Questions:

1. Name the pioneering computer video game for Digital Equipment's PDP-1 originally written by MIT student Steve Russell, celebrating its 50th birthday this year.

2. What is the biggest contribution of Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to the genesis of the Google brand name?

3. In a famous April Fool's prank in 1998, the students of which prestigious university said the institution had been sold to Disney for $6.9 billion?

4. Rapier, Merlin, Ozone and Magneto have all been codenames for which ongoing Microsoft product?

5. What first can be attributed to ‘Special Word-Indexed Full-Text Alpha-Numeric Storage With Easy Retrieval'?

6. A company founded by Dorsey, Stone and Williams, has now become…

Answers:

1. Spacewar

2. He erroneously wrote a cheque in the name of Google which led to the search engine’s name being incorporated

3. MIT

4. Windows Mobile

5. It is the first computer software program to receive an US patent, way back in May 1981

6. Twitter

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