Tech Terms
What does MVP stand for in startup terminology?
Minimum Viable Product
This organelle is known as the "powerhouse of the cell."
Mitochondria
Which ride-hailing company was founded in 2009 and transformed transportation?
Uber
What was the first feature-length animated film ever released?
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
This app was all about 6-second looping videos until Twitter shut it down in 2017.
Vine
Which programming language was originally created by Brendan Eich in just 10 days?
JavaScript
With atomic number 79, this element's symbol, Au, comes from the Latin word aurum.
Gold
Which company started after its founders rented out air mattresses in their San Francisco apartment?
Airbnb
What fictional city is Batman's home?
Gotham City
Shigetaka Kurita designed the first set of 176 of these in 1999 for a Japanese mobile carrier.
Emoji
What is the term for a startup valued at over $1 billion?
Unicorn
This unit of force is equal to one kilogram-metre per second squared.
Newton
Which social media company popularized disappearing photo and video messages?
Snapchat
What is the highest-grossing film of all time (worldwide box office)?
Avatar (2009)
Josh Wardle created this daily five-letter word game for his partner, then sold it to The New York Times in 2022.
Wordle
What is the name of the startup accelerator that backed Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit?
Y Combinator
It is the only moon in the solar system with a thick atmosphere, made mostly of nitrogen.
Titan
Which cloud-storage company was inspired by its founder repeatedly forgetting his USB drive?
Dropbox
In Black Panther (2018), what is the name of the fictional African nation?
Wakanda
Released in 2018 but massive in 2020, this game had everyone accusing their friends of being "sus."
Among us
What startup fundraising term describes a financing round where investors purchase shares at a lower valuation than the previous round?
Down Round
In 1952, this scientist's "Photo 51," an X-ray diffraction image, provided key evidence for the double-helix structure of DNA.
Rosalind Franklin
Which messaging app was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for a deal valued at approximately $19 billion?
Who directed the hit 2017 movie Get Out?
Jordan Peele
In 2007, Chris Messina suggested using the pound sign to group posts on Twitter, creating this.
Hashtag