Computers Top 50 Trivias Questions
“💻 Digital Genius Challenge! Test Your Computer Knowledge: Top 50 Trivia! From CPUs to coding, prove your tech savvy with this ultimate computer quiz!”
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“💻 Digital Genius Challenge! Test Your Computer Knowledge: Top 50 Trivia! From CPUs to coding, prove your tech savvy with this ultimate computer quiz!”
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15 Questions
Answer:Central Processing Unit
Answer:Charles Babbage
Answer:Random Access Memory
Answer:CPU
Answer:Microsoft
Answer:Universal Serial Bus
Answer:Steve Jobs
Answer:Creeper (or Brain – but Creeper was 1971, Brain 1986). Common trivia answer: 'Brain'.
Answer:Wireless Fidelity
Answer:Android
Answer:HyperText Transfer Protocol
Answer:NCSA Mosaic (or Marc Andreessen's Netscape). Common answer: 'Netscape' or 'Mosaic'. I'll use: 'Netscape'.
Answer:ENIAC
Answer:Portable Document Format
Answer:F5
20 Questions
Answer:Ada Lovelace
Answer:Basic Input/Output System
Answer:Intel (Intel 4004, 1971)
Answer:Graphics Processing Unit
Answer:Archie (1990)
Answer:Internet Protocol
Answer:Charles Babbage
Answer:Python
Answer:Solid State Drive
Answer:Sun Microsystems (now Oracle)
Answer:Xerox mouse (or Engelbart's mouse). Common answer: 'Douglas Engelbart's wooden mouse'.
Answer:Structured Query Language
Answer:John McCarthy
Answer:Moth (found in Harvard Mark II, 1947)
Answer:Optical Character Recognition
Answer:Grid Systems (Grid Compass 1109, 1982) – or Osborne 1 (1981) but Osborne was portable. Common answer: 'Osborne 1' or 'Grid Compass'. I'll use: 'Osborne 1'.
Answer:Linux
Answer:American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Answer:Tim Berners-Lee
Answer:Local Area Network
15 Questions
Answer:FORTRAN (1957)
Answer:Reduced Instruction Set Computer
Answer:Alan Turing
Answer:Deep Blue (IBM, 1997)
Answer:Kernel-based Virtual Machine
Answer:Ruby
Answer:Apple Lisa (1983) or Xerox Star (1981). Common answer: 'Apple Lisa'.
Answer:Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
Answer:John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley (1947)
Answer:COBOL (1959)
Answer:Not AND (logic gate)
Answer:Alan Kay (or Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard). Common answer: 'Alan Kay'.
Answer:Melissa (1999)
Answer:Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
Answer:IBM (IBM 350, 1956) – engineer: Reynold Johnson