Sunday, February 05, 2012

Quiz Time 31

1)Connect

Clue-Its a type of disorder

2) Bhavin Turakhia is the founder of which Indian technology company any why is the comopany popular?


3)Identify him and he is the CEO of which company?


4)This is a portmanteau of "compressor-decompressor" .It encodes a data stream or signal for transmission, storage or encryption, or decodes it for playback or editing. Identify this term?

5)Connect
         A white sphere made of large jigsaw pieces. Letters from many alphabets are shown on the pieces.
yes,there's a connect and that too pretty famous!!!

6)One of the earliest public key encryption applications.It was written in 1991 by Phil Zimmermann and was purchased by Symantec in 2010.Identify this encryption technique?

7)This web site was the predecessor of Wikipedia.It was founded by Jimmy Wales.Unlike wikipedia it was not a wiki (it means readers couldn't contribute).Identify this website?

8)Identify him and also tell why is he popular

Carmack at the 2010 Game Developers Conference

9)What is the art of hiding secret data or messages in Images better known as?

10)Type-G cassette recorder was the first and very famous product of which technology giant?

8 comments:

  1. 1-thumb berry(over usage of blackberry)
    2-directi??
    3-accenture.
    4-codec.
    5-wikipedia???
    6-pgp(pretty gud privacy.
    7-uncyclopedia??
    8-no idea.
    9-steganography.
    10-no idea.

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  2. 7 is Nupedia..Rest are answered and no idea about 10.

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  3. 10.sony
    8.john carmack (id software wala)
    5.is it abt the false assasination article of jfk?

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  4. 1)The blackberry thumb.. a pain caused in the thumb due to excessive usage of the blackberry keypad.
    2)Directi
    4)A codec (Nice question)
    5)It's the Seigenthaler incident. Some random guy posted a Wikipedia article about Seigenthaler stating incorrectly that he was a suspect in the assassination of John F Kennedy. (Nice question)
    6)PGP
    7)Nupedia.
    8)John carmack (DOOM III !!! :D)
    9)Stenography.
    10)SONY

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  5. Thanks all for commenting.
    Suyash you got all correct!!!
    1)The blackberry thumb.. a pain caused in the thumb due to excessive usage of the blackberry keypad.
    2)Directi
    4)codec
    5)It's the Seigenthaler incident. Some random guy posted a Wikipedia article about Seigenthaler stating incorrectly that he was a suspect in the assassination of John F Kennedy.
    6)PGP
    7)Nupedia.
    8)John carmack
    9)Stenography.
    10)SONY

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  6. Where is ans 3?

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  7. Ans 3 is Accenture (Pierre Nanterme CEO of Accenture)

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