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1. On June 1, 2009, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and Yoko Ono all came together at a press briefing for the announcement of which Beatles product?

2. The legendary creator of Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, and Pikmin is…?

3. What does the S stand for in the recently unveiled iPhone 3G S?

4. Which ambitious Web site has the declaration ‘An ongoing project devoted to discovering all the words and everything about them’?

5. Fill in the name of a recently deceased individual in this extract from Sergey Brin’s blog: “Today, whenever you use a piece of technology, there is a good chance a little bit of ____ _____ is behind it.”

6. Why is June 5, 2002, important in the timeline of browsers?

7. Name the pioneering computer-hobbyist group, from which came legends such as Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, that had its first meeting at the garage of Gordon French in Menlo Park, California?

8. Name the first computer to defeat a chess champion in match play, when it beat Garry Kasparov in 1997.

9. What is ‘Project Natal’?

10. Google’s recent launch to present search results in grid format is called…?

1. Harmonix and MTV Games’ ‘Beatles: Rock Band’ set to debut on 090909.

2. Shigeru Miyamoto.

3. Speed

4. Wordnik

5. Rajeev Motwani.

6. Mozilla 1.0 made its debut.

7. The Homebrew Computer Club.

8. Deep Blue.

9. It is Microsoft’s code name for a “controller-free gaming and entertainment experience” for the Xbox 360 video game platform.

10. Google Squared.

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