2023 XMAS meetup

What was the content of the first SMS (Short Message Service) ever sent, which coincidentally was sent during the Christmas season in 1992?

• Happy Holidays

• Merry Christmas

• Hello World

• Season's Greetings

In which year did Google start its Santa Tracker service?

• 2004

• 2010

• 2012

• 2005

When were electric lights first used on Christmas trees?

• 1882

• 1900

• 1925

• 1895

What is considered the oldest known Christmas-themed computer game?

• Christmas Lemmings

• Special Delivery: Santa's Christmas Chaos

• Frosty the Snowman

• Holiday Lemmings

Match the following

• King Khufu

• The Great Pyramid of Giza

• Pacific Ocean

• Inventor of the Telephone

• Albert Einstein

• Largest Ocean on Earth

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Theory of Relativity

Match the following

• 1969

• Discovery of Penicillin

• 1876

• First Man on the Moon

• 1928

• First Programmable Computer

• 1941

• Invention of the Telephone

In computer science, ​ (a)   ​ is considered the first high-level programming language.

• Java
• Python
• C++
• Fortran

​ (a)   is the scientific study of the behaviour and interactions of atoms and molecules.

• Chemistry
• Biology
• Physics
• Geology

The ​ (a)   orbits around the Earth, and the ​ (b)   orbits around the Sun.​

• Moon
• Earth
• Sun
• Mars
• Solar

Arrange the following search engines in ascending order based on their initial launch dates.

• Ask Jeeves

• Google

• Lycos

• Yahoo

Answer explanation

1. Lycos (1994)

2. Yahoo (1995)

3. Ask Jeeves (1996)

4. Google (1998)