*) X and Y founded company Z in February 1982 in order to develop and sell the ‘PostScript page description language’. The company is named after a Creek in Los Altos, California, which ran behind the houses of both of the company's founders. Find X, Y and Z.

Answer
Z-> Adobe Systems Pvt Ltd
X, Y -> John Warnock, Charles Geschke

*) Who is credited with the idea of using punch cards to control patterns in a waving machine? a. Pascal b. Hollerith c. Babbage d. Jacquard
*) Which of the following company is called Big Blue? a. IBM b. Compaq Corp c. Microsoft d. Tandy Svenson
*) In 1983, which person was the first to offer a definition of the term 'computer virus’? a. Smith b. Cohen c. Norton d. Mcafee
*) 10 industry professionals who came from Cambridge Technology Partners, Lucent Technologies and Wipro started Company X in 1999. X crossed USD 100 million in revenues in April 2006 & has been involved in the creation of Bluetooth technology and is an Associate Member of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group. Name X.
Answer X -> Mind Tree Ltd.
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*) What is common to these weird sounding names?
•Toffili
•Fredkin
•Hadamard
•CNOT

Answer Quantum Logic Gates / Operators

*) In 2000, the Clay Mathematical Foundation, in the footsteps of David Hilbert, proposed a prize of $ 1 million for solving seven of the biggest unsolved mathematical problems. These include the holy grail of computing, first posed by Steve Cook in 1971. Which problem?

Answer P=NP?

*) We have all heard about copyright. What is copyleft?

Answer GNU Public License - the GPL, pun on copyright.
*) What mega media company merged with AOL at the turn of the century?
Answer Time Warner
*) What do they call people who register domain names with the hope of selling them for a profit?
Answer Cyber Squatters or Domain Squatters
*) Who is the Ada programming language named after?
Answer Ada Lovelace
*) What was the first computer to have a GUI and a Mouse?
Answer Apple Lisa
*) A nibble is how many bits?

a. 2
b. 4
c. 8
d. 16

*) Before founding the social bookmarking site Digg.com, Kevin Rose was a co-host of what TV show?

Answer The Screen Savers. (Attack of the Show! is also an acceptable answer)

References

http://edugrip.blogspot.in/2012/09/computer-quiz-information-technology.html http://www.utdallas.edu/~pradiptaray/sanganana.pdf http://thinkingdigitally.com/archive/computer-science-trivia-questions/