Shenanigans
iPods & Music Tech
Hardware
Software/Operating Systems
Standards
200
Greedy company that makes terrible sports game every year.
What isn't EA?
200
The millimeter width of a (standard) headphone jack.
What is 3.5mm?
200
Nvidia's top-of-the-line consumer graphics card. Very lorge.
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What is the RTX 3090?
200
The Windows version that removed the start button, in favor of swiping from the edge.
What is Windows 8?
200
The name of the wireless charging standard.
What is Qi?
400
The popular 2022 game bought by The New York Times in which you guess a 5 letter term.
What is Wordle?
400
Apple's surround sound standard for Apple Music, only supported by AirPods and select Beats headphones.
What is Spatial Audio?
400
Company bought by HMD Global that made phones with physical keyboards.
What is Blackberry?
400
The first operating system to support 5G natively.
What is Android?
400
The 5th generation of cellular technology featured in ads and on spec-sheets. Claimed to be "faster" and featured in more areas than previously.
What is 5G?
600
The buzzword used these days to refer to virtual social experiences. Also used to describe the virtual world itself.
What is the metaverse?
600
The proprietary cable used by early iPods to transfer music from iTunes to the device. Faster than USB (which is a low bar.)
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What is FireWire?
600
The cause of the "blooming" sensation when looking at an LED TV.
What are local dimming zones?
600
iOS version to first move away from skeuomorphism.
What is iOS 7?
600
The most recent revision and release of the wi-fi standard, only supported by very new routers (within the past year).
What is Wi-fi 6e?
800
Amazon's game streaming service.
What is Amazon Luna?
800
Spotify's slowly released subscriber-only hardware product.
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What is Spotify Car Thing?
800
The first Chromebook to support USB-C, first released in 2015.
What is the Chromebook Pixel?
800
MacOS version to first remove support for 32 bit applications.
What is MacOS Mojave?
800
The underlying technology used to power Airtags and Samsung SmartTags. Gives them the ability to locate items with a precision of feet.
What is UWB (Ultra Wideband)?
1000
This company bought Time Warner in 2019 in a deal that was the largest acquisition ever, totaling over $170 billion.
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What is AT&T?
1000
The full title of the 3rd generation of Sony's flagship noise-canceling headphones. (spelling matters!)
What are the WH-1000XM3s?
1000
The name of Intel's prototype laptop whose screen lifted vertically up, containing a second display below the main display.
What is Honeycomb Glacier?
1000
The operating system Palm devices used to run on.
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What is WebOS?
1000
The new audio codec being adopted into the Bluetooth standard; first debuted at CES2020.
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What is LC3?