1.

Name the unique awards for the Twitter community, by the Twitter community, which honours the best on Twitter.
2. Mozilla's next-generation JavaScript engine being used in Firefox 4beta 7 is called?
3. In what is WebKit, the layout engine designed to allow web browsers to render web pages, written?
4. Jen-Hsun Huang is the CEO of?
5. What integral part of Twitter was created by Yiying Lu?
6. Name the seventh instalment of the Call of Duty series game released on November 9 that has been breaking all
records.
7. Which famous newspaper, known for its bestseller rankings, is to come up with an e-book best-seller list from early
2011?
8. A hacker named Hector has won $3,000 for being the first to come up with an open-source driver for which game
controller?
9. Many start-ups now want to take up lodgings at 795 Folsom Street in San Francisco hoping the luck from a
successful venture headquartered there would rub off on them. Name the success.
10. According to YouTube, how many hours of video are uploaded every minute nowadays compared with 24 hours in
March?
Answers
1. The Shorty Awards.
2. JagerMonkey.
3. C++
4. Nvidia.
5. Fail Whale'
6. Call of Duty: Black Ops'
7. The New York Times'
8. Microsoft's Kinect motion-sensitive controller.
9. Twitter.
10. 35 hours.

1. Lars Boilesen is the CEO of?

2. Which browser godfather' is behind the Facebook browser' RockMelt?

3. Which online giant recently bought Quidsi, the parent company of Diapers.com, for about $540 million?
4. Name the technology developed by Intel and backed by Apple, expected to debut in 2011, that can carry data at 10
gigabits per second in both directions simultaneously.
5. NBA superstar Kobe Bryant is playing a role in the advertisement for which recently released video game?
6. K. Ananth Krishnan is the CTO of which IT major?
7. Which video streaming service Web site has the slogan Anywhere, Anytime?
8. Expand DESC, which is involved in improving the environment and driving long-term economic growth.
9. Which free-to-play social network games developer was founded in 2007 by Kristian Segerstrale, Sebastien de
Halleux, Sami Lababidi and Shukri Shammas?
10. Name the former CEOs of eBay and HP who unsuccessfully contested in California elections recently.
Answers
1. Opera
2. Marc Andreessen.
3. Amazon
4. Light Peak.
5. Call of Duty: Black Ops.
6. TCS
7. Hulu
8. Digital Solutions Energy Campaign.
9. Playfish
10. Meg Whitman and Carly Fiona.

1. Name the Indian on the Board of Directors of Google Inc who is behind Sherpalo.
2. Name the company that makes technology that enables human gestures to power devices, which has been
acquired by Microsoft.
3. Name the top three deals done by Google in 2010 as of October 31?

4. How did Tianhe-1A make news recently?

5. Who is Patrick Pichette?
6. Who was the first head of state to send an email?
7. Why were Israel Antiquities Authority and Google in the news recently?
8. With more than 240 million copies sold in its first year, which has become the fastest-selling consumer operating
system ever?
9. How did Bob Thomas working for BBN achieve infamy' in 1971?
10. What first did a broken laser printer sold for $14.83 create?

Answers
1. Ram Shriram.
2. Canesta
3. AdMob ($681 million), Slide ($179 million) and On2 Technologies ($123 million).
4. Meaning Milky Way in Chinese, it is the world's fastest supercomputer, capable of sustained computing of 2.507
petaflops.
5. Google's CFO.
6. Queen Elizabeth II, by sending an email message on Arpanet.
7. The former has asked the latter to digitise the Dead Sea Scrolls and make the entire collection available to the
public online.
8. Windows 7.
9. He created Creeper, the generally accepted first virus which infected Arpanet.
10. First eBay sale. The seller was Pierre Omidyar.

1. Ray Lane is the chairman of which tech giant?

2. What is Lime Wire's little-known legal music service called?
3. Who tops Greenpeace's latest and 16th edition of Guide to Greener Electronics' with a score of 7.5 out of 10?
4. Which gaming company recently announced that it had acquired Angry Birds publisher Chillingo to capture
market leadership on the Apple platform?
5. Who has made products like Pressman, Watchman, Scoopman and Discman?

6. Who has launched the M-67 3D, India's first 3D phone?

7. Clover Holdings recently bought which potentially valuable domain name from Escom for $13 million, which the
latter had bought for $14 million?
8. Which famous university town in California is to be the first recipient of Google's fibre broadband network that
could deliver speeds up to 1 gigabit a second?
9. Name the iconic video console that gave birth to Super Mario Bros, The Legend of Zelda and Metroid that
celebrated its 25th anniversary recently?
10. After which feline is the next Mac OS X, due in Summer 2011, named?
Answers
1. Hewlett-Packard.
2. Spoon
3. Nokia
4. EA
5. Sony
6. Spice
7. Sex.com
8. Stanford
9. Nintendo Entertainment System.
10. Lion

1. Which is the registry that oversees the address domain ending in .com?
2. Name the founder of Cascading Style Sheets.
3. As an extension to the above question, of which company, known for its browser, is the person the CTO?
4. The internal code name for a typography-based design language created by Microsoft, and used in its new
Windows Phone 7, is called..?
5. Of which cyber-giant is Patrick Pichette the CFO?
6. On November 8, Gary Kovacs, a senior VP at Sybase, is to take over as CEO of?

7. Name the NY company with whom Google, or rather Google Sky, has joined hands to offer the public Internetbased access to a global network of observatories?
8. What is CEATEC?
9. Name the hardware developed by Cisco that will allow people to connect and videoconference with one another
using their HD television.
10. What is MIT Media Lab's programming language initiative aimed at kids that makes it easy to create your own
interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art and share your creations on the web' called?.

Answers
1. VeriSign
2. Hakon Wium Lie.
3. Opera
4. Metro
5. Google
6. Mozilla
7. Slooh
8. The annual Japanese equivalent of the Consumer Electronics Show.
9. Umi
10. Scratch

1. Which foundation's credo is A passion for the Web. An even greater passion for humanity' and who is the
brainchild behind it?
2. Jim Balsillie is the co-CEO of?
3. If it's Nook for Barnes & Noble, then Kobo is for?
4. The only dual-core 1GHz ARM processor that is in production today is the?
5. What is PlayBook?
6. Vancouver-based Bluewater Productions is to bring out a comic book on which Net celebrity?

7. What can Apple Peel 520, made by China-based device creator Yosion Technology, do to an iPod Touch?
8. Name the owner of Segway who died recently after riding one of the scooters off a cliff and into a river.
9. According to the IDC Q2 2010 report for mobile handsets in India, of the top five, the top two are Nokia and
Samsung. Name the other three.
10. To celebrate which famous TV family's golden jubilee did Google have a tribute doodle on September 30?

Answers
1. World Wide Web Foundation started by Tim Berners-Lee.
2. Research In Motion.
3. Borders.
4. Nvidia's Tegra 2.
5. The upcoming 7-inch tablet from RIM.
6. Mark Zuckerberg.
7. Convert it to function like an iPhone.
8. Jimi Heselden.
9. G'Five, Micromax and Spice.
10. The Flintstones.

1. What is common to Khan Academy, FIRST, Public.Resource.org, Shweeb and African Institute for Mathematical
Studies?
2. What is Stuxnet?
3. Google's free classified listings service, which allows anyone to post and tag information for Google searchers to
find, is called..?
4. Name the simple service started by Marco Arment, the erstwhile CTO at Tumblr, which allows one to save articles
from a browser to read later on another computer, mobile phone or iPad.
5. Which cyber giant is to buy Netezza, a data warehouse company, for $1.7 billion in cash?
6. Before launching its new Bing Rewards programme, Microsoft had two search loyalty programs that have been
retired. Name them.

7. Twitter's first ever celebrity Twitter auction, to generate funds for building a home and school for special needs kids
in Haiti, is called?
8. Name Amercia's youngest billionaire who has decided to give a $100 million grant aimed at improving public
education in Newark in New Jersey through a new foundation called Startup: Education.
9. Which embattled Indian tech company is to delist from the NYSE in October because it is not able to comply with a
requirement to file its delayed financial results by an October 15 deadline?
10. Name the leader of eBay's vast online auction business who is to quit for personal reasons.

Answers
1. They are the winners of the much-publicised Google Project 10100 contest.
2. It is the first discovered worm, specifically written to attack SCADA systems, that spies on and reprograms
industrial systems.
3. Google Base.
4. Instapaper.
5. IBM.
6. SearchPerks and Cashback.
7. TwitChange.
8. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook.
9. Satyam Computer Services.
10. Lorrie Norrington.

1. Cisco's upcoming, first-of-its-kind mobile collaboration business tablet is called?

2. Name the first commercially available computer with touch screen technology.
3. The legendary computer installed in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania, to help calculate ballistic trajectories
was called?
4. The unlicensed wireless spectrum that sits between broadcast TV channels is called?
5. Name the technology that the mobile browser Layar employs.

6. Which tech giant is said to have rejected Steve Wozniak's computer, which later became the path-breaking Apple
I?
7. Which game did Guinness Book of World Records dub as The Godfather of gaming?
8. Who has launched a site called www.yaybuttons.com to take on Microsoft Kinect?
9. Yahoo's project to revamp its mail service is codenamed?
10. Whose microprocessor architecture has names such as Heka, Thuban and Deneb?

Answers
1. Cius.
2. HP 150.
3. Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC).
4. White Space.
5. Augmented Reality technology.
6. HP.
7. Super Mario Bros.
8. Sony for its PlayStation Move controller.
9. Minty.
10. AMD.

1. The first non-Finnish CEO to head Nokia, appointed recently, is?

2. Who is a Googlegnger'?
3. According to a global study done by Panda Security, which are the top two sites for phishers, accounting for 44 per
cent of all the malicious Web sites discovered?
4. One more on Nokia. Can you recall the digital-map supplier that the cell-phone maker bought for $8.1 billion in
2007?
5. Google's new resource for parents to help them keep their kids safe while surfing the Net is called?
6. Name the former Sun CEO who is now in charge of a health start-up called Picture of Health'.

7. Asus' Eee PC 4G is considered the first?

8. According to Google, globally everyone using which of its new feature would save more than 3.5 billion seconds a
day, i.e. 11 hours saved every second?
9. In the context of Android OS, Froyo is a portmanteau word made up of?
10. Charlie' was Apple's internal codename for?
Answers
1. Stephen Elop.
2. A person with your name who shows up when you google yourself.
3. eBay (23 per cent) and Western Union (21 per cent).
4. Navteq.
5. Family Safety Center.
6. Jonathan Schwartz.
7. Netbook.
8. Google Instant.
9. Frozen Yogurt.
10. iPhone 3G S.

1. Simple one to begin with. Gmail's new service, which automatically prioritises incoming messages and places the
most important ones at the top of the inbox, is called?
2. Apple's new social-networking music service for iTunes 10 is called?
3. Which tech giant has agreed to pay the US government $55 million to settle kickback allegations?
4. Name the Canadian start-up, which had launched several games titles for Facebook, iPhone and BlackBerry
devices, that has been acquired by Google.
5. By revealing the killer in one of Agatha Christie's famous murder mystery plays, Wikipedia has come in for both flak
and appreciation. Name the play.
6. According to global research firm comScore, Inc., Facebook is the new No.1 social networking site in India pushing
back Orkut. What comes at No. 3?

7. Which entertainment giant has announced a cloud-based music service, which would make many of its electronics
products into online libraries for streaming music, and what is it called?
8. Matt Williams is the new CEO of which news aggregation site?
9. Whose predictive text technology for mobile phones, developed as a competitor to T9, is called iTap?
10. Which place name would connect Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and Mike Lazaridis?
Answers
1. Priority Inbox.
2. Ping.
3. Hewlett-Packard.
4. SocialDeck.
5. The Mousetrap.
6. BharatStudent.com
7. Sony and Music Unlimited.
8. Digg.
9. Motorola.
10.Waterloo. Lazaridis is the co-CEO and founder of Research In Motion which is headquartered in Waterloo (but in
Canada and not Belgium).