Technical Quiz

1.Which computer virus was named after a topless dancer the virus programmer once knew?

2.Whose website is titled "The homepage of WWW-illiterate" ?

3.It is claimed to be the world's first open source consumer product.What?

4. Connect


5.According to the author rhis programming language needed a name that was short,unique and slightly mysterious.Now,the creator of this programming language was also a fan of the BBC comedy show of the 70s which starred Graham Chapman,John Cleese and Eric Idle.He derived the name of this language from this program.Name the TV show and the programing language?


6.To what category does del.icio.us belong to?

7.What is a computer virus that actively attacks an anti-virus program(s) in an effort to prevent detection called............

8.Could it be....
» that you were trying to find those secret files that everybody claims exist on the Internet, but nobody has ever been able to find?
»that the men in dark glasses forcibly removed it?
» Was it just a figment of someone else's imagination?
» that we just goofed? Very unlikely.
»that the server took it upon itself to eliminate all traces of it? HAL9000 anyone?
»that you just didn't have control over your fingers today? Maybe you were possibly looking over your shoulder as you typed? Maybe someone is watching you even now.
What is being conveyed here?


9.Why does an audio CD hold 74 minutes-worth of music?

10.August 24th,1995 was a momentous occasion for the computer industry as Microsoft introduced Win 95 at a gala launch event.The Empire State Building was lit with WIn 95 logo. in Poland,journalists were taken into a submarine to experience something.What is it?

11. What are these gestures mocking at?



12.Who wrote the book "The Mythical Man-Month"?

13. What service does the website technorati.com offer?

14.Name the animation studio where Star Wars was created?

15.Connect the following Manhattan, Apollo, Hedwig, Cartman, Guinness.

16.It could have been: Calex, Elcal, Calecom, Elcom, Calcomp, Digicom, Tronicom, Comptek, Computek, Esscotek or Ectek. But what name was finally chosen for this startup?

17. Connect


18.In chat and email lingo, what is TEOTWAWKI?

19.In Turkish, ______ means "the holy meeting place"
In Finnish, ______ means "orgasms“

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20. The “Make Love Not Spam” campaign by Lycos came under fire from security experts and spammers, and had to bite the dust. Why?

21.Which gadget is described in this specification: 6.5 ounces and measured 2.43 by 4.02 by 0.78 inches lighter than most cell phones.

22.If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification."Who said this?

23.Connect these: Rhapsody, Titan, Carbon .

24.Black comb:??::Whistler:XP

25.The literal meaning in Chinese for this term is - "Ten-Thousand-Dimensional Web in Heaven and Net on Earth". How do we better know this yet another term from the Cyber world ?

P.S:These are some of the questions that I and Santosh hosted during Innofest '07.Suggestions and corrections are welcome.