Tech Titans
Name the company behind Windows OS
Microsoft
What does “unicorn” mean in the startup world?
A privately held startup valued at over $1 billion
What is the official name for the “prove you’re not a robot” tests?
CAPTCHAs
In The Matrix Reloaded, Neo fights 100 copies of which program?
Agent Smith
What does the acronym “URL” stand for?
Uniform Resource Locator
Which tech inventor competed on Dancing with the Stars?
Steve Wozniak
What term describes when customers stop using a company’s product or service over time?
Churn
What type of malicious software disguises itself as a legitimate program to trick users into installing it?
Trojan
What programming language is named after a type of Indonesian coffee?
Java
What small text file do websites store on your computer to remember your preferences or track your behavior?
Cookie
Which was the first tech company ever to reach a $1 trillion market valuation?
Apple (2018) 🍏💰
What Windows phenomenon appears without warning, kills your unsaved work, and leaves only despair in its wake?
The Blue Screen of Death
What’s the practice of tricking people into revealing personal information by pretending to be a trustworthy source?
Phishing
What Google service was shut down in 2019, despite having a cult following for being "the social network no one used"?
Google+
What is “ChatGPT” short for?
Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer
What company was originally called BackRub?
Which startup promised revolutionary blood testing from a single drop of blood — and ended with its founder convicted of fraud?
Theranos (Elizabeth Holmes)
As of 2019, what company was the source of the largest-known data breach in history?
Yahoo
What was the name of the computer bug that caused worldwide panic as the year 2000 approached because systems stored years using only two digits?
The Y2K bug (Millennium Bug)
What term describes when an AI system generates false or made-up information confidently?
Hallucination
Which computer scientist invented the World Wide Web?
Tim Berners-Lee
From which country was the first Amazon order ever made, and how was it paid for?
Bulgaria — cash hidden in a floppy disk 🫡
What is the name for a computer virus that replicates itself and consumes system resources?
Worm
In 1996, which European rocket self-destructed 37 seconds after launch due to a software bug caused by an integer overflow?
Ariane 5
What was the very first search engine on the internet called?
Archie