Quiz-O-Menia Flashcards
What was the most downloaded app of the 2010s
What programming language is named after a type of Indonesian coffee?
Java
One gigabyte is equal to how many megabytes?
1000
In what year was eBay founded
1995
What does GUI stand for
Graphical User Interface
A blue wavy line in Microsoft Word indicates which error?
Formatting
What is the name for a computer virus which replicates itself and uses up all a computer’s processing space?
Worm
What app has a green owl as the mascot?
Duolingo
What smartphone app was founded by a father and son duo to promote incremental and passive investing?
Acorns
What was Google’s fourth retired attempt at launching a social media platform?
Google+
What is the official name for the “prove you’re not a robot” tests that websites sometimes require
CAPTCHAs
What software development hosting company has an Octocat for the logo
Github
What does the acronym URL stand for?
Uniform Resource Locator
In what year did the first Amazon Web Service launch to the public
2004
As of 2019, what company was the source of the largest-known data breach in history?
Yahoo
What British computer scientist is widely credited with inventing the World Wide Web?
Tim Berners-Lee
Unicode, the standard for character encoding used to represent multilingual text as binary, is the successor to what US encoding standard?
ASCII ( American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
What company made the first portable computer in 1981?
Osborne Company
What does CPU stand for?
Central Processing Unit
What was the first home gaming console called?
The Magnavox Odyssey
What British TV series focused on three members of the IT department at the fictional Reynholm Industries?
The IT crowd
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?
Renderer
What is the best-selling video game ever as of 2023?
Minecraft
What country has largest market of gamers
China
What 2006 home video game console pioneered the use of motion sensors?
Wii
Who created Fortnite
Epic games
What was the first Pixar film to be released on Blu-ray?
Cars
In what year was the first installment of the Mario Party franchise released?
1998
Most popular MMORPG Blizzard game
world of warcraft
What regulatory group assigns content rating and suggested ages for video games, as found on the packaging for most games?
Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB))
What is the most popular mobile game by player count in 2023?
Garena Free Fire
What does JRPG stand for?
Japanese-Role-Playing-game
What does PIN stand for
Personal Identification
In what year was the first airplane invented ?
1903
Who invented the first Fighter Jet?
Frank Whittle
Dolly the ewe’s birth in 1996 proved the viability of what scientific and technical process?
Cloning
A coil of wire wound around a soft iron or steel core forms the basis of what?
An Electromagnet
Who invented the first Fighter Jet?
Frank Whittle
What name was the microwave originally marketed under in the 1940s?
Radarange
What company employs the largest number of language translators?
In what year did Apple introduce the standard lightning cable?
2012
Where is Microsoft headquartered?
Redmond Washington
What college did Bill Gates graduate from?
None (Harvard)
What product did Amazon first start out selling?
Books
What is the name of the robotic vacuum cleaner sold by iRobot?
Roomba
What inventor first used the term ‘horsepower?’
James Watt
