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In December 2020, Walmart became the first major partner of what technology company to host a "shoppable livestream"?

TikTok

Which university in the U.S. built the first campus-wide wireless Internet network?

Carnegie Mellon

M.I.T.

University of Ohio

Stanford

True or False? The tech-based e-commerce platform Shopify was founded in the U.S.

False. It was founded in Canada.

True or False? The e-commerce software company NetSuite was purchased in 2016 by Oracle.

True

The word "smartphone" was first used in a New York Times article in _____

1998

1995

2000

2002

CAPTCHA is an acronym for Completely Automated Public ______ test to tell Computers and Humans Apart

Turing

The Williams tube was the first digital storage device to use what kind of memory storage? (The phrase is used in a Daft Punk album title)

Random Access

What is the name of the "satellite internet constellation" that is being constructed by Elon Musk's SpaceX to provide satellite internet access?

Starlink

What e-commerce company, whose name is taken from the Japanese word for "optimism," has been called "the Amazon of Japan?"

Rakuten

What was the name of Google's first social media platform?

Orkut

Google Buzz

Google Friend Connect

Google+

True or False? Diathermy is a technique often used during surgery to help maintain blood flow and prevent excessive bleeding.

True

Usually including an adjustable cuff and a rubber tube, the device called a sphygmomanometer takes what important measurement?

Blood pressure

What USA Network series starred Rami Malek as Elliot, an antisocial computer programmer who's a cybersecurity engineer by day and a vigilante hacker by night?

Mr. Robot

What electronic object was named Time Magazine’s "Man of The Year” in 1982?

The computer

What was the first shoe to use Nike Air technology?

Air Tailwind

Air Force One

Air Max

Air Jordan

True or False? The SolaRoad, a high-tech bike path equipped with solar panels to feed energy back to the grid, is located in Denmark.

False. It's located in the Netherlands.

When was Norton AntiVirus first available?

1991

1995

1989

1997

True or False? SimCity was launched in 1989 for the Macintosh computer

True

What does SMS stand for?

Short message service

Secure messages service

Short meter service

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What year did Apple launch the Macintosh 128K?

1984

1986

1977

1999

What is the name of the oldest programming language still in use?

FORTRAN

Matlab

Ada

COBOL

What was the first mobile phone with internet connectivity?

Nokia 9000 Communicator

Motorola 7500

Blackberry 850

iPhone

What search engine did Google beat in 2004 in order to become the most successful search engine?

Yahoo

AskJeeves

Netscape

MSN

What was the first item sold on Ebay in 1995?

a broken laser pointer

a computer mouse

a rusty bucket

a Jurassic Park T-shirt

When was the first email sent?

1971

1981

1974

1977

When did the first virtual event take place?

1993

1985

1995

1990

Which institution is credited with creating the first website?

CERN

NASA

NATO

United Nations

Where was the world wide web invented?

Switzerland

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

What was the name of the first operating system?

GM-NAA I/O

EPOC

TSS/360

Windows 1.01

What year was the oldest programming language still in use invented?

1957

1952

1960

1974

Which company developed the first mobile phone?

Motorola

Nokia

Samsung

Apple

How much did Steve Job’s first computer go for at auction?

$677,000

$223,000

$1.2 million

$3.4 million

Which university offered the first-ever academic program in Computer Science?

Cambridge University

University of Glasgow

Harvard University

M.I.T.

True or False? Microsoft purchased Skype in 2005 for $2.5 billion.

False. Ebay purchased Skype in 2005 for $2.5 billion. Microsoft purchased Skype in 2011 for $8.5 billion.

Eric Yuan is a former Cisco engineer and executive that left the telecom giant to found what meeting company in 2011?

Zoom

What device was announced in 2007 with the following slogan? "This is only the beginning."

iPhone

Since 2013, what technology company focused on payments has owned the popular smartphone cash transfer app Venmo?

Paypal

What private electronics accessory company based in Fort Collins, CO is most well-known for a series of mammalian named phone cases that are water-resistant, shock-resistant, and drop-resistant?

OtterBox

What does IoT stand for?

Internet of Things

Biotech that exists on a scale of one billionth of a meter is called ______biotechnology.

nanobiotechnology

What was the first Android-powered device from Samsung Mobile?

Samsung Galaxy

Which video game console released in 2006 pioneered the use of motion controls in its gameplay?

Nintendo Wii

What does the acronym STEM stand for in education?

science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

What technology company, now mostly known as a telecommunications giant, gained mass market popularity with its release of the “RAZR” cell phone in 2004 which became the best-selling clamshell cell phone in the world?

Motorola

Which computer term did web browser programmer Lou Montulli coin to refer to information that is sent from the browser to the web server?

cookie

Typically considered the successor to dial-up internet access in many American homes, what was the "B" term for wide bandwidth data transmission which was able to transport multiple signals and traffic types?

Broadband

Which computer company is often referred to as "Big Blue"?

IBM

The company that makes Roomba vacuums shares its name with which Will Smith movie?

iRobot

in an August 2021 blog post, which social media company's CEO approved permanent remote work for employees?

Facebook

Twitter

According to a 2018 estimate, what percentage of classroom mobile devices in the U.S. were Google Chromebooks?

60%

40%

20%

80%

"Cars" was the final Pixar film to be released on VHS and also the first to be released on what post-DVD high-resolution technology?

Blu Ray

What computer and printer giant was founded in 1939 in Palo Alto, California?

Hewlett-Packard

Apple

IBM

Dell

Which invention was first marketed as the Radarange?

Microwave

What does VPN stand for?

virtual private network

What popular operating system, launched in 1991, also has its own mascot, Tux the penguin?

Linux

What does PIN stand for?

personal identification number

What keyboard additions for cell phones did Shigetaka Kurita invent in 1999?

Emojis

Which popular online auction company did Pierre Omidyar found in 1995 out of San Jose, California?

eBay

What is the programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and named after a type of coffee from Indonesia?

Java

What was the first high-definition home video format available to consumers?

D-VHS

DVD

LaserDisc

HD-DVD

When was the first SMS text message sent?

December 1992

June 1984

September 1989

August 1998

How much did it cost to rent a movie at the first VHS rental store in the US in 1977?

$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

$25 per video per day, $50 for three days, $100 for a week

$500 annual membership fee for the ability to rent one video

These famous tech personalities are all college dropouts EXCEPT

Elon Musk

Michael Dell

Mark Zuckerberg

Steve Jobs

Where did the name "Bluetooth" come from?

A medieval Scandinavian king

An electric eel with blue teeth

A Native American chieftain

A bear that loved blueberries

1024 Gigabytes is equal to 1 Terabyte; 1024 Terabytes is equal to 1 Petabyte; How many Gigabytes are in a Petabyte?

1,000,000 Gigabytes

40,096 Gigabytes

200,480 Gigabytes

2,048 Gigabytes

The PlayStation 4 is powered by a GPU that is roughly equal to what PC graphics card?

Radeon HD 7850

GeForce GTX 460

GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Radeon HD 6990

QR codes were invented back in 1994 as a way to track what?

Vehicles as they were assembled

Phone calls

Website URLs

Packages as they were being delivered

What's the biggest tech acquisition in history?

Dell's buyout of EMC in 2015

HP's buyout of Compaq in 2002

Nvidia's buyout of Arm in 2020

Google's buyout of Motorola in 2011

How many websites are on the Internet?

Just over 1 billion

Almost 25 billion

Just over 5 billion

About 10 billion

Which video game franchise has collectively sold the most copies?

Mario

Grand Theft Auto

Pokémon

adden NFL

What was the first FIFA World Cup to be fully filmed in 4K?

Russia 2018

Brazil 2014

Germany 2006

South Africa 2010

Before Apple, iPod creator Tony Fadell had his MP3 player idea rejected by which two companies?

RealNetworks and Philips

Toshiba and Microsoft

Yahoo and Sony

Panasonic and Seagate

Charles Babbage is known for creating the first _____.

Mechanical computer

Software language

Vacuum tube transistor

General-purpose digital computer

Wi-Fi 802.11ac also known as Wi-Fi 5 brought all these improvements EXCEPT

Double the theoretical range

Triple the theoretical bandwidth

Support for double the antennas

Beamforming capabilities

Which game console did the U.S. Air Force use to build a supercomputer in 2010?

PlayStation 3

Xbox 360

Nintendo Wii

Xbox

What was the first ever web browser?

WorldWideWeb

Netscape

Open-source applications allow people to modify and add features to it using a _____ _____.

source code

Database _____ _____ are used to organize, store, and modify data in computers

Management Systems

True or False? Intel Corporations invented the first USB port.

True

Which is the most popular computer system ever sold?

Commodore 64

IBM PC

Apple II

iMac

Which computer company invented the first floppy disks, hard disk drives, and DRAMS?

IBM

MS-DOS is the name of the first ________ ________ designed by Microsoft

operating system

Popular computer brands like Apple, Dell and Microsoft started their offices from which place?

a garage

a campsite

a studio apartment

a trailer

Which part of the computer fetches, decodes, and executes the programming instructions?

CPU (Central Processing Unit)

________ is used to store short-term running programs and data in a computer

RAM (Random Access Memory)

What is the computer's main circuit board called?

a motherboard

The _________ system manages and programs hardware resources for a computer.

operating

What was the first computer system that used color display?

Apple 1

IBM 650

Kenbak-1

Altair 8800

True or False? Sega was the first to introduce battery-powered storage cartridges that enabled players to save games in progress so that they could later continue playing right where they had left off.

False (It was Nintendo)

True or False? In the 1980s, Nintendo and Sega introduced a new generation of video game consoles with graphics that equaled or exceeded the capabilities of personal computers.

True

In what year did the first transatlantic radio broadcast occur?

1901

1942

1870

1833

What is the name of the British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web in 1989?

Tim Berners-Lee

Bob Taylor

Bob Kahn

Claude Shannon

What does the term LASER stand for?

Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

What is the name of the classic 1972 arcade game based on table tennis?

Pong

In what year was Nintendo founded?

1889

1946

1975

1988

What was the name of the first internet search engine, which was created in 1990?

Archie

Joey

Freddie

Sammy

What does CPU stand for?

Central Processing Unit

What unit of length is equal to around 5.8 trillion miles?

A light year

What year did the first Apple iPhone launch?

2007

2005

2009

2003

What does a Geiger Counter measure?

Radiation