Wiliam Internet Quiz - September 2012
Every so often, we have an office Internet Quiz; we break into teams of four or five, no team to be entirely constituted of web developers, or web designers or web producers.
The quiz can be a little old-school (i.e. you've been designing websites for a while). It can certainly be tough in parts, especially as the questions attempt to cover things that developers and designers might have a chance of answering.
This said, for the odd grumble about its difficulty, I don't think any quiz has ever at least one team not score 75% or higher.
The prize for the winning team is usually a pub lunch; we've had a few ties, though we simply go into extra-time!
Anyway, last week's questions and answers. If you disagree with any, feel free to comment.
- What does the Feedburner service do? And for a bonus point, who now owns it? RSS-feed aggregation and publishing service.
Google now owns Feedburner. - Where is Smashing Magazine based?
Germany. - Illustrator is the most popular vector-graphics graphic design software worldwide? What is the second most popular?
Corel Draw. - What is the name of the area in Google Plus where friends get together for a group video call?
Hangouts. - Last year, a despot government threatened to shut down Bitly? Who was this government? For a bonus point, why could they threaten this?
Libya. It is their TLD. - What does TLD stand for?
Top Level Domain. - How many layers of networking are there? For a bonus point, what is the fifth layer?
There are seven layers of networking. The fifth layer is the Session Layer. - In which country does Facebook traditionally test new features before rolling them out globally?
New Zealand. - What is the HTML5 tag to define keyboard input?
< kyb > - What is the name of the man behind sites such as Catch of the Day and Scoopon?
Gabby Leibovich. - What is Etsy and what does it sell?
eCommerce website selling handmade and vintage items. - What is Buzzfeed?
A website that detects viral content, providing a snapshot of the ‘viral web in realtime’. - JQuery is forking into two versions; one that supports IE 6/7/8 and one that does not. What are these two versions?
1.9 and 2.0. - The .NET based N2 CMS has how many tables in its DB?
Four. (And no, we do not use or recommend it!) - What is Amazon Prime?
Free 2-day shipping and low cost next-day shipping for a flat annual fee. - What is the largest travel website in the world?
Tripadvisor. - In the US, there is a startup that allows businesses to integrate its technology and start taking payments without a payment gateway. Who is this startup?
Stripe. - GroupOn launched in Australia by buying out another player. Who?
Stardeals. - What is the ‘Completely Automated Public Turing test to test Computers and Humans Apart’ technology otherwise known as?
CAPTCHA - In simple terms, what does the new European Cookie Law require a website to do?
Get a user’s consent before placing a cookie on their computer.