The Hindu Business Line : Quiz

1. Name the two libraries that are planning to reproduce online all 75 editions of William Shakespeare’s plays printed in the quarto format before 1641 AD.

2. Phillip DePaul is to be the next chief accounting officer of which online giant?

3. Which very popular BitTorrent search engine was forced to shut down recently because of a prolonged legal fight?

4. What was started by Bob Amstadt and Eric Youngdale in 1993 as a way to run Windows applications on Linux?

5. According to the definition of ‘free software’, what does Freedom 3 state?

6. Which famous varsity is responsible for the X11 licence?

7. In programming, the ability to retain data structures between program executions is called…?

8. Which OS holds the distinction of being the longest supported in the Windows family of OSs?

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9. In Google search, which grapheme entered before a search query word displays listings with that word and synonyms of it?

10. What is a ‘combutcon’?

Answers

1. The Bodleian Library (Oxford) and Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, D.C.).

2. eBay

3. TorrentSpy

4. Wine project.

5. The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits.

6. MIT

7. Persistence

8. Windows 1.0. It was supported by Microsoft for 16 years, until December 31, 2001.

9. Tilde (~)

10. It is an interface widget that integrates a button and a popup menu.

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