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Questions

1. Which eminent sportsperson has launched `Fist Pump Challenge', an online contest designed to help youngsters identify and share their greatest achievements?

2. 'Atlantic' is the codename for the first joint software product, scheduled to come out in the fourth quarter of this year, between which two cyber majors?

3. Dynabook, Equium and Libretto are laptop brands from.?

4. Expand Hector as in the name of the UK's fastest supercomputer that can handle 63 trillion calculations per second.

5. Who is to acquire middleware maker BEA Systems for $8.5 billion in cash?

6. Name the popular online version of the `Scrabble' that Hasbro has asked Facebook to remove.

7. Who has operated Borders.com site since 1991, an alliance that will end in February first week.

8. Who has developed the bestselling, recently released video game `Rock Band'?

9. Name the pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) researcher who was consulted to create the character of `HAL' in `2001: A Space Odyssey'.

10. What is the claim to fame of `Magnavox Odyssey' released in 1972?

H. SATISH

From the Toshiba stable.

Answers

1. Tiger Woods

2. SAP and IBM.

3. Toshiba

4. High-End Computing Terascale Resource.

5. Oracle

6. Scrabulous

7. Amazon

8. Harmonix Music Systems.

9. Marvin Minsky.

10. It's the world's first video game console.

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