TechSpot Trivia
A quiz game that combines computing history, curious tech facts, web culture, and enthusiast-level PC knowledge
- Possibly the world's most hated font, Comic Sans was first used in which Microsoft product?
- What's the biggest tech acquisition in history?
- What kind of company was Nokia when it was founded by Finnish engineer Fredrik Idestam in 1865?
- Before being known as Adobe Photoshop, an early version of the software was called...
- Whitehouse.com once brought visitors to a site that hosted...
- Which of the following chipmakers never made x86 CPUs?
Latest Trivia
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70 Which two tech IPOs warned investors they might "never achieve profitability," but became wildly successful?
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70 What was the first wristwatch that could make phone calls?
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90 What's the most expensive domain in internet history?
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30 If you're buying a new SSD, which is the fastest, most durable type of NAND flash memory?
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70 What was the population of the Death Star?
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30 The first mobile phone, the Motorola DynaTAC debuted in 1983. What was its price?
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50 Which operating system was targeted by the first ever mobile phone virus?
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10 Before becoming the iconic star of Super Mario Bros., what was Mario originally named?
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90 Which video game shipped the first day-one patch in history?
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10 What was the storage size of the first USB flash drive?
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10 How much power can a PCIe x16 graphics card draw from the motherboard alone?
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30 Only one of these tech "sports" is real. Can you guess which?
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80 Before developing Steam, Valve reached out to many companies to help them, with no success. Which of these was not among those approached?
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70 The PlayStation 2 borrowed its iconic look from which unreleased console?
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30 The PlayStation 5 is powered by a GPU roughly equal to which PC graphics card?
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50 If one PC creates a noise level of 20dB and another makes 40dB of noise, roughly how much louder is the second computer?
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30 Which one of these features was available on the 1982 Epson HX-20 notebook computer?
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70 Which mobile app was the first to hit 1 billion active users?
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80 How much did the first CD recorder cost?
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80 Who coined the term "nanotechnology" and in what year?
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50 If your PC has two SATA drives installed and running, which one is the master?
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50 Which version of Windows introduced ReFS, the next-gen file system meant to succeed NTFS?
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50 When Gmail beta debuted in 2004, how much free storage did it offer?
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90 What was the first computer program to have AI (and on what hardware did it run)?
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50 Intel's origin story: Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce left which company to found Intel?
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30 Guess who said this in 2004: "Two years from now, (email) spam will be solved"
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70 Which CPU socket supported both Intel and AMD processors?
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50 What was the first game controller to add vibration feedback?
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70 In tech culture, the term "vaporware" was first used in reference to which product?
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30 Which is the best-selling desktop computer of all time?
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10 What was Comdex before it was shut down in the early 2000s?
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10 Wi-Fi 7 is expected to bring all of these improvements over Wi-Fi 6, except...
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70 Wi-Fi 802.11ac also known as Wi-Fi 5 brought all these improvements, except...
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90 Which is the most efficient keyboard layout?
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30 There were 1,000 Internet devices in 1984, 1 million in 1992, by 2025 that figure reached...
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30 The first 5MB hard drive weighed approximately...
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70 Who was the tech CEO that back in 1999 said, "You have zero privacy anyway..."
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10 What happens if a CD spins too fast?
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70 Before emerging as the iconic Grand Theft Auto, what was the original GTA going to be called?
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50 What was the first all-transistor television ever released?
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50 You've probably seen a 3.5-inch floppy disk, but what were the dimensions of the technology's first iteration?
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90 How many websites are on the Internet (as of January 2025)?
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80 During its earliest days in development, Windows 1.0 was known by what name?
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30 What's the keyboard shortcut to directly open the Windows Task Manager?
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80 Before Apple, iPod creator Tony Fadell had his MP3 player idea rejected by which two companies?
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90 Which search engine almost bought Google in the 1990s?
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50 In the 1930s, which country built an analog computer that ran on water?
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70 What was the first computer virus?
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70 The ghosts in the original Pac-Man had unique AI traits, which was the least predictable?
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50 When was the first SMS text message sent?
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