Technology

1. How many characters were originally allowed in a ‘Tweet’ when Twitter first launched in 2006?

140 (Now doubled in most languages)

2. Firefox is a web browser owned by which company?

Mozilla Foundation/ Mozilla Corporation

3. What was the first name of the inventor of the Geiger counter?

Hans

4. The LG Corporation produces electronics and telecom products, but what does LG stand for?

Lucky-GoldStar

5. ‘Opera’, ‘Safari’ and ‘Epiphany’ are all examples of what?

Web browser

6. Aircraft flight recorders are often known by the misnomer ‘black box’, even though they are actually which colour?

Orange (Bright, so as to be found easily after an accident)

7. What does UHF stand for when tuning a radio or television?

Ultra High Frequency

8. How many options are available in Facebook for ‘liking’ or showing your response to a post?

6 (Like, love, haha, wow, sad and angry)

9. Which fruity Emoji is often used to represent a bottom?

Peach

10. Which Microsoft software produces files with the extension .PPT?

PowerPoint

Technology Quiz Questions

1. What does the acronym BIOS stand for?

Basic Input/Output System

2. What is the name for a network that allows communication within an organisation?

Intranet

3. Which was the first product to be produced by Apple that had a name beginning with their trademark small letter ‘i’?

iMac (specifically ‘iMac G3’ launched in 1998)

4. BINAC was an early electronic computer, launched in 1949. What did BINAC stand for?

Binary Automatic Computer

5. If a URL ends with .mx, in which country would you expect it to be based?

Mexico

6. How is Sonic the Hedgehog’s fox friend ‘Miles Prower’ better known?

Tails

7. In which decade was the Hubble Telescope launched?

1990s (1990 exactly)

8. Which science-fiction author wrote about the Three Laws of Robotics?

Isaac Asimov

9. Which project was the first human spaceflight programme by the USA?

Project Mercury

10. Which method of radio broadcasting uses frequencies between 87.5 and 108 MHz?

FM

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Technology Pub Quiz Questions and Answers

1. Which mobile phone company has produced models called ‘StarTAC’, ‘V220’ and ‘SLVR’?

Motorola

2. In internet and web server terminology, what does CDN stand for?

Content Delivery Network

3. In which year did Steve Jobs introduce the first Apple iPhone to the public?

2007

4. What are the first names of Nintendo’s Super Mario Brothers?

Mario and Luigi

5. In which decade did the first official transatlantic telephone call take place?

1920s (January 7th 1927 between W.S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, and Sir Evelyn P. Murray, secretary of the General Post Office of Great Britain)

6. What type of computer file is a FLAC file: image, audio or text?

Audio (Free Lossless Audio Codec)

7. How many flights took place in total in the Vostok space programme?

Six

8. In which decade was the Hubble Space Telescope launched?

1990s (1990)

9. Pressing Ctrl plus which letter is a computer shortcut for the ‘paste’ command?

V

10. What does ‘SD’ stand for in the terms ‘SD card’ and ‘micro SD card’?

Secure Digital

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The following are text abbreviations, commonly used in text messages. Do you know what the letters are short for?

1. TYVM

Thank you very much

2. B4N

Bye for now

3. ROTFLMAO

Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off

4. TTYL

Talk to you later

5. WTF

What the f***?

6. IMHO

In my humble opinion

7. FWB

Friends with benefits

8. HAND

Have a nice day

9. PAW

Parents are watching

10. PPL

People

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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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1. What was the name of the spacecraft in which Yuri Gagarin made history by becoming the first man in space?

Vostok 1

2. In which decade was the Sony Corporation founded?

1940s (1946)

3. In computing terms, what does ROM stand for?

Read-only memory

4. Written in 1990, ‘Archie’ was the first ever what?

Internet search engine

5. In which U.S. state are the headquarters of Microsoft?

Washington

6. Blogs often provide a web feed, also known as ‘RSS’ – what does RSS stand for?

Rich Site Summary

7.  What is the name for the small white box needing to be connected between your telephone socket and broadband router?

Microfilter

8. In the 2013 film ‘The Internship’, which company did Vince Vaughn’s and Owen Wilson’s characters become interns for?

Google

9. What was the first commercial product to be scanned using a barcode?

Chewing gum (Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit in June 1974)

10. Which letter sits to the left of the letter ‘O’ on a Qwerty keyboard?

I

1. How many manned space flights were launched by the NASA space programme ‘Project Gemini’?

Ten (Plus two unmanned flights)

2. Which website, particularly popular in the Noughties, was born from an idea invented by Steve and Julie Pankhurst from Barnet, North London?

Friends Reunited

3. The ‘Scud’ missile was designed in which country?

Soviet Union

4. Which country has the fastest travelling commercial railway trains?

China (The Shanghai Maglev has a maximum operational speed of 267 miles per hour and average of 155 miles per hour)

5. The Oric-1 was released in 1983 – what was it?

Home computer

6. Apple Inc. was founded jointly by three men. One was Steve Jobs; can you name one of the other two?

Steve Wosniak and Ronald Wayne

7. What does BIOS stand for in computing terminology?

Basic input/output system

8. ADSL is a term associated with internet connections, but what does this stand for?

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

9. In which year did Nokia release the ‘Mobira Cityman’, the company’s first handheld mobile phone?

 1987

10. What type of television screen uses xenon and neon gases contained in tiny cells between two plates of glass?

Plasma

Quite simple – what do the acronyms commonly stand for?

1. BRB

Be right back

2. OMG

Oh My God

3. RBTL

Read between the lines

4. TMI

Too much information

5. TLC

Tender loving care

6. 2G2BT

Too good to be true

7. B4

Before

8. LMAO

Laughing my ass off

9. NP

No problem

10. IDC

I don’t care