IT QUIZ 88

                                ANSWER UPDATED ON 3/5/2012

1.Who is quoted as saying “I think I was named equally for 'X' the peanut cartoon character,” noting that this makes him half “Nobel-prize-winning chemist” and half “blanket-carrying cartoon character”?

A.Linus Torvalds

2.Which IT CEO shared an office with Jeffrey Immelt while they were at procter & Gamble and is today an important face at Microsoft?

A.Steve Ballmer

3.Which OS is sponsered by Canonical Ltd?

A.Ubuntu

4.Which is the most widely used Email encryption software in the world?

A.Pretty Good Privacy

5.Expand BASIC?

A.Beginner's all purpose symbolic instruction code

6.________ has launched the worlds first ever WORM SD cards (un-erasable contents once written) aimed at industries where unalterable content is vital,such as police investigations,court testimony,electronis voting,etc.Identify?

A.Sandisk

7.Which company filed a 1 billion dollar lawsuit against Google for filtering the copyrighted contents in Youtube?

A.Viacom

8.VPro is a microprosser platform from which company?

A.Intel

9.Which term was coined by Ralph Vaerst and first used by Dan Hoefler?

A.Silicon Valley

10.what is the name given to software applications that run automated tasks over the Internet?

A.Bots

11.Alan J Perlis is the first recipient of which award in the world of computing?

A.Turing Award