Technology quiz questions & answers: 1. What is the full form of T9?

Answer: Text on 9 Keys developed by the Tegic Communications. 2. Which famous company acquired Sun Microsystems? Answer: ORACLE. 3. What is the Google headquarters called? Answer: Googleplex (reference to googolplex, the name given to the large number 1010100, or 10googol). 4. It was started in 1984 with an initial mission of building indigenous supercomputers in India headquartered at Pune presently. What are we talking about? Answer: C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing). 5. Which is the famous video game company whose name when translated from Japanese to English roughly gives the phrase leave luck to heaven? This company was initially started as a producer of playing cards. Which is this famous company? Answer: Nintendo founded by Nintendo Koppai. 6. What is the full form of DOCOMO? Answer: Do Communication Over The Mobile Network.

7. Jerry Yang and David Filo founded this company. This company gets its name from a fictional character of Gullivers travels. Which is this famous company? Answer: YAHOO!. 8. It is a line of consumer-oriented laptop computers designed by Lenovo. The computers were put on the market in January 2008 as entirely Lenovo products, and were not produced by IBM. What are these laptop-computers called as? Answer: IdeaPad (Some of the features on the three models were widescreens, VeriFace facial recognition, frameless screens, touch controls, and Dolby Speaker Systems.) 9. Which company delivered the first ever android phone and also the first ever 4G phone? Answer: HTC (abbreviation: High Tech Computer Corporation, first android phone HTC Dream, first 4G phone HTC EVO 4G). 10. This was initially named as Phoenix then its name was changed to Firebird and then again was changed to another name with which it is called even today. What are talking about? Answer: Mozilla Firefox (It had to change names several times due to copyright conflicts.)

11. Sybase, a RDBMS company was acquired by which company in April 2010? Answer: SAP AG (It is a German global software corporation that provides enterprise software applications and support to businesses of all sizes globally). 12. Israel banned the imports of this gadget in their country. After two months of the ban, they lifted the ban and returned the confiscated gadgets. Then the Princeton University and The Yankees Stadium in New York too banned this gadget due to issues with Wi Fi and network. Name this gadget. Answer: Apple iPad. 13. He studied at the Uppsala University in Sweden. He co-founded the worlds most downloaded Internet software to date (Kaaza). Who are we talking about? Answer: Niklas Zennstorm (He is also the co-founder of Skype). 14. Who is the author of the book Long Live the Web? Answer: Sir Timothy John Tim Berners-Lee. (Known as TimBL, is a British physicist, computer scientist and MIT professor, credited for his

invention of the World Wide Web.) 15. What is the first pocket-sized digital audio player? Answer: iPod (2001). 16. Name the revolutionary gadget invented by Sony in 1979? Answer: Walkman. 17. What is the first VHS cassette recorder? Answer: JVC HR-3300. 18. Name the revolutionary gadget launched by Sony in 1995? Answer: PlayStation. 19. What was the worlds first CD player? Answer: Philips CD 100 (1982) 20. What was worlds first Dolby digital 5.1 movie? Answer: Batman Returns (1992). 21. Who was the first chairman of Infosys? Answer: G.K. Jayaram. Infosys was started in 1981. Initial investment was Rs. 10,000. 22. Who is the father of the Java programming language? Answer: James Gosling.