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Questions

1. Who presides over the most successful e-commerce business in the US?

2. Who wrote ``Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor''?

3. Expand MPEG.

4. Which company has the tagline: ``Access Anytime, Anywhere''?

5. Who was the first computer executive to testify against Microsoft in the famous case?

6. Name the lead players in the popular film ``You've Got Mail''?

7. With which company would you associate the name of James Barksdale?

8. Who is usually referred to as the ``father of the Internet''?

9. It was formerly called Progressive Networks. What is its new and more famous name?

10. ``Papa'' was a copy cat of which famous virus?

Answers

1. The Federal Government!

2. Tim Berners-Lee.

3. Motion Pictures Expert Group.

4. Microsoft.

5. IBM's Gary Norris.

6. Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks.

7. Netscape Communications.

8. Vinton Cerf.

9. Real.com

10. Melissa.

V.V. Ramanan, Quizzer@letsquiz.com

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