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1. In Japan Abacus is called Soroban.

2. The first company in the world which manufactured computers for commercial use was Remington Rand.

3. The analytical engine was also known as Babbage’s Folly.

4. The IBM was known before 1924 as Computer Tabulating & Recording Company.

5. The first generation of electronic computer was UNIVAC-I

6. The first computer which used the concept of stored programs was EDSAC.

7. The inventor of wooden-box mouse with two small wheels and whose work was funded by NASA, was Doug Engelbrat.

8. The first company which distributed mouse with personal computers was Apple Computer.

9. The first computer was installed in India at Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta.

10. The Intel microprocessor which started the PC revolution was 8088.

11. The first microprocessor chip was Intel 4004.

12. Intel stands for Integrated Electronics.

13. MIPS by which computer power is measured stands for Million Instructions Per Second.

14. Till date 5 generations of computers have been developed.

15. The classifications of computers into different generations is based on Electronic circuits that make the hardware.

16. PC (personal computer) was a trade name of IBM.

17. Mouse droppings in a computer are Pixels that are not properly restored when the mouse is moved.

18. The computer company which is popularly known as “Big Blue” is IBM.

19. GW in Basic language stands for Gate Way.

20. The first commercial microprocessor, Intel-4004 was developed by Dr. Ted Hoff.

21. The computer which defeated the world class champion, Gary Kasparov was Deep Blue.

22. The first Indian film magazine on the Internet was G Online.

23. Hopper found an insect which she jockingly named it as “Bug” in A moth and Harvard Mark II machine.

24. The programming law, ‘Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later’ is known as Brooke’s Law.

25. The power of a super computer is measured in terms of FLOPS (Floating Point Operations Per Second).

26. MMX (a microprocessor from Intel) stands for Multi Media extension.

27. RISC, a technology on which stations and servers run, stands for Reduced Instruction Set Computing.

28. CISC on which technology microprocessors operate, stands for Compounded Instruction Set Computing.

29. The difference between RISC and CISC technology is that RISC chips are powerful but preparatory chips, whereas CISC chips are more open and easily adopted by the manufacturers.

30. The Silicon Valley company which did not start in garage was Sun Micro Systems.

31. The company which was named after incorporating the surnames of two classmates and is now a prestigious company in the computer industry, is Hewlett-Packard.

32. The default search engine on the Internet run by Lawrence Page and Sergey Brin is Google.

33. SWIFT, a global network stands for Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications.

34. The satellite consortium through which hotline linking White House and Kremlin passes is Intelsat.

35. The first geostationary communication satellite to be launched in orbit was Intelsat.

36. The computer language which was developed by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchi is ‘C’.

37. The computer language which has become standard on Internet and compatible on all the chips and operating systems is Java.

38. The company which developed Java language was Sun Microsystems.

39. The owner of the spreadsheet software brand Lotus 1-2-3 is IBM.

40. The special effects for the block-buster Jurassic Park were developed on a Silicon Graphics Computer.

41. The server which has been installed both by Mumbai and Chennai Stock Exchanges is Tandem’s Himalayan Server.

42 The PowerPC chip has been jointly developed as an alternative to Intel’s chip by IBM, Apple and Motorola.

43. Common to INFORMIX, ORACLE, SYBASE, and INGRESS is that All are relational database management systems.

44. The City which is known as Ingress City among IT circles due to large concentration of Ingress RDBMS, is Coimbatore.

45 CASE stands for Computer Aided Software Engineering.

46. OS/2 is an operating system from IBM.

47. The misuse of on line service, Compuserve on the Internet was suspended because of child pornography.

48. The company which developed Iridium, a world-wide network of small communication satellites, is Motorola.

49. The first truly electronic computer was ENIAC.

50. ENIAC stands for Electronic Numeric Integrator and Calculator.

51. A computer database is protectable under the Copyright Act.

52. The Indian who developed the Pentium microprocessor is Vinod Dham.

53. The telecom acronym WLL stands for Wireless in Local Loop.

54 The two computer languages which do not form acronyms are PASCAL and ADA.

55 The famous computer pioneer who was an opium addict/gambler was Ada Lovelace.1204. Spamming in Internet jargon refers to Sending thousands of junk e-mails at the same time to recipients across a wide geographical area.

56. Spoofing in Internet jargon refers to The technique of hiding his/her identity from the recipients by the junk e-mailer.

57. In Internet typing of all letters in capital is considered rude, because it is like shouting.

58. The Courier type of fonts which almost takes up the same amount of horizontal space are called Monospace fonts.

59. With regard to computers common to Nehru Place in Delhi, Lamington Road in Mumbai and M.G. Road in Bangalore is that All are grey markets for computers.

60. APL stands for A Programming Language.

61. An operating system CP/M stands for Control Programming for Micro-computers.

62. The new word coined by Karl Cape for worker, was Robot.

63. The more common name of the IEEF 802.3 standard is Internet.

64. A computer virus is actually A small malicious pr9ogram written in machine language.

65. The multimedia part of Internet is called World Wide Web.

66 The USA state in which famous Silicon Valley is situated is California.

67. The first computer virus was created at Bell Laboratories.

68 The name of the recently developed computer virus which affects programmes written in Java is Strange Brew.

69. In Internet jargon when a file is moved by you from a remote computer to your own, you are Downloading the file.

70. GOPHER a facility available on the Net is different from WWW, because GOPHER contains no graphics whereas WWW does.

71. ‘http’ letters stand for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.

72. Flaming in Net means A message that contains insults or other derogatory content.

73. The name of the IBM RS/ 6000 SP super computer is Deep Blue.

74. Microsoft launched the products Windows 95.

75. Intel did not name its Pentium microprocessor as 586 because to avoid the confusion created earlier by so many x86 chips.

76. A potent combination of Windows and Intel is being popularly called as Wintel.

77. In his statement “If he was a plumber, he would control all the water in the world and force anyone who wants some of the precious liquid, to cut a deal with him”, Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation was referring to Bill Gates of Microsoft.

78. A software which has not been paid for by the customer until he tried it and which is distributed on a bullion board or on free disks, is called Shareware.

79. Windows NT stands for Networking Technology.

80. The computer technology which used The Rolling Stone’s hit number ‘Start Me Up’ as the theme song for its launch was Windows 95.

81. The Microsoft launched Windows 95 in submarine because to show the reports what it was like to live in a windowless world.

82. In the punch-line ‘Flight 4.0 in Chicago Is Delayed’, IMB in an advertisement was referring to Microsoft’s delay in launching Windows 95 (code named Chicago)

83. K6 microprocessor is manufactured and marketed by Advanced Micro Devices.

84. IBM at the Watson Research Centre, New Jersey, developed Deep Blue.

85. The company which IBM chose for providing the operating system for its upcoming PC was Microsoft.

86. The geostationary communication satellite, Telstra was launched by AT&T.

87 The first microcomputer used 4004 microprocessor.

88. Distinction enjoyed by System 360 was that It was the first commercial computer.

89 The only computer ‘star’ or personality in the film based on a novel, “A Space Odyseey” written by Arthur C. Clarke, was HAL 9000.

90. The well-known author who dreamt up a un-patented system on which the Telstra, the first geostationary communication satellite, was Arthur C. Clarke.

91. A software which is in the developing stage is called Beta Software.

92 The Arpanet, a decentralized network designed to survive nuclear attack was funded by NASA.

93. Yahooligans is the kids’ section/webguide of Yahoo portal.

94. The Intel microprocessor which was used by the first IBM PC was 8088.

95. The World Wide Web (WWW) was created by Tim Berner.

96. The IT company founded by Len Bosack and his wife Sandy Lerner was Cisco Systems.

97. The company which was set up under the leadership of F.C. Kohli, who was considered the father of Indian software industry was. Tata Consultancy Services.

98. The best sources from which various parts of computer are bought is known as Body shopping.

99. The IT business common to SAP Ag, Peoplesoft, Baan, QAD and Oracle is Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) package.

100. SAP stands for Systems Applications and Products in data processing.

101. The computer company which was born in garage at Addison Avenue was Hewlett Packard.

102. The line “We are driven by the new technology and take all new and old competition seriously” was written in a book by Andy Grove.

103. The free version of the Unix operation system for network is called Linux.

104. We are talking about Silicon Valley which lies between Santa Cruz Mountains on the west and the Hamilton range to the east and stretches from Santa Clara to Menlo Park.

105. Make of transponder through which the words of Neil Armstrong upon reaching mood, “One small step for man, a giant step for the mankind” came was Motorola

106. The Stanford University engineering students encouraged by their professor started a new venture called The Silicon Valley.

107. In Sillywood, Movies are made by a collaboration between Silicon Valley and Hollywood.

108. The computer company which was founded on April Fool’s Day in 1976 was Apple Computers.

109. The CEO whose company keeps introducing newer versions of software which requires several more megabytes of RAM and hard disk space than the previous versions, is Bill Gates.

110 The term which Lou Gerstner of IBM coined for a product which never gets off the drawing board is, Vaporware.

111. The name of the operating system which was called Quick and Dirty Operating System, is MS-DOS.

112. The name of the corporate which was coined by taking a little word from a play, was IBM.

113 The words on the huge tomb which is in the lobby of Cyrix Corp., a chip maker, inscribed are Intel inside.

114. Hotmail along with Sabeer Bhatia was founded by Jack Smith.

115. In Soho segment, Soho stands for Small office home office.

116. The person who said “I think the total world potential for computers is somewhere around five in number” was Thomas Watson, founder of IBM.

117. The person who borrowed the idea, from the announcement by IBM for a new kind of business software, and turned into a product before IBM did, was Larry Ellison.

118. Ananova is the world’s first virtual newscaster on Internet.

119. Domain names ending with “com” was registered by National Centre for Software Technology.

120. The person and the company began to use electronic mail company-wide in 1989 and has brought a revolution in the personal computing are Andy Grove and Intel.

121. The author of the book, “Only the Paranoid Survive” is Andy Grove.

122. Android means A robot which looks like a human being.

123. The industry which is leading user of robots, is Automobile industry.

124. The author of the book, “The Computer Prophets” containing biography of men who developed computer devices, is Jerry

125. Customer information magnetically encoded on the back strip of a debit card are (a) Credit limit and (b) Account number.

126. Illegal entry to computers or files through remote terminals or PCs is called Hacking.

127. The name of the computer virus which originated from Pakistan in January 1986 and which can infect only 5.25 inch floppies is Brain virus.

128. Dos cannot retrieve any data from a disk if computer virus corrupts its File Allocation table (FAT).

129. A hard disk becomes totally inaccessible when a computer virus corrupts its Partition Table..

130. The idea of self-replicating program which often damages the other computer programs was given by John von Neumann.

131. The name of the professor who coined the name virus for self-replicating program was Fred Cohen.

132. In India, software piracy became legal offence in 1984.

133. The other company which was sued along with Microsoft by Apple Computer Inc. for their copyright infringement was Hewlett-Packard.

134. The dot.com company which claims that the “A” in their name stands for “Anything” is Amazon.com.

135. The Professor who coined the word “artificial intelligence” in 1956 at Stanford University was John McCarthy.

136. The particular generation of computers associated with artificial intelligence is Fifth.

137. Commercial use of artificial intelligence (AI) in products like microwave ovens, washing machines, automobiles etc. is named as Fuzzy logic.

138. The name of the logic that allows computers to assign numerical values that fall somewhere between 0 and 1 is Fuzzy logic.

139. The best chess playing human who beat the chess playing computer Deep Thought in a chess tournament held in 1989, was Garry Kasparov.

140. The animation technique is known as Rotoscoping.

141. The person who designed the Doordarshan News logo in which the news symbol flips in and letters curve around it glow, was Prahlad Kakkar.

142. The super computer’s use denied by USA to the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for misuse regarding nuclear applications, was Cray Y-MP.

143. The information network set up to connect various government offices and public sector companies was National Informatics Centre Network (NICNET).

144. The mobile phone of which ‘Human Technology’ is a trademark is Nokia.

145. The telecom acronym WAP stands for Wireless Application Protocol.

146. The role that Network Solutions, Inc. plays in cyber world is that It registers top level dotcom domains.

147. The full form of Geneva-based WIPO Centre is World Intellectual Property Organization (Arbitration and Mediation) Centre.

148 The true statements about websites, web pages and portals are (I) A website comprises of more than one web-pages linked to one another through HTML – hyper text markup language and (II) A portal comprises of more than one website whereas a particular website provides a gateway to another website.

149 In the cyber world, “cybersquatters” are People who grab a well-known trademark and register it as domain name for ulterior purpose, such as selling the domain name back to the rightful owners for a fancy price, or making the Internet users believe that they are associated with the famous trademark.

150. The software on which both IBM and Microsoft companies run their business but is not made by them, is Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) packages.

151. GSM means Global System for Mobile Communications.

152 The hacker who was jailed by FBI for five years and was prohibited from using any computer or a cellular phone, was Kevin Mitnick.

153 The Hollywood animated films, Toy Story, A Bug’s Life and Toy Story 2 were created by John Lasseter.

154 The name of the computer-generated animation software which created dinosaurs in Jurassic Park and The Lost World, and battle-droids in Star Wars: Episode One, was RenderMan.

155. The computer-generated animation software RenderMan has been pioneered by Pixar Animation Studios company.

156. The statements which are true regarding WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) are (I) This protocol specifies the conversion of an HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) document of a web page into UML (Universal Markup Language) or XML, (extensive Markup Language) because the mobile phone has lesser display area and the LCD display may not support all kind of graphics, and (II) WAP actually is a trade mark owned by certain companies together known as WAP Forum.

157 The supercomputer Cray series is sold by Silicon Graphics.

158 The programmer who pressed “shift” and “2” keys to launch a single character “@” in e-mail address, was Ray Tomilnson.

159. The definition “It is a programmable multifunction manipulator designed to move materials, parts, tools or specialized devices through variable programmed motions for the performance of a variety of tasks” is of a Robot.

160 The term branded as typewriters coined first by IBM and then MTST (Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriters) because of use of magnetic tapes to store pages of text, we are talking about is Word processing.

161. The woman whose image is carried on the watermark of a software is Ada Byron.

162. Portable Document Format (PDF), Open eBook (OEB), and TK3 are used in e-Book publishing area.

163. Hart’s endevours to create Project Gutenberg which includes more than 2000 classic works online is called First digital book.

164 The company which was given his name by Aldus Manutius, an inventor in printing, publishing and typography is Pagemaker.

165The website which was launched by Tarun Tejpal was Tehelka.com.

166. Search engine in Internet jargon is Programs that hunt for Web pages in response to specific words or phrases.

167. The word “google” means The numerical one followed by a hundred zeros.

168 The telecom acronym CPP stands for Calling Party Pays.

169. The protocol which is designed to fit into mobile phones and pagers is Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).

170. The Internet terminology URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator.

171. The e-mail software Eudora, which got its name from Eudora Welty was named so because Eudora software is based on POP – Post Office Protocol.

172. The benchmark of artificial intelligence in which a human judge cannot distinguish machine responses from human responses, is called Turing test.

173 “Stricky site” in Internet jargon is A site where a user spends a large amount of time.

174. A portion of a domain name in www.economictimes.com, is called Secondary domain name.

175 “.com” is an example of Primary domain name.

176. By Moore’s Law Computing power doubles every 18 months.

177 The word “cyberspace” was coined by William Gibson.

178. The special text files which are stored through a website in a hard disk are called Cookies.

179 Personal Computer which has been named after a popular variety of applies in USA, is Macintosh.

180 The Indian state which installed first ever Computer Crime Cell is Karnataka.

181. The Indian software product which Bill Gates on his visit to India in 1997 endorsed was Ramco’s Marshall Enterprise Management System.