Independent Techno Quiz

[Cresta]

Is anyone doing the Independent technology quiz for 10 x Laptops?

Stuck on a couple:

How many text messages does the average UK consumer send each week?

a) 119, b) 28 or c) 4

What is the name of the world's first computer virus.

Cresta

[Salty]

Virus - "Elk Cloner". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus#Hi story

[Cresta]

Thanks Salty,

Cresta

[jakeby]

17)Bluejacked. Are you using PDA, phone or laptop?

Wikipedia says any of the above
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluejacking
Bluejacking is the sending of unsolicited messages over Bluetooth to Bluetooth-enabled devices such as mobile phones, PDAs or laptop computers,

Wordspy only mentions phones:
Temporarily hijacking another person's cell phone by sending it an anonymous text message using the Bluetooth wireless networking system.

http://www.wordspy.com/words/bluejacking.asp

What the hell are we supposed to answer? Any ideas?

[Cresta]

17. I went for phone, can't remember where I got that answer from.

Question 1 for the email, I got 1970, which is none of the choices!

Cresta

[leodis]

I got (b) 28 for text messages but I am stuck on question 27

which three keyboard keys can you rotate a screen on a pc?

any help greatly appreciated

leodis

[jakeby]

email was 1965
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email

CTRL+ALT+ Arrow keys to rotate screen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_keyboard_shortcuts

28 is correct for number of text messages
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/advice/media_literacy/medlitpub/medlitpubrss/older/

[leodis]

thanks for that jakeby

leodis

[macpark]

Has anyone got the answers to 5,6 and 20?

[eleanorsteed]

6 I,ve got Matrix Oriented Universal Signal Processing Environment.

Not a lot of room on the entry form to put that in!

Eleanor

[Cresta]

For 6 I've found 5 definitions:

http://www.acronymattic.com/results.aspx?q=MOU SE

Acronym Meaning Rank
MOUSE MicroSoft Office User Specialist ****
MOUSE Making Opportunities for Upgrading Schools and Education ***
MOUSE Minimum Orbital Unmanned Satellite of the Earth **
MOUSE Manually Oscillating Utensil Sonically Engaged **
MOUSE Minimum Orbital Unmanned Satellite Earth *

I've gone for the top one, easiest to fit in on the paper!

Cresta

[jakeby]

There is a fake etymology of the word mouse, which some claim is an acronym for "Manually Operated User Selection Equipment", but the device's name came from its resemblance to a mouse and was established very early on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Mouse

So I think the answer should be "�t's not an acronym"

[ikram]

For question 17, I think the answer is all three devices (phone, pda, laptop) can be bluejacked as long as they have bluetooth installed.