Technology and Industry
This software company makes Excel.
What is Microsoft?
This is a base-2 number system invented by Gottfried Leibniz that's made up of only two numbers or digits: 0 or 1.
What is binary?
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Solar power generates electricity from this source.
What is the sun?
The world's first one of these weighed an impressive 50,000 kg and was invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania.
What is a Computer?
The ENIAC began construction in 1943 and was not completed until 1946. It occupied about 1,800 square feet and used about 18,000 vacuum tubes, weighing almost 50 tons.
This is the name of Elon Musk’s aerospace company.
What is SpaceX?
This woman is considered by many to be the world's first computer programmer.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
She worked extensively with Charles Babbage and his analytical engine. She published works which provided a foundation for computer programming.
This word comes from two potential Latin words: one word is ingeniare ("to create, generate, contrive, devise") and the other is ingenium ("cleverness").
What is engineer?
When something is stored here, it means it's stored on Internet servers instead of your computer's hard drive.
What is the Cloud?
This company launched its most popular product in 2007 after many years of secrets and speculation. It dominates the smartphone industry.
What is Apple?
They launched the iPhone in 2007 and have sold over 2.2 billion iPhones worldwide.
This is a formatting system for displaying material retrieved over the Internet and that many coders use to create and display web pages.
What is Hypertext markup language or HTML?
This unit of length is equal to around 5.8 trillion miles.
What is a light year?
This is the study of secure communication techniques that allow only the sender and intended recipient of a message to view its contents.
What is cryptology?
(Will also accept cryptography)
Microsoft founder Bill Gates dropped out of this prestigious university.
What is Harvard?
Created in 1990, this is the name of the first internet search engine.
What is Archie?
The Mars rover Perseverance uses this as its source of electric power.
What is nuclear?
The "Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator" converts heat generated from the radioactive decay of plutonium into electricity. Previous Mars rovers have used solar panels but these are susceptible to dust storms that cover up the panels and block sunlight.
The laser was invented in this state in 1960.
What is California?
Theodore Maiman made the first laser operate on May 16, 1960 at the Hughes Research Laboratory in California, by shining a high-power flash lamp on a ruby rod with silver-coated surfaces
This company has employed the largest number of language translators.
What is Google?
This type of memory stores data only for the time your computer is turned on, but loses the data at a power break.
What is RAM or Random Access Memory?
RAM is used as a temporary data storage, but the contents will be lost as soon as you turn off your computer.
Often forgotten, these were the first living things sent into space.
What are fruit flies?
Fruit flies were sent into space on February 20, 1947. The dog and the monkey came later!
This British mathematician and inventor, known as the 'Father of the Computer', designed a mechanical computer called the Analytical Engine which was an early forerunner of the computer we know today.
Who is Charles Babbage?
Charles Babbage (1791-1871) unfortunately, due to funding and other problems, was never able to see the first computers built from his designs, but his early pioneering work in the field led to him being known as the 'Father of the Computer'.