10 interesting points

  1. Lightening that appears in the sky: It is momentary (blink of the eye-lid) and is equal to hundred million volts of electricity.  2. Chromosomes: Human-beings contain 48 chromosomes. The kray fish type animals contain 200 chromosomes.  3. Geep: The living creature born to sheep and the goat, after their sexual union is called “Geep”.  4. Life-span of sharks: They live for 100 years, like humans.  5. The last animal in the dictionary is the Zyzzyva, a tropical weevil.  6. Kiwi birds are blind, they hunt by smell.  7. A bee must visit 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.  8. Zebras can't see the colour orange.  9. A lion’s roar is so loud that it can hear up to a distance of five miles.  10. Dolphins actually sleep with their eyes wide open.     … [Read more...]

Quiz on IT and Software

 1. Which Operating system has the free and open source software? 2. What is the first release version of Windows? 3. How many people originally setup Infosys foundation and who are they? 4. Who is the original author of Java sotware? 5. Who is considered the father of computers and why?6. Which is the largest semiconductor chip maker company? 7. What are termed as Netbooks? 8. Who are the founders of the search engine Google? 9. What is the abbreviation of YAHOO? 10. Who found basis of the Internet? Quiz Answers: 1. Linux Operation system 2. Windows V1.01 3. 7 and the founders are NR Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, S Gopalakrishnan, K Dinesh, N S Raghavan, SD Shibulal and Ashok Arora. 4. James Gosling 5. Charles Babbage because he invented the “counting machine” which stored the information on punched cards 6. Intel corporation 7. Laptops which are light-weight, energy efficient, economical and the ones that are suitable for wireless communication and Internet access are called Netbooks 8. Larry Page and Sergey Brin 9. Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle 10. Tim Berners-Lee Author: Vinupradha (Chennai)  … [Read more...]