Quiz: A taste for tech? For quiz connoisseurs, here's a trivia dish to stir the appetites of sysadmins and other techie folk everywhere. Sit down to a full plate of various victual-related IT terminology. Bon appetit! 1. Does this prominent producer of hardware and software keep the doctor away?
Answer 2. This salty tinned substance fed the troops in World War II; today, its namesake annoys e-mail users everywhere. What is it?
Answer 3. Chocolate-covered versions of these deliver caffeine-powered energy. As an object-oriented programming interface, they help you build re-useable components that can be deployed in a network on any major platform. What is it?
Answer 4. Popping a bowl of these in butter makes a movie that much better. In an IT context, it provides basic services for all other parts of an operating system, like managing address spaces in storage or systems calls.
Answer 5. The name of this sour candy is also a term for a technically bright but socially inept individual.
Answer 6. This expedition for sea-faring food shares its name with a scam in which bait takes the form of legitimate-looking e-mails trying to elicit sensitive information. What is it?
Answer 7. This cephalopod, beloved in a battered and deep-fried form by calamari lovers everywhere, also shares its name with a program that caches Web and other Internet content in a Unix -based proxy server closer to the user than the content-originating site. What is it?
Answer 8. Mmmm... chocolate and hazelnuts, good on bread or straight from the spoon! Its namesake is a peer-to-peer file-sharing program. What is it?
Answer 9. Careful -- unless carefully prepared, this marine delicacy is poisonous! Less deadly is its IT counterpart, an encryption algorithm that can be used as a replacement for the DES or IDEA algorithms. What is it?
Answer 10. Full of sweet goo -- just ask Winnie the Pooh! Its networking equivalent is a computer set up for the sole purpose of trapping attackers. What is it?
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Who was the first woman programmer?
a. Admiral Grace Hopper
b. Countess Ada Lovelace
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