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Questions

1. How did Puru Pratap Singh make news on Children’s Day?

2. To whom did Intel pay $1.25 billion recently in a long-running antitrust settlement?

3. How many floating point operations per second to two teraflops?

4. Google made its third most expensive acquisition to date by buying a mobile display advertising company for $750 million. Name the company.

5. What geographical feature’s names does AMD use as codenames for its notebook platforms?

6. Ron Sege is the President and COO of the company that makes network switching and routing products and which was acquired by a cyber-giant for $2.7 billion recently. Name both the companies.

7. Microsoft recently banned as many as a million players from Xbox Live for altering their consoles in order to play pirated versions of a new game. Name the game.

8. What is ‘Namoroka’?

9. According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, who overtook Nokia as the world’s most profitable handset vendor in Q3 2009?

10. What is ‘Magasin de la Pomme’ which opened recently beneath the Louvre Museum?

Answers

1. His winning entry for the Doodle4Google India contest appeared for the whole day on Google’s India homepage.

2. AMD.

3. Two trillion.

4. AdMob.

5. Names of rivers (Congo, Yukon etc).

6. 3Com and HP.

7. ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’.

8. The development name for Mozilla Firefox 3.6.

9. Apple (with an operating profit for its iPhone division at $1.6 billion compared with Nokia’s $1.1 billion).

10. Apple’s first store in France.

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