IT Quiz

1.Of which famous computer company was
Michael M. Scott the first president in 1977?

A.Apple

2.Name the statistician credited with
coining two of the most often used words: ‘bit’ and ‘software’.

A.john Tuckey

3.Who originally designed the TrueType
digital font format?

A.Apple

4.Which was the first language to allow
recursion i.e. routines call themselves?

A.ALGOL

5.Which cyber-giant’s social-news
site is called Propeller?

A.AOL

6.Which popular application has had
codenames such as ‘Liquid Sky’, ‘Strange Cargo’ and ‘Venus
in Furs’?

A.Adobe Photoshop

7.Which storage major has pulled the
plug on its Fanfare video download service and its companion
hardware, the TakeTV?

A.Sandisk

8.Which free social networking and
micro-blogging service is the handiwork of Obvious, LLC, a San
Francisco start-up company?

A.Twitter

9.Which browser has the tagline ‘SIMPLY
THE BEST INTERNET EXPERIENCE’ on its Web site?

A.Opera

10.Which is the world’s largest
wireless carrier with nearly 400 million subscriber accounts?

A.China Mobile