IT Quiz

1. X was founded by Deb Roy and Michael Fleischman in 2008.X is a Cambridge, MA-based social TV analytics company that uses publicly available social media commentary from Twitter, Facebook and blogs to measure viewer engagement with television shows and ads at scale – historically a costly andcomplex problem for TV and marketing industries to solve.X was acquired by Twitter. What is X ?
Ans:Bluefin Labs
2.Identify the logo

Ans:Snaptu
3.Itwas initially developed at IBM by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce in the early 1970s.It was one of the first commercial languages for Edgar F. Codd’s relational model, as described in his influential 1970 paper “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks”.Despite not entirely adhering to the relational model as described by Codd, it became the most widely used database language.What are we talking about ?
Ans:SQL(Structured Query Language)
4.Logo of ?

Ans:Plurk5.X was a content application and platform provided by Google that was an aggregator of content served by web feeds. It was created in early 2005 by Google engineer Chris Wetherell and launched on October 7, 2005, through Google Labs. X grew in popularity to support a number of apps which used it as a platform for serving news and information to people. Google closed X on July 1, 2013, citing declining use.What is X ?
Ans:Google Reader
6.Identify this person

Ans:Ben Silbermann ( founder of Pinterest)
7. What does HDMI stands for ?
Ans:High Definition Multimedia Interface
8.Identify the logo

Ans:Clojure (programming language)
9.Connect : Pre , Pixi , Treo , Centro
Ans:Palm ( All are smartphones from  Palm)
10.X has its origins in the earliest mainframe games of the 1960s and 1970s. The earliest ancestor of X was Jerimac Ratliff’s Cube. The basic gameplay style became a popular segment of the puzzle game genre during the 1980s. What is X ?
Ans:Minesweeper