1. Who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web?
- A) Steve Jobs
- B) Bill Gates
- C) Tim Berners-Lee
- D) Larry Page
Answer: C) Tim Berners-Lee
2. What was the first video game ever created?
- A) Super Mario Bros.
- B) Pong
- C) Tetris
- D) Space Invaders
Answer: B) Pong (though Tennis for Two and Spacewar! existed before it, Pong was the first commercially successful video game)
3. Which company developed the iPhone?
- A) Microsoft
- B) Apple
- C) Samsung
- D) Google
Answer: B) Apple
4. What does RAM stand for in computing?
- A) Random Access Memory
- B) Read All Memory
- C) Read Access Memory
- D) Rapid Application Memory
Answer: A) Random Access Memory
5. Who co-founded Microsoft alongside Bill Gates?
- A) Steve Wozniak
- B) Paul Allen
- C) Larry Ellison
- D) Mark Zuckerberg
Answer: B) Paul Allen
6. Which was the first social media platform to reach 1 billion users?
- A) Twitter
- B) Facebook
- C) Instagram
- D) MySpace
Answer: B) Facebook
7. The first successful flight of the Wright brothers took place in which year?
- A) 1900
- B) 1903
- C) 1912
- D) 1920
Answer: B) 1903
8. Which company created the popular operating system known as Android?
- A) Apple
- B) Microsoft
- C) Google
- D) Nokia
Answer: C) Google
9. Bitcoin, the first decentralized cryptocurrency, was invented by whom?
- A) Elon Musk
- B) Satoshi Nakamoto
- C) Vitalik Buterin
- D) Mark Cuban
Answer: B) Satoshi Nakamoto
10. The first home video game console was:
- A) Atari 2600
- B) Magnavox Odyssey
- C) Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
- D) Sega Genesis
Answer: B) Magnavox Odyssey
11. Which company introduced the first commercially available personal computer (PC)?
- A) IBM
- B) Apple
- C) Microsoft
- D) Xerox
Answer: A) IBM
12. The Turing Test, proposed by Alan Turing, is used to evaluate what?
- A) Artificial intelligence
- B) Encryption algorithms
- C) Computer programming languages
- D) Quantum computing
Answer: A) Artificial intelligence
13. Moore’s Law predicts that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit will:
- A) Double every two years
- B) Decrease by half every year
- C) Remain the same indefinitely
- D) Triple every five years
Answer: A) Double every two years
14. What was the name of the first artificial satellite launched into space?
- A) Apollo 11
- B) Voyager 1
- C) Sputnik 1
- D) Hubble
Answer: C) Sputnik 1
15. Which programming language was created by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems in 1995?
- A) Python
- B) Java
- C) C++
- D) Swift
Answer: B) Java
16. Who is considered the father of the computer, having conceptualized the Analytical Engine?
- A) Alan Turing
- B) Charles Babbage
- C) John von Neumann
- D) Steve Wozniak
Answer: B) Charles Babbage
17. Which company first introduced the Graphical User Interface (GUI) to personal computing?
- A) Microsoft
- B) IBM
- C) Xerox
- D) Apple
Answer: C) Xerox (with their Xerox Alto)
18. Which video game holds the title for the best-selling game of all time?
- A) Minecraft
- B) Grand Theft Auto V
- C) Tetris
- D) Fortnite
Answer: A) Minecraft
19. What does the acronym “Wi-Fi” stand for?
- A) Wireless Fidelity
- B) Wireless Frequency
- C) Wide Frequency Internet
- D) Wave Interference
Answer: A) Wireless Fidelity
20. What year did the Apple App Store launch?
- A) 2005
- B) 2007
- C) 2008
- D) 2010
Answer: C) 2008
