Computers
Who is called the “Father of the Computer”?
Who is Charles Babbage?
Who invented the first working telephone in 1876?
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
What app, launched in 2004, became one of the most popular social media platforms?
What is Facebook?
Bitcoin is the most famous example of what type of decentralized, blockchain-based currency?
What is cryptocurrency?
Who is the computer scientist credited with creating the World Wide Web?
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
What invention, credited to Thomas Edison in 1879, lit up homes and streets around the world?
LightBulb
Fun Fact: Edison didn’t actually invent the lightbulb earlier versions were made by inventors like Humphry Davy and Joseph Swan. But Edison’s design in 1879 could last up to 1,200 hours, which made it the first truly practical one. That’s why he’s still widely credited as the “inventor” of the lightbulb.
What device, common in homes by the 20th century, allowed families to listen to live broadcasts of music, news, and shows?
What is the radio?
Which AI chatbot became super popular in 2022 for writing essays, stories, and code?
What is Chatgpt
What was the name of the computer built by IBM that became famous for defeating world chess champion Garry Kasparov?
What is Deep Blue?
Who were the two brothers who achieved the first powered airplane flight in 1903?
Who are the Wright brothers?
What company released the first commercially successful mobile phone in 1983?
What is Motorola?
What is the name of Elon Musk’s project that works on connecting human brains to computers?
What is Neuralink
Who is known as the world’s first computer programmer?
Who is Ada Lovelace?
What invention by James Watt helped power the Industrial Revolution?
What is the steam engine?
This system of communication, created in the 1830s, uses short and long signals — often called “dots and dashes” — to send messages. What is it called?
What is Morse code?
With AI becoming more advanced and realistic in conversations, what test, created by Alan Turing in 1950, measures if a machine can act and respond like a human?
What is The Turing Test
What giant U.S. computer, built in 1945, is considered the first general-purpose electronic computer?
What is ENIAC?
What communication technology, first used widely in the 1970s, allowed people to send written messages instantly over a network of computers?
What is email?
What breakthrough in the AI field focuses on computers learning from data without being explicitly programmed?
What is Machine learning