TechSpot Trivia
- Which of these was the most expensive domain name sale?
- How heavy was the first ever 1 GB hard drive?
- How much did it cost to rent a movie at the first VHS rental store in the US in 1977?
- What is the origin of email "spam"?
- If you reach level 256 in the game Pac-Man, this infamous bug will cause the arcade game to...
- Google Chrome has a hidden mini-game that involves what?
Trivia Index Page 2
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80 The ghosts in the original Pac-Man had unique AI traits, which one was the least predictable?
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80 In old PCs, what was the function of the "Turbo" button?
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90 How many websites are on the Internet (as of March 2023)?
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30 The first 5MB hard drive weighed approximately...
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90 Which is the most efficient keyboard layout?
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30 What was the first personal computer to be offered with a graphical user interface?
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50 When was the first SMS text message sent?
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70 Sony's PlayStation 2 external design wasn't an original concept, instead it was borrowed from which unreleased console?
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70 QR codes were invented back in 1994 as a way to track?
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90 Which search engine almost bought Google in the 1990s?
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80 The Diamond Edge 3D was Nvidia's first graphics card. Released in 1995, it sold as a complete entertainment package featuring: 2D/3D acceleration, an integrated sound card, games, and what else?
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90 Who created Siri?
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90 Registered on March 15, 1985, which was the first domain name on the Internet?
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10 A grand price fixing scheme that took place between 1998-2002 involved over a dozen makers, of what PC component?
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30 The PlayStation 4 was powered by a GPU roughly equal to what PC graphics card?
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70 What was the first handheld game console to ship with a color display?
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80 How much did the first CD recorder cost?
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90 What was the first computer virus released in the wild?
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90 Before changing its name to Seagate, the storage giant was known by what name?
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80 All of these products eventually launched, but they were once feared to be vaporware, except for...?
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80 What was the world's first digital and programmable robot?
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10 How much storage did the first commercially available USB flash drive provide?
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70 Who was the tech CEO that in 1999 said, "You have zero privacy anyway..."?
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90 How many GPUs did a 3Dfx Voodoo2 have?
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30 What happens if a CD spins too fast?
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90 What was the first computer to be marketed as a "laptop"?
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70 What was the first computer virus?
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90 TechSpot was originally launched in the 90s as a tech blog called...?
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90 Which of these PC games was the first to ship with baked-in DRM?
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90 Which of these motherboard form factors has the largest max dimensions?
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30 Who said this in 2004? "Two years from now, (email) spam will be solved"
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30 What was the first Android mobile phone?
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50 Which AMD CPU series was famous for getting its multiplier unlocked using a pencil?
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10 The first webcam ever was deployed at Cambridge University, what was it designed to monitor?
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80 What was the first ever web browser?
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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?
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70 Wi-Fi 802.11ac also known as Wi-Fi 5 brought all these improvements, except...
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70 Before becoming the web's video juggernaut, what was the plan for YouTube?
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80 It was 1995, 15-inch 800x600 monitors were the norm, what kind of monitor did John Carmack use to code Quake?
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80 The first version of Internet Explorer "borrowed" source code from what other web browser?
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80 Approximately how many feet of tape fit inside a standard T-120 VHS tape?
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50 Before establishing Nvidia, founder and CEO Jensen Huang designed microprocessors for...
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10 Charles Babbage is known for creating the first... ?
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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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70 Mozilla Firefox originally launched under what name?
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50 What was the first FIFA World Cup to be fully filmed in 4K?
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70 What was the first consumer desktop CPU to achieve 4GHz out of the box?
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10 To fund the creation of Apple's first computer, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs sold...
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30 Whitehouse.com once brought visitors to a site that hosted...
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10 When Verizon bought AOL in 2015, how many people were still paying for AOL dial-up Internet?