Viruses or Acronyms
A global ransomware attack on Windows computers that occurred in May 2017 came from a virus with what "tearful" name?
WannaCry
Voice actor Elwood Edwards recorded the famous “You’ve got mail!” announcement (as well as “Welcome,” File’s done,” and others) on a tape deck in his home. You’d know his voice if you had which Internet service provider in the 1980s?
AOL
Paul Allen, an American billionaire who passed away in 2018, was the owner of the Portland Trailblazers (NBA), Seattle Seahawks (NFL), and a part owner of the Seattle Sounders (MLS). Before entering the world of sports ownership, Allen was best known for co-founding what company?
Microsoft
What simulation video game franchise was originally developed by Will Wright and launched in 1989 for the Macintosh computer?
SimCity
You probably see it every day, but have you been paying attention - how many different colors are used in the lettering of Google's logo?
Four (Blue, Red, Green, and Yellow)
Spreading rampant through computers in 2000, this affectionate worm is considered to be the most popular virus of all time due to it's widespread effect through email.
ILOVEYOU
What is the somewhat-logical term for the internet prank and meme in which an unexpected appearance of the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up" is "planted" into an unrelated link? The meme's popularity dates back to 2008.
Rickrolling
In what year did the first AWS (Amazon Web Services) service launch to the public? We'll give you credit if your response is within two years of the correct answer.
2004 (2002 - 2006 accepted)
Released in 2004 by Blizzard Entertainment and set in the fictional universe of Azeroth, what is the name of the computer game that became the world's most popular "MMORPG" (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) within a few years and continues to be referenced in popular culture with its three-letter abbreviation?
World of Warcraft
What color do you get if you mix together the two colors that appear twice in the Google logo?
Purple
Unicode, the standard for character encoding used to represent multilingual text as binary, is the successor of what US encoding standard?
ASCII
Officially known as a "Stop error" or a "Blue Screen error" the acronym BSOD is commonly used for the error screen in the Windows operating system that displays upon a fatal system error. What do the letters BSOD stand for?
Blue Screen of Death
For Cyber Monday in the US in 2019, Google "baked" Pixel 4 phones inside the pizza boxes of what fast food chain as a limited promotion?
Dominos
When the kids online say "LoL," they're either laughing or referencing what online battle arena game that's been sponsored by Mastercard since 2018?
League of Legends
Doug Engelbart was the inventor of what computer accessory? The first one was made from wood.
Mouse
The fashion acronym OOTD is the ranked the 16th most popular texting abbreviation for 2023. What does OOTD stand for?
Outfit of the Day
Around since 1990, which software with a circus-act-inspired name that starts with A can you download to view PDFs with the greatest of ease?
Adobe Acrobat
What American tech company had a microprocessor facility in Costa Rica that at one time was responsible for 20% of Costa Rican exports and 5% of the country's GDP?
Intel
The mobile app development company Niantic struck gold in 2016 with what smash-hit smartphone game that captured tens of millions of players within days of its release? The game became a global phenomenon with players largely playing outdoors.
Pokemon Go
Initially called BackRub, the co-founders wanted to change the search engines name go Googol, but accidentally searched for Google when checking for the domain name. How many zeros are in a Googol?
100
If you just received a nice new LED monitor, and your friend says you should've gotten an LCD monitor, what do these acronyms mean?
(one point for getting either correct, double points for getting both correct).
LED - Light Emitting Diode
LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
She started out as a Microsoft marketing manager in the 1990's and has been named in Forbes magazine's Top 10 Most Powerful Women every year since 2010. This Dallas-born former computer scientist only received about 2% of her former husband's roughly $100 billion wealth when they divorced in 2021?
Melinda Gates
Larry Ellison co-founded a company in 1977 with the rather boring name of Software Development Laboratories (SDL). In 1983, the company introduced what word into its official name? This new word is the name of the company today and also means a person considered to provide wise counsel or prophetic predictions.
Oracle
Popular as a standalone smartphone app, Candy Crush Saga initially debuted on what website's games platform?
Name one of the co-founders of Google
Larry Page and Sergey Brin