Saturday 29 October 2011

Quiz 44: Answers

Q1. In 1998 four engineers from Microsoft’s Direct X team – Kevin Bachus, Seamus Blackley, Ted Hase and Direct X team leader Otto Berkes, disassembled some Dell laptop computers to construct a prototype Microsoft Windows based video game console. Which one are we talking about?
X-Box
Q2. What was invented by Tom Cranston, Fred Longstaff and Kenyon Taylor; working on the Royal Canadian Navy’s DATAR project in 1952?
Trackball
Q3. This is an 8-bit hand-held video game device developed and manufactured by Ninetendo. It was first released in Japan on April 21, 1989. It was created by Gunpei Yokoi. Which game we are talking about?
Game Boy
Q4. What is common to Toy Story in 1995, A Bug’s Life in 1998, Toy Story 2 in 1999, Monsters Inc in 2001, Finding Nemo in 2003, The incredibles in 2004, Cars in 2006, Ratatouille in 2007, WALL-E in 2008, Up in 2009 and Toy Story 3 in 2010?
Produced by Pixar Animation Studios
Q5. What is the name of the chess playing computer developed by Prof. Hirogasu Furnakubo of Japan whichis a medicak electrical King Kong?
Melkong
Q6.  Identify
                    Lady Ada Lovelace, World’s first computer programmer and the granddaughter of Lord  Byron
Q7.  Identify
William Shockley, co-inventor of Transistor

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