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  • How many websites are on the Internet?
    About 10 billion
    Just over 1 billion
    Almost 25 billion
    Just over 5 billion
  • Database _____ _____ are used to organize, store, and modify data in computers
    Management Systems
  • Biotech that exists on a scale of one billionth of a meter is called ______biotechnology.
    nanobiotechnology
  • What does a Geiger Counter measure?
    Radiation
  • Before Apple, iPod creator Tony Fadell had his MP3 player idea rejected by which two companies?
    Panasonic and Seagate
    Yahoo and Sony
    Toshiba and Microsoft
    RealNetworks and Philips
  • What device was announced in 2007 with the following slogan? "This is only the beginning."
    iPhone
  • Which computer company is often referred to as "Big Blue"?
    IBM
  • In what year was Nintendo founded?
    1988
    1946
    1975
    1889
  • Which institution is credited with creating the first website?
    United Nations
    CERN
    NATO
    NASA
  • What does SMS stand for?
    Short message service
    Secure messages service
    Short meter service
    Share more stories
  • Which game console did the U.S. Air Force use to build a supercomputer in 2010?
    Nintendo Wii
    PlayStation 3
    Xbox 360
    Xbox
  • When was the first SMS text message sent?
    August 1998
    June 1984
    December 1992
    September 1989
  • True or False? Intel Corporations invented the first USB port.
    True
  • What year did the first Apple iPhone launch?
    2003
    2007
    2009
    2005
  • What does the term LASER stand for?
    Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
  • What does VPN stand for?
    virtual private network
  • CAPTCHA is an acronym for Completely Automated Public ______ test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
    Turing
  • These famous tech personalities are all college dropouts EXCEPT
    Mark Zuckerberg
    Michael Dell
    Steve Jobs
    Elon Musk
  • True or False? The e-commerce software company NetSuite was purchased in 2016 by Oracle.
    True
  • What keyboard additions for cell phones did Shigetaka Kurita invent in 1999?
    Emojis
  • Which university in the U.S. built the first campus-wide wireless Internet network?
    M.I.T.
    Stanford
    Carnegie Mellon
    University of Ohio
  • The company that makes Roomba vacuums shares its name with which Will Smith movie?
    iRobot
  • Wi-Fi 802.11ac also known as Wi-Fi 5 brought all these improvements EXCEPT
    Support for double the antennas
    Double the theoretical range
    Beamforming capabilities
    Triple the theoretical bandwidth
  • In what year did the first transatlantic radio broadcast occur?
    1901
    1870
    1942
    1833
  • What year did Apple launch the Macintosh 128K?
    1986
    1977
    1999
    1984
  • 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
  • What was the first FIFA World Cup to be fully filmed in 4K?
    Brazil 2014
    South Africa 2010
    Russia 2018
    Germany 2006
  • True or False? Diathermy is a technique often used during surgery to help maintain blood flow and prevent excessive bleeding.
    True
  • 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
  • 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
  • What was the name of the first internet search engine, which was created in 1990?
    Archie
    Sammy
    Freddie
    Joey
  • Where did the name "Bluetooth" come from?
    An electric eel with blue teeth
    A Native American chieftain
    A medieval Scandinavian king
    A bear that loved blueberries
  • 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
  • The _________ system manages and programs hardware resources for a computer.
    operating
  • What is the name of the British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web in 1989?
    Bob Kahn
    Claude Shannon
    Bob Taylor
    Tim Berners-Lee
  • Which video game franchise has collectively sold the most copies?
    Mario
    adden NFL
    Grand Theft Auto
    Pokémon
  • 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 was the first computer system that used color display?
    Apple 1
    IBM 650
    Kenbak-1
    Altair 8800
  • What popular operating system, launched in 1991, also has its own mascot, Tux the penguin?
    Linux
  • When was Norton AntiVirus first available?
    1997
    1995
    1989
    1991
  • When did the first virtual event take place?
    1990
    1985
    1995
    1993
  • What is the name of the oldest programming language still in use?
    Ada
    Matlab
    COBOL
    FORTRAN
  • 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 was the first ever web browser?
    Mosaic
    NeXT
    Netscape
    WorldWideWeb
  • What search engine did Google beat in 2004 in order to become the most successful search engine?
    Netscape
    Yahoo
    MSN
    AskJeeves
  • Which computer company invented the first floppy disks, hard disk drives, and DRAMS?
    IBM
  • What is the name of the classic 1972 arcade game based on table tennis?
    Pong
  • Popular computer brands like Apple, Dell and Microsoft started their offices from which place?
    a campsite
    a studio apartment
    a trailer
    a garage
  • Usually including an adjustable cuff and a rubber tube, the device called a sphygmomanometer takes what important measurement?
    Blood pressure
  • 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 is the computer's main circuit board called?
    a motherboard
  • What electronic object was named Time Magazine’s "Man of The Year” in 1982?
    The computer
  • Which video game console released in 2006 pioneered the use of motion controls in its gameplay?
    Nintendo Wii
  • How much did Steve Job’s first computer go for at auction?
    $3.4 million
    $677,000
    $1.2 million
    $223,000
  • Eric Yuan is a former Cisco engineer and executive that left the telecom giant to found what meeting company in 2011?
    Zoom
  • What does PIN stand for?
    personal identification number
  • What is the programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and named after a type of coffee from Indonesia?
    Java
  • What unit of length is equal to around 5.8 trillion miles?
    A light year
  • 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.
  • What does the acronym STEM stand for in education?
    science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
  • Which invention was first marketed as the Radarange?
    Microwave
  • Which company developed the first mobile phone?
    Nokia
    Apple
    Motorola
    Samsung
  • Open-source applications allow people to modify and add features to it using a _____ _____.
    source code
  • Where was the world wide web invented?
    United States
    United Kingdom
    Switzerland
    Germany
  • 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
  • ________ is used to store short-term running programs and data in a computer
    RAM (Random Access Memory)
  • in an August 2021 blog post, which social media company's CEO approved permanent remote work for employees?
    LinkedIn
    Twitter
    Pinterest
    Facebook
  • Which university offered the first-ever academic program in Computer Science?
    University of Glasgow
    Cambridge University
    Harvard University
    M.I.T.
  • "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 e-commerce company, whose name is taken from the Japanese word for "optimism," has been called "the Amazon of Japan?"
    Rakuten
  • What was the first Android-powered device from Samsung Mobile?
    Samsung Galaxy
  • The word "smartphone" was first used in a New York Times article in _____
    2002
    2000
    1995
    1998
  • True or False? SimCity was launched in 1989 for the Macintosh computer
    True
  • True or False? The tech-based e-commerce platform Shopify was founded in the U.S.
    False. It was founded in Canada.
  • What was the first item sold on Ebay in 1995?
    a rusty bucket
    a computer mouse
    a broken laser pointer
    a Jurassic Park T-shirt
  • What year was the oldest programming language still in use invented?
    1960
    1974
    1957
    1952
  • According to a 2018 estimate, what percentage of classroom mobile devices in the U.S. were Google Chromebooks?
    80%
    60%
    40%
    20%
  • What was the first shoe to use Nike Air technology?
    Air Force One
    Air Tailwind
    Air Jordan
    Air Max
  • What was the first high-definition home video format available to consumers?
    D-VHS
    LaserDisc
    HD-DVD
    DVD
  • MS-DOS is the name of the first ________ ________ designed by Microsoft
    operating system
  • 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 the first email sent?
    1974
    1971
    1981
    1977
  • What was the name of the first operating system?
    Windows 1.01
    EPOC
    TSS/360
    GM-NAA I/O
  • In December 2020, Walmart became the first major partner of what technology company to host a "shoppable livestream"?
    TikTok
  • Which popular online auction company did Pierre Omidyar found in 1995 out of San Jose, California?
    eBay
  • 1024 Gigabytes is equal to 1 Terabyte; 1024 Terabytes is equal to 1 Petabyte; How many Gigabytes are in a Petabyte?
    2,048 Gigabytes
    40,096 Gigabytes
    200,480 Gigabytes
    1,000,000 Gigabytes
  • What's the biggest tech acquisition in history?
    Google's buyout of Motorola in 2011
    Nvidia's buyout of Arm in 2020
    HP's buyout of Compaq in 2002
    Dell's buyout of EMC in 2015
  • What does CPU stand for?
    Central Processing Unit
  • 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)
  • Which is the most popular computer system ever sold?
    Commodore 64
    IBM PC
    Apple II
    iMac
  • 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 was the name of Google's first social media platform?
    Google Friend Connect
    Orkut
    Google Buzz
    Google+
  • What does IoT stand for?
    Internet of Things
  • Which part of the computer fetches, decodes, and executes the programming instructions?
    CPU (Central Processing Unit)
  • How much did it cost to rent a movie at the first VHS rental store in the US in 1977?
    $10 per video per week and $50 for every week it was late
    $500 annual membership fee for the ability to rent one video
    $25 per video per day, $50 for three days, $100 for a week
    $50-$100 in membership fees and then $10 per video per day
  • Since 2013, what technology company focused on payments has owned the popular smartphone cash transfer app Venmo?
    Paypal
  • The PlayStation 4 is powered by a GPU that is roughly equal to what PC graphics card?
    Radeon HD 7850
    GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    GeForce GTX 460
    Radeon HD 6990
  • What was the first mobile phone with internet connectivity?
    Nokia 9000 Communicator
    iPhone
    Blackberry 850
    Motorola 7500
  • Charles Babbage is known for creating the first _____.
    General-purpose digital computer
    Mechanical computer
    Vacuum tube transistor
    Software language
  • What computer and printer giant was founded in 1939 in Palo Alto, California?
    Apple
    Hewlett-Packard
    Dell
    IBM
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