Tech world I
Which company owns ‘Hotmail’, the Internet based e-mail system?
Microsoft
Which ‘rodent’ first appeared on desk tops in January 1983?
Mouse
Which country has the highest number of people employed in the medical technology sector?
France, UK, Switzerland, or Germany
Germany.
The European medical technology industry employs more than 650,000 people. The medical technology industry is an important player in the European economy.
Which is the biggest killer? HIV, Tuberculosis, Diabetes, Malaria?
Diabetes.
According to the IDF (International Diabetes Federation), 5.0 million people died from diabetes in 2015. Diabetes is one of the largest global health emergencies of the 21st century.
At nearly 40% of the population, what is the most common blood type in the United States?
O-positive
What Japanese automaker uses the expression "Zoom-Zoom" which describes the "emotion of motion" it claims is inherent in its cars?
Mazda
As of January 2019, what company is the source of the largest data breach in known history?
Yahoo
The stethoscope was created to avoid physical contact with female patients. True or false?
True.
In 1816, A French physician felt embarrassed placing his ear directly on a woman’s chest, to listen to her heart beat. He decided to roll up paper and make a tube which allowed him to hear her heart, protecting her modesty.
During our lives, we walk the equivalent of how many times around the earth?
One, two, three, or four times?
Three times.
During our lives we spend 20 years on the move, the equivalent to walking three times around the earth.
In humans, what is an internal organ capable of regenerating lost tissue?
The Liver
Andy Rubin is known as one of the three founders of what massively popular cell phone operating system?
Android
The name for what voice interaction technology was chosen, in part, because it had a "hard consonant" which helps it be recognized with higher precision?
Alexa by Amazon
Which of the following treatments can be done at home nowadays?
A. Changing chronic wounds' bandages
B. Dialysis
C. Changing stoma bags
D. All of the above
D. All of the above
What is the size of the newest type of cardiac pacemaker (introduced to the European market in 2015)?
What is the rarest type of human blood?
AB-Negative
Pocket, Light, Color, and Advance were all styles or variants of what video game hardware system?
Game Boy
ByteDance is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Beijing that is most famously the owner of what mega-popular social media platform?
TikTok
Up to how many kilometers would the power of your heart be able to power a truck?
83 Km, 57 Km, 32 Km, or 6Km?
32 Km.
Each day, your heart beats approximately 100,000 times creating enough energy to drive a truck 32km.
What health-related word evolved from a Middle English term describing the venom of a snake which came from a Latin word meaning "slimy liquid or poison?"
Virus
Bright's disease is an inflammation in what organ?
Kidney
What is the tongue-in-cheek name of the company Elon Musk founded in 2017 to develop technology focused on tunneling?
The Boring Company
What movie did Apple use to hype its new QuickTime format, sparking a net-clogging 25 million downloads of the trailer?
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
When were contact lenses invented?
A. 1887
B. 1917
C. 1937
D. 1957
A. 1887
German glassblower F. E. Muller produced the first eye covering to be seen through and tolerated.
The Civil War-era term "soldier's disease" typically referred to an addiction to what drug?
Morphine
BRCA1 is a human gene and protein pairing most commonly associated with what disease?
Breast cancer