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Wednesday, 08 September 2010 22:04

IT Quiz : Mixed Bag 5

IT Quiz : Mixed Bag 5 | iVittal

1. Name the first World Wide Web browser written for Windows PCs that debuted on June 8, 1993.

A.Cello, which was written for lawyers.

2. Who created/invented the dreaded official 404 (Page Not Found) HTTP specification?

A.Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

3. What was founded in 1994 at MIT’s Laboratory for Computer Science with support from DARPA and the European Commission?

A.The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

4. Citrix is a portmanteau of which two words?

A.Citrus and UNIX.

 

5. Safra Catz is the President and former CFO of…?

A.Oracle

6. Of the five generic font families defined in HTML and CSS, three are serif, sans-serif and cursive. Name the other two.

A.Fantasy and Monospace.

7. The film ‘Takedown’ is a fictionalised account of which legendary hacker’s capture by the FBI?

A.Kevin Mitnick.

8. Fill in the missing word in this 1976 seminal work: ‘______: Distributed Packet-Switching For Local Computer Networks.’

A.Ethernet

9. According to experts, the ‘Gavilan SC’, a portable computer, was the first to be referred to which now ubiquitous term for such computers?

A.Laptop

10. Amongst video game freaks used to cheat codes, ‘up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-B-A-Start’ sequence is fondly called…?

A. Contra Code.

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