Cyber Quiz: BL
Questions
1. According to ComScore, Inc, US shoppers spent a whopping $27 billion online in the holiday season with
the second most productive day being ?Cyber Monday' with sales of $887 million after the December 15
sales which saw $913 million being spent. When was ?Cyber Monday'?
2. If the signalling rate for USB 2.0 is 480 Mbit/s, what is it for the new USB 3.0?
3. Teenager David Nelson, the founder of a music service, was chastised by Vevo which asked him to stop
using the service's content and trademark. Name the teenager's site.
4. Name the game that has broken many records, earning the distinction of being the ?most pirated game of
2009' with downloads exceeding 4.1 million times till end December since its early November launch.
5. The team from which prestigious varsity won a $40,000 online, nine-day challenge in early December,
proposed by the US government's DARPA, in just nine hours?
6. According to Netcraft's December 2009 Web Server Survey, how many million sites were there across all
domains: 225, 234 or 240?
7. Why is February 4, 2004 a significant date in the online world of social networking?
8. Which OS has the default browser NetPositive (often called Net+)?
9. Which dangerous worm has/had the aliases ?Simpsons', ?Kwyjibo' or ?Kwejeebo'?
10. The popular video capture and video processing utility for Microsoft Windows written by Avery Lee is
called..?
Answers
1. November 30.
2. 4.8 Gbit/s
3. Muziic
4. ?Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2'.
5. MIT
6. 234 (from about 12 million in 1999).
7. Facebook, initially named ?thefacebook', made its appearance.
8. Be Operating System (BeOS).
9. Melissa
10. VirtualDub.