Trivia

In this time of “stay at home” due to the Coronavirus, here are some tough trivia questions for adults and kids. No cheating by looking at the below answers or researching on the Internet.

Technology – Part 4

1. What was the fastest growing web browser in 2020?
2. Which University offered the first-ever academic program in Computer Science?
3. How much did Steve Job’s first computer go for at auction?
4. Which model of computer is the best selling of all time?
5. What year was the oldest programming language still in use invented?
6. What was the name of the first operating system?
7. Where was the worldwide web invented?
8. Which institution is credited with creating the first website?
9. When did the first virtual event take place?
10. When was the first email sent?

Technology – Part 3

1. From 2017 onwards, how many characters long can tweets be?
2. What is the name of Elon Musk’s aerospace company?
3. Which duo invented the aeroplane?
4. What is the name of the classic 1972 arcade game based on table tennis?
5. What does the term LASER stand for?
6. What does LG stand for in LG Electronics?
7. Solar power generates electricity from what source?
8. What is the name of the British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web in 1989?
9. Originally Amazon only sold which product?
10. In what year was the first transatlantic radio broadcast?

Technology – Part 2

1. The current richest man in the world Jeff Bezos is CEO and President of which online retailer?
2. Which social media app only lets you view pictures and messages for a limited time?
3. What does a Geiger Counter measure?
4. Which prestigious university did Microsoft founder Bill Gates drop out of?
5. What year did the first Apple iPhone launch?
6. What unit of length is equal to around 5.8 trillion miles?
7. What does CPU stand for?
8. Created in 1990, what was the name of the first internet search engine?
9. In which decade was the Sony Walkman launched?
10. Was electronics company Nintendo founded in 1889, 1946 or 1975?

Technology – Part 1

1. When did the mouse first appear for the desktop?
2. What computer chip manufacturer slapped Intel with an antitrust suit, claming the company had swiped its technology to design the Pentium Pro?
3. What company altered the Handycam after its infrared “Nightshot” feature was found to see through clothes during the day?
4. What is the generic term for the mechanical, electrical and electronic components of a computer?
5. What movie did Apple use to hype its new QuickTime format, sparking a net-clogging 25 million downloads of the trailer?
6. What computer was introduced in 1984 Super Bowl ads?
7. What colorful operating system was distributed by computer outfits named Red Hat and Yellow Dog?
8. Which renowned company based out of California made significant contributions to modern-day computing by inventing laser printing, Ethernet, and the graphical user interface (GUI) paradigm, among other things?
9. What communications giant owned Palm Computing when it produced the first handheld with integrated wireless Internet connectivity?
10. In mobile phone technology, what does S.M.S. stand for?

Answers

Technology – Part 4

1. Microsoft Edge
2. Cambridge University
3. $500,000
4. Commodore 64
5. 1957
6. EPOC
7. Switzerland
8. CERN
9. 1989
10. 1971

Technology – Part 3

1. 280 characters
2. SpaceX
3. The Wright Brothers – Orville and Wilbur Wright
4. Pong
5. Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
6. Lucky-Goldstar
7. The Sun
8. Tim Berners-Lee
9. Books
10. 1901

Technology – Part 2

1. Amazon
2. Snapchat
3. Radiation
4. Harvard
5. 2007
6. Light Year
7. Central Processing Unit
8. Archie
9. 1970s
10. 1889 (Yes, really)

Technology – Part 1

1. January 1983
2. Digital Equipment Corporation
3. Sony
4. Hardware
5. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
6. The Macintosh
7. Linux
8. PARC (Palo Alto Research Center, Inc.), formerly Xerox PARC It was founded in 1970, and incorporated as a separate company (wholly owned by Xerox) in 2002. Xerox has been heavily criticized (particularly by business historians) for failing to properly commercialize and profitably exploit PARC’s innovations. The work at PARC in the years since the early 1980s is often overlooked, but major work since then includes ubiquitous computing, aspect-oriented programming, and IPv6.
9. 3com
10. Short Messaging Service

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