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independent on Saturday technology quiz

Andie23 | 23:12 Sun 14th May 2006 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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Hi, I'm struggling a bit with last 3 questions - can one help me with 5, 23 and 27 please?

5: Which of these is the odd one out - cheetah, puma, ocelot, jaguar, panther, tiger or leopard?

23: How much money in royalties did Alexey Pazhitnov, the inventor of Tetris, receive for his creation - a) �0, b) �100,800 or c) �670. (all that i can find through google is that he made nothing initially, but in 1996, following the creation of the Tetris Company LLC, he started receving modest royalties).

27: with which 3 keyboard keys can you rotate a screen on a PC? (some one previously said its ctrl, alt and arrow keys, but i'm not sure this is right)?

thanks in advance.

you mag

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gen2

5 The cheetah is the only member of the cat family that is unable to retract its claws.

gen2

27. It depends on what video card / video driver you have installed. If display rotation IS allowed by your system, then, yes, it is the ctrl, alt and arrow keys that turn it. The up and down arrows turn it 180 degrees
The left and right arrows turn it 90 degrees.

On my PC nothing rotates it.
On the machines at work, only the up/down arrows work with crtl and alt.

gen2

If you want a technology answer for 5, then they are all names of the Mac OS X operating system. Each release has been named after a big cat. The next release due later this year is to be called 'leopard'. Previous releases have been called cheetah, puma, jaguar, panther and tiger.

The odd one out is therefore the ocelot.

velvetcad

5: Ocelot is the odd one out as the others refer to mac operating systems.

23: Pazhitnov received no money for his creation

27: The most common answer I've found is ctrl, shift, R

I'm struggling with a couple myself:

1) In what year was the first email sent?
a) 1965
b) 1975
c) 1985

Most of what I've read suggests it was in 1971, though some put it as early as 1966.

6) What is the word mouse an acronym for?

This is a trick question isn't it? Although some people claim it's "Manually Operated User Selection Equipment" I think the answer is: nothing.

Andie23

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Thanks for your help Gen2 and Velvetcad.

The first email was in 1965. Not sure how to attach it as a link for you, but I typed "first email 1965" into google and got the info from a BBC news story (3rd in list).

I've got the same answer as you for the MOUSE question.

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