Computers Quiz

Quiz I

1. As of July 2015, what number Windows became the most recent version of Windows for personal computers?
2. The two-letter country-code domain '.dd' was reserved for which country, but never implemented?
3. Which general-purpose high-level programming language was created by Guido van Rossum in the Netherlands?
4. What country has the two letter domain name 'cn'?
5. Which entertainment, news, and social networking website has the slogan 'The front page of the internet'?
6. What did Apple launch in 2003 to support the 2001 launched iPod?
7. Which programming language together with HTML and CSS is one of the three core technologies of website content production?
8. In web design, CSS are 'cascading' what?
9. Which web browser replaced Internet Explorer as the default browser in Windows 10?
10. Which letter key comes last (bottom row, far right) on a computer keyboard?
11. Which letter do you press with the control button to paste copied content using a latop keyboard?
12. What does the abbreviation PNG stand for?
13. According to Dragons' Den star Nick Jenkins, what was his nickname in school?
14. Can you give President Donald Trump's official Twitter handle?





15. Can you name the website businesses of the following internet entrepreneurs: (a)Jimmy Wales, (b)David Filo and Jerry Yang, (c)Evan Sharp and Ben Silbermann, (d)Nathan Blecharczyk, Brian Chesky, and Joe Gebbia, and (e)Col Needham?
16. For what does the acronym IT stand?
17. Which university was Mark Zuckerberg attending when he launched Facebook?
18. What does the acronym LCD stand for?
19. Which web browser is run by the Mozilla Corporation?
20. Who in 2001, overtook Compaq as the largest supplier of home-use PCs?
21. What did Apple launch in 2003 to support the 2001 launched iPod?
22. Which of the following is not a type of web image: PNG, GIF, LPG or JPG?
23. In 1943 Thomas Watson chairman of IBM said there was a world market for how many computers?
24. What does the 'F' stand for in the acronym FORTRAN?
25. In computing there are 8 bits to a byte, what are 4 bits called?

Answers:

1. Windows 10
2. East Germany
3. Python
4. China
5. Reddit
6. iTunes
7. Javascript
8. Style sheets
9. Microsoft Edge
10. M
11. V
12. Portable Network Graphics
13. Moonpig (he founded internet greeting card giant Moonpig.com)
14. @POTUS (also accept @realDonaldTrump)
15. (a)Wikipedia, (b)Yahoo, (c)Pinterest, (d)Airbnb, and (e)IMDb
16. Information Technology
17. Harvard
18. Liquid Crystal Display
19. Firefox
20. Dell
21. iTunes
22. LPG
23. Five
24. Formula
25. A nibble