2. It became the music industry's nightmare and the most downloaded music file-share programme until it was ordered to close down this year. Which company are we referring to?
a) Napster
b) Kazaa
c) Gnutella

3. Who became the centre of an ugly online gossip controversy that started on the site popbitch.com?
a) Ronaldo
b) David Beckham
c) Anna Kournikova

4. This technology launched in 2002 aims to change the way we view television. You can pause, rewind, slow-mo or instant replay live TV. It is called…
a) TiVo
b) Re-Play
c) Action

5. Name the Hindi-speaking bot created by students of Punjab Engineering College (PEC), Chandigarh.
a) Deepti
b) Awaaz
c) Dhvani

6. A wealthy foreigner needs your help moving millions of dollars from his homeland to yours. Your reward: A hefty percentage of this fortune. Which country did this email hoax originate from?
a) Malaysia
b) Finland
c) Nigeria

7. Which much-hyped product, once codenamed 'Ginger', ranks among the top selling items on Amazon.com's Web site?
a) Segway
b) Motorola V60
c) Digital Camera

8. 'Warchalking', 'hotspot' and '802.11b' are terms associated with which exciting new technology?
a) Low-Fi
b) Web Radio
c) Wi-Fi

9. Cyber-fraudsters mimicked a popular online auction site, and emailed an unknown number of the site's 55 million customers. Which site was the focus of this scam?
a) eBay.com
b) BidorBuy.com
c) Amazon.com

10. Microsoft launched a much-awaited computing device on November 7, this year. Name the product?
a) WAP Phone
b) Tablet PC
c) PDA

11. The US federal government called him "the most wanted computer criminal in US history" for stealing software and altering data at Motorola, Novell, Nokia, Sun Microsystems and the University of Southern California. He served five years in prison and will start using the Internet again next month. Who is he?
a) Mark Abene
b) Kevin Poulsen
c) Kevin Mitnick

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