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10 How much power can a PCIe x16 graphics card draw from the motherboard alone?
30 Only one of these tech "sports" is real. Can you guess which?
80 Before developing Steam, Valve reached out to many companies to help them, with no success. Which of these was not among those approached?
70 The PlayStation 2 borrowed its iconic look from which unreleased console?
30 The PlayStation 5 is powered by a GPU roughly equal to which PC graphics card?
70 If one PC creates a noise level of 20dB and another makes 40dB of noise, roughly how much louder is the second computer?
30 Which one of these features was available on the 1982 Epson HX-20 notebook computer?
70 Which mobile app was the first to hit 1 billion active users?
80 How much did the first CD recorder cost?
80 Who coined the term "nanotechnology" and in what year?
50 If your PC has two SATA drives installed and running, which one is the master?
50 Which version of Windows introduced ReFS, the next-gen file system meant to succeed NTFS?
50 When Gmail beta debuted in 2004, how much free storage did it offer?
90 What was the first computer program to have AI (and on what hardware did it run)?
50 Intel's origin story: Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce left which company to found Intel?
30 Guess who said this in 2004: "Two years from now, (email) spam will be solved"
70 Which CPU socket supported both Intel and AMD processors?
50 What was the first game controller to add vibration feedback?
70 In tech culture, the term "vaporware" was first used in reference to which product?
30 Which is the best-selling desktop computer of all time?
10 What was Comdex before it was shut down in the early 2000s?
10 Wi-Fi 7 is expected to bring all of these improvements over Wi-Fi 6, except...
70 Wi-Fi 802.11ac also known as Wi-Fi 5 brought all these improvements, except...
90 Which is the most efficient keyboard layout?
50 There were 1,000 Internet devices in 1984, 1 million in 1992, by 2025 that figure reached...
30 The first 5MB hard drive weighed approximately...
80 Who was the tech CEO that back in 1999 said, "You have zero privacy anyway..."
30 What happens if a CD spins too fast?
70 Before emerging as the iconic Grand Theft Auto, what was the original GTA going to be called?
50 What was the first all-transistor television ever released?
50 You've probably seen a 3.5-inch floppy disk, but what were the dimensions of the technology's first iteration?
90 How many websites are on the Internet (as of January 2025)?
80 During its earliest days in development, Windows 1.0 was known by what name?
30 What's the keyboard shortcut to directly open the Windows Task Manager?
80 Before Apple, iPod creator Tony Fadell had his MP3 player idea rejected by which two companies?
90 Which search engine almost bought Google in the 1990s?
50 In the 1930s, which country built an analog computer that ran on water?
70 What was the first computer virus?
80 The ghosts in the original Pac-Man had unique AI traits, which was the least predictable?
50 When was the first SMS text message sent?
10 Which of the following chipmakers never made x86 CPUs?
90 What was the first MMORPG to be based on graphics instead of text?
80 It was 1995, 15-inch 800x600 monitors were the norm, what kind of monitor did John Carmack use to code Quake?
80 Which of these materials is the best conductor of heat?
50 What was the first FIFA World Cup to be fully filmed in 4K?
10 A "platform upgrade" involves swapping which core PC components?
50 The first ever "rickroll" occurred on 4chan, disguised as a trailer for which popular video game?
80 How many feet/meters of tape are found in a 60-minute audio cassette tape?
80 What's the biggest tech acquisition in history?
90 Which of these PC games was the first to ship with baked-in DRM?

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Latest Trivia

10 How much power can a PCIe x16 graphics card draw from the motherboard alone?

30 Only one of these tech "sports" is real. Can you guess which?

80 Before developing Steam, Valve reached out to many companies to help them, with no success. Which of these was not among those approached?

70 The PlayStation 2 borrowed its iconic look from which unreleased console?

30 The PlayStation 5 is powered by a GPU roughly equal to which PC graphics card?

70 If one PC creates a noise level of 20dB and another makes 40dB of noise, roughly how much louder is the second computer?

30 Which one of these features was available on the 1982 Epson HX-20 notebook computer?

70 Which mobile app was the first to hit 1 billion active users?

80 How much did the first CD recorder cost?

80 Who coined the term "nanotechnology" and in what year?

50 If your PC has two SATA drives installed and running, which one is the master?

50 Which version of Windows introduced ReFS, the next-gen file system meant to succeed NTFS?

50 When Gmail beta debuted in 2004, how much free storage did it offer?

90 What was the first computer program to have AI (and on what hardware did it run)?

50 Intel's origin story: Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce left which company to found Intel?

30 Guess who said this in 2004: "Two years from now, (email) spam will be solved"

70 Which CPU socket supported both Intel and AMD processors?

50 What was the first game controller to add vibration feedback?

70 In tech culture, the term "vaporware" was first used in reference to which product?

30 Which is the best-selling desktop computer of all time?

10 What was Comdex before it was shut down in the early 2000s?

10 Wi-Fi 7 is expected to bring all of these improvements over Wi-Fi 6, except...

70 Wi-Fi 802.11ac also known as Wi-Fi 5 brought all these improvements, except...

90 Which is the most efficient keyboard layout?

50 There were 1,000 Internet devices in 1984, 1 million in 1992, by 2025 that figure reached...

30 The first 5MB hard drive weighed approximately...

80 Who was the tech CEO that back in 1999 said, "You have zero privacy anyway..."

30 What happens if a CD spins too fast?

70 Before emerging as the iconic Grand Theft Auto, what was the original GTA going to be called?

50 What was the first all-transistor television ever released?

50 You've probably seen a 3.5-inch floppy disk, but what were the dimensions of the technology's first iteration?

90 How many websites are on the Internet (as of January 2025)?

80 During its earliest days in development, Windows 1.0 was known by what name?

30 What's the keyboard shortcut to directly open the Windows Task Manager?

80 Before Apple, iPod creator Tony Fadell had his MP3 player idea rejected by which two companies?

90 Which search engine almost bought Google in the 1990s?

50 In the 1930s, which country built an analog computer that ran on water?

70 What was the first computer virus?

80 The ghosts in the original Pac-Man had unique AI traits, which was the least predictable?

50 When was the first SMS text message sent?

10 Which of the following chipmakers never made x86 CPUs?

90 What was the first MMORPG to be based on graphics instead of text?

80 It was 1995, 15-inch 800x600 monitors were the norm, what kind of monitor did John Carmack use to code Quake?

80 Which of these materials is the best conductor of heat?

50 What was the first FIFA World Cup to be fully filmed in 4K?

10 A "platform upgrade" involves swapping which core PC components?

50 The first ever "rickroll" occurred on 4chan, disguised as a trailer for which popular video game?

80 How many feet/meters of tape are found in a 60-minute audio cassette tape?

80 What's the biggest tech acquisition in history?

90 Which of these PC games was the first to ship with baked-in DRM?