Tech History
Before Google became everyone's answer to everything, what search engine was famous for its colourful logo and "Ask Jeeves" rival?
Yahoo
Your phone is at 1%. You have no charger. Which technology lets you make a payment by tapping your phone?
NFC
What company created Mario, Luigi and the Nintendo Switch?
Nintendo
Who created Python?
Guido van Rossum
What does AI stand for?
Artificial Intelligence
What was the name of the first iPhone's predecessor in Apple's product line that made portable music famous?
iPod
What does GPS actually stand for?
Global Positioning System
What is Tony Stark's AI assistant called in Iron Man?
JARVIS
Who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web?
Tim Berners-Lee
What does GPT stand for?
Generative Pre-trained Transformer
In 1969, ARPANET sent its first message between two computers. What was the intended word, which famously failed because the system crashed?
LOGIN
You type google.com into your browser. What system translates that domain name into an IP address?
DNS
💊 In The Matrix, Neo has to choose between two pills. What colour is the pill that reveals the truth?
Red
Who created the Linux kernel?
Linus Torvalds
True or False: ChatGPT can sometimes give you an answer that sounds completely confident but is actually wrong.
True
This man created the World Wide Web while working at CERN. What was his name?
Tim Berners-Lee
Your friend says: "I'm connected to Wi-Fi, so I must have Internet." Are they necessarily correct?
No. You can be connected to a Wi-Fi network without that network having Internet access.
In Minecraft, what material do you need to create a Nether portal?
Obsidian
Alexander Graham Bell is commonly credited with inventing what device?
The telephone
A machine-learning model performs amazingly on its training data but struggles badly with new data. What is this called?
Overfitting
Put these in order from oldest → newest:
ENIAC, ARPANET, World Wide Web, First iPhone
ENIAC → ARPANET → World Wide Web → First iPhone
You type a website into your browser and get "404 Not Found." What does the 404 actually mean?
The server couldn't find the requested resource/page.
In The Terminator, what is the name of the AI system that becomes humanity's enemy?
Skynet
Which woman is often credited as the world's first computer programmer after writing an algorithm for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine?
Ada Lovelace
You ask an AI:
Write me a Python program that prints numbers 1 to 10.