Computer GK : Computer Questions and Answers
1. Who invented Compact Disc?
Ans : James T Russel
2. Which day is celebrated as world Computer Literacy Day?
Ans : December 2
3. Who invented Java?
Ans : James A Gosling
4. Longhorn was the code name of ?
Ans : Windows Vista
5. Who is known as the Human Computer of India?
Ans : Shakunthala Devi
6. What is mean by Liveware?
Ans : People who work with the computer
7. Which computer engineer got Nobel Prize for literature in 2003?
Ans. J.M. Coetzee
8. 'Weaving The Web' was written by.....
Ans : Tim Burners Lee
9. What is Beta Test?
Ans : Trial test of a computer or software before the commercial launch
10. 'Do no evil' is tag line of ......
Ans : Google
11. First Indian cinema released through internet is .....
Ans : Vivah
12. Rediff.com was founded by.....
Ans : Ajith Balakrishnan and Manish Agarwal
13. What is the extension of PDF?
Ans : Portable document format
14. Mows is a type of mouse for ........ people
Ans : Physically handicapped people
15. Expand RDBMS?
Ans : Relational Data Base Management System
16. Difference engine was developed by.....
Ans : Charles Babbage
17. Orkut.com is now owned by ......
Ans : Google
18. World's first microprocessor is .....
Ans : Intel 4004
19. What is SQL?
Ans : Structured Query Language
20. What is the expansion of COBOL?
Ans : Common Business Oriented Language
21. What is the expansion of SMS?
Ans : Short Message Service
22. Which IT company's nickname is ' The Big Blue ' ?
Ans : IBM
23. What is the full form of IEEE?
Ans : Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers
24. Who developed COBOL?
Ans : Grace Murry Hopper
25. Email was developed by......
Ans : Raymond Samuel Tomlinson (Ray Tomlinson)
26. Green dam is ......
Ans : Web Filter
27. What is the expanded form of CMOS ?
Ans : Complementary Metal Oxide Semoconductor
28. Who is Netizen ?
Ans : Net Citizen (Citizen who uses internet)
29. What is Scareware?
Ans : Fake antivirus softwares
30. When was the first smart phone launched?
Ans : 1992 (IBM Simon)
1. "The fathers of the Internet" is
Ans : Vint Cerf
2. Which is the news search engine introduced by Rediff.com in 2012?
Ans : Realtime News Search
3. The inventor of the World Wide Web?
Ans : Tim Berners-Lee --> The first web browser was invented in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. It was
called WorldWideWeb and was later renamed Nexus.)
4. The founder of Netscape Communications?
Ans : Marc Andreessen -co-authored Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser and he founded
Netscape Communications.
5.Where was the first computer installed in India?
Ans : Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
6.In internet terminology IP means
Internet Protocol
7. The first page of a website is called the
Ans : Home page
8. A website addresss is a unique name that identifies a specific ____________ on the web.
Ans : Link
9. A ______ is a computer attached to the internet that runs a special web server software and can send
web pages out to the other computer over the internet.
Ans : Web sever
10. Which software application is used for accessing sites or information on a network ( as the world wide
web)?
Ans : Web browser
11. It is a small piece of text stored on a user's computer by a web browser for maintaining the state.
What we are talking about?
Ans : Cookie
12. Which company is nicknamed "Big Blue" ?
Ans : IBM(International Business Machines Corporation)
13. Which was the first ever web server software?
Ans : CERN httpd(later also known as W3C httpd) - was a web server (HTTP) daemon originally
developed at CERN , it live on 25 December 1990.
14. The standard protocol of the Internet is
Ans : TCP/IP
15. The first web based e-mail sevice?
Ans : Hot mail
Sabeer Bhatia of India and Jack Smith founded the first free web-based email service, Hotmail, in 1995.
Hotmail was commercially launched in 4 July 1996 as "HoTMaiL" on American Independence Day. So
why the name HoTMaiL.
1. Who is known as father of computer ?
Answer: Charles Babbage
2. Who is the father of World Wide Web ?
Answer: Tim Berners Lee
3. Who invented Computer Mouse ?
Answer: Douglas Carl Engelbart
4. Who is the founder of Hotmail ?
Answer: Sabeer Bhatia
5. Which day is observed as Computer Literacy Day ?
Answer: December 2
6. Which company introduced mouse as an input device ?
Answer: Apple corporation
7. Which is the first Personal computer ?
Answer: The Altair
8. A group of 4 bits is called as ?
Answer: Nibble
9. Where is first Techno park in India situated ?
Answer: Trivandrum (Kerala)
10. India's first private Internet Service Provider ?
Answer: Satyam Infoway Ltd
11. Who wrote the autobiography 'Passage from Life of a Philosopher' ?
Answer: Charles Babbage
