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1. What is a ‘breadcrumb trail’?

2. In fiction, whose doctoral thesis was the world’s first computer program to play perfect tic-tac-toe?

3. What happens when one ‘bluesnarfs’?

4. What does S stand for in the common S-video?

5. Which integral part of a computer was patented by Dr Robert Dennard in 1968?

6. The growing disparity of speed between CPU and memory outside the CPU chip is called..?

7. Possibly one of the commonest keyboard shortcuts was ‘invented’ by David Bradley. What is it?

8. Who is a ‘droupie’?

9. On what did Microsoft pull the plug on July 11, 2006?

10. How many bytes to one ‘petabyte’?

1. It’s a navigation tool that allows a user to see where the current page of a Web site is in relation to the site’s hierarchy.

2. Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Jr. in The ‘Simpsons’

3. One filches information from a wireless device by using a Bluetooth connection.

4. Super

5. The dynamic random access memory (DRAM).

6. Memory wall.

7. The ‘three finger salute’ i.e. Ctrl-Alt-Delete option.

8. One who likes to spend time with those who are more computer-literate than he or she is.

9. Support for Windows 98.

10. One quadrillion (1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes).

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