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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 i...

Time for Trivia #2

1.With what is true,false and floating associated? 2.If Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 th (3-14)at 1:59 pm(3.14159) what is celebrated on October 23 between 6.02 pm and 6.02 am? 3.What is Lazy Susan? 4.This is a portmanteau given to the failed video game convergence of Hollywood and Silicon Valley.Name the term. 5.If Déjà vu in French means “already seen” what does Jamais vu mean? 6.What term is used to describe the loneliness that parents feel when their children leave home permanently? 7.Which system of medicine derives its name from two greek words meaning “similar suffering”? 8.This adorable wrinkle-faced creature is still the most popular small breed appearing in “You and I” advertising campaign of Hutch commercial.Name the breed. 9.When you stir up a ‘hornet’s nest’ you invite something.What is it? 10.This ubiquitous technology has the Nordic initials of H and G in its logo.Name the technology. 11.The members of which profession use a blue pencil? ...

Theme Quiz

1. I wrote my first software program when I was 13 years old.It was for playing tic-tac-toe.The computer I used was huge and cumbersome and slow and absolutely compelling. Name the book which has these lines in it and name the author. 2. What is blue screen of death? 3.There are many companies that would love to hate Microsoft. The principal enemies of Microsoft are commonly referred to as NOISE. If N stands for Netscape, O for Oracle, I for IBM, S for Sun Microsystems, what does E stand for? (» Murali's blog) 4.Name the ubiquitous software which has this logo. 5. Clippit, The Dot, F1, Merlin, Mother Nature, Links & Rocky(Exhaustive List). Connect these. 6. Chicago,Memphis,Georgia,Whistler,Longhorn.What connects these. 7. Why was this 17 yr old Canadian teenager and web designer in news?(Think name) 8. Where Do You Want to Go Today ; Your Potential Our Passion .Which software giant has this caption.   9. What is a three fingure salute?   10. This...

The Google Quiz

The questions are a li'l skewed though. 1.Identify the cartoonist whose comic strip has this character in the Google Doodle(sitter) 2.Give the keyword that was keyed in to get this Google Trend. (Big Fat Hint:Literal meaning of the name "One who confronts") 3. When ____ was a Stanford research project, it was nicknamed BackRub because the technology checks back links to determine a site's importance. Identify it? 4. Name the famous personalities. 5. Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan, co-founded X, the company behind Y. Z acquired X in February 2003.Name X,Y,Z. 6. --------- is the challenging pursuit of searching the popular search engine with a two-word or more search argument that will produce exactly (no less and no more than) one result. That is, only one Web page in the world (at least as indexed by the search engine) will happen to have the combination of words you've entered in the search box. What am I referring to? 7. Name this place ...

Time for Trivia #1

1. Connect Thomas Alva Edison and Kindergarten. 2. According to LA Times at least 6 of the U.S pharma firms have issued internal notices to their employees warning them to be on the lookout for a “scuffy old guy with a baseball cap who asks too many questions”.Who is this being referred to? 3. On Flights its 450*300 mm, on motorcars it is 225*150mm,on tables150*100mm.What is it? 4. What is common between the words “Abstemious and Facetious”? 5. What is E-Sats in HRjargon? 6. Which country’s Internet Id shares it's name with Chemical name for Tin? 7. Which female tennis star has a label named aneres? 8. Crouch to your feet, if you are wearing sunglasses remove it,If you are wearing lenses remove them too,now place your palm over your forehead at an angle of 45 degrees, now look…”-These are instructions for doing what? 9. What is ellipsis? 10. What is Dromophobia the fear of? 11. What does it mean by being at sixes and sevens? 12. Which six letter word conne...