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WorksheetsTechno Quiz 10
Total questions: 150
Worksheet time: 1hrs 15mins
The first spreadsheet program (VisiCalc, 1979) was created by:
Dan Bricklin & Bob Frankston
Bill Gates & Paul Allen
Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak
Larry Ellison & Ed Oates
The microprocessor (Intel 4004, 1971) was designed by:
Ted Hoff (with Faggin & Mazor)
Bob Noyce (solo)
Gordon Moore (solo)
Jack Kilby (solo)
The graphical user interface popularization is associated with:
Xerox PARC (Alto) influences on Apple Lisa/Mac
Microsoft Windows 1.0 development only
IBM mainframes
Pure command-line UNIX
The first mass-market personal computer "Apple II" (1977) was engineered by:
Steve Jobs
Steve Wozniak
Andy Hertzfeld
John Sculley
TCP/IP, the core internet protocol suite, was specified by:
Metcalfe & Boggs
Cerf & Kahn
Berners-Lee & Cailliau
Postel & Mockapetris
DNS, the naming system for the internet, was proposed by:
Jon Postel & Paul Mockapetris
Vint Cerf & Tim Berners-Lee
Ray Tomlinson & Robert Kahn
Linus Torvalds & Guido van Rossum
Relational databases were formalized by:
Michael Stonebraker
Edgar F. Codd
Jim Gray
Donald Chamberlin
SQL was developed initially at:
IBM (Chamberlin & Boyce)
Oracle (Ellison & Miner)
UC Berkeley (Stonebraker)
Microsoft (Gates & Allen)
Public key cryptography was introduced by:
Diffie & Hellman (and later RSA)
Rivest & Adleman only
Shannon & Turing
Knuth & Koblitz
The RSA algorithm was invented by:
Rivest, Shamir, Adleman
Diffie, Hellman, Merkle
Cocks, Ellis, Williamson
ElGamal, Schnorr, DSA
The first web browser/editor (WorldWideWeb/NeXT) was built by:
Marc Andreessen
Tim Berners-Lee
Brendan Eich
Larry Page
Mosaic (1993) and later Netscape were led by:
Linus Torvalds
Marc Andreessen
Guido van Rossum
Rasmus Lerdorf
Java (1995) was created by:
James Gosling (with Sun Microsystems team)
Bjarne Stroustrup
Anders Hejlsberg
Dennis Ritchie
Python was created by:
John McCarthy
Guido van Rossum
Ken Thompson
Grace Hopper
The Linux kernel was created by:
Linus Torvalds
Richard Stallman
Andrew Tanenbaum
Brian Kernighan
The concept of hypertext predates the web and was coined by:
Vannevar Bush
Ted Nelson
Douglas Engelbart
Tim Berners-Lee
The computer mouse prototype was demonstrated by:
Douglas Engelbart
Alan Kay
Adele Goldberg
Jef Raskin
The first successful graphical spreadsheet (Lotus 1-2-3 competitor) pioneering company was:
Borland
Lotus Development
Ashton-Tate
Corel
The PageRank algorithm (search ranking) was created by:
Tim Berners-Lee
Larry Page & Sergey Brin
Jeff Dean & Sanjay Ghemawat
John Giannandrea & Peter Norvig
The JPEG compression standard was shaped by work from:
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
W3C
IETF
ITU-T V-Series
The MP3 (audio coding) format was developed at:
Fraunhofer IIS
Bell Labs
Dolby Laboratories
MIT Media Lab
CDMA cellular technology was advanced by:
Nokia engineers
Qualcomm researchers
Apple designers
IBM researchers
The first practical GPS system was developed by:
U.S. Department of Defense (NAVSTAR)
ESA
Roscosmos
ISRO
The modern drone quadcopter control relies on:
Mechanical gyros only
MEMS sensors + control algorithms
Vacuum tubes
Analog potentiometers
The LED (visible-spectrum blue LED breakthroughs) were awarded to:
Holonyak alone
Nakamura, Akasaki, Amano
Shockley, Bardeen, Brattain
Goodenough, Whittingham, Yoshino
The concept of “information theory” was formalized by:
Norbert Wiener
Claude Shannon
John McCarthy
Warren Weaver
Cybernetics, a theory of control and communication, was named by:
Claude Shannon
Norbert Wiener
Vannevar Bush
Herbert Simon
The first successful mechanical computation of orbits used:
Antikythera mechanism (ancient analog)
Pascaline
Difference Engine
Napier’s Bones
The modern bicycle’s pneumatic tire was popularized by:
John Boyd Dunlop
Karl Drais
Pierre Michaux
James Starley
The jet engine development is primarily attributed to:
Robert Goddard
Frank Whittle & Hans von Ohain (independently)
Sergei Korolev
Wernher von Braun
The first practical rocket achieving high-altitude liquid fuel flight:
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Robert Goddard
Hermann Oberth
Wernher von Braun
The modern stainless steel (18/8) formulation innovations are associated with:
Harry Brearley
Henry Bessemer
Benjamin Huntsman
Alfred Krupp
The Bessemer converter revolutionized:
Aluminum smelting
Steel production
Copper refining
Glass making
The Haber-Bosch process produces:
Synthetic ammonia
Ethanol
Methane
Polyethylene
The first successful synthetic dye (mauveine) was discovered by:
Perkin
Kekulé
Hofmann
Baeyer
The zipper (separable fastener) innovation is credited to:
Whitcomb Judson & Gideon Sundback
Elias Howe only
The first programmable industrial robot “Unimate” was built by:
George Devol & Joseph Engelberger
Masahiro Mori
Rodney Brooks
Hiroshi Ishiguro
The microwave oven was invented after research on:
Radar magnetrons (Percy Spencer)
X-ray tubes
Vacuum triodes
Laser diodes
The discovery of the structure of DNA (double helix) was made by:
Crick & Watson (with Franklin’s data)
Pauling & Corey
Chargaff & Avery
Mullis & Smith
PCR (polymerase chain reaction) was invented by:
Kary Mullis
Francis Collins
Frederick Sanger
Rosalind Franklin
CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing was co-developed by:
Jennifer Doudna & Emmanuelle Charpentier
James Watson & Francis Crick
Paul Berg & Walter Gilbert
Sydney Brenner & John Sulston
The first successful heart transplant (1967) was performed by:
Christiaan Barnard
Denton Cooley
Michael DeBakey
Norman Shumway
The first successful oral contraceptive pill research was led by:
Carl Djerassi
Alexander Fleming
Selman Waksman
Gertrude Elion
The modern polymer Teflon (PTFE) was discovered by:
Roy Plunkett
Wallace Carothers
Giulio Natta
Hermann Staudinger
The fiberglass-reinforced plastic boats pioneer is associated with:
Owens-Corning
DuPont Kevlar
Bayer AG
BASF
Kevlar (aramid fiber) was invented by:
Stephanie Kwolek
Frances Arnold
Dorothy Hodgkin
Chien-Shiung Wu
The compact disc (CD) digital audio standard was developed by:
Sony & Philips
IBM & Microsoft
Apple & Xerox
Intel & AMD
The touchscreen multi-touch interface popularization in smartphones is associated with:
Nokia Symbian
Apple iPhone
BlackBerry OS
Palm OS
The “mother of the modern computer compiler” is:
Grace Hopper
Ada Lovelace
Jean Sammet
Frances Allen
The first computer programmer (analytical engine notes) is considered to be:
Ada Lovelace
Grace Hopper
Margaret Hamilton
Katherine Johnson
The father of information theory is:
Claude Shannon
Alan Turing
John McCarthy
Donald Knuth
The term “Artificial Intelligence” (1956) was coined by:
Marvin Minsky
John McCarthy
Herbert Simon
Allen Newell
The “Turing Test” concept was proposed by:
Alan Turing
Alonzo Church
The father of the modern algorithmic analysis and TeX creator is:
Edsger Dijkstra
Donald Knuth
Tony Hoare
Niklaus Wirth
The quicksort algorithm was invented by:
Robert Sedgewick
Tony Hoare
Edsger Dijkstra
Donald Knuth
UNIX pipes and grep innovations are associated with:
Brian Kernighan & Ken Thompson
Dennis Ritchie & Rob Pike
Eric Schmidt & Bill Joy
Steve Bourne & Tom Duff
The creator of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is:
Vint Cerf
Tim Berners-Lee
Larry Page
Linus Torvalds
The co-designer of the ARPANET’s TCP/IP alongside Cerf is:
Robert Kahn
Paul Baran
Jon Postel
J.C.R. Licklider
The visionary who promoted “Man-Computer Symbiosis” was:
Douglas Engelbart
J.C.R. Licklider
Alan Kay
Ivan Sutherland
Sketchpad, a pioneering computer graphics system, was built by:
Ivan Sutherland
John Warnock
Jim Blinn
Edwin Catmull
PostScript & Adobe Systems were co-founded by:
John Warnock & Charles Geschke
Bill Atkinson & Andy Hertzfeld
Mitch Kapor & John Walker
Marc Benioff & Parker Harris
The founder of Free Software movement and GNU is:
Linus Torvalds
Richard Stallman
Eric Raymond
Bruce Perens
The person behind the first web browser Mosaic and Netscape is:
Brendan Eich
Marc Andreessen
John Resig
Tim O’Reilly
The inventor of JavaScript (1995) is:
Marc Andreessen
Brendan Eich
Guido van Rossum
James Gosling
The co-founder of Microsoft known for BASIC for Altair and later Windows is:
Steve Jobs
Bill Gates
Paul Allen
Steve Ballmer
Apple’s co-founder and Apple I/II hardware engineer is:
Steve Wozniak
Steve Jobs
Ron Wayne
Tim Cook
Oracle Corporation was co-founded by:
Larry Page
Larry Ellison
Jeff Bezos
Michael Dell
The Linux distribution Debian was started by:
Mark Shuttleworth
Ian Murdock
Linus Torvalds
Richard Stallman
The first woman to win the Turing Award (2006) for optimizing compilers:
Barbara Liskov
Frances E. Allen
Shafi Goldwasser
Karen Spärck Jones
The Liskov Substitution Principle in OOP was proposed by:
Adele Goldberg
Barbara Liskov
Mary Shaw
Margaret Hamilton
NASA Apollo on-board flight software was led by:
Margaret Hamilton
Katherine Johnson
Grace Hopper
Hedy Lamarr
The mother of Wi‑Fi security spread‑spectrum idea (patented in WWII era) is linked to:
Hedy Lamarr (with George Antheil)
Radia Perlman
Susan Landau
Mary Lou Je inline
Spanning Tree Protocol (Ethernet switching) was invented by:
Radia Perlman
Whitfield Diffie
Paul Mockapetris
Van Jacobson
The creator of the BitTorrent protocol is:
Bram Cohen
Linus Torvalds
Phil Zimmerman
Kevin Mitnick
The creator of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is:
Phil Zimmermann
Whitfield Diffie
Ronald Rivest
Bruce Schneier
The inventor of the modern graphical interface concept Dynabook vision is:
Alan Kay
Ivan Sutherland
Doug Engelbart
Nicholas Negroponte
The founders of HP (Hewlett‑Packard) were:
David Packard & William Hewlett
Thomas Watson Sr. & Jr.
Michael Dell & Kevin Rollins
Gordon Moore & Robert Noyce
Intel was co‑founded by:
Gordon Moore & Robert Noyce
Andrew Grove & Jerry Sanders
Jack Kilby & Ted Hoff
John Sculley & Scott McNealy
The Moore’s Law observation was proposed by:
Gordon Moore
Robert Noyce
Andy Grove
Jack Kilby
The first practical relational database implementation at IBM System R involved:
Jim Gray & Michael Stonebraker
Donald Chamberlin & Raymond Boyce
Edgar Codd & Niklaus Wirth
Jon Postel & Paul Mockapetris
The inventor of LaTeX typesetting system is:
Donald Knuth
Leslie Lamport
Brian Kernighan
John Hobby
The BASIC language was co‑created at Dartmouth by:
Kemeny & Kurtz
Ritchie & Thompson
Backus & Naur
Hoare & Wirth
The Fast Fourier Transform (popular modern algorithm) is credited to:
Cooley & Tukey (rediscovered/popularized)
Gauss exclusively
Newton & Leibniz
Nyquist & Shannon
Page description language PostScript co‑creator John Warnock later co‑founded:
Adobe Systems
Sun Microsystems
Netscape
Silicon Graphics
Sun Microsystems was co‑founded by:
Bill Joy, Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy, Andy Bechtolsheim
Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, Ed Oates
Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ron Wayne
Michael Dell & Kevin Rollins
The RISC architecture popularization (MIPS/SPARC) involved:
John Hennessy & David Patterson
Ken Thompson & Dennis Ritchie
Linus Torvalds & Andrew Tanenbaum
John Carmack & John Romero
The concept of public‑key cryptography had earlier classified work by:
Cocks, Ellis, Williamson (GCHQ)
Shannon & Turing
Rivest & Adleman
Kahn & Cerf
The C Programming Language classic book was authored by:
Kernighan & Ritchie
Hoare & Wirth
Brooks & Parnas
Tanenbaum & Torvalds
The author of “The Mythical Man-Month” (software engineering classic) is:
Fred Brooks
Tom DeMarco
Barry Boehm
Watts Humphrey
The Ethernet company 3Com was co-founded by Ethernet’s:
Bob Metcalfe
Vint Cerf
Tim Berners-Lee
Paul Baran
The creator of SQL’s commercial champion, Oracle, was led by:
Larry Ellison
Bill Gates
Michael Bloomberg
Eric Schmidt
The co-founder of Google and search pioneer is:
Sundar Pichai
Larry Page
Satya Nadella
Tim Cook
The pioneer of hypermedia “As We May Think” essay author is:
Vannevar Bush
Ted Nelson
Douglas Engelbart
J.C.R. Licklider
The computer graphics pioneers who founded Pixar technology roots (RenderMan research) include:
Edwin Catmull & Alvy Ray Smith
John Warnock & Jim Blinn
Ivan Sutherland & John Whitney
Nick Foster & Pat Hanrahan
The father of computational complexity classes P vs NP framing foundations includes:
Stephen Cook
Alan Turing
Leonid Levin
Richard Karp
The creator of the first antivirus company (McAfee Associates) is:
Eugene Kaspersky
John McAfee
Mikko Hyppönen
Peter Norton
The creator of the World Wide Web’s URL/HTTP/HTML trio is:
Tim Berners-Lee
Marc Andreessen
Håkon Wium Lie
Brendan Eich
The pioneer of spreadsheet entrepreneurship and Lotus 1-2-3 was:
Mitch Kapor
Dan Bricklin
Bob Frankston
Bill Gates
Digital communication primarily uses:
Smoke signals
Electronic transmission of information
Handwritten messages
A platform mainly used for instant messaging is:
Excel
Messenger
Photoshop
VLC Player
Which best describes “social media”?
Radio-only broadcasts
Online platforms for sharing and interaction
Printed newsletters
TV advertisements
A digital footprint refers to:
Marks on a screen
Online traces left by user activity
Hardware damage
App crashes
Which is a synchronous communication method?
Live video call
Postcards
Printed notes
Asynchronous communication means:
Real-time only
Participants respond at different times
Only phone calls allowed
Text disappears automatically
One common disadvantage of social media is:
Increased manual labor
Spread of misinformation
Limited content options
Lack of users
Digital etiquette is also called:
Digicode
Netiquette
Cybertalk
Info-courtesy
A private direct message (DM) is sent:
Publicly
Privately to individuals
Via radio antenna
Through USB sharing
A common way to reduce online conflict is to:
Respond angrily
Think before posting
Post anonymously
Delete all apps
Which digital behavior can be legally punishable?
Sharing memes
Cyberbullying
Posting selfies
Reading comments
A “viral post” means:
Has a computer virus
Spreads rapidly online
Encrypted data
Removed by moderators
A common sign of a fake profile is:
Many verified posts
No real photos or inconsistent info
Regular updates
Known friends
Digital collaboration tools include:
Notepad
Google Workspace
Scissors
Whiteboard only
Which is an example of responsible online sharing?
Posting personal passwords
Verifying facts before posting
Sharing copyrighted files
Posting private info of others
A potential danger of oversharing is:
Faster internet
Identity theft
Increased privacy
Better screen time
In digital communication, “tone” is often misunderstood because:
Text lacks facial and vocal cues
The internet is too slow
Phones block emotion
Emojis are outdated
Social media algorithms usually show:
Random content
Personalized content based on user behavior
Government-only posts
Newly deleted messages
Editing a photo to mislead others is called:
Creative use
Digital manipulation
Secure compression
Optical filtering
Cyberbullying often happens through:
Telepathy
Digital communication tools
Radio shows
Physical letters
Which platform is primarily image-centered?
Wikipedia
Dropbox
A hashtag is used to:
Encrypt messages
Categorize content
Reset passwords
Format text
"Echo chamber" in social media refers to:
Sound recording space
Only seeing posts that match your beliefs
Data backup system
Group chats only
Which digital action can harm reputation?
Sharing correct info
Posting offensive content
Using privacy settings
Logging out
Geotagging adds:
GPS location to posts
Filters
Emojis
Captions
A verified social media account is usually marked by:
Blue checkmark
Hashtag
QR code
Cloud icon
A podcast is a form of:
Digital audio communication
Hard copy printing
Encrypted messaging
VR simulation
Crowdsourcing involves:
One expert only
Contributions from many users
Automated bots
Private collaboration only
Digital harassment may include:
Encouragement messages
Repeated unwanted contact
Compliments
Educational videos
A livestream is:
Pre-recorded only
Real-time broadcast
Offline only
Noninteractive
Responsible digital citizenship means:
Ignoring online safety
Using technology ethically
Posting everything publicly
Disabling privacy settings
One risk of public Wi-Fi during communication is:
Premium speed
Data interception
Longer battery life
Free promotions
Phishing on social media often appears as:
Verified emails
Suspicious messages asking for info
System security updates
Normal notifications
Influencers mainly affect:
Weather
Consumer behavior
Computer hardware
Wi-Fi range
A major advantage of digital communication is:
Zero misinformation
Instant global reach
Guaranteed accuracy
Offline-only access
Which message type is most secure?
Postcard
Encrypted chat
SMS
Open forum post
"Trolling" refers to:
Giving helpful feedback
Provoking others online
Organizing study groups
Posting someone's info without permission is:
Crowdsourcing
Doxxing
Hashing
Threading
"Digital divide" refers to differences in:
Age groups
Access to technology
Screen sizes
Phone colors
Cybersecurity refers to protecting:
Furniture
Digital systems and data
Natural resources
Road networks
A strong password should:
Include only letters
Combine symbols, numbers, and cases
Use your full name
Use "123456"
Malware is:
Helpful software
Harmful software
A programming language
A search engine
A virus spreads by:
Physical contact
Attaching itself to files
Sound waves
Keyboard shortcuts
Phishing aims to:
Repair devices
Steal sensitive information
Speed up internet
Install updates
Ransomware locks:
Keyboard
Files until payment
Wi-Fi router
Camera lens
Encryption converts data into:
Plain text
Unreadable format
Printed paper
Barcodes
Two-factor authentication improves security by:
Adding a second verification step
Changing wallpaper
Resetting device
Auto-replying
A firewall is used to:
Boost brightness
Filter network traffic
Clean keyboards
Enhance audio
Spyware is designed to:
Improve boot speed
Secretly monitor activities
Fix hardware
Update apps
A data breach occurs when:
Files are cleaned
Unauthorized access happens
Devices restart
Antennas break
Public Wi-Fi is risky because:
It is too fast
Attackers may intercept data
It drains battery
It blocks signals
A secure website starts with:
http://
https://
ftp://
mailto://
