Technology Trivia Question and Answers
1.
What is the technical term for the body of an airplane?
Answer:
Fuselage
2.
Which aircraft holds the record for fastest speed in our atmosphere?
Answer:
Sr-71
3.
What is considered the grandfather of modern passenger planes?
Answer:
DC-3
4.
What are horizontal stabilizers called when in front of the wing of an airplane?
Answer:
Canards
5.
What was special about the X-29 plane?
Answer:
It Had Forward-Swept Wings
6.
What did the U.S. government use expended shell casings for from 1944 to 1946?
Answer:
Making Pennies
7.
What does AOL stand for?
Answer:
America On Line
8.
If an electronic device can be operated by battery or electricity, what can it be called?
Answer:
AC/DC
9.
Where is the U.S. Air Force Museum located?
Answer:
Dayton, Ohio
10.
In what decade did the first human walk on the moon?
Answer:
60's
11.
What's the name for the small remote-controlled vehicle used to explore Mars?
Answer:
Rover
12.
A molotov cocktail is a type of what?
Answer:
Bomb
13.
Which kind of clock is accurate to within one second in 1.7 million years?
Answer:
Atomic
14.
What medium allows multiple recordings to be made on the same disc repeatedly?
Answer:
CD-RW
15.
What is the control for the level of sound coming out of the left or right speakers called?
Answer:
Balance
16.
Which device is used by a computer to display graphics and information on a video screen?
Answer:
Monitor
17.
What is a non-rigid airship called?
Answer:
Blimp
18.
What is an "unpowered fixed-wing heavier-than-air" craft called?
Answer:
Glider
19.
Which aeronautical term refers to an airplane that has three similar-sized pairs of wings?
Answer:
Triplane
20.
A difference between the softest and loudest sounds, fits which audio/video term?
Answer:
Dynamic Range
21.
Which company makes and sells the iPod?
Answer:
Apple
22.
In tech talk what is a "blackberry"?
Answer:
Handheld Device
23.
Which device helps you find your location?
Answer:
GPS
24.
What is the name of the device used to move the cursor around on the screen of a computer?
Answer:
Mouse
25.
What type of device would someone use to call a friend?
Answer:
Telephone
26.
How can you control a TV set from far away?
Answer:
By Using A Remote Control
27.
What wireless technology replaced infrared?
Answer:
Bluetooth
28.
What stores recently visited webpages for rapid access?
Answer:
Cache
29.
What is another term for technical specifications?
Answer:
Configuration
30.
What is PC and Mac compatible software called?
Answer:
Cross-Platform
31.
Use of the internet for criminal activity is called?
Answer:
Cybercrime
32.
A hard drive's data is optimized through which process?
Answer:
Defragmenting
33.
The "example" part in the URL "example.com" is what?
Answer:
Domain
34.
What can only be read by the correct decoding key?
Answer:
Encryption
35.
Processor speed can be measured in which unit?
Answer:
Gigahertz
36.
What term means someone who commits digital crimes?
Answer:
Hacker
37.
Ownership of an idea is defined as what?
Answer:
Intellectual Property
38.
What is a private network that uses TCP/IP called?
Answer:
Intranet
39.
What computer term means one piece of keyboard input?
Answer:
Keystroke
40.
What is the term for words typed into a search engine?
Answer:
Keywords
41.
Which kind of media uses different formats?
Answer:
Multimedia
42.
What term means software that can run on different OS?
Answer:
Multiplatform
43.
What type of internet broadcast works with the iPod?
Answer:
Podcast
44.
Which term refers to a standard computer keyboard?
Answer:
QWERTY
45.
What is DPI a measure of?
Answer:
Resolution
46.
Which acronym refers to the colors found in TV signals?
Answer:
RGB
47.
What term describes a discussion on a bulletin board?
Answer:
Thread
48.
What is an average delivery rate over a channel called?
Answer:
Throughput
49.
What term means deleting all records from a table?
Answer:
Truncate
50.
What increases "address space" to add memory?
Answer:
Virtual Memory
51.
What language do you use to make a virtual tour?
Answer:
VRML
52.
What refers to wireless network components?
Answer:
Wi-Fi
53.
Internet users often connect with what connection type?
Answer:
ADSL
54.
What optical disc format is used by the Sony PS3?
Answer:
Blu-Ray
55.
What can be used to start a computer?
Answer:
Boot Disk
56.
Hardware working like another device is called what?
Answer:
Clone
57.
What is the most common LAN connection?
Answer:
Ethernet
58.
Which takes heat away from delicate components?
Answer:
Heat Sink
59.
What piece of computer hardware is abbreviated as "NIC"?
Answer:
Network Interface Card
60.
Keyboards and monitors are examples of what devices?
Answer:
Peripheral
61.
What, connected to the motherboard, prevents lag time?
Answer:
RAM
62.
What device performs services for computers?
Answer:
Server
63.
In 2008, what was the most common computer port?
Answer:
USB
64.
What is a free toolbar with online advertisements an example of?
Answer:
Adware
65.
A script for e-mail replying is called what?
Answer:
Autoresponder
66.
What data, sent to a browser, tracks website use?
Answer:
A Cookie
67.
Core Force is an example of what protective software?
Answer:
Firewall
68.
FTP stands for file transfer what?
Answer:
Protocol
69.
What is a bridge between two networks?
Answer:
Gateway
70.
What protocol did Tim Berners-Lee invent in 1989?
Answer:
HTTP
71.
What body managed domain-name allocations until 1998?
Answer:
InterNIC
72.
What type of company provides access to the Internet?
Answer:
ISP
73.
What syntax-based language integrates into HTML pages?
Answer:
JavaScript
74.
Which of the following helps translate domains to IPs?
Answer:
Name Server
75.
Attempting to steal personal data through emails is called what?
Answer:
Phishing
76.
What adjustments create higher search engine ranking?
Answer:
SEO
77.
What is the email equivalent of junk mail called?
Answer:
Spam
78.
What type of program scours the internet for data?
Answer:
Spider
79.
What is the term for faking an identity online?
Answer:
Spoofing
80.
What is the technology which allows video to be viewed while it downloads called?
Answer:
Streaming
81.
Which network is similar to LAN but larger?
Answer:
WAN
82.
What service finds information about a domain?
Answer:
WHOIS
83.
What is a website allowing users to edit content?
Answer:
Wiki
84.
Which is a language used in creating web pages?
Answer:
XHTML
85.
What was the first book that Johannes Gutenberg produced with his printing press?
Answer:
The Bible
86.
On April 15, 1738, you could open a bottle using what?
Answer:
Bottle Opener
87.
Who first tested a lightning rod in 1752?
Answer:
Benjamin Franklin
88.
In 1765, Eberhard added what to pencils?
Answer:
Erasers
89.
Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus is what?
Answer:
S.C.U.B.A. Gear
90.
Peter Roget invented the slide rule and what word book?
Answer:
Thesaurus
91.
What element was named after the planet Uranus?
Answer:
Uranium
92.
Who invented the cotton gin?
Answer:
Eli Whitney
93.
In 1822, C. Graham patented what type of teeth?
Answer:
False
94.
After an 1824 glass shortage, what held milk?
Answer:
Paper Carton
95.
A series of dots and dashes are used in what?
Answer:
Morse Code
96.
Who first vulcanized rubber?
Answer:
Charles Goodyear
97.
Where would you find a Pullman sleeping car?
Answer:
Train
98.
Mr. Bell's first phone call was to whom?
Answer:
Mr. Watson
99.
Who first demonstrated an electric light in Menlo Park?
Answer:
Thomas Edison
100.
Who first patented the Kodak box camera?
Answer:
George Eastman
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