Tech & Gadget
Released in 2007, this device shifted smartphones towards touchscreens as the new standard.
What is the iPhone
This event in 2008 brought the world together in Beijing for major international competition.
What is 2008 Olymics?
This Netflix sci-fi series starting in 2016 features the Upside Down.
What is Stranger Things?
This private space company launched the first reusable rocket booster.
What is SpaceX?
This social media app, known for short videos, exploded in popularity starting in 2018,
What is TikTok?
This video-conferencing platform became a household name during 2020.
What is Zoom?
In 2011, this major figure and leader of al-Queda was located and killed in Pakistan.
Who is Osama bin Laden?
First released in 2017, this Switch game features Link exporing an oen world.
What is Breath of the Wild?
In 2012, NASA landed this rover on Mars using a dramatoic "sky crane".
What is Curiosity?
Launched in 2005, this site became the biggest global video-sharing platform.
What is YouTube?
Google's web browser, introduced in 2008, is not one of the most widely used.
What is Google Chrome?
This Natural disaster struck Japan in 2011 and caused a massive nuclear crisis.
What is the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami?
This 2023 HBO show, based on a video game, starred Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey.
in 2021, this telescope was launched to succeed the Hubble.
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
This toy/puzzle went viral in 2017 as the top school distraction.
What isa fidget spinner?
This handheld console from Nintendo launched in 2011 and used AR cards and glasses-fee 3D.
What is Nintendo 3DS?
In 2016m Britain voted to leave this political union.
What is the European Union?
This animated show became a viral phenomenon after the "Pickle Rick" episode.
What is Rick and Morty?
In 2013, scientists confirmed detection of this particle first predicted by the Standard Model.
What is the Higgs boson?
This pandemic-era multiplayer game about "imposters" skyrocketed in 2020.
What is Among Us?
In 2016, this AI program from DeepMind defeated the world champion in the board game Go.
What is AlphaGo?
This major canal became became globally known in 2021 when a massive cargo ship blocked it for days.
What is the Suez Canal?
Blizzard's team-based FPS released in 2016 and known for characters like Tracer.
What is Overwatch?
In 2020, scientists released the first image of this astronomical phenomenon.
What is a black hole (M87*)?
this digital currency peaked in global attention in 2021 becoming a central topic in finance.
What is Bitcoin?