Technology and IT quiz: 24 questions and answers

 KBC questions and answers: 1. Which country keeps time 15 minutes ahead of Indian standard time? Answer: Nepal. 2. Charaka was an ayurvedic physician to which king of ancient India? Answer: Kanishka.  Technology quiz questions & answers: 1. What is the full form of T9? Answer: Text on 9 Keys developed by the Tegic Communications. 2. Which famous company acquired Sun Microsystems? Answer: ORACLE. 3. What is the Google headquarters called? Answer: Googleplex (reference to googolplex, the name given to the large number 1010100, or 10googol). 4. It was started in 1984 with an initial mission of building indigenous supercomputers in India headquartered at Pune presently. What are we talking about? Answer: C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing). 5. Which is the famous video game company whose name when translated from Japanese to English roughly gives the phrase “leave luck to heaven”? This company was initially started as a producer of playing cards. Which is this famous company? Answer: Nintendo founded by Nintendo Koppai. 6. What is the full form of “DOCOMO”? Answer: Do Communication Over The Mobile Network. 7. Jerry Yang and David Filo founded this company. This company gets its name from a fictional character of Gulliver’s travels. Which is this famous company? Answer: YAHOO!. 8. It is a line of consumer-oriented laptop computers designed by Lenovo. The computers were put on the market in January 2008 as entirely Lenovo products, and were not produced by IBM. What are … [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...]