PENTATHLON EPISODE 1

QM-ANIRUDDHA BISWAS( TEAM QUIZZARDS )

This is the first among the series of quizzes we have planned as part
of the celebration of 5 years of the Quizzards_2k4 yahoo group.The
theme of the first quiz is Technology ,with the main focus being ICT.

The name of the Quiz series has been suggested by Saurish Das ,one of
the earliest members of Team Quizzards


1.This greatly pleasing or entertaining web service was started by
Joshua Scachter in 2003.Having more than 5 million users its primary
use is in storing,sharing and discovering bookmarks on the
internet.Identify.

Ans.Delicious or del.icio.us

2.This free operating system gets its name from the Zulu word for
humanity.Identify

Ans.Ubuntu

3.His father was an Indian freedom revolutionary from Bengal who
having been imprisoned for his political activities, fled Kolkata in
the 1920s in order to avoid further prosecution by the British
colonial police.A Fulbright Scholar ,he earned his Ph.D in Electrical
Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.He founded a
company in 1964,whose products can be found in the Sistine Chapel and
the Broadway Theatre."Better Sound Through Research" is the motto of
the company.Identify the person and the company he founded.

Ans.Amar Gopal Bose, Bose Corporation

4.The term originates from name of the wooden box on which a speaker
would stand to deliver a speech.The term is also used to describe a
person engaging in often flamboyant impromptu or unofficial public
speaking.The term is also the name of the online video streaming
service provided by Microsoft on its MSN portal.Identify the term .

Ans.SoapBox

5.Which best selling author was recently quoted as saying ,"MySpace is
my wife and Facebook is my mistress"?

Ans.Paul Coelho

6.Started by two Kolkata based brothers, Jayant and Rajat Agarwala,the
site is currently known as Lexulous.What was its earlier avatar known
as?

Ans.Scrabulous

7.What term has been given to the New York Governor,Dave Patterson's
proposed tax on downloaded music,videos,ebooks and other such digital
entertainment services ?

Ans.iPod Tax

8.It was started as a research and development project inside a San
Francisco based company called Odeo.Evan Williams,Jack Dorsey and Biz
Stone were the founders of the company,which currently employs around
25 people.What is being talked about ?

Ans.Twitter

9._________ is a paradigm in which information is permanently stored
in servers on the Internet and cached temporarily on clients that
include desktops, entertainment centers, tablet computers, notebooks,
wall computers, handhelds, sensors, monitors, etc.Alternatively it is
a style of computing in which IT-related capabilities are provided "as
a service", allowing users to access technology-enabled services from
the Internet without knowledge of, expertise with, or control over the
technology infrastructure that supports them. Fill in the blanks.

Ans. Cloud Computing

10.Connect the creatures shown in the picture below with the Firefox
web browser.

Ans.The picture on the left is the depiction of a Phoenix,and on the right is
a Gecko lizard.Phoenix was the earlier name of the Firefox Project and the Firefox
browser runs on the Gecko web rendering engine.

Scores will be sent with the next edition of the Quiz

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Happy Quizzing

Aniruddha Biswas

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