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90 How often do the sensors inside the 2026 FIFA World Cup ball record data?
30 What is the most commonly used password?
10 What was Nintendo's first ever product (back in 1889)?
10 Which tech company invented work-from-home, then killed it?
80 The first CD recorder was shockingly expensive – guess how much
70 Which mobile app was the first to reach 1 billion users?
70 It was 1995, 15-inch 800x600 monitors were the norm, what kind of monitor did John Carmack use to code Quake?
30 These famous tech leaders are all college dropouts – except one. Who actually completed their degree?
30 Only one of these tech "sports" is real. Can you guess which?
80 Who coined the term "cloud computing" and when?
90 Intel's Pentium 4 successor aimed for a clock speed so extreme it cancelled the chip. What frequency was "Tejas" supposed to reach?
10 Where did the name "Bluetooth" come from?
90 TechSpot originally launched in the 1990s as a personal tech blog. What was it called?
80 Windows 1.0 was originally developed under what early project name?
30 What was the first RGB-lit PC component that wasn't a case?
10 Guess who said this in 2004: "Two years from now, (email) spam will be solved"
50 Which consumer CPU was the first to add on-die graphics (not just northbridge-level)?
30 What was the first Android smartphone ever released?
50 Which tech company launched the world's first bug bounty program?
90 Which browser first introduced private/incognito mode?
50 When was the first SMS text message sent?
10 Which was the first breakthrough SSD available to consumers?
90 Who actually created Siri?
10 Who invented the hard drive?
10 Wi-Fi 7 brings all of these improvements over Wi-Fi 6, except...
80 How many meters of tape are found in a 60-minute audio cassette tape?
30 Which modern OS was the first to add system-wide dark mode?
70 In computing history, who were the "Dirty Dozen"?
10 What was the first computer to win a chess match against a world champion?
50 Before Nvidia, founder and CEO Jensen Huang designed microprocessors for...
50 What was the first ransomware attack to demand payment in Bitcoin?
70 Before it was known as Adobe Photoshop, what was the original name of the software in 1987?
30 Which AMD CPUs were famously unlocked for overclocking using the "pencil trick"?
10 When Verizon bought AOL in 2015, how many people were still paying for dial-up Internet?
70 Which two tech IPOs warned investors they might "never achieve profitability," but became wildly successful?
70 What was the first wristwatch that could make phone calls?
90 What's the most expensive domain in internet history?
30 If you're buying a new SSD, which is the fastest, most durable type of NAND flash memory?
70 What was the population of the Death Star?
30 The first mobile phone, the Motorola DynaTAC debuted in 1983. What was its price?
50 Which operating system was targeted by the first ever mobile phone virus?
10 Before becoming the iconic star of Super Mario Bros., what was Mario originally named?
90 Which video game shipped the first day-one patch in history?
10 What was the storage size of the first USB flash drive?
10 How much power can a PCIe x16 graphics card draw from the motherboard alone?
80 Before developing Steam, Valve reached out to many companies to help them, with no success. Which of these was not among those approached?
70 The PlayStation 2 borrowed its iconic look from which unreleased console?
30 The PlayStation 5 is powered by a GPU roughly equal to which PC graphics card?
70 If one PC creates a noise level of 20dB and another makes 40dB of noise, roughly how much louder is the second computer?
30 Which of these features were part of the 1982 Epson HX-20 notebook computer?

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Latest Trivia

90 How often do the sensors inside the 2026 FIFA World Cup ball record data?

30 What is the most commonly used password?

10 What was Nintendo's first ever product (back in 1889)?

10 Which tech company invented work-from-home, then killed it?

80 The first CD recorder was shockingly expensive – guess how much

70 Which mobile app was the first to reach 1 billion users?

70 It was 1995, 15-inch 800x600 monitors were the norm, what kind of monitor did John Carmack use to code Quake?

30 These famous tech leaders are all college dropouts – except one. Who actually completed their degree?

30 Only one of these tech "sports" is real. Can you guess which?

80 Who coined the term "cloud computing" and when?

90 Intel's Pentium 4 successor aimed for a clock speed so extreme it cancelled the chip. What frequency was "Tejas" supposed to reach?

10 Where did the name "Bluetooth" come from?

90 TechSpot originally launched in the 1990s as a personal tech blog. What was it called?

80 Windows 1.0 was originally developed under what early project name?

30 What was the first RGB-lit PC component that wasn't a case?

10 Guess who said this in 2004: "Two years from now, (email) spam will be solved"

50 Which consumer CPU was the first to add on-die graphics (not just northbridge-level)?

30 What was the first Android smartphone ever released?

50 Which tech company launched the world's first bug bounty program?

90 Which browser first introduced private/incognito mode?

50 When was the first SMS text message sent?

10 Which was the first breakthrough SSD available to consumers?

90 Who actually created Siri?

10 Who invented the hard drive?

10 Wi-Fi 7 brings all of these improvements over Wi-Fi 6, except...

80 How many meters of tape are found in a 60-minute audio cassette tape?

30 Which modern OS was the first to add system-wide dark mode?

70 In computing history, who were the "Dirty Dozen"?

10 What was the first computer to win a chess match against a world champion?

50 Before Nvidia, founder and CEO Jensen Huang designed microprocessors for...

50 What was the first ransomware attack to demand payment in Bitcoin?

70 Before it was known as Adobe Photoshop, what was the original name of the software in 1987?

30 Which AMD CPUs were famously unlocked for overclocking using the "pencil trick"?

10 When Verizon bought AOL in 2015, how many people were still paying for dial-up Internet?

70 Which two tech IPOs warned investors they might "never achieve profitability," but became wildly successful?

70 What was the first wristwatch that could make phone calls?

90 What's the most expensive domain in internet history?

30 If you're buying a new SSD, which is the fastest, most durable type of NAND flash memory?

70 What was the population of the Death Star?

30 The first mobile phone, the Motorola DynaTAC debuted in 1983. What was its price?

50 Which operating system was targeted by the first ever mobile phone virus?

10 Before becoming the iconic star of Super Mario Bros., what was Mario originally named?

90 Which video game shipped the first day-one patch in history?

10 What was the storage size of the first USB flash drive?

10 How much power can a PCIe x16 graphics card draw from the motherboard alone?

80 Before developing Steam, Valve reached out to many companies to help them, with no success. Which of these was not among those approached?

70 The PlayStation 2 borrowed its iconic look from which unreleased console?

30 The PlayStation 5 is powered by a GPU roughly equal to which PC graphics card?

70 If one PC creates a noise level of 20dB and another makes 40dB of noise, roughly how much louder is the second computer?

30 Which of these features were part of the 1982 Epson HX-20 notebook computer?