Quiz-O-Menia

Question 1

What was the most downloaded app of the 2010s

Answer 1

Facebook

Question 2

What programming language is named after a type of Indonesian coffee?

Answer 2

Java

Question 3

One gigabyte is equal to how many megabytes?

Answer 3

1000

Question 4

In what year was eBay founded

Answer 4

1995

Question 5

What does GUI stand for

Answer 5

Graphical User Interface

Question 6

A blue wavy line in Microsoft Word indicates which error?

Answer 6

Formatting

Question 7

What is the name for a computer virus which replicates itself and uses up all a computer’s processing space?

Answer 7

Worm

Question 8

What app has a green owl as the mascot?

Answer 8

Duolingo

Question 9

What smartphone app was founded by a father and son duo to promote incremental and passive investing?

Answer 9

Acorns

Question 10

What was Google’s fourth retired attempt at launching a social media platform?

Answer 10

Google+

Question 11

What is the official name for the “prove you’re not a robot” tests that websites sometimes require

Answer 11

CAPTCHAs

Question 12

What software development hosting company has an Octocat for the logo

Answer 12

Github

Question 13

What does the acronym URL stand for?

Answer 13

Uniform Resource Locator

Question 14

In what year did the first Amazon Web Service launch to the public

Answer 14

2004

Question 15

As of 2019, what company was the source of the largest-known data breach in history?

Answer 15

Yahoo

Question 16

What British computer scientist is widely credited with inventing the World Wide Web?

Answer 16

Tim Berners-Lee

Question 17

Unicode, the standard for character encoding used to represent multilingual text as binary, is the successor to what US encoding standard?

Answer 17

ASCII ( American Standard Code for Information Interchange)

Question 18

What company made the first portable computer in 1981?

Answer 18

Osborne Company

Question 19

What does CPU stand for?

Answer 19

Central Processing Unit

Question 20

What was the first home gaming console called?

Answer 20

The Magnavox Odyssey

Question 21

What British TV series focused on three members of the IT department at the fictional Reynholm Industries?

Answer 21

The IT crowd

Question 22

Software developers at Disney created Hyperion, a program to produce more realistic animated scenes by determining the correct angle and intensity of light and shadows. This is Disney’s in-house version of what type of software?

Answer 22

Renderer

Question 23

What is the best-selling video game ever as of 2023?

Answer 23

Minecraft

Question 24

What country has largest market of gamers

Answer 24

China

Question 25

What 2006 home video game console pioneered the use of motion sensors?

Answer 25

Wii

Question 26

Who created Fortnite

Answer 26

Epic games

Question 27

What was the first Pixar film to be released on Blu-ray?

Answer 27

Cars

Question 28

In what year was the first installment of the Mario Party franchise released?

Answer 28

1998

Question 29

Most popular MMORPG Blizzard game

Answer 29

world of warcraft

Question 30

What regulatory group assigns content rating and suggested ages for video games, as found on the packaging for most games?

Answer 30

Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB))

Question 31

What is the most popular mobile game by player count in 2023?

Answer 31

Garena Free Fire

Question 32

What does JRPG stand for?

Answer 32

Japanese-Role-Playing-game

Question 33

What does PIN stand for

Answer 33

Personal Identification

Question 34

In what year was the first airplane invented ?

Answer 34

1903

Question 35

Who invented the first Fighter Jet?

Answer 35

Frank Whittle

Question 36

Dolly the ewe’s birth in 1996 proved the viability of what scientific and technical process?

Answer 36

Cloning

Question 37

A coil of wire wound around a soft iron or steel core forms the basis of what?

Answer 37

An Electromagnet

Question 38

Who invented the first Fighter Jet?

Answer 38

Frank Whittle

Question 39

What name was the microwave originally marketed under in the 1940s?

Answer 39

Radarange

Question 40

What company employs the largest number of language translators?

Answer 40

Google

Question 41

In what year did Apple introduce the standard lightning cable?

Answer 41

2012

Question 42

Where is Microsoft headquartered?

Answer 42

Redmond Washington

Question 43

What college did Bill Gates graduate from?

Answer 43

None (Harvard)

Question 44

What product did Amazon first start out selling?

Answer 44

Books

Question 45

What is the name of the robotic vacuum cleaner sold by iRobot?

Answer 45

Roomba

Question 46

What inventor first used the term 'horsepower?’

Answer 46

James Watt