus up to $350 million depending on the site’s earnings in 2008-09, recently.

6. Name the open-source Web crawling site acquired from LookSmart under the open-source project Wikia.

7. Name the free/open source full-featured text search engine library, originally implemented in Java by Doug Cutting.

8. Name the computer entrepreneur (starting Cambridge Technology Partners) and author who faces charges of concocting a fake murder attempt on his own life.

9. How many fonts does Microsoft identify as being ‘core’ to the Internet?

10. Which varsity in the US developed ‘fuzz testing’ or ‘fuzzing’?

1. Bob Worrall

2. Toshiba

3. Take-Two

4. ‘Rock Band’, to be published by MTV and distributed by Electronic Arts.

5. Club Penguin

6. Grub

7. Lucene

8. John Donovan Sr

9. Twelve (including Verdana, Arial, Times New Roman)

10. University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1989.

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