History of Technology Trivia

True or false: The word "technology" comes from a Greek word meaning "witchcraft."

• True

• False

The first "calculator" was invented in Babylon in 2400 B.C.E.

• True

• False

Bluetooth was named after a Scandinavian King, Herald the First, because he was known for eating lots of blueberries.

• True

• False

Computer companies Hewlett Packard, Apple, and Microsoft were all started in garages.

• True

• False

The first computer hard drive weighed over 7,000 pounds.

• True

• False

Which came first, the Worldwide Web or E-mail?

• Email

• Worldwide Web

What year was the first cell phone call made?

• 1973

• 1983

• 1993

• 2003

True or false: The first commercially available cell phone in the United States weighed two pounds.

• True

• False

In Japan in the 1990s, Hitachi produced ATM machines that heated currency to 200 degrees Celsius to disinfect them and iron them.

• True

• False

True or false: Google rents goats to mow their lawn at their coporate headquarters in Mountain View, California.

• True

• False