Archive for the ‘Trivia Contest’ Category

Newsdemon.com Usenet Trivia Contest July 3rd, 2008

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Here is today’s usenet trivia question:  What operating system was Usenet meant to assist in sharing information?

The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner.  The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access!  Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered.  We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question.  If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner.  We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog after we have emailed the winner.  If you are not the winner, check back tomorrow, we may post another Usenet Trivia question tomorrow!

Newsdemon.com Usenet Trivia Contest June 30th, 2008

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Here is today’s usenet trivia question:  The father of the web, Tim Berners, announced the birth of the World Wide Web project to the Usenet community in what year?

The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner.  The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access!  Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered.  We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question.  If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner.  We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog after we have emailed the winner.  If you are not the winner, check back tomorrow, we may post another Usenet Trivia question tomorrow!

Newsdemon.com Usenet Trivia Contest June 26th, 2008

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Here is today’s usenet trivia question:  What image format was developed due to the extensive Usenet collaboration?

The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner.  The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access!  Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered.  We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question.  If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner.  We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog after we have emailed the winner.  If you are not the winner, check back tomorrow, we may post another Usenet Trivia question tomorrow!

Newsdemon Newsgroups Usenet Trivia - June 20th

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Today’s Question:  A bit of a tough one today: The Network News Transfer Protocol allows traffic generated by Usenet to be natively routed over TCP/IP. This was not always the case. What Year was this protocol released?

The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner. The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access! Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered. We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question. If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner. We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog IN THE COMMENTS section of this post after we have emailed the winner. 

Newsdemon Newsgroups Usenet Trivia - June 15th

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Today’s Question: Truscott and Ellis, the founders of Usenet, presented and attended for the first time at a conference in Boulder, Colorado in 1980 which would lead to a key involvement by Steve Daniel. What did they call this presentation?

 The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner. The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access! Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered. We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question. If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner. We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog IN THE COMMENTS section of this post after we have emailed the winner.

Newsdemon Newsgroups Usenet Trivia - May 28th

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Today’s Question:  When was the first transatlantic fiber-optic cable linking North America and Europe completed?

The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner. The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access! Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered. We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question. If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner. We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog IN THE COMMENTS section of this post after we have emailed the winner.

Newsdemon Newsgroups Usenet Trivia - May 22th

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Today’s Question:  What does a 502 error mean?

The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner. The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access! Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered. We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question. If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner. We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog IN THE COMMENTS section of this post after we have emailed the winner.

Newsdemon Newsgroups Usenet Trivia - May 17th

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Today’s Question:  What year did the number of BITNET hosts break 1,000?

The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner. The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access! Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered. We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question. If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner. We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog IN THE COMMENTS section of this post after we have emailed the winner.

Newsdemon Newsgroups Usenet Trivia - May 15th

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Today’s Question:  What year did ARPANET split into ARPANET and MILNET?

The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner. The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access! Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered. We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question. If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner. We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog IN THE COMMENTS section of this post after we have emailed the winner.

Newsdemon Newsgroups Usenet Trivia - May 12th

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Today’s Question:  In 1993, the NSFnet Acceptable Use Policy was “reinterpreted”.  Why?

The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner. The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access! Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered. We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question. If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner. We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog IN THE COMMENTS section of this post after we have emailed the winner.

Newsdemon Newsgroups Usenet Trivia - May 8th

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Today’s Question:  In 1969, ARPANET was commissioned by the DoD.  Nodes were setup at four locations.  Name the four locations.

The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner. The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access! Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered. We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question. If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner. We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog IN THE COMMENTS section of this post after we have emailed the winner.

Newsdemon Newsgroups Usenet Trivia - May 7th

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Today’s Question:  What year was DNS introduced?

 The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner. The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access! Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered. We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question. If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner. We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog IN THE COMMENTS section of this post after we have emailed the winner.

Newsdemon Newsgroups Usenet Trivia - May 5th

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Today’s Question:  What year were the first moderated groups (mod.*) introduced to Usenet?

The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner. The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access! Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered. We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question. If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner. We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog IN THE COMMENTS section of this post after we have emailed the winner

Newsdemon Newsgroups Usenet Trivia - May 3rd

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

Today’s Question:  What does the NNTP reply code 250 mean?

The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner. The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access! Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered. We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question. If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner. We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog IN THE COMMENTS section of this post after we have emailed the winner.

Newsdemon Newsgroups Trivia Contest May 1st

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Today’s question:  The @ sign was chosen from the punctuation keys on Tomlinson’s Model 33 Teletype for its “at” meaning.   What year did this happen?

The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner. The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access! Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered. We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question. If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner. We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog IN THE COMMENTS section of this post after we have emailed the winner.

Newsdemon Newsgroups Trivia Contest - April 29th

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Today’s quesion:  What is a killfile?

The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner. The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access! Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered. We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question. If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner. We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog IN THE COMMENTS section of this post after we have emailed the winner.

Newsdemon.com Newsgroups Trivia Contest - April 28th

Monday, April 28th, 2008

    Today’s question:

A small search engine called ‘Google’ opened its doors on September 7th, 1998.  It was originally given a name because of its unique ability to analyze ‘back links’ pointing to a given website.  It was renamed shortly before opening.  What was its original name?

The FIRST THREE persons to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner. The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access! Only the FIRST THREE CORRECT emails we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered. We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question. If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner. We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog IN THE COMMENTS section of this post after we have emailed the winners.

Newsdemon Newsgroups Trivia Contest

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

We want everyone to know we are really excited about the trivia contest.  We received over 25 correct answers for the trivia contest from April 26th.  We decided to create a free one month account for every correct answer we received!  If you didn’t answer, you missed out!  We may do this again in the future so keep trying even if you do not win the first or second time you enter.

Just a reminder, we will now be posting the winners in the comments section of the blog post for each question.

Newsdemon Newsgroups Trivia Contest - April 26th

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Here is today’s trivia question: When did the “Great Renaming” occur?

 The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner. The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access! Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered. We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question. If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner. We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog IN THE COMMENTS section of this post after we have emailed the winner.

Winner for Newsdemon Newsgroups Trivia - April 24th

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

We have a winner!

 H.G from London, England won today’s question with the following answer:  humanities.*, comp.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, and talk.*

H.G. will receive a free month of Newsdemon Newsgroups Service!

Newsdemon Newsgroups Trivia April 24th

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Here is today’s usenet trivia question:  Name the Big 8 hierarchies

 The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner. The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access! Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered. We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question. If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner. We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog after we have emailed the winner.

Winner for Newsdemon Newsgroups Trivia - April 23rd

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

We have a winner! 

Harry P. from Athens, Greece provided the following answer:  May 11th, 1981

Harry will receive a free month of Newsdemon Newsgroups Service!

Newsdemon.com Newsgroups Usenet Trivia - April 23rd

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Here is today’s question:  The oldest known Usenet article found in the Archive records in the Groups of Google is from what date?

The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner. The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access! Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered. We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question. If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner. We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog after we have emailed the winner.

Winner For Newsdemon Newsgroups Trivia April 21st

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

We have a winner for yesterday’s question.

 J.R. of Paris, France succesfully answered:

Some users placed the word “meow” in their killfiles due to  several spammer who had invaded many groups.  Long story short, these spammers were posting spam which often contained the word “meow” or other feline references.

J.R. will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Newsgroups!

Newsdemon Newsgroups Usenet Trivia Contest - April 21st

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Today’s question is a little more challenging and might require some research by the average usenet user.

Question: Why was the word “meow” placed into many experienced usenetters’ “killfiles” in the mid 1990’s?

The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner. The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access! Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered. We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question. If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner. We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog after we have emailed the winner.

Winner for Newsdemon Newsgroups Trivia April 20th

Monday, April 21st, 2008

We have a winner for yesterday’s Newsgroups Usenet Trivia contest.

Charles J. of London, UK correctly answered that the original standard was RFC 0850.  We actually would have accepted several different answers for this questions because there is some debate about which RFC is truly the Usenet’s original standard.
Charles will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Newsgroups and Usenet Service.

Newsdemon.com Free Usenet Newsgroups Trivia - April 20th

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Today’s Trivia Question:  What was the RFC (Request For Comments) Number for the original Usenet Standard?

The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner. The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access! Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered. We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question. If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner. We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog after we have emailed the winner.

Winner for Newsdemon.com April 19th Newsgroups Trivia Contest

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

David E. from Virginia Beach, VA USA won today’s trivia contest by correctly providing the following answer:

Posting not allowed

POST command issued when posting is not allowed.

David will receive a free month of service from Newsdemon.com!  This answer could be located on our Usenet Server Response Codes page.

Newsdemon Newsgroups Trivia for April 19th, 2008

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Today’s trivia question:  What does it mean if your newsreader returns a status code of 440?

The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner. The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access! Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered. We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question. If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner. We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog after we have emailed the winner.

Newsdemon Newsgroups Trivia Winner for April 18th

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

We have a winner!


Juan N. from Madrid, Spain was the first to submit that Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis were given credit for conceiving the Usenet at Duke University in 1979. Juan will receive a free month of Newsgroups access from Newsdemon.com!

Newsdemon.com Usenet Trivia Contest April 18th, 2008

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Here is today’s usenet trivia question:  What are the names of the two graduate student given credit for creating usenet?

The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner.  The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access!  Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered.  We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question.  If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner.  We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog after we have emailed the winner.  If you are not the winner, check back tomorrow, we may post another Usenet Trivia question tomorrow!

Winner for first Newsdemon Usenet Trivia Contest

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

We have a winner!
Sam C. of Aurora, Colorado, USA successfully answered June 25, 2005 as the date AOL discontinued servicing usenet customers through their service!
Sam will receive a free month of newsgroups access from Newsdemon.com!

Check back tomorrow for another trivia question!

Free Usenet Trivia Contest!

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

We have decided to offer a regular “Free Usenet Trivia Contest”.  We will be asking a single trivia question regarding something “usenet related”.  The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner.  The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access!  Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered.  We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question.  If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner.  We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog after we have emailed the winner.  If you are not the winner, check back tomorrow, we may post another Usenet Trivia question tomorrow!

Today’s question: On what date did America Online (AOL) discontinue providing free newsgroup access through its service