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Quiz

V.V. Ramanan

Questions

1. What is ‘Lively’?

2. Which country topped the list of Internet attacks with 16.77 per cent of the global attack traffic for the first quarter of 2008?

3. Which early metasearch engine, with a tagline ‘Search before you surf’, now belongs to InfoSpace?

4. Name the Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of PayPal, who now heads Space Exploration Technologies, which puts satellites into orbits.

5. The codename for a discrete GPU chip, which Intel is developing to compete with the GeForce and Radeon lines of video cards, is…?

6. The chairman of Yahoo is..?

7. According to many in the know, ‘kumo’, ‘hook’ and ‘bing’ were more user-friendly names discussed for which Microsoft service?

8. What is IMVU?

9. Expand the cyber-acronym ‘PEBKAC’.

10. Name the start-up that lets people add annotations to video, which has been acquired by Google recently.

Answers

1. Google’s newly launched Web-based virtual environment in beta now.

2. China

3. Webcrawler.

4. Elon Musk.

5. Larrabee

6. Roy Bostock.

7. Live Search.

8. A service that lets people communicate using 3-D avatars in a chat-room environment.

9. ‘Problem Exists Between the Keyboard and Chair’.

10. Omnisio

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