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.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/favorites/identify-web-personalities-quiz-time/1758/
Reader Comments
At least you could have changed the pic’s name… and the rss feed spilled it out.
Written by Venkatesh Nandakumar on 11.07.07
At least change the names of image files :)
Written by Chirag Gupta on 11.07.07
Q10: Chef Charlie Ayers :-)
Written by Davy Landman on 11.07.07
1. Janina Gavankar :Ms. Dewey inwww.msdewey.com
2. Dare Obasanjo : link
3. Matthew Mullenweg : link
4. Marshall Simmonds
5. Bob Parson : link
6. Michael Arrington : link
7. Ted Stevens
8. Thomas Knoll : Adobe Photoshop
9. Markus Frind : link
10. Charlie Ayers :Ex chef Google Inc
Written by Vivek K on 11.07.07
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.
:)
Written by Yusheng on 11.07.07
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
Written by Ajay Agrawal on 11.07.07
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
Written by palin on 11.07.07
if you really want to know you can just look at the names of the images
Written by Anonymous on 11.07.07
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 :)
Written by debasys on 11.07.07
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.
Written by Vijeesh on 11.07.07
1. Janina Gavankar
2. Dare Obasanjo = http://blogs.msdn.com/dareobasanjo/ and now shifted to http://spaces.msn.com/members/carnage4life and link
3. Matt Mullenweg – Wordpress, Cnet, Auttomattic
4. Marshall Simmonds
5. Bob Parson – link , Godaddy!
6. Michael Arrington – TechCrunch.com … mygod..they earn too much.
7. Ted Stevens – link
8. Thomas Knoll – link
9. Markus Frind – Plentyoffish.com – link
10.Charlie Ayers – link – 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.
Written by NSpeaks on 11.07.07
A 10. Charlie Ayers Ex- Google Chef
Written by A chawla on 11.07.07
Cough..Alt text..cough :)
Written by Kawaljit on 11.07.07
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…
Written by Aravindan on 11.07.07
#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.
Written by Thilak on 11.07.07
1. Janina Avankar – link
2. Dare Obasanjo – link
3. Matthew Mullenweg – link
4. Marshall Simmonds – link
5. Bob Parson – link
6. Michael Arrington – link
7. Ted Stevens – link
8. Thomas Knoll – Creator of Photoshop (initially started off as Display)
9. Markus Frind of PlentyOfFish – link
10. Charlie Ayers – link
Written by Brajeshwar on 11.07.07
2 . Dare Obasanjo
5. Bob Parsons
7. Ted Stevens
Written by Robin on 11.07.07
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
Written by Aditya on 11.07.07
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.
Written by Vijeesh on 11.07.07
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
Written by TechnoJuice on 11.07.07
No 4 Marshall D. Simmonds
No 3
No 2 Dare Obasanjo
No 1 Janina Gavankar of msdewey.com
Written by TechnoJuice on 11.07.07
No 3 Matthew Mullenweg creator of Wordpress
Written by TechnoJuice on 11.07.07
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.
Written by umesh gholap on 11.07.07
2.Dare Obasanjo( took me a bit of googling)
6. Is that Michael Arrington of Techcrunch?
Written by Sujoy Singha on 11.07.07
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! :)
Written by Piker on 11.07.07
Janina Gavankar
Dare Obasanjo
Matthew Charles Mullenweg
Marshall Simmonds
Bob Parson
Michael Arrington
Ted Stevens
Thomas Knoll
Markus Frind
Charlie Ayers
Written by Krishna on 11.07.07
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
Written by Prashant Sarkar on 11.08.07
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
Written by Abhijeet on 11.08.07
1. Janina Gavankar:- as Ms Dewey, search assistant at link
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, link , a dating site.
10. Charlie Ayers:- former executive chef for Google (I have read a chapter about him in the book, The Google Story)
Written by Rupesh Mandal on 11.08.07
Dunno all of them ..just 4
2)Dare Obasanjo
4) Marshall Simmonds
7)Ted Stevens
10) Charlie Ayers
Written by Nishit Shah on 11.08.07
Q 7. This US senator once referred to the Internet as a “series of tubes”.
Answer: Jim Bunning
Written by Dutt on 11.08.07
Good article. Hope one day I will make a list like these people.
Written by Jeff Finch on 11.08.07
I am not sure if you meant it…but the right click on the image reveals the answers
Written by Anonymous on 11.08.07
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
Written by Bob on 11.08.07
Last one is an Ex-chef of google…
Written by Sid on 11.08.07
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
Written by inanytime on 11.09.07
This quiz is very interessant but all the answers are in the URLs of the pictures !
Written by jean-noel anderruthy on 11.09.07
The file names give away the names!! What were you thinking Amit ?
Written by Mayur on 11.11.07
BTW, who won?!
Written by Rajesh Kumar on 11.11.07
Amit…. It seems you have intentionally do this.. I dont think you forgot to rename the files :|
Written by Reddy on 11.12.07
Amit.. it seems you forgot to change the name of the images ;)
Written by Vaibhav on 11.13.07
Amit,
a silly mistake. You could have changed the name of each picture. But wait…did you do it knowingly to test the IQ???
Written by Ajay on 11.21.07