NDTV Croma Tech Grandmaster quiz episode 3

(TF)(Microsoft)Halo and Dungeon Siege are video games published by microsoft
Ans. True

(TF)(Sergey Brin)Google co-founder Sergey Brin was born in the former nation Yugoslavia
Ans. False

(TF)(Macintosh)The Apple Macintosh was launched with a commercial first aired during the 1984 superbowl
Ans. True

(TF)(Floppy Disks)The first Floppy disks were introduced by 3M
Ans. False

(TF)(World Space)At the end of 2009, World space decided to shut down its India operations
Ans. True

(DIRECT)(COMPANIES)The ‘Qosmio’ series of multimedia notebooks comes from which company
Ans. TOSHIBA

(DIRECT)(PERSONALITIES)Who attracted more than 88000 followers on twitter within a day , when he registered his account on may 5, 2010?
Ans. SACHIN TENDULKAR

(DIRECT)(LANDMARKS)The township of menlo park , New jersey was renamed in 1954 to honour which american inventor?
Ans. THOMAS EDISON

(DIRECT)(WWW)Which Indian website was acquired on june 22,2004 ,by eBay for approximately US $50 million
Ans. BAAZEE.COM

(DIRECT)(ENTERTAINMENT)Which computer game comes in various editions like vice city , liberty city and san andreas?
Ans. GRAND THEFT AUTO

(DIRECT)(TERMINOLOGIES)Which verb specially used on social networking websites was anointed ‘word of the year’ by new oxford american dictionary in 2009?
Ans. UNFRIEND

(DIRECT)(GADGETS)Which computer hardware company, specialising in multi-format USB and firewire hard drives, is headquartered in Paris (France) and Oregon (USA)?
Ans. LACIE

(BUZZER)()As of 2010,which is the world’s number 1 online multimedia store accounting for nearly 70% of music sales?
Ans. ITUNES

(BUZZER)()Whose blog on bigadda.com is called BigB
Ans. AMITABH BACHCHAN

(BUZZER)()How is the company formarly known as ‘Integrated electronics’ now known?
Ans. INTEL

(BUZZER)()Colemak,Dvorak,and AZERTY are standard types of what?
Ans. KEYBOARD LAYOUTS

(BUZZER)()Athion,Duron, and sempron are all microprocessors from which company?
Ans. AMD

(BUZZER)()What technological first is shown here?
Ans. COMPUTER MOUSE