Quiz-O-Menia Flashcards

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What was the most downloaded app of the 2010s

A

Facebook

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2
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What programming language is named after a type of Indonesian coffee?

A

Java

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3
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One gigabyte is equal to how many megabytes?

A

1000

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4
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In what year was eBay founded

A

1995

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5
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What does GUI stand for

A

Graphical User Interface

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6
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A blue wavy line in Microsoft Word indicates which error?

A

Formatting

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7
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What is the name for a computer virus which replicates itself and uses up all a computer’s processing space?

A

Worm

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8
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What app has a green owl as the mascot?

A

Duolingo

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9
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What smartphone app was founded by a father and son duo to promote incremental and passive investing?

A

Acorns

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10
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What was Google’s fourth retired attempt at launching a social media platform?

A

Google+

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11
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What is the official name for the “prove you’re not a robot” tests that websites sometimes require

A

CAPTCHAs

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12
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What software development hosting company has an Octocat for the logo

A

Github

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13
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What does the acronym URL stand for?

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Uniform Resource Locator

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14
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In what year did the first Amazon Web Service launch to the public

A

2004

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15
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As of 2019, what company was the source of the largest-known data breach in history?

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Yahoo

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16
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What British computer scientist is widely credited with inventing the World Wide Web?

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Tim Berners-Lee

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17
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Unicode, the standard for character encoding used to represent multilingual text as binary, is the successor to what US encoding standard?

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ASCII ( American Standard Code for Information Interchange)

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18
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What company made the first portable computer in 1981?

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Osborne Company

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19
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What does CPU stand for?

A

Central Processing Unit

20
Q

What was the first home gaming console called?

A

The Magnavox Odyssey

21
Q

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

A

The IT crowd

22
Q

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?

A

Renderer

23
Q

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

A

Minecraft

24
Q

What country has largest market of gamers

A

China

25
Q

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

A

Wii

26
Q

Who created Fortnite

A

Epic games

27
Q

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

A

Cars

28
Q

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

A

1998

29
Q

Most popular MMORPG Blizzard game

A

world of warcraft

30
Q

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

A

Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB))

31
Q

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

A

Garena Free Fire

32
Q

What does JRPG stand for?

A

Japanese-Role-Playing-game

33
Q

What does PIN stand for

A

Personal Identification

34
Q

In what year was the first airplane invented ?

A

1903

35
Q

Who invented the first Fighter Jet?

A

Frank Whittle

36
Q

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

A

Cloning

37
Q

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

A

An Electromagnet

38
Q

Who invented the first Fighter Jet?

A

Frank Whittle

39
Q

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

A

Radarange

40
Q

What company employs the largest number of language translators?

A

Google

41
Q

In what year did Apple introduce the standard lightning cable?

A

2012

42
Q

Where is Microsoft headquartered?

A

Redmond Washington

43
Q

What college did Bill Gates graduate from?

A

None (Harvard)

44
Q

What product did Amazon first start out selling?

A

Books

45
Q

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

A

Roomba

46
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What inventor first used the term ‘horsepower?’

A

James Watt