Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Quiz Time 132

ok so i am back. The movie mania has finally faded away & life without tech quizzing is boring. So,hopefully i will be posting regularly...
1)Id the laptop & what is its specialty?
2)The term was first  coined by a Microsoft engineer in 1982 to describe the company's Xenix operating system. It first appeared in print in a newsletter by Esther Dyson in 1983.What's the term ?

3)X is a gaming console  Nokia.It was  released in 2003 and was designed to combine a features of both mobile phone and  a handheld games console.
It was abig failure & Nokia never again ventured into gaming territory Id X ?

4)Connect
5)Which was the first available compiler for C++ by  Bjarne Stroustrup ?
Turbo C++ came much later !!!

6)In which field is the Loebner Ptize awarded every year?

7)Connect
Cortana H4.png     
Hint-beautiful woman who leads you to victory

8)X was published by .GEARS Studios, a small, independent game developer also based in Vietnam.X is heavily influenced by retro pixelated games in its golden age especially Super Mario Bros . Id X ?

9) Id 


10)Connect
FortnumAndMasonLogo.JPGBoris Johnson -opening bell at NASDAQ-14Sept2009-3c cropped.jpg
It might get difficult to relate,but indeed they are all connected......

2 comments:

  1. 1.Pixel by google
    2.vapourware
    3.Gage
    4.
    5.cfront
    6.
    7.cortana
    8.flappy bird
    9.cheap micro camera develeoped by an indian
    10.icann
    10.

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  2. Thanks for commenting. Here are the answers:-
    1)Chromebook Pixel
    2).vapourware
    3)N-Gage
    4)1st pic- Gaikai logo, 2nd pic- Gaikai means Open Sea 3rd pic- Sony Computer Entertainment
    Connect is Sony Computer Entertainment acquired Gaikai in 2012.
    5)cfront
    6) It awards prizes to the chatterbot considered by the judges to be the most human-like
    7)1st pic- Cortana, 2nd pic- SILVIA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SILVIA Hint is a pointer to Siri which in norwegian means beautiful woman who leads you to victory !
    Hence the connect is all these are personal assistants.
    8)flappy bird
    9)Foldscope http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foldscope
    10) 1st pic- ICANN, 2nd pic Fortnum & Mason 3rd pic-Mayor Boris Johnson
    Connect is .londoncity-level top-level domain (TLD) for London. Fortnum and Mason were first to secure the domain, The application for this domain was forwarded by Mayor Boris.

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