Quiz Time: Identify These Ten Famous Web Personalities

Internet, Quiz

07 nov 2007

Can you identify these very famous personalities on the web.

Q 1. She is an actress and a musician but what made her famous on the web was her role in a search engine.

Q 2. This son of a former Nigerian President is one of the most famous bloggers at Microsoft.

Q 3. Can you recognize the James Bond look alike in this photograph. He also worked at CNET for some time.

Q 4. The most well known SEO who also works for About.com / The New York Times.

Q 5. Identify this very famous Daddy of the Internet.

Q 6. This is probably the busiest blogging office in the world. Identify the blogtrepreneur.

Q 7. This US senator once referred to the Internet as a “series of tubes”.

Q 8. This man wrote a software that now exists on the desktop of virtually every graphic designer across the world.

Q 9. He is one of the most famous AdSense publishers making millions of dollars from a single website.

Q 10. This former Googler has never written a line of code but GOOG stock options have made him a multi-millionaire.

You can leave your answers in the comments section.

Venkatesh Nandakumar

At least you could have changed the pic’s name… and the rss feed spilled it out.
http://www.ChiragGupta.com Chirag Gupta

At least change the names of image files :)
Davy Landman

Q10: Chef Charlie Ayers :-)
http://www.theurligot.blogspot.com Vivek K

1. Janina Gavankar :Ms. Dewey inwww.msdewey.com
2. Dare Obasanjo : http://www.carnage4life.spaces.live.com
3. Matthew Mullenweg : http://www.photomatt.net
4. Marshall Simmonds
5. Bob Parson : http://www.godaddy.com
6. Michael Arrington : http://www.techcrunch.com
7. Ted Stevens
8. Thomas Knoll : Adobe Photoshop
9. Markus Frind : http://www.plentyoffish.com
10. Charlie Ayers :Ex chef Google Inc
http://www.chewyusheng.com Yusheng

Let me take a shot here…
Q1 – Janina Gavankar: Papi in The L Word…
Q2 – Dare Obasanjo: Program Manager of the Microsoft Contacts Team
Q3 – Matthew Charles Mullenweg of the WordPress and Akismet fame
Q4 – Marshall Simmonds from NY Times
Q5 – Bob Parson of GoDaddy
Q6 – Michael Arrington of TechCrunch
Q7 – Theodore Fulton Stevens (Ted Stevens): Longest serving Republican in the Senate
Q8 – Thomas Knoll: Father of Photoshop
Q9 – Markus Frind of PlentyOfFish
Q10 – Charlie Ayers: Former executive chef of Google who had cooked for the likes of Sultan of Brunei, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Colin Powell etc.

:)
Ajay Agrawal

1.janina gavankar
2.dare obasanjo
3.Matthew Mullenweg
4.Marshall Simmonds
5.bobparson
6.michael arrington
7.ted stevens
8.Thomas Knoll
9.markus frind
10.charlie ayers
http://www.socialmediamunching.com palin

Am I smart or was this a trick question? :-)

janina gavankar
dare obasanjo
mathew mullenweg
marshall simmonds
bob parson
michael arrington office
ted stevens
thomas knoli
markus frind
charlie ayers
Anonymous

if you really want to know you can just look at the names of the images
http://debasyslog.blogspot.com debasys

I think i know the 10th person. He was the first Master Chef [not sure of his job title] of the Cafe/canteen/Food Plaza at Google HQ, and now gives consultancy services to other companies about catering/food in their organization.

Waiting eagerly to know who are the rest :)
http://txpress.blogspot.com Vijeesh

2. Dare Obasanjo
6. Michael Arrington, Techcrunch
7. Ted Stevens
8. John Knoll, Photoshop co-creator
9. Markus Frind, Plentyoffish
10 was a cook at Google; can’t recollect his name though..I think he had more than 40k GOOG stock.
http://nspeaks.com NSpeaks

1. Janina Gavankar
2. Dare Obasanjo = http://blogs.msdn.com/dareobasanjo/ and now shifted to http://spaces.msn.com/members/carnage4life and http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog
3. Matt Mullenweg – WordPress, Cnet, Auttomattic
4. Marshall Simmonds
5. Bob Parson – http://www.bobparsons.com/, Godaddy!
6. Michael Arrington – TechCrunch.com … mygod..they earn too much.
7. Ted Stevens – http://stevens.senate.gov/public/
8. Thomas Knoll – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Knoll
9. Markus Frind – Plentyoffish.com – http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/
10.Charlie Ayers – http://www.chefcharlieayers.com/ – He never wrote a code in Google, since he was a Chef at Google.

I hope I am correct. :lol: Thanks labnol for giving the answers as well.
A chawla

A 10. Charlie Ayers Ex- Google Chef
Kawaljit

Cough..Alt text..cough :)
Aravindan

Amit, this was an interesting quiz, but why did you leave the answer to each question as a alt image tag? all i had to do was move my mouse over the picture and the answer shows up!!! Though i did know 6 of the 10 pics you have posted, it doesnt make sense to put them down here…
http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

#6 is Micheal Arrington’s Office
#8 is probably some guy involved into PhotoShop
#9 is that dating site guy who makes millions from AdSense
#10 is a former cook at Google

I don’t know the rest.
http://www.brajeshwar.com/ Brajeshwar

1. Janina Avankar – http://www.janinagavankar.com/
2. Dare Obasanjo – http://www.25hoursaday.com/
3. Matthew Mullenweg – http://photomatt.net/
4. Marshall Simmonds – http://www.definess.com/Marshall-Simmonds.html
5. Bob Parson – http://www.bobparsons.com/
6. Michael Arrington – http://www.techcrunch.com/
7. Ted Stevens – http://stevens.senate.gov/
8. Thomas Knoll – Creator of Photoshop (initially started off as Display)
9. Markus Frind of PlentyOfFish – http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/
10. Charlie Ayers – http://www.chefcharlieayers.com/
http://robinsamuel.blogspot.com Robin

2 . Dare Obasanjo
5. Bob Parsons
7. Ted Stevens
http://myeasel.wordpress.com/ Aditya

1. Janina Gawankar

2. Dare Obasanjo

3. Matt Mullenweg

4. Marshall Simmonds

5. Bob Parsons

6. Most famous blogging office… Techcrunch. Could that be Michael Arrington?

7. Ted Stevens

8. One of the Knoll brothers?

9. Markus Frind?

10 Charlie Ayers

So what do I get if I win? :D
http://txpress.blogspot.com Vijeesh

2. Dare Obasanjo
6. Michael Arrington, Techcrunch
7. Ted Stevens
8. John Knoll, Phoshop co-creator
9. Markus Frind, PlentyofFish
10. One of Google’s first cooks. Can’t recollect his name. I guess hes got 40k GOOG stocks.
http://technojuice.blogspot.com TechnoJuice

No 9 – Markus Frind of PlentyOfFish.com
No 10 – Charlie Ayers former executive chef for Google
No 8 – Thomas Knoll creator of Photoshop
No 7 – Ted Stevens
No 6 – Michael Arrington of Techcrunch
No 5 – Bob Parsons of Godaddy
http://technojuice.blogspot.com TechnoJuice

No 4 Marshall D. Simmonds
No 3
No 2 Dare Obasanjo
No 1 Janina Gavankar of msdewey.com
http://technojuice.blogspot.com TechnoJuice

No 3 Matthew Mullenweg creator of WordPress
http://umesh.in umesh gholap

1. Janina Gavankar – Ms. Dewey, the personification of a Microsoft branded search engine who comments about the user’s searches
2. Dare Obasanjo – Program Manager at Microsoft where he works on the Contacts team.
3. Matthew Mullenweg – After quitting his job at CNET, became founding developer of the popular open-source blogging software WordPress and writes a popular blog Photo Matt.
4. Marshall Simmonds – Search expert and CEO and co-founder of Define Search Strategies.
5. Bob Parsons – CEO and founder of domain registrar and web host Go Daddy
6. Michael Arrington – is a serial entrepreneur and the maintainer of TechCrunch, a blog covering the Silicon Valley and wider United States technology start-up community.
7. Ted Stevens – senior United States Senator from Alaska.
8. Thomas Knoll – software engineer best known for initiating the development of Photoshop.
9. Markus Frind – CEO and Founder of PlentyofFish, the site brings in $5-10 million a year thru Adsense.
10. Charlie Ayers – former executive chef for Google.
http://techkeyla.blogspot.com Sujoy Singha

2.Dare Obasanjo( took me a bit of googling)
6. Is that Michael Arrington of Techcrunch?
http://pikeyspeak.com Piker

Oh c’mon Amit. Someone like you must know better than not changing the filenames of the images. All of them give away the names! :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche Krishna

Janina Gavankar
Dare Obasanjo
Matthew Charles Mullenweg
Marshall Simmonds
Bob Parson
Michael Arrington
Ted Stevens
Thomas Knoll
Markus Frind
Charlie Ayers
http://laidback.tumblr.com Prashant Sarkar

1. Janina Gavankar
2. Dare Obasanjo
3. -
4. Marshall Simmonds
5. Bob Parsons, Founder of GoDaddy.com
6. Michael Arrington
7. Senator Ted Stevens
8. Thomas Knoll
9. Markus Frind (plentyoffish.com)
10. Charlie Ayers, former executive chef at Google
Abhijeet

Don’t know most of them…i think…6th is probably lifehacker’s or Techcrunch’s office…if it’s techcrunch then thats Mr Arrington for sure…10th is former google chef and i m not sure about the 9th one but it may be shoemoney’s author

Eagerly waiting for the answers
http://fundubytes.blogspot.com Rupesh Mandal

1. Janina Gavankar:- as Ms Dewey, search assistant at http://www.msdewey.com

2. Dare Obasanjo:- Program manager at Microsoft associated with Windows Live messenger, Spaces .etc.

3. Matthew Mullenweg:- Entrepreneur, founding developer of open source application WordPress.

4. Marshall Simmonds:- chief search strategist.

5. Bob Parsons:- CEO, founder of domain registrar & web host Go Daddy.

6. Michael Arington:- serial entrepreneur & maintainer of TechCrunch.

7. Ted Stevens:- senior US senator from Alaska.

8. Thomas Knoll:- Initiated development of Photoshop.

9. Markus Frind:- CEO, http://www.plentyoffish.com, a dating site.

10. Charlie Ayers:- former executive chef for Google (I have read a chapter about him in the book, The Google Story)
http://blog.nishitshah.com Nishit Shah

Dunno all of them ..just 4

2)Dare Obasanjo

4) Marshall Simmonds

7)Ted Stevens

10) Charlie Ayers
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Microsoftnet/~3/172769046/how-to-use-treeview-control-in-net-11.html Dutt

Q 7. This US senator once referred to the Internet as a “series of tubes”.

Answer: Jim Bunning
http://www.techie365.com Jeff Finch

Good article. Hope one day I will make a list like these people.
Anonymous

I am not sure if you meant it…but the right click on the image reveals the answers
http://dreadbob.blogspot.com Bob

ans1. Janina Gavankar

ans2. Dareo Basanjo

ans3. Matthew Mullenweg

ans4. Marshall Simmonds

ans5. Bob Parson

ans6. Michael Arrington

ans7. Ted Stevens

ans8. Thomas Knoll

ans9. Markus Frind

ans10. Charlie Ayers

i think i did! it Amit….

Bob
http://kustavan.blogspot.com Sid

Last one is an Ex-chef of google…
http://imagine.blogintro.com/ inanytime

1. janina gavankar

2. Dare Obasanjo

3. Matthew Mullenweg

4. Marshall Simmonds

5. bob parson

6. michael arrington

7. Ted Stevens

8. Thomas Knoll

9. Markus Frind

10. Charlie Ayers
http://googlexxl.blogspot.com jean-noel anderruthy

This quiz is very interessant but all the answers are in the URLs of the pictures !
http://www.cyberdevils.com/ Mayur

The file names give away the names!! What were you thinking Amit ?
http://www.yaxis.in Rajesh Kumar

BTW, who won?!
http://4paisa.blogspot.com Reddy

Amit…. It seems you have intentionally do this.. I dont think you forgot to rename the files :|
http://technofriends.wordpress.com Vaibhav

Amit.. it seems you forgot to change the name of the images ;)
http://blog.techiezone.in Ajay

Amit,

a silly mistake. You could have changed the name of each picture. But wait…did you do it knowingly to test the IQ???

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