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Tech in Jersey
100
This ubiquitous database programming language exists in various flavors and is commonly referred to as SQL or Sequel.
What is Structured Query Language
100
This town in California is where Google's worldwide headquarters, known as the GooglePlex is located.
What is Mountain View, California
100
This British inventor created the first mechanical device viewed as the ancestor of modern computers in 1818.
Who is Charles Babbage
100
This organization, commonly referred to by the acronym, W3C, is charged with developing globally-accepted web standards.
What is the World Wide Web Consortium
100
This facility in Northern NJ is the largest incubator in the state, housing more than 80 startup businesses on average.
What is the NJ EDC (Enterprise Development Center)
200
Based on GitHub repository statistics, this was the most popular programming language for 2016.
What is Javascript
200
While still PhD students at Stanford, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin originally named their company this, because the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site.
What is BackRub
200
While working as a software engineer at the particle physics lab, CERN, this man laid out his vision for what would become the World Wide Web with his seminal paper entitled "Information Management: A Proposal", to which his boss initially rejected with a note on the cover "Vague but exciting".
Who is Tim Berners-Lee
200
This is the year that the first iPod was released by Apple.
What is 2001
200
This Italian inventor built and operated one of the first radio transatlantic radiotelegraph stations in Somerset, NJ in 1913.
Who is Guglielmo Marconi
300
This is the value of the "myVal" variable after the following Javascript code operation: var myVal = 37 % 8;
What is 5
300
In July 2011, the official Google Twitter account sent this following binary code message as it's very first Tweet: I'm 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010
What is Feeling Lucky
300
This serial tech pioneer created Git in 2005 after a proprietary version control system called BitKeeper was abandoned as the host for Linux earlier that year.
Who is Linus Torvalds
300
In the HBO series Silicon Valley, this is the name of the tech investor who's house serves as the home base for startup Pied Piper.
Who is Erlich Bachman
300
According to a 2016 report, this NJ town is the only municipality to rank in the top 20 nationwide for venture capital investment per capita at $172.
What is Trenton
400
This very first internet domain name was registered on March 15th, 1985. (Actually name any one of the first 10 for credit).
1. symbolics.com -15/03/1985 (Symbolics Computer Corporation from Cambridge, MA) 2. bbn.com - 24/04/1985 3. think.com -24/05/1985 4. mcc.com - 11/07/1985 5. dec.com - 30/09/1985 6. northrop.com - 07/11/1985 7. xerox.com -09/01/1986 8. sri.com - 17/01/1986 9. hp.com - 03/03/1986 10. bellcore.com - 05/03/1986 11. ibm.com - 19/03/1986 12. sun.com - 19/03/1986 13. intel.com - 25/03/1986 14. ti.com - 25/03/1986 15. att.com - 25/04/1986 16. gmr.com - 08/05/1986 17. tek.com - 08/05/1986 18. fmc.com - 10/07/1986 19. ub.com - 10/07/1986 20. bell-atl.com - 05/08/1986
400
Google finalized the acquisition of video giant YouTube on October 9th, 2006, less than a year after YouTube's official release date at this unassuming American fast food chain.
What is Denny's
400
This NJ-raised internet personality grew Shopper's Discount Liquors, his Father's Springfield, NJ-based wine retailer from $3 - $60 million in sales by 2005 by renaming it to Wine Library and taking the business online.
Who is Gennady (Gary) Vaynerchuk
400
At $1.15 billion, this movie had the highest worldwide box office sales in 2016.
What is Captain America: Civil War (Rogue One was $1.05 billion and Finding Dory $1.02)
400
This Murray Hill, NJ company was awarded the patent for the first LASER in 1960
What is Bell Labs
500
This 20-something Joyent software developer built the server-side Javascript framework, Node.js in 2009 upon Google's V8 Javascript engine after being inspired by a Flickr progress bar that was only able to gather file upload progress by querying the web server.
Who is Ryan Dahl
500
This image was chosen as the very first Google Doodle in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page as a subtle indicator that they would be out of the office for a week in August.
What is a Burning Man stick figure
500
In March 1999, Elon Musk co-founded this online financial services and e-mail payment company, widely regarded as one of the first online banks. 1 year later the company merged with a company called Confinity, which had developed a money transfer service called PayPal.
What is X.com
500
This is the height (in feet) of the tallest mountain peak in the world (Mount Everest).
What is 29,029
500
As of May 2017, these 6 towns serve as hosts of Tesla vehicle supercharger stations. (Name 2 of the 6)
What are Edison, Hamilton Township, East Brunswick, Cranbury, Paramus, Tinton Falls