By Software Revenue Microsoft Comes first,IBM comes second.Who Comes Third?
Ans:Oracle
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Self Assessment!
Dear All,
We would like to notify, that due to severe time constraints we have been unable to update and maintain the score sheet on a regular basis. Therefore, we have decided to discontinue it and hence the link to the score sheet has been removed.
We will of-course continue to update the questions with their respective answers on the following days.
Thank you, to all those who have been regularly visiting our blog and appreciating our efforts.
We hope to keep you engaged with some good questions in the future as well!
We would like to notify, that due to severe time constraints we have been unable to update and maintain the score sheet on a regular basis. Therefore, we have decided to discontinue it and hence the link to the score sheet has been removed.
We will of-course continue to update the questions with their respective answers on the following days.
Thank you, to all those who have been regularly visiting our blog and appreciating our efforts.
We hope to keep you engaged with some good questions in the future as well!
Monday, October 5, 2009
555:Advani Ji
_______ was founded in 1982 by partners Mitch Kapor and Jonathan Sachs with backing from Ben Rosen. _______' first product was presentation software for the Apple II known as _______ Executive Briefing System. Kapor founded _______ after leaving his post as head of development at VisiCorp and selling all his rights to the VisiPlot and VisiTrend products to VisiCorp.Shortly after Kapor left VisiCorp, he and Sachs produced an integrated spreadsheet and graphics program.Even though IBM and VisiCorp had a collaboration agreement whereby VisiCalc was being shipped simultaneously with the PC, _______ had a clearly superior product._______ released _______ 1-2-3 in January 1983. The name referred to the three ways the product could be used, as a spreadsheet, graphics package, and database manager.In fact, the latter two functions were less often used, nonetheless 1-2-3 was the most powerful spreadsheet program available.Sales were huge, turning _______ into the largest independent software vendor in the world almost overnight. The business plan had called for $1 million in sales in the first year, but actual results were $54 million.
Ans:Lotus
Ans:Lotus
554:Kaun Hai
_______ joined the Company he is the current ceo of on June 11, 1980 and became the Company he is the current ceo of's 24th employee, the first business manager hired by the founder.He was initially offered a salary of $50,000 as well as a percentage of ownership of the company. When the Company he is the current ceo of was incorporated in 1981, _______ owned 8 percent of the company. He has headed several divisions within the Company he is the current ceo of including "Operating Systems Development", "Operations", and "Sales and Support."_______ handled company finances, however the founder still retained control of the "technological vision." In 2003, _______ sold 8.3% of his shareholdings, leaving him with a 4% stake in the company.The same year, _______ replaced the Company he is the current ceo of's employee stock options program.
Ans:Steve Ballmer
Ans:Steve Ballmer
Sunday, October 4, 2009
551:What Is IT
The fact that many of the ___________-created standards are ubiquitous has led, on occasion, to common use of "___________" to describe the actual product that conforms to a standard.CD images end in the file extension "___________" to signify that they are using the ___________ 9660 standard filesystem as opposed to another file system - hence CD images are commonly referred to as "___________". Virtually all computers with CD-ROM drives can read CDs that use this standard. Some DVD-ROMs also use ___________ 9660 filesystems.
Ans:ISO
Ans:ISO
Saturday, October 3, 2009
548:Its Who
Moblin, short for mobile Linux, is an open source operating system and application stack for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), netbooks, and nettops.Built around the ___________ current builds are designed to minimize boot times and power consumption to create a netbook and MID-centric operating system.
In April 2009 ___________ turned Moblin over to the Linux Foundation.
OpenedHand was an embedded Linux start-up that was acquired by ___________ in 2008.The firm developed a OpenEmbedded distribution called Poky Linux and the Clutter library. The latter is heavily used in the customized UIs of Maemo and Moblin, embedded Linux distributions from Nokia and ___________, respectively.
Ans:Intel

In April 2009 ___________ turned Moblin over to the Linux Foundation.
OpenedHand was an embedded Linux start-up that was acquired by ___________ in 2008.The firm developed a OpenEmbedded distribution called Poky Linux and the Clutter library. The latter is heavily used in the customized UIs of Maemo and Moblin, embedded Linux distributions from Nokia and ___________, respectively.
Ans:Intel

Friday, October 2, 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
539:What Is It
The first purpose-built _______ were made from panels of leather stitched together with a rubber bladder inside. A cloth lining was added to the leather for support and uniformity.A moulded version of the early _______ was invented in 1942. From 1967 through 1976, the _______ used a distinctive red, white and blue _______ that is still seen from time to time. For many years, leather was the material of choice for _______ coverings, however in the late 1990s, composite materials were put forth and have rapidly gained acceptance in most leagues due to their superior performance in harsh outdoor game conditions. A survey in 2007 showed that there were approximately 300 million _______ in the United States.
Ans:Basketball
Ans:Basketball
538:K C Das
The _______ is a very popular cheese based, syrupy sweet dish that originated in Orissa.It is supposed to have been a traditional Oriya dish for centuries. Arguably, the best _______ in Orissa are made by the Kar brothers, the descendants of a local confectioner, Bikalananda Kar, in the town of Salepur, near Cuttack.Another variant of this dish that is made in the town of Pahala, located between the cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack, is also very popular locally. One theory pinpoints the origin of the _______ to the town of Puri in coastal Orissa, where it is a traditional offering to the Hindu goddess, Lakshmi, the consort of the Puri temple's main deity, Jagannath. In fact, it is an age-old custom inside the temple to offer _______s to Lakshmi in order to appease her wrath for ignoring her, after the commencement of the annual chariot festival.The recipe for making _______ eventually made its way from Orissa to neighboring West Bengal. This was during the Bengal renaissance when brahmin cooks from Orissa, especially from Puri, were routinely employed in richer Bengali households. They were famed for their culinary skills and commonly referred to as Ude Thakurs.As a result, many Oriya delicacies got incorporated into the Bengali kitchen. It is widely believed that in 1868, Nobin Chandra Das of Bagbazar, Kolkata, modified the original recipe to extend the shelf life of the highly perishable sweet and make it marketable.Nevertheless, Das earned the sobriquet, "_______'s Columbus" within local circles. His son, K. C. Das started canning _______leading to their even wider availability. These became known as the sponge _______.
Ans:RASAGULLAS
Ans:RASAGULLAS
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