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30 Which video game franchise has collectively sold the most copies?
30 What was the first Android mobile phone?
10 To fund the creation of Apple's first computer, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs sold their...
80 Which country has the highest percentage of their population online?
50 What was the first commercially available wristwatch with the ability to make phone calls?
10 How much storage did the first commercially available USB flash drive provide?
80 Before approaching Apple, iPod creator Tony Fadell had his idea rejected by these two companies...
50 All of these tech company founders/CEOs stepped away for a stint before later returning to the helm, except...
90 What was the first web browser available for Microsoft's Windows OS?
80 Did you know that before developing Steam, Valve approached many companies to help them build it with no success. Which of these was not among those approached?
10 The first webcam ever was deployed at Cambridge University, it was designed to monitor...?
10 What was Comdex before it was shut down in the early 2000s?
50 The first iPod had an Easter Egg accessed by holding down the center button for a few seconds on the "About" menu. What was it?
50 Developed as a replacement for NTFS, Microsoft's new file system ReFS was introduced with what version of Windows?
10 Before becoming widely recognized the main character of Super Mario Bros., what was Mario named?
10 When Verizon bought AOL in 2015, how many people were still paying for AOL dial-up Internet?
90 Set to be the Pentium 4 Prescott's successor, code-named Tejas and Jayhawk microprocessors were expected to ship with frequencies at or above...
80 "Polygon Man" was briefly the mascot for which game console?
90 What was the first computer virus released in the wild?
30 Which of these keyboard shortcuts directly opens the Windows Task Manager?
10 The first computer mouse: how many buttons did it have, what material was it made of?
80 What does "Yahoo" mean?
10 Which company invented the hard disk drive?
30 These famous tech personalities are all college dropouts, except...
90 What was the first MMORPG to be based on graphics instead of text?
30 Larry Page and Sergey Brin decided on Eric Schmidt as Google's CEO in 2001 for reasons including his attendance of what event?
80 Which of these is the oldest web browser still in general use and development?
10 In 2010, the United States Air Force used more than a thousand game consoles to build a supercomputer... which one?
30 While employed at Microsoft, Gabe Newell led a team that ported what game to Windows 95?
70 Although all of these products eventually launched, they were once feared to be vaporware, except which one?
80 How many feet of tape would you find in the typical C60 compact audio cassette?
70 What was the first computer virus?
30 What was the first personal computer to be offered commercially with a graphical user interface?
10 1024 Gigabytes is equal to 1 Terabyte; 1024 Terabytes is equal to 1 Petabyte; How many Gigabytes are in a Petabyte?
30 Released in 1984, the Motorola DynaTAC was the first commercially available mobile phone. It was priced at...
70 The PlayStation 2's external design wasn't an original concept by Sony, but was instead borrowed from which unreleased console?
50 What is the origin of the word "spam" in the context of email spam?
50 If you reach level 256 in the game Pac-Man, this infamous bug will cause the arcade game to...
80 Who described the Internet as a series of tubes?
30 What happens if a CD spins too fast?
10 Android versions are named after dessert foods. They're also released...
70 Before emerging as the iconic Grand Theft Auto, what was the game going to be called?
90 TechSpot originally began in the 90s as a blog called what?
80 The first version of Internet Explorer borrowed from the source code of what other web browser?
50 QR codes were first created back in 1994 as a way to track what?
90 Registered on March 15, 1985, which of these was the first domain name on the Internet?
70 Before establishing Nvidia, founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang designed microprocessors for...
70 In which of these CPU sockets can both Intel and AMD chips be installed?
30 Which one of these features was available on the 1982 Epson HX-20 notebook computer?
80 It was 1995, 15-inch 800x600 monitors were the norm, what kind of monitor did John Carmack use to code Quake?

TechSpot Trivia

Trivia Index Page 2

30 Which video game franchise has collectively sold the most copies?

30 What was the first Android mobile phone?

10 To fund the creation of Apple's first computer, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs sold their...

80 Which country has the highest percentage of their population online?

50 What was the first commercially available wristwatch with the ability to make phone calls?

10 How much storage did the first commercially available USB flash drive provide?

80 Before approaching Apple, iPod creator Tony Fadell had his idea rejected by these two companies...

50 All of these tech company founders/CEOs stepped away for a stint before later returning to the helm, except...

90 What was the first web browser available for Microsoft's Windows OS?

80 Did you know that before developing Steam, Valve approached many companies to help them build it with no success. Which of these was not among those approached?

10 The first webcam ever was deployed at Cambridge University, it was designed to monitor...?

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

50 The first iPod had an Easter Egg accessed by holding down the center button for a few seconds on the "About" menu. What was it?

50 Developed as a replacement for NTFS, Microsoft's new file system ReFS was introduced with what version of Windows?

10 Before becoming widely recognized the main character of Super Mario Bros., what was Mario named?

10 When Verizon bought AOL in 2015, how many people were still paying for AOL dial-up Internet?

90 Set to be the Pentium 4 Prescott's successor, code-named Tejas and Jayhawk microprocessors were expected to ship with frequencies at or above...

80 "Polygon Man" was briefly the mascot for which game console?

90 What was the first computer virus released in the wild?

30 Which of these keyboard shortcuts directly opens the Windows Task Manager?

10 The first computer mouse: how many buttons did it have, what material was it made of?

80 What does "Yahoo" mean?

10 Which company invented the hard disk drive?

30 These famous tech personalities are all college dropouts, except...

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

30 Larry Page and Sergey Brin decided on Eric Schmidt as Google's CEO in 2001 for reasons including his attendance of what event?

80 Which of these is the oldest web browser still in general use and development?

10 In 2010, the United States Air Force used more than a thousand game consoles to build a supercomputer... which one?

30 While employed at Microsoft, Gabe Newell led a team that ported what game to Windows 95?

70 Although all of these products eventually launched, they were once feared to be vaporware, except which one?

80 How many feet of tape would you find in the typical C60 compact audio cassette?

70 What was the first computer virus?

30 What was the first personal computer to be offered commercially with a graphical user interface?

10 1024 Gigabytes is equal to 1 Terabyte; 1024 Terabytes is equal to 1 Petabyte; How many Gigabytes are in a Petabyte?

30 Released in 1984, the Motorola DynaTAC was the first commercially available mobile phone. It was priced at...

70 The PlayStation 2's external design wasn't an original concept by Sony, but was instead borrowed from which unreleased console?

50 What is the origin of the word "spam" in the context of email spam?

50 If you reach level 256 in the game Pac-Man, this infamous bug will cause the arcade game to...

80 Who described the Internet as a series of tubes?

30 What happens if a CD spins too fast?

10 Android versions are named after dessert foods. They're also released...

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

90 TechSpot originally began in the 90s as a blog called what?

80 The first version of Internet Explorer borrowed from the source code of what other web browser?

50 QR codes were first created back in 1994 as a way to track what?

90 Registered on March 15, 1985, which of these was the first domain name on the Internet?

70 Before establishing Nvidia, founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang designed microprocessors for...

70 In which of these CPU sockets can both Intel and AMD chips be installed?

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

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