Dare to wrestle? CIOL Quiz 1

Here's a quick quiz for that short but substantial mental jog. So let your brains do some crunches till we come back with the answers next week. Enjoy (and please give your mind a shot before you jump to Google:)

1. Which Enterprise software giant's head honcho recently admitted that the company has made many mistakes, particularly in the area of burgeoning maintenance fees?

A. Oracle

B. SAS

C. SAP

2. At the $2.3 billion dental plan group Delta Dental, the CIO position was left vacant about four years back and has been filled by a

A. CFO

B. Another industry-peer CIO

C.CEO

3. Can you name the company from where CIO Stuart Scott was publicly fired from?

A. VMware

B. General Electric

C. Microsoft

4. Which international IT project has always been in the news for wrong reasons like cost creeps, missed deadlines etc and has been tagged as a failure by many?

A. NASA Space project II

B. ISRO Cryo Arc

C. NHS Healthcare

5. Which country's PM had to offer a posthumous apology to World War II code cracker and computing soldier Alan Turing last year?

A. Germany

B. USA

C. Britain

6. Is CISCO named as an acronym, or does it derive itself from a city's name?

A. Yes

B. No

C. Both

7. Is it possible that the word 'Yahoo' was invented by Jonathan Swift in 'Gulliver's Travels' and that's why Yahoo's co-founders David and Jerry used it?

A. Nah, are you kidding

B. May be

C. Yes and there's a special reason why they did so