Technology Quiz
Questions
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Who of these is considered by many to be the greatest science and technology thinker in history?
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What law states that the processing power of integrated circuits doubles every year; Gordon’s law, Moore’s Law, Feynman’s law, Einstein’s law?
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What is the test, named after a well known computer scientist, that determines whether a machine exhibits sufficient intelligence to be indistinguishable from a human; The Turing Test, The Benson Test, The Enigma Test, The Espy Test?
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In the context of emerging medical technology that relates to the brain, BCI (sometimes referred as BMI) refers to what; brain contribution immersion, brain computer interface, brain connection immersion, brain computer interface?
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Put these inventions in order, oldest first: Gun&Cannon, Barbed wire, Electronic digital computer, Light bulb, Compact Disc/CD, Glassware, Magnetic compass, Soap, Ballpoint pen?
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Fentanyl is part of what societal crisis of technology and business in the USA, also emerging elsewhere?
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The technologies TMO, VAR, Hawk-Eye and Cyclops feature in?
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Where did multi-billionaire Elon Musk put his Tesla sports car with mannequin driver in February 2018?
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Name the space telescope successor to Hubble, to be launched in 2019?
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Marc Benioff, founder/CEO of $4bn B2B cloud services corporation Salesforce.com, at Davos 2018 became another senior internet expert to liken platforms like Facebook to?
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In December 2017 the UK's Institute for Public Policy Research 'Think Tank' forecast what % of UK jobs could be automated by c.2030/40?
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Horse height is counted in what very old unit of measurement?
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What is the name of the IBM computer that eventually controversially beat chess genius Gary Kasparov in a rematch in 1997?
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'Hobby horse' was the first 'mass production' name of which invention, 320 of which were made in 1819?
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What sort of wheel was the first to be invented, about 7,000 years ago?
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In 2018 Facebook's Oculus team launched a 'new unit of time' (1/705,600,000 of a second) for sound/video editing called a?
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Roughly how many years ago was fire-making technology devised?
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What now attracts bigger viewing audiences than soccer?
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What iconic Danish play technology launched in 1949 has made over 400billion units?
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Stannic, Ferric, Cuprous, Plumbous refer respectively to what four technological elements?
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What unit of length equates to c.9 trillion miles?
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“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity...” is popularly but almost certainly falsely attributed to?
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Which Ancient Greek genius is credited eponymously for establishing the triangle theorem that that “the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides”?
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The fundamental computing unit, a 'bit', is a portmanteau (combination) of which two words?
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Widely used in Africa, Opera Mini is what sort of innovation?
Answers
- Leonardo
- Moore’s law. Moore’s law comes from Gordon Moore who co-founded Intel and wrote in a 1965 paper about the doubling of the number of transistors on an integrated circuit and predicted the growth would continue into the next decade, and in 1974 revised the theory to state the growth would continue doubling every 2 years. This is one of the primary reasons behind the rate of increase in technological advancement. Recently however there has been a stall in the rate of increase due to the limit of how small transistors can get, and therefore the power of these circuits has plateaued. This is causing research into other ways to increase the speed of computers, including the potential use of the electron spin representing binary code giving rise to quantum computers that could be far more powerful than what we have today.
- The Turing Test. The Turing test is named after Alan Turing who worked on artificial intelligence 10 years prior to the emergence of the field. The idea behind the test is that a human would evaluate which of two different conversations was with a human or a machine. All participants would be separated from another, and the conversations were limited to text to avoid the machines ability to render speech a parameter. If the evaluator could not reliably determine which response comes from a machine, the machine is said to be Turing complete. Turing is also famously known for working on a code breaking machine known as the Bombe which deciphered the German enigma code used to scramble German naval messages. Estimates of how many lives saved from his machine vary, but some argue it prevented two years of war, suggesting saving 2 million lives. Turing ended up marrying one of his Hut 8 colleagues Joan Clarke, but before marriage admitted to his homosexuality. A few years later he met started a relationship with another man named Arnold Murray. On 23rd January 1952 Turing’s house was burgled, and Murray admitted the burglar was an acquaintance. Turing reported the crime, and during the investigation admitted to his sexual relationship with Murray. Homosexuality in Britain was against the law at this time, and so during the trial Turing pleaded guilty and was given the option of imprisonment or a form of chemical castration. Turing chose the latter and was banned from carrying on with cryptographic consulting for the Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ).
- Brain computer interface
- Glassware
- Opioid
- Sport
- Outer Space
- James Webb
- Cigarettes
- 44%
- Heads; Hands Feet; or Legs
- Deep Blue
- Bicycle
- Potters
- Flick
- Over 500,000
- Computer gaming
- Lego
- Tin, Iron, Copper and Lead
- Light-year
- Einstein
- Pythagoras
- Binary Digit
- Mobile web browser