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100

This company was founded in a garage in 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

What is Apple?

100

This person invented the lightbulb

Who was Thomas Edison?

100

This 2013 video-sharing app by Twitter, which allowed users to post six-second looping videos, shut down in 2016 despite its initial popularity

What is Vine?

100

This email service, launched by Google in 2004, revolutionized online communication with its massive free storage and intuitive search features

What is Gmail?

100

This ride-sharing app, co-founded by Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick, began in 2009 and changed how people hailed taxis and rides

What is Uber?

200

This man founded one of the world's largest companies, which started out as an online bookstore

Who is Jeff Bezos?

200

This popular breakfast cereal was invented in 1894 by accident when two brothers, John Harvey and Will Kellogg, left cooked wheat out overnight, which became stale but still usable

What are Corn Flakes?

200

This hugely popular early-2000s social media platform was overtaken by Facebook and eventually filed for bankruptcy in 2009

What is MySpace?

200

In 1990, this technology company introduced Photoshop, a tool that transformed the field of digital image editing

What is Adobe?

200

This photo-sharing app was created by two Stanford graduates in 2010 and was later acquired by Facebook for $1 billion

What is Instagram?

300

In 2002, online payments company PayPal was acquired by this e-commerce giant in a stock-for-stock transaction

What is Ebay?

300

In 1965, chemist Stephanie Kwolek invented this polymer that is now used in aerospace technology, and bulletproof vests

What is Kevlar?

300

This early video rental company, despite having the opportunity to buy Netflix, ultimately went bankrupt in 2010

What is Blockbuster?

300

This 1957 invention by Gordon Gould revolutionized various fields, from telecommunications to medicine, by producing a highly concentrated light beam

What is the laser?

300

Founded by a group of Harvard students in 2011, this social media platform is designed for hosting and sharing knowledge in the form of questions and answers

What is Quora?

400

This Japanese company, founded in 1946, initially produced rice cookers before evolving into one of the world's largest electronics manufacturers known for its PlayStation gaming consoles

What is Sony?

400

This game, originally invented by Charles Darrow during the Great Depression, went on to become one of the best-selling board games in history

What is Monopoly?

400

This digital camera brand, once a household name, went bankrupt in 2012 after failing to adapt to the rise of digital photography and smartphone cameras

What is Kodak?

400

This famous 1990 study began mapping the entire human DNA sequence and was completed in 2003

What is the Human Genome Project?

400

This online dating platform was founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd, a former University of Southern Methodist student, after she left Tinder and decided to create a women-first dating app

What is Bumble?

500

This 3D graphics company is known for inventing the first graphics processing unit

What is NVIDIA?

500

The modern-day version of this toy was created in 1949 by Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen and his son

What are Lego Bricks?

500

Microsoft introduced this portable media player in 2006 to compete with the iPod, but it was discontinued in 2011

What is the Zune?

500

The Wright brothers achieved the first successful powered flight in this decade

What is 1900-1910?

500

Created by a University of Texas student in 1999, this file-sharing service became infamous for revolutionizing the way people accessed music online before being shut down in 2001 by big record labels

What is Napster?