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Going bananas, in coding.

1. Which new top-level domain, that could attract the interests of telecom entities, was made available on December 3?

2. Name the former CEO of AOL who has been mentioned as buying out Yahoo! by raising $28 to 30 billion.

3. Evan Williams is the CEO and co-founder of…?

4. Which media giant is going to shut down its teenage girl social-networking site Flip.com, launched in February 2007?

5. Name the classifieds start-up that is going to be powering Facebook’s official ‘marketplace’?

6. Why is ‘Internet Symphony No. 1’, a piece written by ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ composer Tan Dun, in the news?

7. Which entertainer is once again the most popular search subject in 2008 on Yahoo?

8. Project-Euh.com has created which popular game by turning a browser into a game by using separate pop-up windows?

9. In the recent ‘The Simpsons’ episode ‘Mypods and Broomsticks’, by what names are Steve Jobs, Apple and iPods referred?

10. In coding, what is a ‘Banana problem’?

1. .tel

2. Jonathan Miller.

3. Twitter

4. Conde Nast.

5. Oodle

6. Musicians from around the world have to play it to take part in the ambitious ‘YouTube Symphony Orchestra’.

7. Britney Spears.

8. Pong ( http://www.project-euh.com/pong/)

9. Mobs, Mapple, MyPods.

10. A code that doesn’t know when to stop (endless loop). Comes from the spelling of banana, i.e. not knowing where the ‘..nana..’ stops!

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