IT Quiz - Set 1

QUESTIONS :

1. Which company is the America’s largest online retailer?

2. Who are the founders of AVG Technologies (formerly called Grisoft) ?

3. Which was the world’s fastest computer from 1985 to 1989?

4. Which famous chess-playing computer was developed by IBM?

5. This company, is the largest combined software developer training company and research-supported consulting firm in Minnesota. Founded in 1991 by Tom Salonek, Intertech designs and develops software solutions for Fortune 500 businesses, mid-sized companies and state and local governments. Identify this Company.

6. What does WYSIWYG stand for?

7. Which famous object-oriented programming language was named after an island which is the 13^th largest island in the world and the 5^th largest in Indonesia?

8. Which is the keyboard layout which is fairly widely used in Germany and Central Europe? The difference with this layout and the QWERTY layout is that the letters ‘Y’ and ‘Z’ are swapped.

9. This application suite’s development was initialized by Netscape Communications Centre and it was based on the source code of Netscape Communicator. Codenamed as “SeaMonkey”, which is this famous Application Suite?

10. Which famous web browser was released on September 2, 2008 by a giant company in the Internet business?

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ANSWERS:

1. Amazon.com

2. Jan Glitzbach and Tomas Hofer

3. Cray – 2

4. Deep Blue

5. Intertech Corporation

6. What You See Is What You Get

7. Java Programming language

8. QWERTZ

9. Mozilla Application Suite

10. Google Chrome