Quiz No. 1/2 IT & Computers

Q. No.1 What name is given to the programs run by a computer, as opposed to the hardware?

Ans:    Software

Q. No.2  In which year did electronic digital computer Colossus first become operational?

Ans:    1943

Q. No.3  What in computer science is OCR?

Ans:    Optical Character Recognition

Q. No.4 Which company originally developed the computer mouse?

Ans:    Xerox

Q. No.5 In the computer abbreviation ASCII, for what does the letter ‘C’ stand?

Ans:    Code

Q. No.6  In computer language, what do the initials ISDN stand for?

Ans:    Integrated Services Digital Network

Q. No.7  Introduced in 1982, of what was the Epson HX-20 the first of its kind?

Ans:    Laptop computer

Q. No.8  What was the name of the IBM computer that beat reigning World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov in a six-game series in New York in 1997?

Ans:    Deep Blue

Q. No.9 What was the strange crime of German computer technician Armin Meiwes, who was brought to trial in 2003?

Ans:       Cannibalism     

Q. No.10  What does the computer programming language BASIC stand for?

Ans:   Beginners’ All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code