By the Numbers
Companies
Apple
Games and Music
Acronyms
100
British-born geophysicist Cecil Green lived in Toronto and San Francisco growing up, and ultimately earned two college degrees from M.I.T. However, when he cofounded a company, the firm included what other state in its name? You might be most familiar with one of their products from algebra class.
Texas Instruments
100
Since 2013, what technology company focused on payments has owned the popular smartphone cash transfer app Venmo?
Paypal
100
In 1994, Apple was blowin' in the wind when this Bob sued them because they were developing a programming language that he claimed was named after him.
Bob Dylan
(It supposedly stood for “DYnamic LANguage”)
100
In what early computer game did pioneers often die of dysentery? The game was later inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame.
Oregon Trail
100
When a password is limited strictly to numeric characters, the secret is often referred to as a PIN. What does that acronym stand for?
Personal Identification Number
200
One gigabyte is equal to how many bits?
Technically 8,589,934,592 but I'll accept 8 billion.
(8 * 2^30)
200
With more than 850 million installs in 2020, what app was the most downloaded app of the year?
TikTok
200
Now appearing prophetic, what device was announced in 2007 with the following slogan? "This is only the beginning."
iPhone
200
Featuring singles like "Paranoid Android" and "Karma Police," "OK Computer" was a classic 1997 album from what British rock band?
Radiohead
200
Laser is an acronym that stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of _______. What word fills in the blank?
Radiation
300
PDF is, unsurprisingly, an acronym. Name any of the three words represented by PDF.
Portable Document Format
300
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the majority owner of what manufacturing company which predominantly sells audio equipment? The company was founded by an associate professor who later in life donated his shares to the school.
Bose
300
Steve Jobs is famously one of the two men who co-founded Apple in 1976. The other co-founder was also named Steve. What was this other man's surname?
Steve Wozniak
300
"Computer Blue" is a song by Prince and the Revolution from what 1984 album that is also the title of the movie Prince starred in the same year?
Purple Rain
300
As its name implies, a computer’s arithmetic ______ unit (ALU) is part of the CPU and performs various math functions—sort of like the CPU’s calculator.
Logic
400
Biotech that exists on a scale of one billionth of a meter is called ______biotechnology. Fill in the one word prefix, also the name of a flash memory version of the iPod Mini that was sold from 2005 to 2017.
Nanobiotechnology
400
In 1998. Jeff Bezos made a deal with British film fan Col Needham to purchase what movie database site for $55 million?
IMDb
400
Steve Jobs was famous for his black turtleneck, blue jeans, and what brand of sneakers?
New Balance
400
Pocket, Light, Color, and Advance were all styles or variants of what video game hardware system?
Game Boy
400
Often pronounced “gooey”, GUI is short for what well-known three-word tech term?
Graphical User Interface
500
What media streaming device's name translates to the number 6 in Japanese, a nod to this being the 6th company started by its founder, Anthony Wood?
Roku
500
What technology company, now mostly known as a telecommunications giant, gained mass market popularity with its release of the “RAZR” cell phone in 2004 which became the best-selling clamshell cell phone in the world?
Motorola
500
In what year did Apple standardize their chargers with the introduction of the Lightning cable?
(Points awarded for being within 2 years - exact year gets double points)
2012
500
With 300,000,000 million copies sold across various platforms, this is the best-selling video game of all time.
Minecraft
500
What computer and printer company, sometimes better known by its two letter acronym, was founded in Palo Alto, CA in 1939?
HP (Hewlett-Packard)