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1. Who was the creator of the infamous "lovebug" computer virus?

Onel De Guzman

Yahoo Answers - http://computerbytesman.com/lovebug/index.htm

2. Who invented the paper clip?

Johan Vaaler

Dogpile Search - http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpaperclip.htm

3. How did the Ebola virus get its name?

It was named after a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) in Africa, where it was first recognized
Dogpile Search engine -http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/ebola/qa.htm
4. What country had the largest recorded earthquake?
Chile, 1960

Ask Jeeves - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/10_largest_world.php

5. In computer memory/storage terms, how many kilobytes in a terabyte?
1073741824

Dogpile Search - http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/

6. Who is the creator of email?

1971,Ray Tomlinson
Live Search-http://au.encarta.msn.com/media_461532659/Important_Inventions_and_Discoveries.html

7. What is the storm worm, and how many computers are infected by it?

The Storm worm is a backdoor, Trojan horse that affects computers using Microsoft operating systems as many as 250, 000 and 10 million computers as of September 2007.

Yahoo Answers - http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Asz9CdYgvLIAmc9re4Ajv0QjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20071201163655AA8cWhV

8. If you wanted to contact the prime minister of australia directly, what is the most efficient way?

By letter. Whats the point you'll never get a reply! Not in a million years

Dogpile Search - http://www.pm.gov.au/contact/index.cfm

9. Which Brisbane based punk band is Stephen Stockwell (Head of the School of Arts) a member of?

Stephen played keyboard for Brisbane punk band, the Black Assassins! I now think of him so much differently.

Anzwers Seach engine - http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/staff/stockwell.htm

10. What does the term "Web 2.0" mean in your own words?

To put it shortly.Sharing information over the Internet.

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