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Technology Trivia

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    Trivia questions about technology
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  • What's the biggest tech acquisition in history?
    Nvidia's buyout of Arm in 2020
    Dell's buyout of EMC in 2015
    HP's buyout of Compaq in 2002
    Google's buyout of Motorola in 2011
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  • QR codes were invented back in 1994 as a way to track what?
    Website URLs
    Phone calls
    Packages as they were being delivered
    Vehicles as they were assembled
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  • The PlayStation 4 is powered by a GPU that is roughly equal to what PC graphics card?
    Radeon HD 7850
    GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    Radeon HD 6990
    GeForce GTX 460
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  • 1024 Gigabytes is equal to 1 Terabyte; 1024 Terabytes is equal to 1 Petabyte; How many Gigabytes are in a Petabyte?
    2,048 Gigabytes
    1,000,000 Gigabytes
    200,480 Gigabytes
    40,096 Gigabytes
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  • Where did the name "Bluetooth" come from?
    A bear that loved blueberries
    A Native American chieftain
    A medieval Scandinavian king
    An electric eel with blue teeth
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  • These famous tech personalities are all college dropouts EXCEPT
    Michael Dell
    Steve Jobs
    Mark Zuckerberg
    Elon Musk
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  • How much did it cost to rent a movie at the first VHS rental store in the US in 1977?
    $25 per video per day, $50 for three days, $100 for a week
    $500 annual membership fee for the ability to rent one video
    $50-$100 in membership fees and then $10 per video per day
    $10 per video per week and $50 for every week it was late
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  • When was the first SMS text message sent?
    August 1998
    December 1992
    September 1989
    June 1984
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  • What was the first high-definition home video format available to consumers?
    LaserDisc
    HD-DVD
    DVD
    D-VHS
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  • What is the programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and named after a type of coffee from Indonesia?
    Java
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  • Which popular online auction company did Pierre Omidyar found in 1995 out of San Jose, California?
    eBay
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  • What keyboard additions for cell phones did Shigetaka Kurita invent in 1999?
    Emojis
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  • What does PIN stand for?
    personal identification number
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  • What popular operating system, launched in 1991, also has its own mascot, Tux the penguin?
    Linux
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  • What does VPN stand for?
    virtual private network
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  • Which invention was first marketed as the Radarange?
    Microwave
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