Quiz for all junior members

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1. His name is spanish for kisses. He also happens to be the founder
and CEO of a well known e-commerce company.Who?
2. Name Apple’s next ‘Evolutionary rather than Revolutionary’ operating system
3. What is common between GLEAM, BAM and The Hoppers
4. What is 1 Exabyte equal to
5. Which game engine does the upcoming Far Cry 2 game use?
6. This famous personality is recognized as the world’s first
programmer and whose father was the famous poet Lord Byron
7. Which is currently the world’s fastest supercomputer
8. He is “one quarter (Asian) Indian, one quarter Welsh (on his
Mother’s side), one quarter Hungarian, and one quarter Russian
(Father’s side”. Who?
9. He was an American professor of computer science, human-computer
interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a best-selling author who achieved
worldwide fame for his “The Last Lecture” speech. Who?
10. His autobiography is known as iWoz. Who?
11. Google’s operating system for mobile phones is known as?
12. Amazon’s E-book reader is known as?
13. Which company makes the BlackBerry
14. The company originally manufactured hanafuda cards. Which company?
15. This famous personality committed suicide by eating an cyanide
laced apple. Who?
16. This company was started as Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering
17. Who is the CEO of Adobe
18. What is Microsoft’s music player called?
19. This popular animation software is sanskrit for ‘Illusion’
20. This electronics giant based in South Korea is also known as the
team sponsor for the EPL team Chelsea
21. What does VERONICA stand for?
22. Microsoft’s coffee table like touchscreen computer is known as?
23. What does http://www.google.com/explanation.html contain
24. What is Froogle
25. What was the orignal price for the Apple I

5 thoughts on “Quiz for all junior members”

  1. I am up with a few of the asnwers–

    2. Snow Leopard (Apple OS X.5)
    4. 1024 terabytes= 1 petabyte and 1024 petabytes= 1 EXABYTE.
    6. A sitter- Lady Ada Lovelace
    7. Roadruner
    9. Dr. Pausch
    10. Steve Wozniak
    11. Android
    13. Research in Motion
    16. SOny
    17. Bruce Chizen
    19. Maya
    21. Very easy rodent oriented netwide index of computer archives
    24. the online shopping mart from Google

    Phew!

    – Manas Jha
    VIII- G

  3. 1. Jeff Bezos
    2. Snow Leopard
    3. Minority group at microsoft(BAM= Blacks At Microsoft, etc)
    4. 1024 petabytes(1 petabyte=1024 terabytes)
    5. Dunia
    6. Ada Lovelace
    7. Dunno
    8. Damn I knew this!! Can’t remember it now…. 🙁
    9.Randy Pausch
    10. Steve Wozniak
    11. Android
    12. Kindel(not sure of the spelling)
    13.RIM
    14. Nintendo
    15. Alan Turing
    16. Sony(I think)
    17. Shantanu Narayan
    18. Zune
    19. Maya
    20. Samsung
    21. Very Easy Rodent Oriented Network Index to Computer Archives
    22. Microsoft Surface
    23. Dunno
    24. Google Product Search….product comparison
    25. $666.66 US

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