Mama, Machan and Mappilai's ,
Enjoy this latest quiz post. You can expect the frequency of the posts to increase over the next 2 months. Stay tuned and as always happy quizzing.....
Happy Quizzing
Sudar
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1. Identify the Doodle below ...
Ans: Celebrating 25 years of TCP/IP [Thank you! Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn]
2. What is Sping ? (No Googling on this one. Think People Think ! )
Ans: Sping is short for "spam ping". Pings are messages sent from blog and publishing tools to a centralized network service providing notification of newly published posts or content.
3. In the book "Cuckoo's Egg" there is a number sequence that is popularly known as the Cuckoo's Egg. What was the other interesting feature of this book ?
Ans: There is a recipe for chocolate chip cookies referenced in the book as a footnote.
4. A Cool question. What is depicted in the picture below ???
Ans: The Hindu Calendar [ Source: Wikipaedia ]
5. Who said this to whom :-
"Had you been in my army, I would have made you a colonel" ?
Ans: Adolf Hitler to Dhyan Chand.
6. Identify the Dude !
Ans: Orkut Buyokkoten [Yes, Mr.Orkut himself]
7. The visual is of the IBM 305 RAMAC computer introduced by IBM in September 1956.RAMAC stood for random access method for accounting and control. What first was achieved by this gigantic machine ? :D [ Source : Quizzards ]
Ans: First computer to come with a hard disk [Bet none of you got this right!]
8. Identify this path-breaking car ? Sitter !
Ans: Bajaj Lite (answer to Tata’s 1 lakh car).
9. To which company did the shipment of tea destroyed by the American colonists during the Boston Tea Party in 1773 belong ? [ Clue: There is a connect with India ]
Ans: East India Company
All the best machans...
-- Sudar
