Quiz ;)

So I start the QCT series with this quiz. Hope most of the questions wont be boring. I’ll post the answers in a post with the title as QCT 1 Answers and the scores of those who answered them in the comments. Cheers and all the best. Here I am posting 8 questions. I’ll try to keep ten in most of the posts.

1. Nokia released two premium multimedia handsets recently. Can you name them? (Both are N series and it was mentioned in The Hindu few days back).
2. X is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US$28.48 billion as of 2006. Headquartered in San Jose, California, it designs and sells networking and communications technology and services under five brands, namely X, Linksys, WebEx, IronPort, and Scientific Atlanta. Initially, X manufactured only enterprise multi-protocol routers but gradually diversified its product offering to move into the home user market with technologies such as VoIP while also expanding its offering for corporate customers. Identify X.
3. A _______ is a heavier-than-air craft where movement of the wings in relation to the aircraft is not used to generate lift. The term is used to distinguish from rotary-wing aircraft, where the movement of the wing surfaces relative to the aircraft generates lift. _________ are called airplanes in North America, and aeroplanes in Commonwealth countries and Ireland. ________ include a large range of craft from small training and recreational aircraft to large airliners and military cargo aircraft. (All the blanks are the same).
4. _________ magazine was a monthly fiction magazine founded by George Newnes. It was published in the United Kingdom from January 1891 to March 1950, though the first issue was on sale well before Christmas 1890. Its immediate popularity is evidenced by an initial sale of nearly 300,000. Sales increased in the early months, before settling down to a circulation of almost 500,000 copies a month which lasted well into the 1930s. It was edited by Herbert Greenhough Smith from 1891 to 1930. The Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle were first published in __________ with illustrations by Sidney Paget. (Both blanks are the same)
5. ________ is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element E is also called the ________ of E. (Both blanks are same)
6. X is an imaging touch screen and 3D display for gesture-based interaction. It was developed by Microsoft Research employee Andrew D. Wilson and made known to the public in late 2005. The technology was licensed to Eon Reality in July of 2006. X can both record and project simultaneously, and due to its 3D capabilities can be used almost as a mirror. It can capture a high definition image of anything placed up against the screen. This image is then displayed in 2D. Identify X.
7. ____________ (Codename: Milan), is a forthcoming Multi-touch product from Microsoft which is developed as a software and hardware combination technology that allows a user, or multiple users, to manipulate digital content by the use of natural motions, hand gestures, or physical objects. It was announced on May 29, 2007 at D5 conference, and is expected to be released by commercial partners in spring 2008. Initial customers will be in the hospitality businesses, such as restaurants, hotels, retail, and public entertainment venues.
8. X is generally any kind of electronic musical instrument, or electronic device capable of producing or manipulating audio tones, such as musical notes, through audio signal processing. X work by manipulating electrical signals which appear as sound when they are used to drive audio amplifiers. These tones are generated by electrical circuits which may work by manipulating a signal through a series of oscillators and filters in an analog circuit, or may perform mathematical manipulation of signals using a microprocessor and digital signal processing, or by a combination of both methods. Identify X.