timeless
programming and games
discoveries and innovations
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100

a device invented by Galileo Galilei, used in astronomy

telescope

100

game, developed by Mojang, which is an open sandbox in which players often build structures and battle creepers, zombies, and other "mobs"

minecraft

100

the discovery of America is credited to

Christopher Columbus

100

tech company that is known for making "unbreakable" phones

Nokia

200

the inventor of the light bulb

Thomas Edison

200

the programming language named after the type of coffee from Indonesia

Java

200

Marie Curie discovered

radioactivity

200

the first decentralized cryptocurrency

bitcoin

300

scientist who is associated with the theory of relativity

Einstein 

300

delicious computer term did web browser programmer Lou Montulli chose to refer to information that is sent from the browser to the web server

cookie

300

something that was invented in China for entertainment and later used to make weapons

gunpowder

300

first commercially successful video game called Pong was launched in:

1965 / 1972 / 1979

1972

400

country origin of the Rubik's cube 

Hungary 

400

VPN stands for

Virtual Private Network

400

our ancestors made tools from stone, then from bronze. what material was used next?

iron

400

PIN as a password stands for

Personal Identification Number

500

famous inventor who was considered to be far ahead of his time. many of these inventions did not become known until centuries later.

Leonardo da Vinci

500

the European internet company Skype was purchased by eBay in 2005 for $2.5 billion, but only six years later the video chat company was purchased by another tech firm for a new purchase price of $8.5 billion. what was the firm?

microsoft

500

around 1780 James Watt made a breakthrough which made it possible to make all kinds of machines. what had he improved upon?

the steam engine

500

term for the internet prank and meme in which an unexpected appearance of the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up" is "planted" into an unrelated link

rickrolling