Buenos días 'Quizzers'
Enjoy my latest Quiz post.. Please send in your answers to sudharscool@yahoo.com
Happy quizzing,
Sudar
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1) Connect these ....
Ans : The calendar for the 2008 Formula One World Championship has been published by the FIA, with new additions in Valencia and Singapore..
On the left is the Street Circuit in Singapore, & on the right is the Flag for Valencia Football Club.
2) Who are these ? (Clue: They are Legends) . Thalaiva !!!
Ans : Ken Thompson (L) and Dennis Ritchie(R) ,creators of UNIX.
Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it 'New B'. B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wife Bonnie). He later called it C. ( Long live C/C++/VC !! Java sucks).
3) If you find yourself in an Infinite Loop in the Bay area, where would you be ?
Ans : Apple Headquarters. (#1, Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California )
4) My goal of life is to try experience all the wildest things in life (defining "wild" is up to you) and never look back or regret about anything.
Where would you find this ??
Ans : Orkut buyokkokten's profile "about:me".
5) What is this place below and where would you find it ?
Ans : Kansai International Airport. It is also known as sinking airport.
One more thing is that it is built on a man made Island.(OSAKA,JAPAN)
6) Ken Follett has written a book ‘On the wings of Eagles’ which deals with the true story of how 40 odd employees of an American Company EDS corporation escaped from Iran when caught in the Islamic Revolution. Who appears throughout the book?
Ans : Ross Perot (He is the founder of EDS )
7) Which industrialist – Philanthropist donated $800,00 for the land on which the U.N. General Assembly has been built?
Ans : John D. Rockefeller Jr.
8) Who are they and what are they famous for ?
[ Clue : You needn't look too far away from the picture for a clue, its inside. ]
Ans : Gordon Moore(L) and Bob Noyce(R) ,founders of Intel. Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ' Moore Noyce'. But that was already trademarked by a hotel chain... So they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics... INTEL
9) Titanic" tied what movie as the most honored motion picture in Academy Awards history by winning 11 Oscars in 1997?
Ans : Judah Ben-Hur
10) Vienna, Katmai and Orcas. What am i talking about here ?
Ans : All are codenames of upcoming Microsoft Product releases in 2008.
Vienna - Windows Server 2008 (now codenamed Longhorn)
Katmai - SQL Server 2008
Orcas - Visual Studio 2008
All the best amigos... :)
-- Sudar
