1.

The “Big Four” in the tech industry are Google (Alphabet), Apple,
Meta (Facebook), and Amazon. Which corporation known for
computers, software, and Bill Gates, is sometimes added to form the
“Big Five” (or GAMAF)?

Answer: Microsoft

2. What “S” Microsoft laptop is a hybrid tablet/computer, first announced

in 2012? Its name implies that it is the top layer of your computer
needs.

Answer: Microsoft Surface

3. When a password is limited strictly to numeric characters, the secret

is often referred to as a PIN. What does that acronym stand for?

Answer: Personal Identification Number

4. What word is often abbreviated as Fn on a keyboard?

Answer: Function

5. The mobile app development company Niantic struck gold in 2016

with what smash-hit smartphone game that captured tens of millions
of players within days of its release? The game became a global
phenomenon with players largely playing outdoors.

Answer: Pokemon Go

6. In the last year more than 250 billion PDFs were opened using
products from what highly successful creative software company?

Answer: Adobe

7. Supposedly pronounced as "wizziwig," what is the meaning of the

acronym WYSIWYG? The phrase largely means that the printer will
print what you see on your monitor.

Answer: What you see is what you get

8. Voice actor Elwood Edwards recorded the famous “You’ve got mail!”
announcement (as well as “Welcome,” File’s done,” and others) on a
tape deck in his home. You’d know his voice if you had which Internet
service provider in the 1990s?
 Answer: AOL

9. Although the exact origin is unknown, this piece of technology and

calculating tool used beans or stones moved in grooves of sand to
perform calculations. Although computers have mostly replaced it,
this tool is still in use for teaching arithmetic to children in many parts
of the world. What is it?

Answer: Abacus

10. An IT security company co-founded in 1993 by Gil Shwed and

based in Israel is ______ Point Software Technologies. Fill in the one
word blank, also an announcement made in chess when the King is
in initial danger.

Answer: Check Point Software Technologies

11. THINK was the company motto for more than 40 years, for the
company often referred to as "Big Blue." What is this frequently-
acronymed company?

Answer: IBM

12. Typically considered the successor to dial-up internet access in

many American homes, what was the "B" term for wide bandwidth
data transmission which was able to transport multiple signals and
traffic types? This replacement technology allowed for always-on and
faster internet.

Answer: Broadband

13. What delicious computer term did web browser programmer

Lou Montulli coin to refer to information that is sent from the browser
to the web server?

Answer: Cookie

14. Mendicant Bias and Offensive Bias are fictional AIs in what
"holy" video game franchise that shares its name with a Beyonce´
song?

Answer: Halo

15. The first Android-powered device from Samsung Mobile also

became the first in a long-running product line for the company. What
 was the name of this device?

Answer: Samsung Galaxy

16. Since 2013, what technology company focused on payments

has owned the popular smartphone cash transfer app Venmo?

Answer: Paypal

17. What is the typical four-letter word that is occasionally referred

to as "Whole Home" Wi-Fi which leverages a main router and a
series of nodes placed around a home for full coverage? These all
share the same SSID and password.

Answer: Mesh Wi-Fi

18. Now appearing prophetic, what device was announced in 2007

with the following slogan? "This is only the beginning."

Answer: iPhone

19. Founded in 1996 by Nelson Gonzalez and Alex Aguila, a

subsidiary of Dell Computers known for making gaming machines is
______ware. Fill in the one word blank, also a 1979 Ridley Scott film
in which Tom Skerritt has a hard time being a spaceship captain.

Answer: Alienware

20. What “M” computer security company, founded by namesake

John in 1987 before being acquired by Intel in 2011, is well known for
its anti-virus software that is available to individual consumers?

Answer: McAfee

21. Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi were MIT students that
founded a file hosting service in 2007. Fast forward 11 years, and
they were taking this company public with an Initial Public Offering.
What is the name of this "D" company?

Answer: Dropbox

22. Kevin Mitnick, Adrian Lamo, Albert Gonzalez, Anonymous, and

Jeanson James Ancheta are all (in)famous in what specific area of
computers?
 Answer: security

23. A Rochester, New York developed what open-source operating

system written in way more than three lines of code and named for
what short poetry form?

Answer: Haiku

24. A pre-cursor to Wi-Fi was an ethernet connection, and a

precursor to ethernet was the ALOHAnet which used a UHF wireless
packet network to connect parts of what U.S. state?

Answer: Hawaii

25. What five-letter palindrome is both the name of a water

transportation vessel and a transportation-focused website that went
public in 2012? At one point, this company's namesake app was
featured on Travel + Leisure's list of "Best Apps and Websites for
Travelers."

Answer: Kayak

26. Wi-Fi is a family of wireless network protocols modeled after

the IEEE 802 set of LAN protocols. What does the initialism LAN
stand for?

Answer: Local Area Network

27. In 2018, the athletic apparel brand Nike made a somewhat

surprising acquisition of Invertex, a computer vision firm based in Tel
Aviv in what country?

Answer: Israel

28. You probably see it every day, but have you been paying
attention - how many different colors are used in the lettering of
Google's logo?

Answer: Four (Blue, Red, Green, and Yellow)

29. What is the two-word official name of the feature in the Zoom
app in which smaller groups of people meet separately from a main
meeting?
 Answer: Breakout Rooms

30. What term is used for the most basic level or core of an
operating system, responsible for resource allocation, file
management and security? In a different context, this word can also
mean the seed and hard husk of a cereal.

Answer: Kernel

31. Which software with a circus-act-inspired name that starts with

A can you download to view PDFs with the greatest of ease?

Answer: Acrobat Reader

32. Steve Jobs is famously one of the two men who co-founded
Apple in 1976. The other co-founder was also named Steve. What
was this other man's surname?

Answer: Wozniak

33. What is the 6-letter term for a group of computers that is

networked together and used by hackers to steal information?

Answer: Botnet

34. In what early computer game did pioneers often die of

dysentery? The game was later inducted into the World Video Game
Hall of Fame.

Answer: Oregon Trail

35. "Ordinateur" is the word for "computer," and "logiciel" is the

word for "software," in what Romance language?

Answer: French

36. Larry Ellison co-founded a company in 1977 with the rather

boring name of Software Development Laboratories (SDL). In 1983,
the company introduced what word into its official name? This new
word is the name of the company today and also means a person
considered to provide wise counsel or prophetic predictions.

Answer: Oracle
37. What is the somewhat-logical 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? The meme's popularity dates back to 2008.

Answer: Rickrolling

38. The 2.0 version of the Android operating system was

nicknamed "Eclair" and the 2.3 version was nicknamed
"Gingerbread." In between was the five-letter name of a cold dessert
which exploded in popularity in the 2000s with self-serve toppings.
What dessert is this?

Answer: Froyo

39. British-born geophysicist Cecil Green lived in Toronto and San

Francisco growing up, and ultimately earned two college degrees
from M.I.T. However, when he cofounded a company, the firm
included what other state in its name? You might be most familiar
with one of their products from algebra class.

Answer: Texas Instruments

40. Released in 2004 by Blizzard Entertainment and set in the

fictional universe of Azeroth, what is the name of the computer game
that became the world's most popular "MMORPG" (massively
multiplayer online role-playing game) within a few years and
continues to be referenced in popular culture with its three-letter
abbreviation?

Answer: World of Warcraft

41. What “O” word is the name of a gaming PC made by HP? It is

also a word used to describe a moment of prophetic significance,
often foreshadowing good or evil.

Answer: HP Omen

42. Andy Rubin is known as one of the three founders of what

massively popular cell phone operating system?

Answer: Android

43. If computers had been around 100 years ago, who would have
been most likely to install Scrivener on their laptop? A. Al Capone B.
 Charles Lindbergh C. Coco Chanel D. Ernest Hemingway

Answer: Ernest Hemingway

44. When the kids online say "LoL," they're either laughing or
referencing what online battle arena game that's been sponsored by
Mastercard since 2018?

Answer: League of Legends

45. For Cyber Monday in the US in 2019, Google "baked" Pixel 4

phones inside the pizza boxes of what fast food chain as a limited
promotion?

Answer: Dominos

46. What “A” antivirus software is a freeware solution available

across multiple platforms, with an amoeba like orange “A” as a logo?
It is also a pirate word meaning “Stop.”

Answer: Avast

47. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the

majority owner of what manufacturing company which predominantly
sells audio equipment? The company was founded by an associate
professor who later in life donated his shares to the school.

Answer: Bose

48. Doug Engelbart was the inventor of what computer accessory?

The first one was made from wood.

Answer: Mouse

49. A global ransomware attack on Windows computers that

occurred in May 2017 came from a virus with what "tearful" name?

Answer: WannaCry

50. A CUI, or ______ User Interface, is a term for an interface that

allow users to generate multiple lines of text as commands for a
computer program. Fill in the one word blank, also a term for a
person in a work of fiction.
 Answer: Character User Interface

51. More commonly used in a biological sense (particularly in

recent times), its name comes from the Latin word for "poisonous". In
the world of computers, Anna Kournikova, SCA, Ping-pong, and
Gameover ZeuS are all famous examples of what?

Answer: Virus

52. If you were shopping for a personal computer in the early

2000s, you might have been inspired to get a particular brand by that
guy on TV who proclaimed: “Dude, you’re getting a ______!”

Answer: Dell

53. What color do you get if you mix together the two colors that
appear twice in the Google logo?

Answer: Purple

54. Both the tax preparation application TurboTax and the small
business accounting program QuickBooks are products owned and
sold by what publicly-traded company?

Answer: Intuit

55. What technology publication was founded by Louis Rossetto

and has a title one letter away from a synonym for "sleepy?"

Answer: Wired

56. A DNA microarray is also called a DNA ______ (think

computers not a crunchy snack).

Answer: Chip

57. When it debuted in 1999, what sea creature-inspired nickname

did Apple’s colorful iBook G3 laptop get based on its design?

Answer: Clamshell

58. Paul Allen, an American billionaire who passed away in 2018,

was the owner of the Portland Trailblazers (NBA), Seattle Seahawks
(NFL), and a part owner of the Seattle Sounders (MLS). Before
entering the world of sports ownership, Allen was best known for co-
 founding what company?

Answer: Microsoft

59. The tiny town of Green Bank, West Virginia is located within
the National Radio QZ because it is home to the world's largest fully
steerable radio telescope. This means that there are strict Wi-Fi and
cell phone restrictions in the city. What does QZ stand for in this
context?

Answer: Quiet Zone

60. ChipTest, Hydra, Deep Blue, and HiTech are all computers or
computer programs developed to play what?

Answer: Chess

61. What is the seven-letter branded software standard created by

Apple that enables a car radio or touchscreen to be a display and a
controller for an iOS device?

Answer: CarPlay

62. Which computer company based in Tawain is known for its

PCs, including the ZenBook, VivoBook, and Republic of Gamers
laptop?

Answer: Asus

63. What is the name of the evil computer in the film "2001: A
Space Odyssey," who famously said "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I
can't do that?"

Answer: Hal

64. "Love Thru the Computer" is a 2019 song from what American
rapper whose stage name includes an Italian fashion design house?

Answer: Gucci Mane

65. A brand of home desktops and laptops made by HP since 1995

is HP ______. Fill in the one word “P” blank, a word used to describe
a highly decorated projecting subdivision of a building.
 Answer: HP Pavilion

66. Officially known as a "Stop error" or a "Blue Screen error" the

acronym BSOD is commonly used for the error screen in the
Windows operating system that displays upon a fatal system error.
What do the letters BSOD stand for?

Answer: Blue Screen of Death

67. A computer’s PSU—or power ______ unit—is what turns the

AC from a wall plug into the DC needed to run the equipment.

Answer: Supply

68. According to a former Facebook employee, the company used

to have a master password that could unlock any user's account.
This password was a variation on the name of what martial artist and
actor, perhaps because he definitely couldn't be considered "too
weak"?

Answer: Chuck Norris

69. What American tech company had a microprocessor facility in

Costa Rica that at one time was responsible for 20% of Costa Rican
exports and 5% of the country's GDP?

Answer: Intel

70. What is the tasty name of the series of small single-board

computers developed by an eponymous foundation in the UK and
often used for the promotion of teaching computer science concepts
in schools and developing countries?

Answer: Raspberry Pi

71. Introduced in 1985, what line of Commodore personal

computers has a name that means "friend" in English?

Answer: Amiga

72. While working at Motorola in the 1970s, Martin Cooper

invented what is typically considered the first cell phone. Cooper is a
graduate of IIT: an Institute of Technology located in what state?
 Answer: Illinois

73. Although the company maintains and distributes many types of

open source software, it is most well known for its enterprise Linux
and virtualization products. What is this company headquartered in
Raleigh and purchased by IBM in 2019? You might also see their
name written when visiting a haberdasher.

Answer: Red Hat

74. The U.S. National Cyber Security Division opened for the first
time in 2003 and is currently housed within what Federal
Department? John Kelly, Kirstjen Nielsen, and Kevin McAleenan all
served as Secretary of this Department during the Trump
administration.

Answer: Department of Homeland Security

75. The integrated circuit intended to securely store information

and a key on a mobile phone is widely known as a SIM card. Name
ANY of the three words that SIM stands for.

Answer: Subscriber Identity Module

76. Ridley Scott directed the dystopian, Orwell-inspired, hammer-

tossing commercial for what now-behemoth but then-underdog
company during the 1984 Super Bowl?

Answer: Apple

77. What animated 1999 science fiction film blended traditional

animation and computer animation in the directorial debut of Brad
Bird? The film was based on a 1968 Ted Hughes novel and follows a
young boy named Hogarth Hughes during the Cold War as he
befriends a giant robot.

Answer: The Iron Giant

78. From the Greek for "around", what is the term for an auxiliary
device like a keyboard or printer that's attached to a computer?

Answer: peripheral

79. Norton AntiVirus is an anti-malware and anti-virus software

package that has been developed and distributed by what company
 since 1991? This parent company has a portmanteau'd name and
was first publicly traded in 1989.

Answer: Symantec

80. During Apple's 2017 presentation of its new line of iPhones it

included their new form of biometric security and authentication
under what name? Note we are looking for the actual brand name
used by Apple for this feature.

Answer: Face ID

81. Popular as a standalone smartphone app, Candy Crush Saga

initially debuted on what website's games platform?

Answer: Facebook

82. The non-profit Mozilla is likely best-known for its Firefox

browser but also built what aviary email and RSS client that was first
launched in 2004 and is currently supported by a wholly-owned
subsidiary?

Answer: Thunderbird

83. In 2005, Linus Torvalds created software for tracking changes

on files in order to improve development of the Linux kernel. Since
2005, the open-source software has had Junio Hamano as the core
maintainer. What is the three-letter name of this uber-popular
software among developers?

Answer: Git

84. What simulation video game franchise was originally developed

by Will Wright and launched in 1989 for the Macintosh computer?

Answer: SimCity

85. While working at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center during
the 1970s, computer scientist Larry Tesler coined what three
common computer commands first used to edit documents on a word
processor he co-created called Gypsy?

Answer: Cut, copy, paste

86. Typically around 0.1 mm, a mickey is a unit for the smallest
detectable movement of which piece of computer hardware?

Answer: Mouse

87. What “H” cybersecurity company based in Miami, FL offers

cybersecurity services and related training to corporations? It sounds
like a college for people who want to use computers to get access to
unauthorized data.

Answer: HackerU

88. What smartphone app and fintech company was founded by

father and son duo Walter Wemple Cruttenden III and Jeffrey James
Cruttenden to promote incremental and passive investing in 2014?
The company's app features a light green color scheme and shares
its name with a seed enclosed in a tough, leathery shell. The portfolio
options the company offers were designed in part by Nobel laureate
Harry Markowitz.

Answer: Acorns

89. With an initial release in 2003, what is the free open-source

content management system written in PHP and paired with a
MySQL (or MariaDB) database that features numerous plugins and
templates known as "Themes" and is currently used by 39% of the 10
million most-popular websites in the world?

Answer: WordPress

90. What technology company was founded in 1993 with the vision
that the next wave of computing would be graphics-based? The
company took its name from the Latin word for "envy" and features
product families GeForce, Quadro, and Tegra.

Answer: Nvidia

91. Mostly famous for its "Notebook" product, what is the name of
the open source community and project taking its name as a
combination (in some order) of three core programming languages:
R, Julia, and Python?

Answer: Jupyter
92. Mike, a sentient computer, is instrumental to the revolt of a
lunar colony against absentee rule from Earth in what 1966 sci-fi
novel by Robert A. Heinlein?

Answer: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

93. What “A” Chinese consumer electronics company, founded in

1993 in Bejing, sells MIDs, digital media players, and a variety of
other computer peripherals?

Answer: Aigo

94. Microsoft Disk was one of the original widely used operating
systems all the way from the 1980s, but it has been fully unsupported
since 2006. What hyphenated nickname is this classic system more
commonly known by?

Answer: MS-DOS

95. Which unit is used to measure a FPU’s processing power?

(Hint: One of them equals 1 billion floating point operations per
second)

Answer: Gigaflop

96. What three-letter acronym is used for the industry standard,

first released in 1996, used to connect computers with peripheral
devices?

Answer: USB

97. Hiro Protagonist is a hacker fighting the insidious influence of a

virus that affects both computers and human beings in what 1992 sci-
fi novel by Neal Stephenson?

Answer: Snow Crash

98. A supercomputer’s processing power is measured in FLOPS,

which makes it sound like they’re doomed to fail. Not so! FLOPS is
actually an acronym for _______-point operations per second.

Answer: Floating

99. Which M-word is short for “modulator-demodulator” and is the

part of the computer that takes digital data and puts it into analog
 form? (Hint: Remember the “dial-up” sound of the one you had in the
‘90s?)

Answer: Modem

100. In 2008, Texas Instruments introduced a single-board

computer designed for hobbyists and as an educational tool for the
development of open source software. The board is known as a
______ Board, with what canine word filling in the blank? (If you
"snoop" on their website, you'll see many different models are
currently available.)

Answer: Beagle

101. In the mid-2000s, Beijing-based Lenovo started making

ThinkPads after acquiring the PC-side of which American tech giant?

Answer: IBM

102. While it’s best known for its mobile phones of the ‘90s and
early 2000s, which Finnish company also makes the PureBook
laptop?

Answer: Nokia

103. Which sturdy, more affordable, all-in-one Apple computer

designed just for schools was launched in 2002?

Answer: eMac

104. When search the web, the HTTP error code 404 is commonly
associated with the phrase “File not found”. What two word phrase is
associated with the code 502?

Answer: Bad Gateway

105. In January 2023, Chess.com released a series of chess bots

for users to play against. These bots were given cat avatar and cat
names. What is the name of the strongest of these bots (although it is
listen in an ELO of 1)? Some other cats lost these in a popular
nursery rhyme.

Answer: Mittens
106. Titan Rain was a series of attacks on U.S. computers that
started in 2003. The hackers gained access to defense networks at
places like Lockheed Martin and NASA. Which country did the
attacks originate from?

Answer: China

107. Google Buzz, Google Friend Connect, and Orkut were all
Google products that were retired attempts at a social media
platform. The fourth attempt was named what?

Answer: Google+

108. The University of Cambridge offered the first degree in

computer science but what Midwestern university had the country’s
first computer science department? The school is located in West
Lafayette, Indiana.

Answer: Purdue University

109. The Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the world’s first electronic

digital computer, was built during the 1930s in what U.S. state
nicknamed the “Hawkeye State”?

Answer: Iowa

110. With revenue over $700 million in 2018 and more than 20
years in the education technology market, what is the name of the
privately-held DC-based company which claims more than 17,000
schools and organizations in 100 countries as customers? The
company's name is likely to remind you of something you'd find in a
school.

Answer: Blackboard Inc

111. Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC) was among the

earliest general-purpose computers; however, the Lyons ______
Office (LEO) was actually the first commercial computer in the world.

Answer: Electronic

112. You know those annoying "prove you're not a robot" tests that
you have to take on websites sometimes? They're known as
CAPTCHAs. And CAPTCHA is actually an acronym standing for
"Completely Automated Public ______ test to tell Computers and
 Humans Apart." What surname fills in the blank?

Answer: Turing

113. What company providing hosting for software development and

distributed version control familiar to computer programmers is
known for its iconic Octocat (part cat, part octopus) logo?

Answer: Github

114. Featuring singles like "Paranoid Android" and "Karma Police,"

"OK Computer" was a classic 1997 album from what British rock
band?

Answer: Radiohead

115. Before it found its stride with cellphones and plans for
“mobilizing your world,” which telecommunications company
(formerly known as Cingular) tried to sell PCs and personal tablets
(like the $3,000 “EO Personal Communicator” in 1993)?

Answer: AT&T

116. A November 1998 article titled "New CYBERSCAPE: Digital

Assistants Get Sophisticated" was the first article in the New York
Times's archive to use what now-ubiquitous word which, despite its
name, does not necessarily refer to the IQ of a pocket computer?

Answer: Smartphone

117. Before the Wi-Fi branding originated, a university in Pittsburgh

build the first campus-wide wireless Internet network and named it
Wireless Andrew. What was this school?

Answer: Carnegie Mellon

118. A computer’s SoC is an integrated circuit that handles

everything from the CPU to the graphics—for example, Apple’s M1.
What is SoC an acronym for?

Answer: System on a chip

119. As its name implies, a computer’s arithmetic ______ unit (ALU)

is part of the CPU and performs various math functions—sort of like
the CPU’s calculator.
 Answer: Logic

120. What is the common alphanumeric abbreviation for the

"predictive text technology" developed by Tegic Communications and
used on mobile phones prior to the widespread adoption of
touchscreen keyboards?

Answer: T9

121. Unicode, the standard for character encoding used to represent

multilingual text as binary, is the successor of what US encoding
standard?

Answer: ASCII

122. Amazon has the "Echo" line of products. Google has "Home."
Sharing a name with a video game about a murderous computer,
what is Facebook's similar hardware line that includes a tablet screen
meant for video calls?

Answer: Portal

123. Steve Jobs was famous for his black turtleneck, blue jeans,
and what brand of sneakers?

Answer: New Balance

124. The website Ranker named GLaDOS, a fictional artificially

intelligent computer system, the greatest video game villain of all
time. GLaDOS was introduced in what groundbreaking computer
game?

Answer: Portal

125. Name one of the three words represented by the acronym

URL.

Answer: Uniform Resource Locator

126. AMD is an American semiconductor company based in Santa

Clara that has been an industry-leader for developing computer
processors. The company is a primary competitor to both Intel and
Nvidia. What does AMD stand for?
 Answer: Advanced Micro Devices

127. Named in Forbes magazine's Top 10 Most Powerful Women

every year since 2010, which Dallas-born former computer scientist
only received about 2% of her former husband's roughly $100 billion
wealth when they divorced in 2021?

Answer: Melinda French Gates

128. What cult British TV series focused on three members of the IT

department at the fictional Reynholm Industries?

Answer: The IT Crowd

129. In a 1997 chess match, Garry Kasparov lost against what

colorfully named IBM computer?

Answer: Deep Blue

130. Which “sharp” American-Singaporean tech company makes

PCs, laptops, monitors, accessories, and lifestyle must-haves like
chairs and streaming set-ups for serious gamers?

Answer: Razer

131. What technology company was founded in 1982, had a

portmanteau name, was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2002, and
briefly featured Apple CEO Tim Cook as a Vice President?

Answer: Compaq

132. What “D” term refers to a group of computers, printers and

devices that are interconnected and governed as a whole? The word
can also be used to describe a specified area of knowledge.

Answer: Domain

133. A full-time Apple employee from 1992 to 2019, what man

became Apple's first Chief Design Officer in 2015?

Answer: Jony Ive

134. What term is used in place of the traditional "manufacturing"

when referring to the production of steel or semiconductors?
 Answer: Fabrication

135. Called a "giant brain" by the media, ENIAC was a pioneering

computer that debuted in 1946 after being built in secret at what
southernmost Ivy League university?

Answer: University of Pennsylvania

136. "Computer Blue" is a song by Prince and the Revolution from

what 1984 album that is also the title of the movie Prince starred in
the same year?

Answer: Purple Rain

137. "Computer Age" is a 1982 song by what artist who famously

removed his song catalog from Spotify in February 2022?

Answer: Neil Young

138. According to Fast Metrics, the fastest internet in the world was
considered to be in the country where the highest % of Wi-Fi
connections had a speed of at least 4 Mbps. The leading country met
this qualification with more than 95% of its internet connections as of
2015. What is this eastern hemisphere nation?

Answer: South Korea

139. IEEE 802.3 is a collection of standards produced to define the

physical layer and data link of wired Ethernet. The standards are
named for the group which drafted them, IEEE. What does this
acronym stand for?

Answer: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

140. In 2009, the United States White House switched its website's
CMS from a proprietary system to what popular "D" open-source
CMS system that was initially released in 2001?

Answer: Drupal

141. In what year did the first AWS (Amazon Web Services) service
launch to the public? We'll give you credit if your response is within
two years of the correct answer.
 Answer: 2004 (2002 - 2006 accepted)

142. What is the name of the online service and iOS app used for
over-the-air installation and testing of mobile applications on Apple
devices? This program is owned by Apple and is frequently used for
downloading and testing alpha and beta versions of apps.

Answer: TestFlight

143. The cybersecurity startup Island received $11 million in funding

from what Bosack and Lerner-founded San Jose tech giant that
pioneered the LAN?

Answer: Cisco Systems

144. Found on a shipwreck off Greece by archeologists in 1902, the

Antikythera mechanism (an ancient model of the Solar System) is
considered the oldest example of which type of computer?

Answer: Analog

145. What British woman is considered to have written the first ever
piece of computer software, developing an algorithm for Charles
Babbage’s theoretical Analytical Engine in the 1840s? She was the
only child of George Gordon, Lord Byron, she is best known with an
“L” last name.

Answer: Ada Lovelace

146. According to an analysis by the UK's National Cyber Security

Centre that investigated passwords belonging to hacked accounts
worldwide, what is the most common six-letter "word" that is used for
passwords that don't require numbers or punctuation?

Answer: Qwerty

147. "Computer World" and "Computer Love" are 1981 songs by

what German band whose name translates to "power station" in
English?

Answer: Kraftwerk

148. Equifax infamously announced a cyber-security breach in

which over 140 million consumers' personal data including names,
Social Security numbers, and driver license numbers were stolen. In
 what year did this hack (and disclosure of the hack) occur?

Answer: 2017

149. In what year did Apple standardize their chargers with the
introduction of the Lightening cable?

Answer: 2012

150. Nuts to von Neumann: computer architecture featuring

separate storage and signal pathways for instructions and data is
named for what Ivy League school?

Answer: Harvard

151. The Computer Museum was a museum that opened in 1979

and operated in three different locations until 1999. It closed in 2000
and sent much of its collection across the country to the Computer
History Museum in California. In what city would you have found the
Computer Museum while it was open?

Answer: Boston

152. Headquartered (somewhat ironically?) in Santa Clara,

California, what is the name of the American cybersecurity company
that serves 85 of the Fortune 100 and is the home to both the Unit 42
threat research team and the Ignite cybersecurity conference?

Answer: Palo Alto Networks

153. The Alto computer released in 1973 was the first to feature a
GUI (graphical user interface). Although Apple's far more successful
Macintosh system brought the GUI to wider acclaim, what was the
company that released the Alto?

Answer: Xerox

154. When the full extent of the 2020 SolarWinds-focused

cyberattack on the U.S. federal government was starting to be
understood, Microsoft's president described the attack as "largest
and most sophisticated the world has ever seen." The malware
responsible for the attack was named for what astronomical-sounding
explosion?
 Answer: Sunburst

155. The radix is the number of unique digits, including zero, used to
represent numbers in a "positional numeral system." By what term is
this concept more often referred? This other, more common term is
also an acronym for a risky type of athletic feat and functions as a
Microsoft Excel formula.

Answer: Base

156. "The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed

Human Intelligence" is a thought-provoking nonfiction book published
in 1999 and written by what American computer scientist?

Answer: Ray Kurzweil

157. Written in Python and used as an open-source workflow

management platform, what is the name of the "ventilated" Apache-
managed project started at Airbnb in 2014 and designed under the
"configuration as code" principle?

Answer: Airflow

158. What “C” cybersecurity, founded in Sunnyvale, CA in 2011, has

a two word name that implies it can attack problems quickly across a
variety of software? Its logo is a red hawk swooping in.

Answer: Crowdstrike

159. The MateBook line of laptops is manufactured by which

Chinese tech giant?

Answer: Huawei

160. Famously advertised in 1984 during Super Bowl XVIII by a

sledgehammer-throwing English athlete named Anya Major, what PC
with a 7.8 MHz processor and 9’’ display succeeded a model known
as the “Lisa?” (Full name required)

Answer: Macintosh

161. What English man was a mathematician, philosopher, inventor

and mechanical engineer, and is largely considered the originator of
the concept of a digital programmable computer? Hint: his name
rhymes with a common vegetable
 Answer: Charles Babbage

162. APKs are downloadable files that store applications for which
operating system?

Answer: Android

163. Decades after it become known for its Magic Wand, which
Japanese manufacturer created the first 1 TB hard disk in 2007?
(Hint: The name combines the kanji characters “sun + rise”)

Answer: Hitachi

164. The first mass consumer product that offered Wi-Fi connectivity
was branded as AirPort because the product was produced by Apple.
What was this series of laptops that was first released in 1999?

Answer: iBook

165. “Big iron” is a nickname for which type of computer that is

mostly used to quickly process a lot of data—for example, companies
that have to process a lot of customer transactions?

Answer: Mainframe

166. What university initially maintained the text file named

HOSTS.TXT that mapped host names to the numerical addresses of
computers on the ARPANET?

Answer: Stanford

167. You know the CAPTCHA drill: click the button on the website to
prove you’re not a robot. If you’re a real internet privacy geek, you
know that CAPTCHA is an acronym for what?

Answer: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers

and Humans Apart