50 IT Quiz Questions and Answers From Class 8th ICT Textbook | Prepared By Nandulal Krishna

ICT Textbook of Class VIII  ( SCERT Textbook – 8th Standard ) Has been Studied by me and Here are Some Questions that are useful for Kerala State IT Quiz Participants. Study Well – Prepare Well – Take out the Quizzing Wizard in you. With Love Nandulal Krishna   1. The United States Patent Office documents describe “X” as “the actual construction of a typewriting machine for the first time in any country”.It was the first practical typewriting machine ever made in America. Name The Device “X” And its Inventor. Ans: The Typographer, America’s the first typewriter, was invented and made by William Austin Burt.

2. ID the Image:- It was invented in 1865 and patented and put into production in 1870, and was the first commercially produced typewriter. Ans: Hansen Writing Ball 3. What Are Cuneiform And Tesseract In Desktop Publishing Means? Ans: OCR Softwares 4.Expand OCR Ans: Optical Character Recognition 5. What Are Sphinx, Julius, And Simon? Ans: Speech Recognition Softwares 6. What Are JUKEN, BEPO, DVORAK, COLEMARK etc Ans: They Are Various Popular Keyboard Layouts other than Qwerty   7. In 1995, Mr. Bill Gates asked Vincent Connare, a French designer working for Microsoft, to create a suitable font for a Microsoft game for kids called Bob. Till then, Times New Roman was used for almost every Microsoft-purpose, yet it remained a font oddly unsuited to the comic context. So He created a New Typeface Font and It Gained A lots Of Popularity. Gradually A Group of People Started to Hate it and Called the Most Hated Font (more than Justin Bieber !) Name The Font Ans: Comic Sans. The Font Was Used(Misused) a lot. Follow the links to know more     8.Expand OMR

Ans: Optical Mark Recognition 9. “X” was released in 1979 by Micropro International Inc. It is The first Word Processor Software. Name it Ans; Word Star 10. You Are Familiar with the word “Serif” related to Fonts And Typefaces. What Are Serifs(Not Police officers !) Ans: small lines at the ends of characters.   11. “X” is A Free, opensource Raster graphics editor written in C, known as Poors’s Photoshop “X” is released under GPLv3+ licenses and is available for Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows. ID the Software Ans: GIMP Image Editor 12.Expand GIMP Ans: GNU Image Manipulation Program (was known as General Image Manipulation Program before taken under GNU program) 13. GIMP,s Mascot is Called “Wilber”. it has been designed by “X” before the GIMP Program is Taken under GNU Program on 1977 Sep 25. Name “X”? Ans: Tuomas Kuosmanen 14. “X” is a photo-editing application that utilizes artificial intelligence to transform the image into an artistic effect. The app was created by Alexey Moiseenkov, Oleg Poyaganov, Ilya Frolov, Andrey Usoltsev and it was launched in June 2016 as a free mobile app. It was the Social media sensation of 2016. Name “X” Ans: Prisma 15.Expand ASCII and How Much is its Character support Ans: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Extended ASCII is an 8-bit character set. 8 bit means that 2^8 different characters can be referenced. 2^8 equals 256, and as counting starts with 0, the maximum ASCII char code has the value 255 16. On 1969 June 2, an early packet-switching network and the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP was launched. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet. Name The Network Ans: ARPANET-Advanced Research Projects Agency Network 17.”TCP/IP” is a set of rules that governs the connection of computer systems to the Internet. Who Invented it? Ans: Robert Elliot Kahn along with Vint Cerf, invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP) 18. Expand TCP/IP Ans: Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol 19. The history of the internet in India began with the launch of the “X” in 1986. The network was only made available to educational and research communities. It played a pivotal role in India’s Software-Data Science Development. Nane “X”

Ans: Educational Research Network (ERNET) 20. Tata Communications formerly called “X” is a global provider of telecommunications solutions and services. The Introduced First Publically Available Internet service in India on 1995 Aug 15. Name “X” Ans: VSNL- Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited 21.Expand URL Ans: Uniform Resource Locator 22. What is Accoona? Ans: Accoona was an internet company. Their main product was a search engine that claimed to use artificial intelligence to better understand searches. 23.ID Logo Ans: BIGLOBE.One of the leading internet service providers in Japan. 24. XNews, XMail, XShops, XMusic, XCellular,Xpedia, Yad2 etc are Some Services of An Israeli Internet Company “X”. Name “X” Ans: Walla! 25. “Truth in Numbers? Everything, According to ‘X’ ” is a 2010 American documentary film that explores the history and cultural implications of the online, user-editable encyclopedia “X” Name X Ans: Wikipedia

50 Questions and Answers from Class 8th ICT Textbook | Prepared By Nandulal Krishna

26.”X” is the first-ever wiki or user-editable website. It was launched on 25 March 1995 by its inventor, programmer Ward Cunningham, to accompany the Portland Pattern Repository website discussing software design patterns. Name the Software “X” Ans: WikiWikiWeb 27. “X” is a Group of 474 Organisations, Develops protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web. “X” was Founded by Tim Berners-Lee on 1st Oct 1994. Name It

Ans: W3C – WorldWideWeb Consortium 28. “X” is an American Software Engineer And Co-Author of the First Widely Used Web browser – MOSAIC and Also the Co-founder of Netscape. Name “X” Ans: Marc Andreessen 29. What is Calligra Sheets? Ans: Calligra Sheets is a free software spreadsheet application that is part of Calligra Suite. 30.ID Logo Ans: Gnumeric 31. Expand ICFOSS Ans: International Centre for Free and Open Source Software-an autonomous organization set up by the Government of Kerala for popularizing Free and Open Source Software. 32. VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet computer program for personal computers, originally released for the Apple II by VisiCorp. Expand VisiCalc Ans: Visible Calculator 33. Software Arts was a software company founded by “X” and “Y” in 1979 to develop VisiCalc, which was published by a separate company, Personal Software Inc., later named VisiCorp. Name X And Y Ans: Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston 34. Carl Edwin Wieman is an American physicist and educationist at Stanford University. In 2001, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. In 2002 He Started a non-profit opensource educational project to improve the way of science taught and learned. name The Project Ans: PhET 35.Expand PhET Ans: Physics Education Technology 36. .ggb is the file extension used by a popular Opensource Software intended to teach mathematics and science in primary classes. name the Software. Ans: GeoGebra (NOTE: The logo has 5 circles on it, imagining it with the Olympics logo is a big deal ) 37. GeoGebra was created by “Y” in 2001/2002 as part of his master’s thesis in mathematics education and computer science at the University of Salzburg in Austria. Name Y Ans: Markus Hohenwarter     38.LCD and DLP are two different imaging technologies for flat screen TVs. LCD stands for Liquid Crystal Display and DLP stands for ___?_________ Ans: Digital Light Processing 39. “X” is a free and open-source digital audio editor and recording application software Developed By Dominic Massoni and Roger Dannenberg Name “X”

Ans: Audacity. 40. Expand G-GPL Ans: GNU General Public License. 41. Both .wav and .aiff are Uncompressed Audio file formats . Expand both Ans: WAV-Waveform Audio File Format & AIFF-Audio Interchange File Format 42.FLAC is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio. Expand FLAC Ans: Free Lossless Audio Codec – an audio coding format for lossless compression. 43. Apple Developed a lossless Compressed Audio format like FLAC . its called ALAC. expand ALAC Ans: Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC 44. Expand UAV Ans: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle 45. What is the invention of Bent Stumpe? Ans: Touch Screen 46. ID Device Ans: Footmouse-is a type of computer mouse that gives the users the ability to move the cursor and click the mouse button with their feet. 47. Stellarium is an open-source free-software __?_____, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Fill in the blanks Ans: Planetarium 48. ID Logo Ans: Kalzium     49. ID The Person Ans: Larry Sanger           50.ID Person Ans: R.M Stallman        

The Above Questions are of Class 8th ICT Textbook From SCERT | Prepared and Posted By Nandulal Krishna