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Quiz

V. V. Ramanan

Questions

1. In Yahoo’s Top Trends of 2007, which entertainer leads the ‘top 10 troubled stars’ list?

2. Which cyber giant’s recent multi-million dollar initiative for R&D and related investments in renewable energy is dubbed ‘RE < C’?

3. On the above theme, what does ‘RE < C’ presumably stand for?

4. Name the Indian academic who is the head of Carnegie Mellon’s ambitious ‘Universal Digital Library’ project.

5. Name the proprietary file format used in Amazon’s Kindle.

6. Whose slogan reads ‘What do you want to read today’?”

7. Which ‘cold’ country has the most Internet users per capita?

8. Name the chocolate company launched by Louis Rossetto, the co-founder of Wired.

9. In the context of Google, what is the significance, in order, of the terms: iphone, webkinz and tmz?

10. Which cyber giant is launching TechTicker, a new online program for technology investors, from next month?

Answers

1. Britney Spears.

2. Google

3. “Renewable energy costs less than coal-generated energy”

4. Dr Raj Reddy.

5. AZW

6. Mobipocket.com SA, the company that makes the popular Mobipocket Reader.

7. Iceland

8. Tcho

9. They are the top three in Google’s recently released list of the 10 fastest rising US search terms for 2007.

10. Yahoo

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