Questions

1. What is SyNAPSE that has been developed by IBM, DARPA and four top US universities?

2. The latest and centennial edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary has included many new-age words. So which word would mean ‘Language regarded as characteristic of text messages, consisting of abbreviations, acronyms, initials, emoticons, etc'?

3. Where was Gamescom 2011, the world's biggest video games fair, held recently?

4. Which iconic company's first product, released in 1938, was an audio oscillator used for testing sound equipment?

5. After Antarctica, which huge natural expanse has Google started mapping for its StreetView service?

6. Name the entertainment celebrity who is a partner in investment firm Elevation Partners, which has a $210-million stake in Facebook that is now worth $975 million.

7. Which recent doodle had this pop-up text that ‘I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this theorem, which this doodle is too small to contain'?

8. Who is the President, Windows and Windows Live Division at Microsoft?

9. What infamous first did Robert Tappan Morris, a Cornell University graduate student, achieve in July 1989?

10. Which two sites follow Amazon as regards the top three most used global e-commerce sites in the world?

Answers

1. It is a working microchip that emulates the processes of the human brain.

2. Textspeak.

3. Cologne, Germany.

4. Hewlett-Packard.

5. Amazon rainforest.

6. Bono of U2.

7. Google's Doodle for Pierre de Fermat (of theorem fame).

8. Steven Sinofsky.

9. He was the first person to be indicted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for releasing the Morris worm, generally recognised as the first worm to infect the Internet.

10. eBay and Alibaba.

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