Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Quiz Time 93

1.Which game was designed by 'Guinsoo' , 'Icefrog' and 'Eul' ?

2.Which very popular website bearing the tagline "Define your World" was created by a computer science major named Aaron Peckham?

3.'Chase' was the first video game that could be played on a television set.Who designed this game?

4.Which search engine uses a technology called RankDex which is said to have been developed much earlier than Google's PageRank system?

5.Which company launched this campaign for the rights of gay people?


6.Which website created a parody of Wikipedia's blackout against SOPA with the following lines "Imagine a World Without Lolcats, Bronies, and other complete stupidity."?

7.Who invented a device called ETM for a census in USA?

8.Which company founded by Matt Mullenweg owns the blogging service,Wordpress and also makes many blogging aids?

9.What in the Bantu language means "Towards Humanity"?

10.Who remain the only two women to be awarded the Alan Turing Award?

11 comments:

  1. 1)DotA(Defense Of The Ancients)
    2)Urban Dictionary
    3)Will Wright
    4)Baidu
    5)Google(legalise love)
    6)Uncyclopedia
    7)
    8)Automattic
    9)Ubuntu
    10)Barbara Liskov

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  2. Please tell wheather they are correct nd plz tel the 7th 1

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  3. 1. Defense of the Ancients (DotA). Its a mod of World Of Warcraft 3.
    2. Urban Dictionary
    3. Ralph Baer
    4. Baidu
    5. Google
    6. Unclyclopedia
    7. Herman Hollerith (Its A Guess)
    8. The WordPress Foundation
    9. Ubuntu
    10. Frances E. Allen (First Female IBM employee)

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    2. Thanks a lot for rectifying.You got all correct except 8 and 9.

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    3. Your Welcome & Thanks A lot to you too for such nice questions.

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  5. Q 10 is wrong.
    There are two women who have been awarded the Turing Award.
    Frances E. Allen & Barbara Liskov.

    Please Tell the answers.

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  7. Here are all the answers:
    1. Defense of the Ancients (DotA).
    2. Urban Dictionary
    3. Ralph Baer
    4. Baidu
    5. Google
    6. Unclyclopaedia
    7. Herman Hollerith
    8. Automattic
    9. Kubuntu(Ubuntu is just 'humanity')
    10. Frances E. Allen and Barbara Liskov.

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