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Quiz

V.V. RAMANAN

Questions

1. Name the charity Web site, created by John Breen in October 2007, where users play a vocabulary game in order to raise money to fight world hunger.

2. Following its search ad pact with Google, how much does Yahoo! expect its revenue to rise in its first year?

3. Name the four chipset makers who have decided to tackle the issue jointly following Intel’s position on the release of the host controller specification related to USB 3.0.

4. Daniel Lyons, the creator of the Fake Steve Jobs blog, is leaving Forbes, for which publication?

5. What is FaceBook’s annual platform conference, this time to be held in San Francisco, called?

6. Which free social networking and micro-blogging service is the handiwork of Obvious, LLC, a San Francisco start-up company?

7. Connect the seventh highest mountain in the Graian Alps to June 17, 2008.

8. Which OO language was so named because of a joke within the creator’s circle of friends alluding to the name of Perl programming language?

9. Which browser has the tagline ‘SIMPLY THE BEST INTERNET EXPERIENCE’ on its Web site?

10. What is ‘Dragonfly’?

Answers

1. FreeRice ( www.freerice.com)

2. $800 million.

3. Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices, Via Technologies, and SiS.

4. Newsweek

5. F8

6. Twitter

7. The highest mountain group is called ‘Gran Paradiso’, the official codename for Firefox 3 released on June 17.

8. Ruby

9. Opera

10. Opera’s upcoming developer tools.

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