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Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 25mins
Which of these messengers has the biggest number of active users in the world?
PDF is, unsurprisingly, an acronym. Name any of the three words represented by PDF.
Public Document Format
Printable Data Form
Portable Document Format
Personal Document File
What color do you get if you mix together the two colors that appear twice in the Google logo?
Orange
Blue
Green
Purple
Now appearing prophetic, what device was announced in 2007 with the following slogan? "This is only the beginning."
iPhone
iPod Touch
Apple Watch
1. Apple TV
What is this device used for?
Taking a walk with your pets
Unscrewing the lids
Catching snakes
Warming up food
What brand founder is considered the creator of the first modern jeans?
Levi's
Wrangler
Lee
Gucci
What did Albert Parkhouse invent that is one of the most stolen items from hotels?
Coat hanger
Shower cap
Television remote control
Bathrobe
Back in 1981, compact discs were set to revolutionise the music industry. Kieran Prendiville demonstrated their durability by doing what?
Spreading jam on it
Jumping up and down on it
Writing on it with a pen
Scratching it with a stone
What innovative radio company developed the Music Genome Project to classify music by mirroring mathematical techniques for gene sequencing within human DNA? The company is named after the first human woman created by the gods in Greek mythology.
Pandora
Medusa
Eve
Ariadne
Which American tech company started with its founders' idea to rent out an air mattress in their San Fransisco living room to travelers hoping to avoid the city's high cost of rent?
(a)
Eric Yuan is a former Cisco engineer and executive that left the telecom giant to found what speedy meeting company in 2011? The company released its first version of their eponymous software two years later and had a "breakout year" in 2020.
(a)
In education, the acronym STEM stands for "science, technology, engineering, and mathematics." When an A is added to form the acronym STEAM, what does the A stand for?
(a)
In the first flights of the Space Shuttle program the fuel tank was white and in subsequent flights it was decided to leave it unpainted. What was the purpose of this change?
(a)
Though its original iteration was "monoaural" and wooden, it's now seen with medical professionals world wide and nearly always is biaural (that is, both ears are used.) What is it?
(a)
At the beginning of the last century, such masks were popular. The owners of these masks were united by the love of a certain game. Which game?
(a)
While building magnetrons at MIT in the 1940s, Percy Spencer noticed a melting chocolate bar in his pocket. Deeper investigation and exploration led to the invention of what household device? Spencer received no royalties for this invention, first marketed as the Radarange.
(a)
The first semblance of this device appeared in 1920. It was a paper roll between wooden sticks that rotated by hand. Ten years later, a device appeared that did the same, but automatically, depending on the speed. Name this device.
(a)
In 1932, one German company decided to make this product so that it would fit in the pocket of any sports jacket, and would not break and would have weight like an ordinary one. Under what name do we know this product?
(a)
