CODE WARS 2010

There are 20 questions worth one point each. Questions marked as WTF?! are tie-breakers.

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Instructions
There is no negative marking. Go ahead and guess freely! If you want to change an answer, scratch out any previous answer neatly and write your new answer. Usage of #hashtags in answers is not allowed. Please #stopdoingthat. It's #annoying.

1. What is a 'hashtag'? Explain using an example. A 'hashtag' is a system of tagging used on Twitter, by adding a '#' in front of a word or phrase. For instance, '#codewars' could be used to tag a tweet as being about Code Wars. 2. Who is the third cofounder of Apple? Ronald Wayne 3. How much did Intel fork out to acquire McAfee? $7.68 billion (anything in the range of $7 billion accepted) 4. What is the codename for the most recently released version of Android OS? Froyo 5. Which company developed the popular Nintendo game Contra? Konami 6. ______________ claims it is the "first Indian web browser". Epic Browser 7. Who discovered the first computer 'bug'? Grace Hopper 8. Which company manufactures the Blackberry range of smartphones? Research In Motion (RIM) 9. Expand PCI. Peripheral Component Interconnect 10. What was the first computer-animated full-length feature film? Toy Story

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everything except sales and marketing? Airtel

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11. WTF?! Which was the first mobile phone company in the world to outsource

12. WTF?! Which was the first registered domain name on the Internet? nordu.net (NOT symbolics.com, which was the first commercial domain name registered) 13. WTF?! Identify this. Bonus points if you can give the scientific name.

Bill Gates' flower fly, named after him for his contribution to the science of studying flies. The scientific name is Eristalis gatesi. 14. WTF?! Waterborne, a film directed by Kanwal Rekhi's son Ben Rekhi and starring Shabana Azmi, has to its credit one of the most unconventional firsts. What? First video to go on sale on the now-defunct Google Video store. 15. Seriously WTF?! Whose email address is 'chunkylover53@aol.com'? Homer Simpson 16. WTF?! The first three letters of this company's name mean 'when' in Latin. Name the company. Ubisoft 17. How do we better know 'IEEE 1394'? Firewire 18. What operating system (and version) do most touchscreen Nokia phones use? Be specific. Symbian Series 60 v5 19. Name the open-source web browser project started and supported by Google. Chromium (Google Chrome is the proprietary counterpart) www.code-warriors.org

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20. Identify this.

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Twitter's fail whale, shown when their servers cannot handle traffic.

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