Date:29/06/2009 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/bline/ew/2009/06/29/stories/2009062950110400.htm

Back Quiz

V. V. Ramanan

Questions

1. If it is AMPAS for Oscars, who is it for the Webbys?

2. Which company that provides tools for identifying digital media was acquired by Sony early last year for $260 million?

3. According to a recent The Wall Street Journal report, which high-profile cyber-czar had a liver transplant two months ago?

4. What is MovieIQ?

5. Which ‘Friends’ TV series star is also a star, co-writer, and co-producer of ‘Web Therapy’ on lstudio.com?

6. Who made this statement and when: “Free... open... Keep one web”?

7. The first processor Nvidia has built for power-frugal handheld devices is called…?

8. Why did Apple pay at least $1 million to one Michael Kovatch?

9. The original specifications for what was developed in 1994 by Jaap Haartsen and Sven Mattisson?

10. What has the Chinese version of Bing been named as because Bing could mean ‘to be ill’, ice, soldier and pancake depending on the tone and character associated with it?

Answers

1. IADAS (International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences)

2. Gracenote

3. Steve Jobs.

4. To be part of all new Sony Pictures Blu-ray discs, it’s a service that grabs data similar to one on IMDB from the Internet to show during playback .

5. Lisa Kudrow.

6. Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s acceptance speech for ‘Webby Lifetime Achievement’ Award.

7. Tegra

8. For transferring the iphone.com domain name.

9. Bluetooth

10. ‘Biying’ (which means ‘must respond/answer’).