TECH WORLD A TECHNOLOGY AWARENESS GUIDE Mishra Dibyendu Mishra
The title and subtext have been shamelessly stolen from Ravi Handa and Avinash Maurya s Biz World.
1. It is known as ‘Probotector’ and ‘Gryzgor’ in some parts of the world. In Nicaragua one would use the word to refer to a group of rebels. ‘Mad Dog’ and ‘Scorpion’ are names that you can associate with it. What is being talked about here? 2. He often wears a button reading ‘Impeach God’. Instead of celebrating 25th of December as Christmas, he celebrates it as Grav-mas after Sir Isaac Newton. He is the author of sci-fi stories namely ‘The Right to Read’ and ‘Jinnetic Engineering’.In 2006,in the state of Kerala he managed to convince authorities of 12,500 schools to switch from Windows to free operating Systems. Identify this iconic person. 3. Which neuroscientist founded PDA manufacturing companies called Handspring and Palm Computing and also created the path breaking character recognition software called Graffiti? 4. The company’s name in Finnish means ‘burning wood’. The very first venture by its founders was ‘King of the Cabbage World’ which was developed as a competition hosted by Nokia and HP. The 5th version of its most famous venture is a tribute to Star Wars. Identify the company. 5.’Just For Fun: The Story of an accidental revolutionary’ is the autobiography of which famous personality? 6. Which term was coined by a well known hacker and spammer called Khan C. Smith? 7. Which classic game launched in 1978 by Tomohiro Nishikado caused a nationwide shortage of the denomination of 100-yen-coins in Japan? 8. It started off in the month of June,1967 in the city of New York as a spinoff of the Chicago Music Show with an inauguration speech being made by Motorola chairman Bob Galvin.It has been responsible for introducing notable products like VCR,CD,the game Tetris,DVD,NES,XBOX 360,Blu Ray Discs and many more. What is being talked about here? 9.This term was coined by John R. Pierce. It was chosen out of a ballot at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Other contenders included ‘Lotatron’,’Semiconductor triode’,’Solid Triode’ and ‘Crystal Triode’. Identify the term. 10.This company was founded by Linkabit founders Irwin Jacobs and Andrew Viterbi.The very first product launched by them was a satellite locating and messaging service called OmniTRACS.Identify the company. 11. X wrote the open source port scanning program 'Strobe' and Co-invented the 'rubberhose deniable encryption' concept used in cryptography. He also wrote "Surfraw", a command line interface to search engines’ and is also a contributor to the book ‘Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession’. Identify X. 12. Which famous gaming company was founded by the Guillemot brothers? 13. Jay Freeman, often nicknamed as ‘Saurik’, is the developer of which popular application whose name literally means ‘worm in the apple’? 14. With which IT personality can you relate the SpaceShipOne which holds the record of having completed the first manned private spaceflight ?
15. Which UNIX OS was originally developed by Sun Microsystems? 16.Which term describes the gaming equivalent of trolls? 17.What is the name of the most famous venture by Jasubhai Digital Media Pvt. Limited? 18.What is SIMRAN in the context of Indian railways? 19.Which online major has a small robotic cat called Fella as its mascot? 20. Which popular event is held in the Fira de Barcelona every year since 2006? 21. Which company, initially known as Bombay Telephone, has the tagline “Transparency makes us different”? 22. Ranjana Sonawane from the Tembhli village in Maharashtra became the first recipient of what? 23. Which hardware manufacturer, founded as the Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., has been in news for the numerous suicides committed by its workers? 24. 'The Apple Macintosh Book' by Cary Lu and 'Exploring the IBM PC' by Peter Norton- both released in 1984 at the West Coast Computer Fairewere the first two books from the publishing wing of which technology major? 25.”Game Over “was a documentary film made by Vikram Jayanti about which iconic moment? 26. Name the iconic person behind the inventions of the bag less vacuum cleaners and the bladeless fans. 27. Which concept did M. Stanley Whittingham conceive in the 1970’s that has become a staple in the electronics industry? 28. Which famous venture capitalist is the author of the bestseller ‘The Macintosh Way’? 29. Which company goes by the strategy "One Global Company", "One Global Brand" and "One Global Team" ? 30.He, at age 4 built his first circuit board,at age 6 built his first engine,at 17 graduated from MIT and at 21 became the CEO of his father’s company.Who is this iconic person ? 31. What is the name of the secret facility run by Google somewhere in the Bay Area of North California which has been working on projects like space elevators, Google Glass and the Google Driverless Car ? 32. PC Talk and PC File are regarded to be the first kinds of X. Jim Knopf is considered to be the father of X and Bob Wallace is said to have coined it.What is X? 33. Name the founder of Digital Research Inc. who is often called ‘The man who could have been Bill Gates’ . 34.Which famous programming language is named after its authors Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger,
and Brian Kernighan ? 35.Which two companies’ rivalry does the term ‘Browser Wars’ refer to? 36.Which open source CMF was authored by Dries Buytaert and was named after a dutch word meaning ‘a water droplet’? 37.Richard Brodie , nicknamed ‘The Quiet Lion’ is the creator of which massively used software ? 38.Which pioneering system was built by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis ? 39. Which genius cofounded the companies Paypal , SpaceX and Tesla Motors ? 40. Which company created by Anupam Mittal launched a Facebook game called Angry Brides’ to create awareness and showcase the company’s stand against dowry? 41.How are John Hodgman and Justin Long better known in the world of technology? 42. Which personality started a group called Young Intelligent Hackers Against Terrorism (YIHAT),had cars with license plates reading HACKER, MAFIA, and STONED and also released a music album in 2012 by the name ‘Party Amplifier’ ? 43. Name the German maker of optical instruments who started a company by his name which today makes lenses for companies like Hasselblad , Sony and Nokia. 44. Which personality has founded companies like CL-9 , Wheels of Zeus and Acquicor Technology and had also created the prototype for the game Breakout which led to the founding of a billion dollar company? 45.Name the iconic author of the books Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, In The Plex who is also credited for rediscovering Einstein’s brain . 46.Which American programmer is behind the projects like Winamp,the media player and the P2P network Gnutella ? 47.X had cofounded a company called Tangerine .He is greatly influenced by the work of Dieter Rams and is the person responsible for designing many products including MacBook Pro, iMac, MacBook Air, iPod, iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad and iPad Min . Identify this person. 48.Which person gave out the idea of Gmail , suggested the motto “Don’t be evil for google” and also found the social aggregator site Friendfeed ? 49.Which author and programmer is behind companies like Y Combinator and Viaweb , programming languages like Arc and Blub and the famous news site Hacker News ? 50.Which company did David Ng in start in 2006 which deals with products based on his college research on light field cameras? 51.Who started his first company at the age of 14, served as CEO of uTorrent and created the music streaming service , Spotify ?
52.Which corporation was started by Mike Ramsay and Jim Barton as ‘Teleworld’.? It had its first product codenamed as ‘Blue Moon’ . 53.He is the founder of companies like K2 Optronics , Optics Technology Inc. and Kaptron Inc. He is often regarded as the ‘Father of Fiber Optics’ .He has created over 40 ‘dynoptic’ sculptures. Name this person. 54.He is known for inventing the handheld cellular mobile phone and leading the team at Motorola that developed the DynaTAC .He with his wife, Arlene Harris ( Known as the First Lady of Wireless) , has founded a company called ArrayComm .Who is this person? 55.Which entity, originally known as Volta Bureau , is known for inventions like the transistor ,CCDs, laser, the UNIX OS, the C and C++ programming languages and Information Theory ? 56.His first venture was called Rediffusion .In 1996 he founded Rediff.com which became a highly successful internet site .He currently serves as the Chairman Emeritus of the Internet and Mobile Association of India .He recently launched his autobiography called ‘The Wave Rider’ .Who is this person? 57.This was started in 1996 by filmmaker Tiffany Shlain .It is also known as the ‘Oscar of the Internet’ .It is very famous for the 5 word speeches given by the awardees .What is being talked about here? 58.X and Bob Kahn are known as the ‘Fathers of the Internet’ .Both of them are known for inventing TCP and IP and cofounding the Internet Society .X also led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial email service to be connected to the Internet .Identify X. 59. It was founded by former Facebook employees Adam D’Angelo and Charlie Cheever. It’s members include Steve Case, Marc Andreessen, Dustin Moskovitz, Jimmy Wales and Aston Kutcher .In Latin it means ‘a sufficient number of people to make a decision’. What is it? 60. X means snow in the Finnish language .One in the very first series of this was codenamed ‘Sea Ray’ .It runs on the Windows Phone platform. Its theme song features the music of ‘Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs’ by Garden. Identify X. 61.What was started by Paul Baudis and Edward Kucera as ALWIL Software Cooperative after the former encountered a sample of the Vienna virus and was able to remove it? 62.Which Intel executive branded as ‘Rockstar’ by the company has been behind the development of widely used technologies like USB , AGP and PCI Express? 63.Who was announced the Global Creative Director of Blackberry Inc. at the Blackberry 10 Experience event? 64.Which companies have distributed data stores called Voldemort,Big Table and Dynamo respectively which they use for high scalability storage? 65. Which Indian’s work on compression of images and image sequences has transformed television from analog to digital in broadcast TV, cable TV, DBS, HDTV, and enabled an entirely new set of products and services for the multimedia revolution over the Internet ? 66.Which company founded in 1991 as Silicon and Synapse , renamed as Chaos Studios is behind the creation of the famous Warcraft , Diablo and Starcraft series?
67.Which film’s trailer posted on Youtube in 2012 resulted in the website’s ban in Islamic countries like Afghanistan , Bangladesh , Pakistan and Sudan? 68. Which Freemium App was developed by the husband-and-wife team of Keith Shepherd and Natalia Luckyanova, along with artist Kiril Tchangov whose sequel became the world's fastest spreading game in 2013? 69.Which Taiwan based company founded by Peter Shu started out with the products 'JetMate'-a laser printer driver and 'KeyPro' a software protection system and has also released a limited edition USB Flash Drive called 'Spirit Of India'? 70.Which 'discovery engine' , created by Garrett Camp & Geoff Smith , offers an URL shortening service called su.pr ? 71.Which idea , brought to prominence every year on September 22 ,was started by ICANN member Susan P.Crawford? 72.What was the name of the most famous creation of the company 'Software Arts' which was founded by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston? 73.Which game developer , now a subsidiary of EA , is behind the popular SexyApp Framework and games like Bejewelled and Plants vs. Zombies? 74.Which term rose to prominence from the book ‘The C Programming Language’ written by Kernighan and Ritchie ? 75.Which venture operated by Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, and Abu Dhabi Media is called the ‘Hulu for music videos’ ? 76. How is the famous essay ‘The Conscience of a Hacker’ written by a computer security hacker under the pseudonym ‘The Mentor ’ better known? 77.What that was developed by Joe Becker , Lee Collins and Mark Davis has become a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems ? 78.Name the sci-fi sitcom created by Matt Groening which revolves around the life of Phillip J. Fry , a pizza delivery boy who works for Planet Express , an interplanetary delivery company. 79. Which idea did Reed Hastings conceive when he was forced to pay $40 in overdue fines after returning Apollo 13 well past its due date? 80.Which company was founded by 3 brothers namely Louis , Emory and Fredrick Upton as the Upton Machine Company in 1911 ? 81. What was the name of the company which Andy Rubin cofounded before creating Android Inc. which was famous for the ‘Hiptop’ series of phones? 82.Which term refers to announcement by a company’s top executive of releasing a new product replacing the ongoing ones and branding the current products as being obsolete leading to a sharp decline in the company’s current sales?
83.Which collaborative movement led by W3C aims at providing a common framework that would allow data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries ? 84.What was released with the promise of “Write Once , Run Anywhere” and named as it was supposed to be consumed in large quantities by language creators? 85.What important distinction has the Computer History Museum and American Computer Museum given to Kenbak-1 which was invented by John Blankenbaker ? 86.What was invented by Trevor Bayliss in response to the need to communicate information about AIDS to the people of Africa ? 87.What was invented by Paul Mockapteris on the request of Jon Postel in 1983?88. Which German was credited for inventing the first high level programming language Plankalkül and the world’s first functional Turing-complete computer , the Z3 ? (His autobiography is called ‘The Computer-My Life’) 89.What was used for the first time on a message board in the Carnagie Mellon University to distinguish serious posts from jokes? 90.In 2012 which organisation started an internet T.V called YuvaTV to connect with the masses of India? 91. How are 'The Whiner', 'The Funny One', 'The Grumpy', 'The Cynic' and 'The Drama King' better known? 92. Which film in 2012 used a projection frame rate of 48 frames per second , becoming the first film to do so? 93. Which corporation co-founded by the husband – wife pair of Cher Wang and Chen Wen Chi was founded as the Symphony Company and has the world famous phone manufacturer HTC as its subsidiary? 94. Which company was founded by hip-hop artist Dr.Dre and Jimmy Iovine whose products are manufactured under the exclusive license of Monster Cable? 95. Which company founded by Min Liang-Tan and Robert Krakoff started out with a high end computer gaming mouse, called the Boomslang ?
96. Which company was founded by John Tu and David Sun with the former betting the latter a Jaguar that their company wouldn’t last a year? 97. Which company was founded by Frederico Faggin , the chief designer of the Intel 4004 chip, which deals primarily with microcontrollers? 98. Which widely used term was originally used as a nickname for the Motorola SCR-300 whose design was conceived by Dan Noble, an engineer at the Galvin Manufacturing Company? 99. Which technology’s name was coined by a firm called Interbrand Corporation as a replacement for the IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence ? (It has a logo similar to that of the Yin-Yang)
100. Which corporation released an advertisement portraying the thoughts of an 8 year old called Jake Ryan entitled “Made of Imagination” for its flagship range of products? 101.What was founded by Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer as 'Architext' in 1994 which is known for refusing an offer to buy Google for just 1 million dollars? 102.Which company was found by famous scientist Edwin Land as the Land-Wheelwright Laboratories which was known for its instant cameras that could develop pictures in about 1 minute? 103.Which organisation with the motto “One World. One Internet.” was founded after publishing of the’ Green paper’ in the Federal register of US on February 20, 1998 ? 104.What was the name of the project started by University of California , Berkeley which developed the SDS 940 which became the first machine to use the concept of time-sharing directly? 105.What is the name of the DRM technology created by Apple based on the project developed by Veridisc which was formerly encoded into every song present in the iTunes store to stop its usage on unauthorised computers? 106.What was the name of the popular and commercially successful non-substantive, color reversal film introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1935 which also has a U.S state park name dafter it? 107. The company was initially name after the mythological mountain Mt. Takachiho as Takachiho Seisakusho. The company introduced a successful brand series called the Pen series in the late 1950s. The yellow line underneath this brand’s logo is called the “opto-digital pattern.” It represents light and the boundless possibilities of digital technology. Name the company. 108. Which German company , founded in 1932 as “Ideal” , has its name in German meaning "blue point" or "blue dot" after the blue dot painted onto its headphones that had passed quality control ? 109.Who are Trump , Swoop , Skeeter ,Cruiter ,Nettie , Al-ert , Technopillar and Thwacker ? 110. Which company was founded when Karen Bertiger convinced her husband , Motorola executive Bary Bertiger of the need for a mobile wireless system that would allow people to place calls from any location in the world after being unable to make a call to the U.S.A while vacationing in the Carribean ? The company’s logo features the constellation Big Dipper. 111.Which phrase is a title given to a small number of open-source software development leaders, typically project founders who retain the final say in disputes or arguments within the community? It originated in 1995 with reference to Guido van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language and today includes people like Mark Shuttleworth , Larry Wall and Linus Torvalds in its list.
112.Which historic product was released with the Empire State building lighting up to match its colours and free copies of the The Times being distributed in the United Kingdom ?It also had a commercial featuring the Rolling Stones' 1981 single "Start Me Up" . 113.Which term was used to refer to the collapsing of signals in the iPhone 4 when the gap between the chassis bands on the side of the handset with the buttons was touched while holding it in a
‘certain way’ ? 114.Which company started by two brothers Theodore and Milton Deutschmann used to don commercials titled “The biggest name in small computers” ? 115.Which invention got physicist Dennis Gabor his Nobel Prize in the year 1971 ? 116. Which company is often dubbed ‘The Fast Food Computer Company’ with its founded Stan Shih being nicknamed ‘The Ray Kroc of PC business’ ? 117.Which company founded by Thomas Alva Edison was the subject of the Academy Award winning documentary ‘ Deadly Deception’ ? 118.Which Google executive often termed as Google’s Social Czar is considered to be the man behind Google + and known for his contribution to the Microsoft .NET framework, Google Gears, Google Gadgets and Open Social ? 119.Which entertainment website owned by Ziff Davis and founded by Jonathan Simpson-Bint is known for its top 10 lists and reviews ? 120.What was created by Jack Dorsey when James Mckelvey a friend of his was unable to was unable to complete a $2,000 sale of his glass faucets and fittings because he could not accept credit cards ? 121. In 1928 Paul V. and Joseph E. Galvin purchased the bankrupt Stewart Battery Company's battery eliminator plans and manufacturing equipment at auction for $750.It is known for being one of the earliest partners of NASA starting with providing them transponders on board Mariner II. How do we know this company today? 122. Which term refers to tendency of a spell checker to suggest or autocorrect with inappropriate words to replace misspelled words and words not in its dictionary? 123.Which term coined by Mark Lucente is used to refer to a holographic element which contains 3D information from various perspectives? 124.Which online venture started by Phanindra Sharma is considered to be the largest of its kind in India and is also known for cloud services like BOSS and SeatSeller? 125.Which company famous for publishing software guides and other books related to technology is known for coining terms like ‘Web 2.0’ and ‘Infoware’ and organising an annual hacker’s conference called Foo Camp ? 126. He started his own music company at the age of 19. His synthesizer is considered to be one of the first widely used electronic musical instruments. He received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1970.His inventions have greatly inspired the portable music industry. Identify the person being described here. 127.Which iconic businessman is the author of these books : “Made in Japan’ ; “S does not equal T and T does not equal I “ ; “The Japan that can say no” and “Never Mind School Records” ? 128.Which company founded by Armory Houghton as Bay State Glass Company is famous for
manufacturing the Gorilla Glass and Lotus Glass ? 129.Which Austrian-American actress of MGM’s Golden age together with composer George Antheil invented the frequency-hopping spread-spectrum which formed the basis of many technologies like Bluetooth and CDMA ? 130. What is the phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide or remove a piece of information from the Internet has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely? 131.Who said this : “All of you know that I have always, and will always bleed purple” ? 132.How is Bill 3261 introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011, by House Judiciary Committee Chair Representative Lamar S. Smith better known ? 133.With which two companies can the ‘Itanium Situation’ be related to ? 134.Who was the inventor of the F.M. Radio and was also the first to receive the IEEE Medal of Honour? 135.Which term is used to refer to the 8 men who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory due to a conflict with William Shockley to form Fairchild Semiconductors ? It acted as an incubator for the development of various companies like AMD , Intel and Zilog. 136.Which company , considered to be the largest supplier of automotive components ,has a logo which represents a simple magneto armature and casing, one of the company's first products ? 137. Which idea was conceived by Rajiv Rao , an Ogilvy and Mather Executive and shot by Prakash Varma and produced by Nirvana Films within a record time of 10 days? 138.Which e-book , till 2011 , was always provided for free with every copy of iBooks since it was the favourite of company founder Steve Jobs ? 139.What was set up by the Department of Electronics in India headed by Vijay Bhatkar to develop indigenous supercomputers and supercomputing technologies after being denied Cray supercomputers ? 140.Which viral internet meme uploaded originally by The Sunny Coast Skate last 31 seconds and features an excerpt from a song by electronic musician Baauer ? 141. Which product released in July 1976 had an introductory price of US$666.66 because one of the founder was obsessed with repeating digits and also as it was the number of the beast ? 142. Which company started out as Daiwa Kogyo Ltd. that was founded in 1942 by Hisao Yamazaki, a clock shop owner is behind the piezoelectric inkjet print head technology called ‘Micro Piezo’ ? 143.Which company is known for developing Scribe , HipHop for PHP , Apache Thrift , Apache Hive , Apache Cassandra ? 144. Which company founded by Rashmi Sinha and Jonathan Boutelle has its servers named after Bollywood actors Aishwarya Rai , Bipasha Basu ,Celina Jaitley and Dia Mirza ?
145.Name the technology executive , often referred to as ‘Googirl’ , who is behind the development of the Google homepage. 146.What that was initially developed by Rare is currently developed by PrimeSense and owned by the company which has a mascot called ‘The Blue Monster’ ? 147. Which website was created by Douglas Adams in 1999 as the ‘Earth version’ of ‘Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ which has the slogan “The Guide to Life, The Universe and Everything” ? 148.What is often referred to as 'Wifi on Steroids'? 149Which brand name originated after a contest held in 1999 called " Name That Chip" among the general public to name the successor to the RIVA TNT2 line of graphics boards? 150.Which company was advertised in the 1920s with the 'Dime Lady' commercials featuring Candice Bergen ? 151.Which company traces its origin to the establishment of 'Racal Strategic Radio Limited' in 1982 which was then the largest maker of military radio technology? 152.Which product on January 24 , 2013 was officially confirmed to be the last 'flagship' Symbian smartphone? 153. Which organisation is working on a project called Project Barcelona as a competitor for iTunes in the United Kingdom ? 154.What product created by Barry Lunt, Matthew R. Linford, Douglas Hansen , has the tagline ‘Write Once , Read Forever’ ? 155.Which country became the first to mint QR code coins on the 100th anniversary of a certain mint in the country? 156.What that was founded by Robert Small and Tihan Presbie has become an internet phenomenon for the sheer variety it provides? 157.What that was developed by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis is often referred to as ‘The Poor Man’s Photoshop’ ? 158.Name the initiative launched by ITC limited to link directly with rural farmers via the Internet for procurement of agricultural and aquaculture products ? 159.Name the cross platform proprietary software for streaming media over the internet which was developed by Nullsoft and is now owned by AOL ?
160.Which IT consulting company’s logo was designed by Chetan KS a child suffering from cerebral palsy? 161.What was the name of the Google employee who started the Facebook page "We are all Khaled Saeed" which was pivotal in the 25th January Revolution in Egypt ?
162.Which city will be the site of the experimental Google Fiber project which plans to build a broadband internet network infrastructure using fiber-optic communication and provide services to the residents for free? 163.Which web service started by Marco Arment helps users save webpages and keep them for reading later? 164.Which audio and video formats does Wikipedia use to play music and videos ? 165.Name the design and innovation company which started out as a joint venture between Tata and a mainframe computer manufacturer in the 1990s ? 166.He started out as an employee at Apple.He went on to found his own company called Pictra Incorporated that pioneered the concept of digital photosharing.He is now one of the top gun CEOs after replacing Bruce Chizen. Who is this entrepreneur? 167.Name the person behind the iconic Gmail logo who currently holds the position of Chief Doodler at Google? 168.Who has earned the name ‘Open Source Diva’ after her stints as an open source community builder at Sun Microsystems, Intel and Wikimedia Foundation ? 169.Which website started by Matthew Inman inspired by Gary Larson’s ‘The Far Side’ was in news for raising donations amounting up to $1.7 million for the Tesla Science Centre at Wardenclyffe ? 170.Name the long time CEO and co-founder of AMD who gave the world the maxim “People first, products and profit will follow!” . 171. What was developed by the X3 committe that includes definitions for 128 characters and is one of the primary character encoding systems? 172.Which event is organised by a Brooklyn based start-up called Sawhorse Media every year that awards the best twitter handles of the year ? 173.Which service that is often referred to as the custodian of the Music Genome Project was developed by a company called Savage Beast Technologies? 174.Name the Chief Architect of Napster who went on to found SNOCAP with Shawn Fanning. He is also behind ‘Who Viewed My Profile’ and ‘Career Explorer’ features of LinkedIn. 175.Name the founder of Cockos Incorporated who is known for developing the Winamp Media Player and Gnutella P2P network. 176.What was started as ‘Chips and Dips’ by Rob ‘Cmdr Taco’ Malda and Jeff ‘Hemos’ Bates which is often abbreviated as ‘ /.’ ? 177.Which game developed by OMGPOP was downloaded 20 million times in the initial week of its launch ? 178. What web-based hosting service was developed by Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett, and Tom Preston-Werner for their company ‘Logical Awesome’ ?
179. Name the computer club started in Silicon Valley by Gordon French and Fred Moore which had members including Steve Wozniak, Adam Osborne , John Draper and Jerry Lawson .This club also published the famous article “Open Letter to Hobbyists” written by Bill Gates in its newsletter. 180. Who created an ‘insta-prayer’ website called Yahweh.com to deal with the millions of pleas that he used to receive every hour?
ANSWERS 1.Contra 2.Richard Stallman 3.Jeff Hawkins 4.Rovio 5.Linus Torvalds 6.Phishing 7.Space Invaders 8.Consumer Electric Show (CES) 9.Transistor 10.Qualcomm 11.Julian Assange 12.Ubisoft 13.Cydia 14. Paul Allen 15. Solaris 16.Griefer 17.The Digit Magazine 18.GPS system (Satellite Imaging and Rail Navigation) 19.Deviantart 20.Mobile World Congress 21.MTNL 22.Aadhar Card 23.Foxconn 24. Microsoft 25. Deep Blue vs. Gary Kasparov 26.James Dyson 27.Lithium ion batteries 28.Guy Kawasaki 29.Acer 30.Tony Stark 31.Google X labs 32.Shareware 33.Gary Kildall 34.AWK 35.Microsoft (Internet Explorer) and Netscape ( Navigator) 36.Drupal 37.MS Word
38.Usenet 39.Elon Musk 40.Shaadi.com 41.The PC Guy and The Mac Guy ( ‘Get a mac’ commercials) 42.Kim Dotcom 43.Carl Zeiss 44.Steve Wozniack 45.Steven Levy 46.Justin Franknel 47.Jonathan Ive 48.Paul Buchheit 49.Paul Graham 50.Lytro Inc. 51.David Ek 52. Tivo Inc. 53.Narinder Kapany 54.Martin Cooper 55.Bell Labs 56.Ajit Balakrishnan 57.Webby Awards 58.Vint Cerf 59.Quora 60.Lumia 61.Avast! 62.Ajay Bhatt 63.Alicia Keys 64.LinkedIn , Google and Amazon 65.Arun Netravali 66.Blizzard Entertainment 67.Innocence Of Muslims 68.Temple Run 69.Transcend 70.StumbleUpon 71.One Web Day 72.Visicalc 73.PopCap Games 74.Hello World 75.VEVO 76.Hacker Manifesto 77.Unicode 78.Futurama 79.Netflix 80.Whirlpool 81.Danger Inc. 82.The Elop Effect(named after Stephen Elop) 83.Semantic Web 84.JAVA
85.World’s first PC 86.Wind-up radio 87.Domain Name System (DNS) 88.Konrad Zuse 89.Smiley Emoticon by Scott Fahlman 90.Bhartiya Janata Party 91.The Blackberry Boys 92.The Hobbit – An Unexpected Journey 93.VIA Technologies 94.Beats Electronics 95.Razer 96.Kingston Technologies ( John Tu lost the bet) 97.Zilog 98.Walkie-Talkie 99.Wi-Fi 100.Sony for its Xperia range of smartphones 101. Excite 102.Polaroid Corporation 103.ICANN 104.Project Genie 105.Fairplay 106.Kodachrome 107.Olympus Corporation 108.Blaupunk GmbH 109.Monsters of Monster.com 110.Iridium Comunications 111.Benevolent Dictator for Life 112.Windows 95 113.Gorilla Grip of Death 114.Radioshack 115.Hologram 116.Acer Inc. 117.General Electric 118.Vic Gundotra 119.IGN Entertainment Inc. 120.Square Inc. 121.Motorola 122.Cupertino Effect 123.Hogel 124.Redbus.in 125.O’Reilly Media 126.Robert Moog 127.Akio Morita 128.Corning Inc. 129.Hedy Lamarr 130.Streisand Effect 131.Jerry Yang , Yahoo co-founder
132.SOPA ( Stop Online Piracy Act) 133.HP and Oracle 134.Edwin Howard Armstrong 135.the Traitorous Eight 136.Robert Bosch GmbH 137.The ZooZoo commercials for Vodafone 138.Winnie The Pooh 139. Centre for Development of Advanced Computing ( C-DAC) 140. Harlem Shake 141.Apple 1 142.Seiko Epson 143.Facebook 144.Slideshare 145.Marissa Mayer 146.Xbox Kinect 147.h2g2 148.Wi-Max 149. Nvidia Geforce 150. Sprint Nextel 151.Vodafone 152.Nokia PureView 808 153.BBC 154.Milleniata Disc 155.Netherlands 156.Miniclip 157.GIMP 158.e-Choupal 159.SHOUTcast 160.Mindtree 161.Wael Ghonim 162.Kansas City 163.Instapaper 164.Vorbis and Theora 165.Tata Elxsi 166.Shantanu Narayan 167.Dennis Hwang 168.Danese Cooper 169.The Oatmeal 170.Jerry Sanders 171.ASCII 172.Shorty Awards 173.Pandora Radio 174.Jordan Mendelson 175.Justin Frankel 176.Slashdot 177.Draw Something 178.GitHub
179.Homebrew Computer Club 180.Bruce Nolan ( from the movie ‘Bruce Almighty’ )
