Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 23:53:53 +0000
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Sender: The Internet TourBus - A virtual tour of cyberspace
From: Bob Rankin
Subject: TOURBUS - 23 Jan 01 - Pop Quiz!
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TODAY'S TOURBUS TOPIC: Pop Quiz!
Dr. Bob has cooked up a little quiz to test your online acumen. The
difficulty of each question is indicated by the number of stars that
follow. See how many you can answer without consulting a search
engine, and then find your Net-Q rating at the end of the quiz.
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POP QUIZ!
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1. A three letter acronym for the address of a document on the
World-Wide Web. (*)
2. The lobbying group that shut down popular music-sharing website
Napster. (**)
3. These infamous Arizona lawyers wrote the book on Spam in 1994 (**)
4. A tool one uses to login to another computer on the Internet. (**)
5. A mailing list manager with a military moniker. (**)
6. An escalating sequence of rude or angry newsgroup postings. (*)
7. A popular alternative operating system from Finland. (**)
8. The system used on the Internet to equate IP addresses to domain
names. (**)
9. A piano player and a tool to help you find mailing lists. (**)
10. He created a "pretty good" piece of encyption software. (***)
11. The organization that oversees domain names and their numeric
address assignments. (**)
12. Thousands of these Q&A documents can be found on Usenet. (*)
13. The computer company that became infamous (twice) for imposing a
"GIF Tax". (***)
14. A rodent that troubled University of Alabama computers, and was
made a legend by ROADMAP author Patrick Crispen. (*)
15. A beverage and a technology that can jazz up a web page. (**)
16. This "Zen Man" and doer-of-good-Net-deeds had a brush with death
in 1994. (***)
17. A person who has the power to approve or disapprove postings in
newsgroups and mailing lists holds this title. (*)
18. What Emily Post would talk about on Usenet. (*)
19. This Internet pioneer is author of the "elm" email program and
fond of poodles. (***)
20. This set of extensions to the RFC822 mail specification allows
users to transmit images and sound via e-mail. (**)
21. What does the acronym JPEG stand for? (**)
22. What is the highest price ever paid for a domain name? (**)
23. Yang and Filo skipped school for this venture. (***)
24. The first hacker to appear on an FBI "Most Wanted" poster. (**)
25. The electronic address is the virtual home of the First Family of
the USA. (**)
26. The Web turned this furry little guy into information highway
roadkill. (**)
27. The name for hidden features intentionally put into a program by
software developers. (**)
28. Duplicate bovines, and a place to download Internet software. (**)
29. A series of messages on the same topic, in an online discussion.
(*)
30. Benny Goodman's claim to fame, and a pioneering Usenet news
service. (**)
31. Where does Ima Lyer live, and what is her favorite snack? (***)
32. This repository of U.S. goverment information bears the name of
the 3rd U.S. President. (**)
33. He invented the World-Wide Web to facilitate the sharing of
information amongst physicists. (***)
34. Hardware or software designed to keep network snoopers out. (**)
35. Annoying IRC automatons. (***)
36. A tool that sends your keywords to several search engines and
combines the results. (**)
37. Their quest is to bring public domain classics online for
posterity. (**)
38. Often called the father of the Internet, he helped to develop
TCP/IP and other network foundations. (***)
39. Originally Netscape's reptilian mascot, now an open-source browser
project. (**)
40. The number of people killed by the Klingerman Virus in 2000. (*)
Figure Your Net-Q
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For each correctly answered question, total up the number of stars and
then multiply by 2.5 to calculate your Net-Q. (Maximum score: 200)
Score Rating
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181-200 CyberGuru
161-180 Net.Geek
141-160 Seasoned Surfer
121-140 Just Cruisin'
101-120 Newbie
000-100 Get a Modem, Dude!
Answers can be found at the TOURBUS website...
http://www.tourbus.com/answers.htm
...but no fair peeking until you've given it your best shot! Send
this quiz to your friends and see who has the highest Net-Q! That's
all for now - see you next time! --Bob
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