1. What does PNG stand for when used to describe a computer image file format?
Portable Network Graphics
2. Which multinational technology company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in 1994?
Yahoo Inc.
3. Who invented the motorised vacuum cleaner in 1901?
Hubert Cecil Booth
4. Pressing the ‘Ctrl’ key on a PC along with which letter of the alphabet is a short cut for the ‘Undo’ command?
Z
5. What is the name for the smallest possible unit of data in a computer?
Bit (short for binary digit)
6. An SD card is a memory card format frequently used in portable devices such as mobile phones and cameras – what does SD stand for?
Secure Digital
7. Which type of technology was named after Danish-Norwegian king Harald Blátönn?
Bluetooth
8. Which country has the internet domain extension .zw?
Zimbabwe
9. What was the name of the world’s first artificial satellite?
Sputnik I
10. In which US state are the headquarters of the Microsoft Corporation?
Washington
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