1. Must Know IT

1. Did you know that Bill Gates's full name is William Henry Gates III?
2. Did you know that the father of Information theory was Claude Shannon?
3. Did you know that 1st search application of primitive internet was VERONICA and not Google?
4. Did you know that the previous name of Oracle was Relation Software Inc. (RSI)?
5. Did you know that The Road Ahead is authored by Mr. Bill Gates?
6. Did you know that Infinite Loop could be found in Apple Company’s headquarters?
7. Did you know that the CEO of PIXAR Animation Studio is Mr. Steve Jobs?
8. Did you know that the name YAHOO! originated from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels?
9. Did you know that the Codename of Windows Vista is LongHorn?

You will find a collection of such wonderful facts which is a must know fact for a Quizzer

2. Firsties First

This Chapter is a unique collection of First time Accomplishments in IT World

The Following are the sub-chapters

Programs, Programming Language and OS

• The 1st Artificial Intelligence programming language is ___________
• The 1st Wordprocessor with true WYSIWYG features is ____________
• The 1st Operating System ever to run on a Computer is _________

Network and internet

• The 1st Borwser, written by Sir Tim Berners Lee is ___________
• The 1st spam e-mail was sent by ____________
• World's 1st Wiki web is ___________

Products

• World's 1st commertial MODEM is ________
• World's 1st Supercomputer is ________
• 1st IBM Pc Clone was by ____________ company

Storage

• The 1st Commercial CD was manufactured by _________
• Which company conceptualised and manufactured the 1st Light Scribe DVD ?

Virus

• The First virus to affect Linux systems is ________
• The 1st antivirus service to stop the virus in e-mails is __________

Miscellaneous

• World'ss 1st Cyberpunk Novel is ________
• World's 1st Public Key Cryptography is _________
• The 1st photocopier is from which company?

There are about 280 such questions in the 1st edition. 2nd edition of the same book is expected to have about 350 such questions n trivias.

3. Games! Games!! Games!!!!

This Chapter is dedicated to All the gamers and Gaming enthusuasts. This chapter contains Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) on

1. History of Gaming
2. Games
3. Game Publishers
4. Gaming Consoles

A Few Example Questions

The Creator of the Game Tetris is ____________

1. Alexey Pazithnov
2. Nolan Bushnell
3. John Romero
4. Rahph Baer

Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein etc are the contributions of which famous Game Developer?

1. John McCarthy
2. John Carmack
3. John Lenson
4. John D'Silva

What do you call the Controller of Sony Playstation 3 ?

1. Nunchuk
2. Wiimote
3. Playmate
4. Six Axis

4. The Power to create IT

This Chapter is dedicated for all the folks who dared to Think Differently and elevated the comfort level of the World through their inventions/innovations.

This Chapter contains

Trivia on Founders

1. Who are the founders of Google Inc?
2. The company IRIDIUM is found by ____________
3. Who created the Wikipedia, The most popular free, public encyclopedia?

Developers and Inventors

1. Who developed the FAST TCP technology?
2. Who is the driving force behind Ubuntu The Linux Operating System?
3. Who invented the Liquid Crystal technlolgy?

Programming Languages

A list of popular programming languages, their key features, the programming model and their prime applications has been populated in this chapter.

The list is quite large and will be revised with more languages in the new edition.

The Languages include

• C, C++, C#
• Java
• PHP, ASP etc

5. Acronyms

This chapter is a gargantuan collection of Computer related Acronyms and Abbriviations. This Book is a One Shot reference book for all the tech enthusiasts who often stumble upon Acronyms while reading Technology Magazines, which often reduces the understandability of the article.

This Book contains about 2800 plus Tech-Related abbriviations in its 1st edition. The second edition will have still more abbriviations.

Some Examples

1. JPEG - Joint Photographers Expert Group
2. CSS - Cascading Style Steets
3. COM - Component Object Model
4. Yahoo - Yet Another Hierarchial Officious Oracle
5. VERONICA - Very Easy Rodent Oriented Netwide Index for Computerised Archieves
6. PING - Packet Internet Groper

6. Swadesh, We Indians

The contributions of Indians in the world of IT is very significant and prominent. A lots of innovations/inventions are attributed to the hardwork of Indians

To list a few of Our Achievements

1. The Co-founder of Sun Microsystems is Vinod Khosla
2. The person who coined the term Pentium is Vinod Dham
3. Founder and creator of Hotmail is Sabeer Bhatia
4. Chief Executive of McKinsey n Co is Rajat Gupta
5. GM of Hewlett Packard is Rajiv Gupta
6. Chief Executive officer of Vodafone is Arun Sarin
7. President of AT&T-Bell Labs had been Arun Netravali
8. Founder of Bose Audio is Amar Bose
9. The concept of Google News is by Krishna Bharat

This Chapter is dedicated to all Indians and the Indian companies because of whom India is Shining globally

7. Internet Fever

Today, Internet is ubiquitous and almost all our activities happen via net, may it be chatting with friends, making new riends, watch movies, read/write emails, buy stuffs, earn knowledge etc. This chapter tries to familiarize internet lingos, terminologies etc to its readers.

The following topics are covered in the 1st edition

1. Country Domain Names
2. History of Search Engines with a writeup on various popular search engines
3. IEEE 802 Standards
4. Hacker's Manifesto
   1. Some Popular Hacker Groups
   2. Hackers Who shook the Internet World
5. History of Web Browsers with a writeup on various popular Web Browsers

Info: This Chapter is the most popular chapter in BLITZ - The IT Quiz Book according to the survey. The 2nd Edition is going to have arevised and updated list of search engines, web browsers, hackers etc

8. I'm Loving IT (MCQs)

This chapter contains a huge collection of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs). This chapter is constantly updated, adding new and happening questions, eliminating the irrelavent questions etc

122 MCQs on IT Companies

Example : Which company is the Largest Manufacturers of ATM machines in the World? In India, SBI, Corporation Bank, Karnataka Bank etc use ATMs from this company.

1. IBM
2. NCR
3. Cisco Systems
4. Texas Instruments

77 MCQs on IT Personalities

Example : What's so special about th main Photographer of Larry Ellison's Wedding?

1. He happened to be the richest man on Earth then
2. He happens to be the CEO of Apple Inc
3. He happens to be just 18 months old
4. He happens to be the Best Photographer of India, Based out of Bangalore

115 Miscellaneous IT Questions

Example : Last Year, Brian L Fisher discovered a new species of ants in Madagascar, using a satellite imagery service of a web 2.0 giant. He named it as ___________ as a respect to the great service by the company.

1. Google Earth Ants
2. MSN Virtual Earth Ants
3. Keyhole Ants
4. Bit Torrent Ants