Geography & Travel
Which country is larger by population?
1. Canada
2. Estonia
Canada
What is packet switching?
A method of transferring data between two computer systems
Uranium was named after...
A planet
What is the capital of Indonesia?
Jakarta
Which allows the user to select a word or phrase from text and thereby access other documents that contain additional information pertaining to that word or phrase?
Hypertext
Which of these metals is liquid at room temperature?
Mercury
Who was the first president born in a hospital?
Jimmy Carter
Gong is a type of Chinese bronze vessel used to serve --------.
Wine
Which system, developed in the early 1960s, allowed a computer’s resources to be shared in rapid succession with multiple users?
Time-sharing
Developed in the early 1960s, time-sharing systems allowed a computer’s resources to be shared in rapid succession with multiple users, cycling through the queue of users so quickly that the computer appeared dedicated to each user’s tasks despite the existence of many others accessing the system “simultaneously.”
Which element is most abundant in both Earth’s crust and the human body?
Oxygen
Though it originated in China, which fruit was named for Persia, where Europeans first encountered it?
Peach
What is the name for an Internet with emphasis on social networking and content generated by users, and cloud computing?
Web 2.0
The National Weather Service calculates the heat index by using air temperature and what other data?
Relative humidity
Which wonder of the ancient world is believed to have been the tallest structure on Earth for roughly 4,000 years?
Great Pyramid of Giza
In 1860 which American firearms manufacturer invented the first successful repeating rifle?
Christopher M. Spencer
From the 16th century onward, the speed of a ship was measured by what English invention?
Log