The quiz section of Learn the Internet, Manage It! website has been updated by replacing questions that have become irrelevant with new ones. Students from School No. 1561 in Moscow – Sofia Borshcheva, Kristina Kolomoichenko, Maria Knizhnikova and Alina Makarova – helped with the job. They were finalists in the sixth of student projects and applied research on subjects suggested by real employers, co-sponsored by the Coordination Center for TLD .RU.
In addition to this, the quiz now includes three new rounds, developed by winners in the School of Real Undertakings contest who worked on updating the Learn the Internet, Manage It! project.
For example, the winning team from Moscow’s School No. 283, formed by Kseniya Anufrienko, Alexandra Afonicheva and Daria Kuleshova, prepared questions for th sixth round. In this round, contestants can learn which newspaper was the first to create a website, what a server that transforms domain names into IP addresses is called, and how Russia compares to other countries in terms of the number of downloaded applications.
Students from Moscow’s School No. 1564 Yevgeny Belov, Alexander Nikolsky and Kirill Tarasov took the bronze in the contest, and were offered an opportunity to prepare questions for the tenth round. Those who complete it will learn what a square in Ancient Rome and network communications share in common, what the W3C consortium does, and what the very first e-mail said.
Having finished in second place, a team from School No. 1 in Urengoy, Yamal-Nenets Administrative District, formed by Valery Slipukha, Vyacheslav Aivasedo, Sergei Ruzanov, Sergei Tuchin, Vasily Koltuklu and Maxim Yaryzhnov, won the right to submit questions for the eleventh round of the quiz. In this round, players learn who a technical writer is, when the first e-mail was sent from space down to Earth, and which of the programming languages was initially intended for developing software for appliances, but ended up being used for creating interactive online services.
To test your knowledge and learn many new and inspiring things about the internet, register or login into your account, if you have one, on the Learn the Internet, Manage It! website, and go to Knowledge – Quiz section.
