Social Media
Tech Giants
Mobile Phones
Video Games
100
This social media platform was acquired by Facebook for approx. 1 billion USD in 2012
What is Instagram?
100
With a market capitalization of 2.25 Trillion USD, this company is not only the largest tech company, but THE largest company in the world
What is Apple?
100
This operating system is the second most used OS on mobile devices, first being Android.
What is iOS?
100
This company is the publisher behind various iconic franchises, such as the Tom Clancy and Assassin's Creed games.
What is Ubisoft?
200
This platform was the spiritual predecessor to TikTok, as uploads were limited to six second video clips. However, despite being acquired by Twitter, it shut down within 4 years of release in 2017.
What is Vine?
200
These 5 giant tech companies are often collectively referred to as "FAANG".
What are Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google?
200
This design flaw in the Galaxy Note 7 lead to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration banning any Note 7 device from being taken aboard any airline flight
Exploding Note 7 batteries
200
This key objective of this Japanese arcade rhythm game is for players to move their feet to match a set pattern that follows the rhythm of a given song.
What is Dance Dance Revolution?
300
This live-streaming platform was known originally as justin.tv, after the founder, Justin Kan
300
This company is currently facing off against Apple in court, related to Apple's practices in the iOS App Store, specifically claims of monopolistic behavior.
What is Epic Games?
300
This flip phone, originally released in 2004, was given a modern refresh in 2020, thanks to new advances in screen technology.
What is the Motorola Razr?
300
This was the first computer game to feature a multi-player deathmatch mode.
What is Doom?
400
What is Myspace?
400
This scandal concerned the obtaining of the personal data of millions of Facebook users without their consent by a British consulting firm, predominantly to be used for political advertising.
What is the Cambridge Analytica scandal?
400
This now-defunct phone brand was created by Andy Rubin, "the father of Android", and it aimed to shake up the phone market with a new premium device - however it failed quite spectacularly. Despite this, it set the trend of using "notch" as the front camera to maximize screen area.
What is Essential?
400
This was the first game to have dedicated memory chip to save your progress.
What is The Legend of Zelda?
500
This microblogging and social network calls itself "the world's town square" and a place to "Speak freely and express yourself openly, without fear of being “deplatformed” for your views.", however it has also provided echo chambers for vaccine misinformation and conspiracy theories, leading to bans by Amazon, Apple and Google amongst others.
What is Parler?
500
Apple took a large risk (pun intended) by switching over to a new architecture for their new desktop-grade processor, the M1, instead of the more widespread x86 architecture. However, it seemed to have payed off as these chips match or even outdo the performance of traditional x86 equivalents.
What is ARM?
500
In the spirit of World Environment Day, this company's main aim is to develop smartphones that are designed and produced with a lower environmental impact, using easily replaceable modules for components such as the screen, camera, etc.
What is Fairphone?
500
This character was clearly an unexpected addition to the roster in Super Smash Brothers Ultimate. The design of the character, along with his catchphrase "Rocks The Block" were memed endlessly.
Who is Steve (from Minecraft)?