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By now, you should be well on your way to becoming a GEEK. Nothing to feel embarrassed
about here---its quite acceptable. In fact, its downright COOL! J take this quiz to test your
GQ (geek quotent).
Tick off the option that FIRST OCCURS TO YOU when you hear each of these words or
phrases:
APPLE
- Usman Sarvar (hehehehehehe)
- A fruit
- The co-star ( along the likes of Eve,Newton,William Tell) of many an anectode and
legend.
CHIPS
- Things that go into a computer and make it tick.
- Bits of stone or wood
- Food eaten by programmers who dont have the time to leave their computers for
meals J
PARTITION
- A logical division of a hard disk
- Something you go behind when you want to change
- A nefarious act by the British that divided India and Pakistan (shit !!)
PRINCE
- A game
- Charlie boy (hehehe)
- The fitey moonh pop singer (yuck)
NO CARRIER
- Error message, indicating the modem is unable to connect
- Air-lanka on strike
- The home pregnancy test turned up negative
ADDRESS
- Identification number for a memory location
- Where you stay
- Clothing worn by women programmers (ahem)
COURIER
- A type face
- An American tennis player
- UPS,DHL etc
LINKING
- Embedding data from one document to another
- A road in Mumbai
- Holding hands from India to Pakistan
CARRIER DROP
- The telephone line got disconnected, sending your "MIRC chat" session for a
toss
- Smuggler misplaced the parcel
- A new method of birth control
SCAN
- an anti-virus software program
- Peer anxiously at the horizon
- Give your computer purchase contract a quick look-see before signing it
C++
- A programming language
- The ocean and beyond
- X-ray glasses
HACKING
- Unauthorized access to a computer system
- Cutting away vegetation in an Amazon forest
- A rough dry cough
GROUPWARE
- Software thats designed for use in a network
- Uniforms
- Query when rest of class is lost on picnic (hehehehe)
STAR-DOT-STAR
- A way of referring to all computer files
- A constellation discovered by a GEEK
- What you say when u want to swear
BUS
- A pathway between hardware devices, either internal components or external, between
stations in a network
- The one on four wheels
- Hindi/ Urdu word for "Ive had enough of this" uff
Score 1 for every time u choose (a), and total the lot.
So, how did you do?
LESS THAN 15: Dah-leenk (Ive seen too much of Zsa Zsa Gabor) puh-leese do
something VERY unconnected with computers ok?
15 TO 30: Holds promise
..Persistence will get you everywhere.
MORE THAN 30: Youre a GEEK all right
IIT, here we come!! hahaha
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