By the Numbers
What percent of all of the data in the world was created in the last 2 years?
(Points earned for being within 5% - double points for the correct answer).
About 90%
While building magnetrons at MIT in the 1940s, Percy Spencer noticed a melting chocolate bar in his pocket. Deeper investigation and exploration led to the invention of what household device?
Microwave
Also a math teacher, which of these courses has Mr. Nelson never taught?
Precalculus, AP Calculus AB, AP Statistics, AP Calculus BC
AP Statistics
What is the name of the red ghost in Pac-Man?
Blinky
Microsoft reported 32 million daily active users on March 11, 2020, and 115 million daily active users as of October 28, of what video conferencing app?
Microsoft Teams
97% of people use this as their spell checker
The computer science department at the University of Cambridge made the first one of these to monitor the coffee pot in their break room.
Webcam
Mr. Nelson played one sport in high school, and played in community college under scholarship as well. What was that sport?
Baseball
A blockbuster hit for Pixar in 1995, this was the first computer animated feature film ever created.
Toy Story
In an August 2021 blog post, CEO Ryan Roslansky approved permanent remote work for employees of what business-oriented social network company?
The average person does this 20 times per minute under normal circumstances, but only 7 times per minute when on a computer.
Blink
The fastest internet system in the world is considered to be in the country where the highest % of Wi-Fi connections had a speed of at least 4 Mbps. The leading country met this qualification with more than 95% of its internet connections as of 2015. What is this eastern hemisphere nation?
South Korea
How did Mr. Nelson meet his wife?
Bar, friend of a friend, college class, online
Online
No phoning your favorite KC Chiefs tight end for the answer, but what programming language is commonly used for developing mobile applications on the iOS platform?
Swift
The European internet company Skype was purchased by eBay in 2005 for $2.5 billion, but only six years later the video chat company was purchased by what other tech firm for a new purchase price of $8.5 billion?
Microsoft
How much of the currency that exists in the world could be represented with actual cash.
(Points for within 5% - double points for correct answer)
10%
If shown, this is the same for every advertisement for the iPhone.
(Double points if you can be more specific).
The time - 9:41
(The time Steve Jobs first announced the iPhone in 2007)
When Mr. Nelson is asked his age by students, he usually responds in binary. For you though, I'll respond in hexadecimal. I'm 2E years old. How old am I?
46
Research shows that teenagers are 14% happier if they abstain from this.
Social Media
Developed in 2004 by Mozilla this web browser's logo is actually a red panda.
Firefox
What percent of the U.S. emails are Spam?
(Points for being within 10% - double points for correct answer)
80%
About 19.6 million of these exist. The final amount of 21 million is predicted to exist in 2040, in order to continue to be valuable.
BitCoin
A few of you know my daughter Grace, who goes to CKHS as well. In what year was she born?
2009
It's dangerous to go to an auction alone: in July, 2021 an original Nintendo Entertainment System cartridge of what old school fantasy game sold for $870,000?
Legend of Zelda
A November 1998 article titled "New CYBERSCAPE: Digital Assistants Get Sophisticated" was the first article in the New York Times's archive to use what now-ubiquitous word which, despite its name, does not necessarily refer to its brilliance?
Smartphone