Tech companies
1. Larry Page is co-founder and CEO of which US technology company?
2. Up until 2012, which technology company was Finland’s biggest employer?
Nokia
3. The company Research in Motion is best known for making which technology brand?
Blackberry
4. Which letter appears in various alphabets in the traditional Wikipedia globe logo?
W
5. What was the first computer available in the UK for under £100?
ZX80
6. What technology takes its name and logo from the 10th Century King Harald of Denmark?
Bluetooth
7. Which Japanese corporation produced the first compact electronic calculator, released in 1957?
Casio
8. The first floppy discs became available in 1971, but which company invented them?
IBM
9. Which Technology company has the motto “Make. Believe”?
Sony
10. What is the name of the biggest technology company in South Korea?
Samsung
Technology 1
1. In mobile phone terminology, what does 4G mean?
4th generation
2. The 'Turing test' assesses whether a machine possesses what characteristic?
Humanity
3. Which was invented first, the telephone or the electric lightbulb?
The telephone (1876) – the electric lightbulb was invented in 1879
4. The abbreviation SIM, as in SIM card, stands for what?
Subscriber Identification Module
5. The abbreviation SIM, as in SIM card, stands for what?
Subscriber Identification Module
6. What type of TV screen used to use Xenon and neon gas between 2 plates of glass and was very popular before the introduction of LCD and OLED technology?
Plasma
7. Linus Torval was the creator of which computer operating system in 1991?
Linux
8. What does CPU stand for in computing?
Central processing unit
9. Daguerreotypes were named after the French inventor. They were the first type of what?
Photographs
10. What is Python as used by Google and Youtube?
A programming language
Technology 2
1. Which internet browser is installed on the iPhone?
Safari
2. What is the name of the eccentric founder of SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla?
Elon Musk
3. Susan Bennett, Karen Jacobsen, and John Briggs are primary voices of which virtual personal assistant?
Siri
4. What was Donald Trump's May 2017 Twitter typo that went viral?
Covfefe
5. In computing, what is a GUI?
Graphical User interface
6. Kevin Systrom in 2010 posted a photo of a dog in Mexico and his girlfriend's foot which became the first post on which platform?
7. The expression “Dark store” refers to shop premises designed for what purpose?
Online fulfillment
8. Control-Alt-Delete, used to reboot your PC is known by which expression from Star Trek?
Vulcan nerve pinch
9. What did British airways reveal as the actual cause of their catastrophic IT systems outage, stranding 75,000 passengers and grounding flights at 170 airports over May holiday 2017?
Someone pulled the plug out
10. Blue Origin is a privately owned space company that aims to get people living and working in space. It is owned by the founder of Amazon. What is his name?
Jeff Bezos
Technology 3
1. What is the maximum length of a tiktok video?
60 seconds
2. Pierre Omidyar launched which website in 1995?
Ebay
3. What is the name of Samsung's virtual assistant?
Bixby
4. The founder of Wikipedia shares a surname with which country of the United Kingdom?
Wales (Jimmy Wales)
5. Mickeys per second is the unit of measurement for the speed and movement direction of what computer equipment?
A Mouse
6. With over 222 million units sold, what is Apple's highest-selling iPhone model?
6
7. The audio book and podcast company Audible is owned by which parent company?
Amazon
8. Which company operates the cloud gaming service Stadia which was launched in November 2019?
9. What in German is a Handy?
Mobile phone
10. In which decade did the first of the FIFA games appear on the Sega Megadrive?
1990's (1993)