Thursday, December 20, 2007

Quiz # 7



Dudes n Dudettes,

A new day and a new Quiz post.... This quiz is filled with Pics. Have fun !

Please send in your answers to sudharscool@yahoo.com

Happy quizzing,
Sudar

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1) Identify these people and the Connect. [ Clue : You probably have one of their creations ]

Ans: Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan, co-founded Pyra Labs, the company behind Blogger.com


2) Who said these famous quotes :-

“On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit'. And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high”

Ans: Ayrton Senna

3) Another Connect.

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Meet the Robinsons
Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End
Ratatouille
Spider-Man 3
Surf's Up
Transformers


Ans: RenderMan from Pixar

4) Combining the efficiency, scripting, strong typing and productivity of ML with the stability, libraries, cross-language working and tools of .NET




What am I talking about?

Ans: F# programming Language [Check out http://research.microsoft.com/fsharp/fsharp.aspx ]

5) How do we better know her as ?


Ans : ANKITA JHAVERI - Rasna Girl ["i love you rasna"]


6) In 1990 the US Government launched a nation wide crackdown on _______ , which was dubbed as Operation Sundevil.

Ans : HACKING

7) In the Dilbert comic strip, when Dogbert was asked to design a new company logo, he takes a piece of paper that his coffee cup was sitting on, and calls it the Brown Ring of Quality. Which telecom companie’s logo is being parodied here?


Ans: Lucent [Now its Alcatel-Lucent ]



8) Identify the logo or name their most famous product.



Ans: RockStar Games and Grand Theft Auto

9) Identify this object.


Ans : Black Box

10) Which famous law can be mathematically illustrated as follows?

Ans: Murphy’s Law


11) Identify this character (Clue: The Number of the Beast)


Ans: Eddie, whose full name is Eddie the 'Ead or Edward the Head also known as Edward the Great . He is the mascot for the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden


12) Who has replaced Wareen's Buffet's late wife on the board of Berkshire Hathaway ?

Ans: Bill Gates


All the best machans...
-- Sudar