1. Although the keyboard shortcut for 8.

What word is often abbreviated as

copying information is Ctrl + C, the Fn on a keyboard?
shortcut for pasting information is
not Ctrl + P (that's a shortcut for Answer: Function
printing). Instead, the shortcut letter
for pasting is closer to the shortcuts 9. In 2021, an Apple II computer
for copying and cutting. What letter manual signed by what mock
is used to to paste information when turtleneck enthusiast sold for almost
clicked synchronously with Ctrl? $800,000 at auction?

Answer: V Answer: Steve Jobs

2. What startup, acquired by 10. Khula is a startup software

Facebook for $1 billion in 2012, platform that aims to provide
became the fourth most technological infrastructure for
downloaded app in the 2010s and is agriculture companies. It is based in
known for the posting of pictures? what country, with one of its three
capitals being Cape Town?
Answer: Instagram
Answer: South Africa
3. What is the programming language
developed by James Gosling at Sun 11. What popular operating
Microsystems and named after the system, launched in 1991, also has
type of coffee from Indonesia? its own mascot, Tux the penguin?

Answer: Java Answer: Linux

4. One gigabyte is equal to how many 12. In an attempt to protect

megabytes? proprietary data and day-to-day
workplace online activity, many
Answer: 1000 companies utilize a VPN for
employees which provides a secure
5. Pierre Omidyar founded which connection to a different network
popular online auction company in than public Wi-Fi. What does the
1995 out of San Jose, California? initialism "VPN" stand for?

Answer: eBay Answer: virtual private network

6. In 1999 Shigetaka Kurita invented 13. Which American tech

what keyboard additions for cell company started with its founders'
phones that would eventually idea to rent out an air mattress in
replace emoticons and even get their San Fransisco living room to
their own movie? travelers hoping to avoid the city's
high cost of rent?
Answer: Emojis
Answer: Airbnb
7. When a password is limited strictly
to numeric characters, the secret is 14. While building magnetrons at
often referred to as a PIN. What MIT in the 1940s, Percy Spencer
does that acronym stand for? noticed a melting chocolate bar in
his pocket. Deeper investigation
Answer: Personal Identification and exploration led to the invention
Number of what household device? Spencer
received no royalties for this
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 invention, first marketed as the used to study the ionosphere and
Radarange. while it was deactivated a decade
later in 1972, it is expected to
Answer: Microwave remain in existence for 1000 years.
What type of device was the
15. What computer and printer Alouette 1?
giant was founded in 1939 in Palo,
Alto, CA? It is sometimes better Answer: satellite
known by the two-letter acronym
based on its founders names. 21. What company first
introduced their Chromebook
Answer: Hewlett-Packard hardware in 2011? The product's
low price point proved popular with
16. Supposedly pronounced as teachers as a 2018 estimate
"wizziwig," what is the meaning of indicated that over 60% of
the acronym WYSIWYG? The classroom mobile devices in the
phrase largely means that the U.S. were Chromebooks.
printer will print what you see on
your monitor. Answer: Google

Answer: What you see is what you 22. Often pronounced “gooey”,
get GUI is short for what well-known
three-word tech term?
17. With technology based on an
all-back-contact solar cell invented Answer: Graphical User Interface
at Stanford University, what is the
name of the American energy 23. There are three universities in
company that designs and the state of Georgia with a student
manufactures photovoltaic cells and enrollment of at least 25,000.
is publicly traded with SPWR as its University of Georgia and Georgia
ticker? State are two of them. What is the
third?
Answer: SunPower
Answer: ga tech
18. Dolly the Ewe's birth in 1996
and subsequent life helped prove 24. Known in the U.S. as the
the viability of what scientific and Intolerable Acts and in the U.K. as
technological process? the Coercive Acts, this series of
restrictive laws was passed in
Answer: Cloning response to what iconic, rebellious
American event that occurred on
19. "Cars" was the final Pixar film December 16, 1773?
to be released on VHS and also the
first to be released on what post- Answer: Boston Tea Party
DVD high-resolution technology?
25. Scientists in South Korea are
Answer: Blu Ray developing a robot that can change
its entire appearance to match its
20. The Alouette 1 refers to a surrounding colors, like a
piece of technology famously chameleon. This will be a high tech
released by Canada in 1962, example of what “C” practice of
making Canada only the third disguising something by covering
country globally to construct such a up how it looks?
device. This historic technology was
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 Answer: Camouflage Answer: Cricket

26. Although the exact origin is 32. An IT security company co-

unknown, this piece of technology founded in 1993 by Gil Shwed and
and calculating tool used beans or based in Israel is ______ Point
stones moved in grooves of sand to Software Technologies. Fill in the
perform calculations. Although one word blank, also an
computers have mostly replaced it, announcement made in chess when
this tool is still in use for teaching the King is in initial danger.
arithmetic to children in many parts
of the world. What is it? Answer: Check Point Software
Technologies
Answer: Abacus
33. THINK was the company
27. According to Michael Scott, motto for more than 40 years, for
there have been eight "IT guys," the company often referred to as
including Lozenge, Shorts, and "Big Blue." What is this frequently-
Nick, at what fictional company on acronymed company?
"The Office?"
Answer: IBM
Answer: Dunder Mifflin
28. 34. Featuring vocals from Justin
The Penguin, Colonel Mustard, Timberlake, "Ayo Technology" is a
Colonel Klink, Mr. Peanut, Count 2007 song that hit the Top Ten in
von Count, and Charlie McCarthy both the UK and the US from what
are a few famous fictional wearers rapper whose name is also a sum
of what optical accessory? of money?

Answer: Monocle Answer: 50 Cent

29. That connects: in an August 35. In 2017, Canadian actor

2021 blog post, CEO Ryan Thomas Middleditch signed on as
Roslansky approved permanent the spokesperson for Verizon
remote work for employees of what Wireless ads. He is most famous,
business-oriented social network however, for his televised
company? appearance as Richard Hendricks
on what tech-y HBO series named
Answer: LinkedIn after the California location in which
it is set?
30. The first FDA-approved
telemedicine robot that uses Answer: Silicon Valley
autonomous movement technology
is the RP-VITA, from the Roomba- 36. Typically considered the
making firm that shares what name successor to dial-up internet access
with a Will Smith movie? in many American homes, what was
the "B" term for wide bandwidth
Answer: iRobot data transmission which was able to
transport multiple signals and traffic
31. What wireless telecom types? This replacement technology
company is a wholly-owned allowed for always-on and faster
subsidiary of AT&T and shares its internet.
name with the insects in the
Gryllidae family? Answer: Broadband

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37. What delicious computer term Answer: defibrillator
did web browser programmer Lou
Montulli coin to refer to information 44. Biotech that exists on a scale
that is sent from the browser to the of one billionth of a meter is called
web server? ______biotechnology. Fill in the one
word prefix, also the name of a
Answer: Cookie flash memory version of the iPod
Mini that was sold from 2005 to
38. What technology company, 2017.
now mostly known as a
telecommunications giant, gained Answer: nanobiotechnology
mass market popularity with its
release of the “RAZR” cell phone in 45. As the IoT gained commercial
2004 which became the best-selling prominence throughout the 2010s,
clamshell cell phone in the world? the rise of cybersecurity occurred
alongside it as there were more
Answer: Motorola potential attack surfaces. What
does IoT stand for?
39. In education, the acronym
STEM stands for "science, Answer: Internet of Things
technology, engineering, and
mathematics." When an A is added 46. What private electronics
to form the acronym STEAM, what accessory company based in Fort
does the A stand for? Collins, CO is most well-known for a
series of mammalian named phone
Answer: arts cases that are water-resistant,
shock-resistant, and drop-resistant?
40. In the nursery rhyme "Hey,
Diddle Diddle," what type of Answer: OtterBox
mammal leaped over the Earth's
largest satellite? 47. What Google software,
debuting in 2016, offers vocal help
Answer: Cow to Google mobile and smart home
device owners? This virtual helper’s
41. Which video game console name implies that its job is to help
released in 2006 pioneered the use you reach your goals.
of motion controls in its gameplay?
Answer: Google Assistant
Answer: Nintendo Wii
48. Since 2013, what technology
42. The first Android-powered company focused on payments has
device from Samsung Mobile also owned the popular smartphone
became the first in a long-running cash transfer app Venmo?
product line for the company. What
was the name of this device? Answer: Paypal

Answer: Samsung Galaxy 49. What is the typical four-letter

word that is occasionally referred to
43. Placed in the chest to monitor as "Whole Home" Wi-Fi which
and correct abnormal heart leverages a main router and a
rhythms, the medical device known series of nodes placed around a
as an "ICD" is short for "implantable home for full coverage? These all
cardioverter" WHAT? share the same SSID and
password.
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 to individual consumers?
Answer: Mesh Wi-Fi
Answer: McAfee
50. Now appearing prophetic,
what device was announced in 56. Kevin Mitnick, Adrian Lamo,
2007 with the following slogan? Albert Gonzalez, Anonymous, and
"This is only the beginning." Jeanson James Ancheta are all
(in)famous in what specific area of
Answer: iPhone computers?

51. Announced in 2020, the Answer: security

program AlphaFold 2 program
became record-settingly good at 57. The name Wi-Fi was coined
using AI algorithms to accurately by brand-consulting firm Interbrand
predict the structure of what when asked to come up with a
biomolecules? name that was "a little catchier than
'IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence'."
Answer: Proteins The term Wi-Fi was ultimately
chosen as a pun on "hi-fi." What
52. In 1998. Jeff Bezos made a does hi-fi stand for as it relates to
deal with British film fan Col audio technology?
Needham to purchase what movie
database site for $55 million? Answer: High fidelity

Answer: IMDb 58. The flu shot is recommended

by the WHO and CDC for yearly
53. Drew Houston and Arash vaccination for nearly all people
Ferdowsi were MIT students that over the age of six months. What
founded a file hosting service in animal's eggs are often used to
2007. Fast forward 11 years, and produce this vaccine each year?
they were taking this company
public with an Initial Public Offering. Answer: Hen / Chicken
What is the name of this "D"
company? 59. A Rochester, New York
developed what open-source
Answer: Dropbox operating system written in way
more than three lines of code and
54. A company that manages named for what short poetry form?
customer service employees on
behalf of other brands, with remote Answer: Haiku
employees connected to their
Alexandria, Viriginia headquarters, 60. In a bid to challenge
is ______desk Connect. Fill in the Microsoft's dominance of enterprise
three-letter acronym blank, usually laptops, Google announced a
referring to celebrities or people partnership with what long-time
who receive special treatment. Microsoft partner in 2019 focused
on the Latitude line of laptops?
Answer: VIP
Answer: Dell
55. What “M” computer security
company, founded by namesake 61. Though its original iteration
John in 1987 before being acquired was "monoaural" and wooden, it's
by Intel in 2011, is well known for its now seen with medical
anti-virus software that is available professionals world wide and nearly
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 always is biaural (that is, both ears later and had a "breakout year" in
are used.) What is it? 2020.

Answer: Stethoscope Answer: Zoom

62. The word “cyborg” is a 68. What is the two-word official

portmanteau of what two-word term name of the feature in the Zoom
describing a bionic human, app in which smaller groups of
according to Merriam-Webster? people meet separately from a main
meeting?
Answer: Cybernetic organism
Answer: Breakout Rooms
63. What five-letter palindrome is
both the name of a water 69. Developed by Unimation, the
transportation vessel and a Programmable Universal
transportation-focused website that Manipulation Arm is also known by
went public in 2012? At one point, the much shorter name of what
this company's namesake app was fierce animal?
featured on Travel + Leisure's list of
"Best Apps and Websites for Answer: PUMA / Puma
Travelers."
70. What palindromic technology
Answer: Kayak uses radio waves to determine
location information on objects? It
64. A nephrologist is a doctor was also the name of the Corporal
who specializes in the treatment played by Gary Burghoff on
and diagnosis of diseases affecting “M*A*S*H."
what organ?
Answer: Radar
Answer: Kidneys
71. A recent product from Ontel
65. A pre-cursor to Wi-Fi was an for heat production is the ______
ethernet connection, and a Hat, which uses water technology
precursor to ethernet was the and a UV shield to keep your head
ALOHAnet which used a UHF cool. Fill in the blank, also a term for
wireless packet network to connect the northernmost region of the
parts of what U.S. state? world.

Answer: Hawaii Answer: Arctic

66. Wi-Fi is a family of wireless 72. What giant Chinese

network protocols modeled after the technology and e-commerce
IEEE 802 set of LAN protocols. company was named by founder
What does the initialism LAN stand Jack Ma after a character from the
for? Arabian Nights fairy tales?

Answer: Local Area Network Answer: Alibaba

67. Eric Yuan is a former Cisco 73. The CF Toronto Eaton Centre
engineer and executive that left the has a holographic fashion show
telecom giant to found what speedy display thanks to what 5-letter cloud
meeting company in 2011? The technology? Coincidentally, It is the
company released its first version of first letters of the capital of Oregon
their eponymous software two years in the US.
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 Answer: Microsoft
Answer: PORTL
80. A European venture capital
74. What term is used for the firm, founded in 1996 by Neil and
most basic level or core of an David Rimer with dual headquarters
operating system, responsible for in San Francisco and London, that
resource allocation, file invests in technology enable
management and security? In a companies, is ______ Ventures. Fill
different context, this word can also in the one word blank, also the term
mean the seed and hard husk of a for a list of names at the back of a
cereal. book, indicating on what pages they
occur.
Answer: Kernel
Answer: Index Ventures
75. Steve Jobs is famously one of
the two men who co-founded Apple 81. Larry Ellison co-founded a
in 1976. The other co-founder was company in 1977 with the rather
also named Steve. What was this boring name of Software
other man's surname? Development Laboratories (SDL). In
1983, the company introduced what
Answer: Wozniak word into its official name? This
new word is the name of the
76. Experiments in microreactor company today and also means a
technology in 2021 at Eielson Air person considered to provide wise
Force Base in what Alaskan city counsel or prophetic predictions.
has major ramifications for potential
energy for consumers across the Answer: Oracle
entirety of the state?
82. In what early computer game
Answer: Fairbanks, Alaska did pioneers often die of dysentery?
The game was later inducted into
77. What is the 6-letter term for a the World Video Game Hall of
group of computers that is Fame.
networked together and used by
hackers to steal information? Answer: Oregon Trail

Answer: Botnet 83. A dude named Chip

Morningstar received the first JSON
78. Which password recovery message, a format derived from
tool, developed for Microsoft what core language repped by the
Windows, is named after the first "JS"?
two sons of Adam and Eve in the
biblical Book of Genesis? Answer: JavaScript

Answer: Cain and Abel 84. The 2.0 version of the

Android operating system was
79. The European internet nicknamed "Eclair" and the 2.3
company Skype was purchased by version was nicknamed
eBay in 2005 for $2.5 billion, but "Gingerbread." In between was the
only six years later the video chat five-letter name of a cold dessert
company was purchased by what which exploded in popularity in the
other tech firm for a new purchase 2000s with self-serve toppings.
price of $8.5 billion? What dessert is this?

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 Answer: Froyo
Answer: Barack Obama
85. Released in 2004 by Blizzard
Entertainment and set in the 90. What medical device includes
fictional universe of Azeroth, what is the latin word for “cloud” and has
the name of the computer game the ability to evaporate liquid
that became the world's most medication into mist to enable users
popular "MMORPG" (massively to inhale it into their lungs?
multiplayer online role-playing
game) within a few years and Answer: Nebulizer
continues to be referenced in
popular culture with its three-letter 91. Meaning a digital system for
abbreviation? recording the transaction of assets
in which the transactions and their
Answer: World of Warcraft details are recorded in multiple
places at the same time, the
86. British-born geophysicist abbreviation DLT stands for "digital
Cecil Green lived in Toronto and WHAT technology?"
San Francisco growing up, and
ultimately earned two college Answer: Ledger
degrees from M.I.T. However, when
he cofounded a company, the firm 92. Dual-energy X-ray
included what other state in its absorptiometry, also known as a
name? You might be most familiar DEXA scan, is frequently used to
with one of their products from measure the density of what
algebra class. material in the body?

Answer: Texas Instruments Answer: Bone

87. What is the somewhat-logical 93. In 2022, Credit Kudos, a

term for the internet prank and credit evaluation tool for lenders
meme in which an unexpected based out of the UK, was
appearance of the music video for purchased by what technology giant
the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never with a fruit-based name?
Gonna Give You Up" is "planted"
into an unrelated link? The meme's Answer: Apple
popularity dates back to 2008.
94. PDF is, unsurprisingly, an
Answer: Rickrolling acronym. Name any of the three
words represented by PDF.
88. ByteDance is a Chinese
internet technology company Answer: Portable Document Format
headquartered in Beijing that is
most famously the owner of what 95. Pocket, Light, Color, and
mega-popular social media Advance were all styles or variants
platform? of what video game hardware
system?
Answer: TikTok
Answer: Game Boy
89. Dr. D.J. Patil was named the
first White House Chief Data 96. Andy Rubin is known as one
Scientist of the Office of Science of the three founders of what
and Technology Policy, under which massively popular cell phone
President's administration? operating system?
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 Answer: Android Answer: Wall Street

97. On November 23, 2021, what 103. The 2000s robots Dextre and
tech conglomerate sued NSO Canadarm were both pieces of
Group, an Israeli firm that sells technology developed by what
iPhone-hacking software to federally-funded Canadian agency?
governments and law enforcement
agencies? Answer: Canadian Space Agency

Answer: Apple 104. An American company,

founded by Olivier Pomel in 2010,
98. Developed at MIT and at that monitors cloud-scale
Boston Dynamics, Spot is a applications through a SaaS-based
contact-free robot who helps with data analytics platform, is
basic patient care and is mounted DataD______. Fill in the one word
on a body with what guessable blank, an animal seen in their
number of legs? purple logo playfully holding a chart.

Answer: Four Answer: Dog

99. In 2011, Manish Chandra 105. The world's largest

founded an online new and used technology-focused venture capital
clothing marketplace that trades on fund is the Vision Fund with over
the NASDAQ under what four-letter $100 billion in capital. The fund is
Spice Girl stage name? owned and managed by what
Japanese multinational
Answer: Posh / (for Poshmark) conglomerate holding company?

100. Anne Wojcicki co-founded Answer: SoftBank

and currently is CEO of what
privately genomics and 106. The Massachusetts Institute
biotechnology company that won of Technology (MIT) is the majority
Time Magazine's "Invention of the owner of what manufacturing
Year" award in in 2008 for offering company which predominantly sells
the first at-home autosomal DNA audio equipment? The company
test for ancestral purposes? was founded by an associate
professor who later in life donated
Answer: 23andMe his shares to the school.

101. Used in one of the first Answer: Bose

Canadian keyboard layouts, and
later copied by computer 107. How many times would you
manufacturers such as Apple, the have had to hit the 4 button to text
snowflake-like button appearing on the word “Hi” on a flip phone’s non-
some French Canadian keyboards T9 number pad?
represents what standard key?
Answer: 5 times
Answer: Control
108. What “A” antivirus software is
102. Gordon Gekko famously uses a freeware solution available across
a bulky Motorola 8000X Dynatac multiple platforms, with an amoeba
mobile phone in what 1980s movie like orange “A” as a logo? It is also
named after a Manhattan street? a pirate word meaning “Stop.”
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 produce a desired electrical
Answer: Avast characteristic? In a different
context, this word refers to the
109. What commonplace medical administration of drugs to enhance
device is a plunger attached to the sporting performance.
a cylindrical tube, allowing for even
intake and discharge of fluids? It Answer: Doping
gets its name from the Greek word
for “tube.” 116. "2PM" is the Peloton
username of what NFL athlete, who
Answer: Syringe currently plays quarterback for the
Kansas City Chiefs?
110. The first clinical implantation
of what type of device occurred in Answer: Patrick Mahomes
1958 at the Karolinska Institute in
Solna, Sweden, using a product 117. Played by LeVar Burton,
designed by Rune Elmqvist and Lieutenant Geordi La Forge wore a
surgeon Åke Senning? VISOR, a curved device worn over
the face like sunglasses, to restore
Answer: Artificial pacemaker his vision on which TV series in the
"Star Trek" franchise?
111. Doug Engelbart was the
inventor of what computer Answer: The Next Generation
accessory? The first one was made
from wood. 118. Like and share: In June of
2021, what social media giant
Answer: Mouse announced they were expanding
the option to permanently work
112. What is the "sizzling" name of remotely to employees across all
the proprietary computer bus and levels?
power connector that has been
used to charge and connect Apple Answer: Facebook
mobile devices since 2012?
119. Internet mogul Richard Barton
Answer: Lightning founded the online travel
companyExpedia, the employment
113. COVID-19 revived the near search engine and company review
obsolete Drinker Tank, popular website Glassdoor, and what
polio-era negative pressure internet-based real estate
ventilators better known by what company?
metallic name?
Answer: Zillow
Answer: Iron Lung
120. The four principle wireless
114. The first compact disc was encryption standards available at
created in 1982 by Sony and what most access points are WPA,
electronics brand that is known for WPA2, WPA3, and which less-
originally selling lightbulbs and was secure fourth option?
founded by Gerard Philips?
Answer: WEP
Answer: Philips
121. Microsoft reported 32 million
115. What word means to add an daily active users on March 11,
impurity to a semiconductor to 2020, and 115 million daily active
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 users as of October 28, of what Answer: Purple
video conferencing app?
128. What media streaming
Answer: Teams device's name translates to the
number 6 in Japanese, a nod to this
122. First performed by physician being the 6th company started by
Raymond Damadian in 1977, MRI its founder, Anthony Wood?
is short for what radiology technique
which uses scanners with strong Answer: Roku
magnetic fields to create anatomical
images of the physiological 129. With more than 104 million
processes of the body? installs since January of 2020, what
app is on pace to be the most
Answer: Magnetic Resonance downloaded non-game app of the
Imaging year?

123. "Keyhole" is another name for Answer: TikTok

minimally invasive surgery known
by what L-word that roughly mean 130. What NYC-based fitness
"seeing a flank"? technology company raised around
$75 million in its approximately four
Answer: Laparoscopy years in business before being
acquired by Lululemon for $500
124. There are two massive solar million in 2020?
arrays connected to the Zvezda
Service Module, a component of Answer: Mirror
what ginormous space thing?
131. Both the tax preparation
Answer: International Space Station application TurboTax and the small
/ ISS business accounting program
QuickBooks are products owned
125. What innovative radio and sold by what publicly-traded
company developed the Music company?
Genome Project to classify music
by mirroring mathematical Answer: Intuit
techniques for gene sequencing
within human DNA? The company 132. In the week between March
is named after the first human 11 and March 18, 2020, what
woman created by the gods in Microsoft app went from 32 million
Greek mythology. to 44 million daily active users, up
to 115 million by October of the
Answer: Pandora same year?

126. Okay, funny guy: the Latin for Answer: Teams

"upper arm" gave us the common
English name of what upper arm 133. Sequoia and Accel are both
bone? financial firms that are considered
hallmark members of what sub-
Answer: Humerus class of private equity investing?

127. What color do you get if you Answer: Venture Capital

mix together the two colors that
appear twice in the Google logo? 134. Laser is an acronym that
stands for Light Amplification by
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 Stimulated Emission of _______. What does JPL stand for?
What word fills in the blank?
Answer: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Answer: Radiation
141. The Kerry biopharmaceutical
135. What technology publication brand is leader in what “N” concept
was founded by Louis Rossetto and as it applies to cells? It is the
has a title one letter away from a scientific analysis of how food
synonym for "sleepy?" provides cells with life.

Answer: Wired Answer: Nutrition

136. Paul Allen, an American 142. What 2008-founded internet

billionaire who passed away in company with a "fowl" name was
2018, was the owner of the Portland founded as a privacy-focused
Trailblazers (NBA), Seattle alternative to Google's search
Seahawks (NFL), and a part owner engine and has a name only a few
of the Seattle Sounders (MLS). letters shy of a well-known
Before entering the world of sports children's game? As of 2020, the
ownership, Allen was best known company has fundraised more than
for co-founding what company? $10 million in venture capital.

Answer: Microsoft Answer: DuckDuckGo

137. Because it's "nature's 143. What Japanese automaker

engineer," a beaver named Tim uses the expression "Zoom-Zoom"
serves as the mascot for the sports which describes the "emotion of
teams at what East Coast private motion" it claims is inherent in its
research university? cars? Obviously, the word later
became more associated with a
Answer: MIT videotechnology company.

138. Declared by medical device Answer: Mazda

manufacturers in each market
where they plan to sell a new 144. If the star of the "Mission:
product, the intellectual-property Impossible" movies takes a nasty
acronym FTO stands for "freedom spill, he might get a CT scan. The C
to" WHAT? stands for "Computed," and what
does the T stand for?
Answer: operate
Answer: Tomography
139. What is the name of the
spacecraft launched in 1989 to 145. The emerging technology
observe Jupiter that is named for known as DeFi intends to place
the Italian astronomer who is power into the hands of users
regarded as the “Father of the without the need of Financial
Scientific Method”? Institutions such as banks or
exchanges. What is the full two-
Answer: Galileo word name of DeFi?

140. Managed by the California Answer: Decentralized Finance

Institute of Technology, JPL is a
federally funded research and 146. In a 1987 film starring Peter
development center in Pasadena. Weller and Nancy Allen, the city of
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 Detroit signs a deal with the for soccer, running, basketball, and
company Omni Consumer Products more?
to re-build parts of the city into a
utopia and introduce a law Answer: Flyknit
enforcement robot ED-209. What is
this film? 152. Including "Deaver," "Army-
Navy," and "Bookwaiter" models,
Answer: RoboCop what R-word means a device used
by a surgeon to hold an incision
147. The tiny town of Green Bank, open while performing an
West Virginia is located within the operation?
National Radio QZ because it is
home to the world's largest fully Answer: Retractor
steerable radio telescope. This
means that there are strict Wi-Fi 153. In the medical field, what is
and cell phone restrictions in the the name for a tube typically made
city. What does QZ stand for in this of plastic or metal that is inserted
context? into the lumen of a vessel or duct
with the goal of keeping a
Answer: Quiet Zone passageway open?

148. Although the company Answer: Stent

maintains and distributes many
types of open source software, it is 154. In October 2020, a San
most well known for its enterprise Francisco-based company named
Linux and virtualization products. Whisper raised $35 million in Series
What is this company B funding. Coincidentally, Quiet
headquartered in Raleigh and Ventures led the fundraising round
purchased by IBM in 2019? You for Whisper and the company is
might also see their name written known as a manufacturer of what
when visiting a haberdasher. piece of medical technology?

Answer: Red Hat Answer: Hearing aids

149. What Greek physician is 155. A Danish multinational

considered the "father of modern pharmaceutical and biotechnology
medicine?" company that makes the drugs
Levemir and Victoza is ______
Answer: Hippocrates Nordisk. Fill in the one word “N”
blank.
150. Ajit Pai was the chairman of
what federal organization when it Answer: Novo Nordisk
repealed "Net Neutrality" rules in
2017? 156. In November 2020, Amazon
launched "Amazon Pharmacy" as a
Answer: Federal Communications new Prime membership benefit.
Commission This new line of business is built in
part on the technology of a 2018
151. What Nike-launched material acquisition. What was this
is described as "technology [that] alliterative pharmacy-technology
uses high-strength fibers to create company that Amazon acquired?
lightweight uppers with targeted
areas of support, stretch and Answer: PillPack
breathability" and is found on shoes
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157. What mechanical device can 163. In general, the über-popular
be described as a method of database language SQL has four
applying pressure to an inked types of "join" functions: left, right,
surface onto a medium, thereby and what two other joins?
transferring the ink? This two word
device has St. Brigit as its patron Answer: Outer and inner
saint.
164. At 440,000 tweets per minute,
Answer: Printing Press the most tweeted moment of the
2016 Oscars occurred during
158. A web infrastructure and Leonardo DiCaprio's acceptance of
website security company that the Best Actor award for his
provides a content delivery network, performance in what film?
founded in 2009 in San Francisco
by Matthew Prince, is Answer: The Revenant
CloudF______. Fill in the word
blank, symbolizes by a “F”lash of 165. Although the technology has
light on an orange cloud in the existed for at least 50 years, in the
company’s logo. 2000s was the first time that
efficacy and output increased
Answer: Flare enough in LED lights to be used in
applications such as car headlights.
159. The robot "Flippy" produced What does LED stand for?
and sold by Miso Robotics is
primarily sold to aid in the specific Answer: Light emitting diode
practice of preparing what item?
The robot became commercially 166. According to the U.S. World &
available for $30,000 in October News Report, the top-ranked public
2020. high school in the United States is
located outside Washington, DC.
Answer: Burgers What is the name of this school?

160. Blood-forming stem cells are Answer: Thomas Jefferson High

important in cancer treatments School for Science and Technology
because they form red blood cells,
white blood cells, and what clotty 167. What was the four-letter
things? name of the since-discontinued
iPod competitor Microsoft released
Answer: Platelets in 2006?

161. No flexibility on your answers: Answer: Zune

launched in 2006, Amazon's EC2
stands for WHAT Compute Cloud? 168. As of 2017, Uber trails what
domestic Indian technology
Answer: Elastic company in the Indian rideshare
market? The company's name is
162. What is the seven-letter nearly equivalent with a Spanish-
branded software standard created language greeting.
by Apple that enables a car radio or
touchscreen to be a display and a Answer: Ola Cabs
controller for an iOS device?
169. After Dayton, Ohio served as
Answer: CarPlay home for 125 years, the electronics
company NCR relocated to Duluth,
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 Georgia in 2009. What do these GDP?
initials stand for? The company
grew by selling the value Answer: Intel
proposition that their product would
help stores deter theft from retail 175. What is the tasty name of the
clerks, and they were the first to sell series of small single-board
the mechanical version of their computers developed by an
flagship product. eponymous foundation in the UK
and often used for the promotion of
Answer: National Cash Register teaching computer science
concepts in schools and developing
170. In 2011, a Swedish university countries?
hospital performed the world's first
transplant operation using a Answer: Raspberry Pi
synthetic organ that was fully grown
in a laboratory. What organ, also 176. Linux uses all the letters of
known as a windpipe, did they what operating system family that it
successfully transplant? was designed to imitate?

Answer: Trachea Answer: Unix

171. According to a former 177. What simulation video game

Facebook employee, the company franchise was originally developed
used to have a master password by Will Wright and launched in 1989
that could unlock any user's for the Macintosh computer?
account. This password was a
variation on the name of what Answer: SimCity
martial artist and actor, perhaps
because he definitely couldn't be 178. FE and BE stand for
considered "too weak"? "frontend" and "backend" when
referring to computer software. If
Answer: Chuck Norris you make the "E"s lower-case, what
do they stand for when referring to
172. In 2017 and 2018, atomic symbols from the periodic
"CryptoKitties" were sold for table of elements?
thousands of dollars at auction,
attracting attention to this game Answer: Iron and beryllium
which was built on what type of
cryptographic technology? 179. While working at Motorola in
the 1970s, Martin Cooper invented
Answer: Blockchain what is typically considered the first
cell phone. Cooper is a graduate of
173. Introduced in 1985, what line IIT: an Institute of Technology
of Commodore personal computers located in what state?
has a name that means "friend" in
English? Answer: Illinois

Answer: Amiga 180. What is the name of the

research and advisory firm that puts
174. What American tech company out "magic quadrants", ranking
had a microprocessor facility in different enterprises software
Costa Rica that at one time was products?
responsible for 20% of Costa Rican
exports and 5% of the country's
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 Answer: Gartner first publicly traded in 1989.

181. The U.S. National Cyber Answer: Symantec

Security Division opened for the first
time in 2003 and is currently 187. What is the "T" name for the
housed within what Federal semiconductor device used to
Department? John Kelly, Kirstjen amplify or switch electronic signals
Nielsen, and Kevin McAleenan all and electrical power? The MOS
served as Secretary of this (metal-oxide-semiconductor)
Department during the Trump version of this device is widely used
administration. in smartphones and other
communications technology.
Answer: Department of Homeland
Security Answer: Transistor

182. The integrated circuit 188. During Apple's 2017

intended to securely store presentation of its new line of
information and a key on a mobile iPhones it included their new form
phone is widely known as a SIM of biometric security and
card. Name ANY of the three words authentication under what name?
that SIM stands for. Note we are looking for the actual
brand name used by Apple for this
Answer: Subscriber Identity Module feature.

183. Ridley Scott directed the Answer: Face ID

dystopian, Orwell-inspired,
hammer-tossing commercial for 189. Capella Space, a startup
what now-behemoth but then- company founded in San Francisco
underdog company during the 1984 in 2016, is working on space-based
Super Bowl? observation satellites that use what
“R” technology, with special
Answer: Apple modifications that allow it to
penetrate clouds and see at night?
184. Used in electronic messages
and web pages, they are similar to Answer: Radar
emoticons but are actual pictures
instead of typographics. What are 190. What five-letter word is both
they? the name of a Microsoft graphics
editor and a breed of horse whose
Answer: Emojis coat has a spotted pattern of dark
and light colors?
185. Composed for solo guitar by
Francisco Tárrega in 1902, "Grand Answer: Paint
Valse" is used as the distinctive
ringtone of what Nordic telecom? 191. The Slack icon and the
Olympic rings have all the same
Answer: Nokia colors in common except what way
coolest one?
186. Norton AntiVirus is an anti-
malware and anti-virus software Answer: Black
package that has been developed
and distributed by what company 192. When a surgeon speaks of an
since 1991? This parent company MVR, they likely mean the
has a portmanteau'd name and was replacement of what valve in a
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 patient's heart? software has had Junio Hamano as
the core maintainer. What is the
Answer: Mitral valve three-letter name of this uber-
popular software among
193. Used to amplify RNA targets, developers?
the RT-PCR method stands for
"reverse transcription polymerase Answer: Git
chain" WHAT?
199. "Bad Blood" is a best-selling
Answer: reaction 2018 nonfiction book about what
Silicon Valley company that was
194. What “M” cancer center is a valued at $9 billion in 2014 and
nonprofit located in Tampa, Florida? dissolved in 2018?
Established in 1981 by the Florida
legislature, it opened on the USF Answer: Theranos
campus in 1986.
200. For some reason, it wasn't
Answer: Moffitt Cancer Center until 2016 that Tim Berners-Lee
won the Association for Computing
195. Befitting the local culture of Machinery's top "Nobel-level"
cycling, the SolaRoad is a high-tech award, named for what British
bike path equipped with solar mathematician and computer
panels to feed energy back to the scientist?
grid, located in the town of
Krommenie in what European Answer: Alan Turing
country?
201. The name for what voice
Answer: Netherlands interaction technology was chosen,
in part, because it had a "hard
196. Released in 1982 and still consonant" which helps it be
popular, what was the first ever recognized with higher precision?
basketball shoe to use Nike Air
technology? It shares its name with Answer: Alexa by Amazon
an airplane and a 1997 Wolfgang
Petersen action movie. 202. First built by English
mathematician Charles Babbage in
Answer: Air Force 1 1822, what electronic object was
named Time Magazine’s "Man of
197. While working at the Xerox The Year” in 1982?
Palo Alto Research Center during
the 1970s, computer scientist Larry Answer: The computer
Tesler coined what three common
computer commands first used to 203. What is the tongue-in-cheek
edit documents on a word name of the company Elon Musk
processor he co-created called founded in 2017 to develop
Gypsy? technology focused on tunneling?

Answer: Cut, copy, paste Answer: The Boring Company

198. In 2005, Linus Torvalds 204. What USA Network series

created software for tracking starred Rami Malek as Elliot, an
changes on files in order to improve antisocial computer programmer
development of the Linux kernel. who's a cybersecurity engineer by
Since 2005, the open-source day and a vigilante hacker by night?
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 computer-granted access?
Answer: Mr. Robot
Answer: Multi factor authentication
205. Often implanted in people
who have had cataract surgery, a 210. #N/A
"pseudophakos" is an artificial 211. The very-common robotic
replacement for what part of the surgical system that was first
eye? approved by the FDA in 2000 and is
made by the company Intuitive
Answer: lens Surgical is designed to facilitate
surgery with a minimally invasive
206. What is the name of the approach and is fully controlled by a
virtual assistant developed for surgeon from a console. This
Samsung devices in 2017 and is robotic system is named after what
the surname of a famous Bill who famous man?
portrayed mild-mannered Bruce
Banner in the 1980s television Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
series The Incredible Hulk?
212. What is the generic term for
Answer: Bixby the fictional flying cars used in the
film "Blade Runner?" In the film,
207. What smartphone app and they are mainly used by the police
fintech company was founded by to patrol and survey the population.
father and son duo Walter Wemple This seven-letter term sounds like it
Cruttenden III and Jeffrey James could also describe a part of the
Cruttenden to promote incremental game "Twister."
and passive investing in 2014? The
company's app features a light Answer: Spinner
green color scheme and shares its
name with a seed enclosed in a 213. As of early 2019, AT&T and
tough, leathery shell. The portfolio Verizon are nearly tied for first place
options the company offers were in the U.S. for wireless customers.
designed in part by Nobel laureate What company is in fourth place?
Harry Markowitz.
Answer: Sprint
Answer: Acorns
214. What technology company
208. With an initial release in 2003, was founded in 1993 with the vision
what is the free open-source that the next wave of computing
content management system would be graphics-based? The
written in PHP and paired with a company took its name from the
MySQL (or MariaDB) database that Latin word for "envy" and features
features numerous plugins and product families GeForce, Quadro,
templates known as "Themes" and and Tegra.
is currently used by 39% of the 10
million most-popular websites in the Answer: Nvidia
world?
215. What disgraced startup was
Answer: WordPress formerly valued at $9 billion dollars
before a controversy regarding its
209. Frequently involving a mobile technology began brewing in 2015,
device or email correspondence, ultimately culminating in 2018
what does the security term MFA charges of "massive fraud" by the
refer to when dealing with CEO?
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 Answer: Theranos Answer: blood pressure

216. Apple's App Store released a 222. Faced with claims of

list of the most popular free iPhone "technology doping" because of its
apps in 2019. Six of the top nine advertised ability to provide "up to
apps were products of what TWO 85-percent energy return," the Nike
companies? You need to name Vaporfly running shoe was first
both here. released in what year?

Answer: Facebook and Google Answer: 2017

217. Kevin Mitnick is widely 223. With more than $140 million
regarded as one of the most well- in funding raised as of April 2021,
known American computer hackers, what is the London-based fintech
starting with his 1981 escapades company with a Plaid-like
stealing computer manuals from technology that declares "We build
Pacific Bell. His 1982 hack of the intelligent infrastructure that puts
North American Defense Command fintech at people's fingertips.
(NORAD) inspired what 1983 film Empowering businesses in every
featuring Matthew Broderick? industry to create first-class
financial experiences."?
Answer: WarGames
Answer: TrueLayer
218. What innovative radio
company developed the Music 224. Although they're separated by
Genome Project to classify music nearly 3,000 miles, Caltech, the
by mirroring mathematical famous university in Pasadena,
techniques for gene sequencing enjoys a lively, prank-filled rivalry
within human DNA? with what equally prestigious New
England school?
Answer: Pandora
Answer: Massachusetts Institute of
219. The University of Costa Rica Technology
was the nation's sole university until
what other school opened in 1972? 225. What “D” technique is
electrically induced heat, often used
Answer: Costa Rica Institute of during surgery, in order to help
Technology maintain bloodflow and prevent
excessive bleeding? It gets its one
220. Ad Astra Rocket, Avantica, word name from greek words
and Nimiq are all companies that literally meaning “heating through.”
are part of the economic shift from
cattle ranching to information Answer: Diathermy
technology in what Costa Rican
province? 226. An ultimate sleep experience
is the goal of what high-tech smart
Answer: Guanacaste bed loaded with "responsive
surface technology"?
221. Usually including an
adjustable cuff and a rubber tube, Answer: ReST bed
the device called a
sphygmomanometer takes what 227. What Japanese-based
important measurement? conglomerate used "That '70s
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 Show" star Ashton Kutcher to Corporation
promote its Coolpix digital camera
in a 2009 commercial? 233. The vaccine codenamed
AZD1222 was developed by the
Answer: Nikon University of Oxford in collaboration
with which multinational
228. Lockheed Martin pharmaceutical and biotechnology
manufactures what “G” Flow company?
technology, which provides long-
duration and large-capacity energy Answer: AstraZeneca
storage?
234. The gene gun, a device used
Answer: Gridstar Flow to infuse a new organism with
genetic material that is then
229. A science and technology incorporated into the organism’s
center in Downtown San Jose, that DNA, was invented by research
offers hands-on STEAM education, scientists at what “C” Ivy League
is The ______ Interactive. Fill in the university, located in Ithaca, New
one word blank, a word also used to York?
describe colleges that offer specific
applied science education. Answer: Cornell University

Answer: The Tech Interactive 235. In manufacturing, what “M”

term is used to describe a
230. What word follows production technology that
“Wartenberg” in the alliterative necessitates orders be brought to
name of a medical device designed the machine to wait in queue? It is a
to test a patient’s sensitivity as it is term used for a structure erected to
rolled across their skin? commemorate a person or event,
such as the Washington one in the
Answer: Wheel United States.

231. QuantBioRes, a company that Answer: Monument

is experimenting with
electromagnetic resonance to treat 236. What “N” Biotechnology
viruses, acquired in 2022 a major company seeks to transform the
shareholder in what Serbian tennis field of proteomics by democratizing
player, winner of several Grand access to the proteome? Its name
Slam titles in the 2010s? is the same as Nemo’s ship in
“20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.”
Answer: Novak Djokovic
Answer: Nautilus Biotechnology
232. A biotechnology company,
founded in 1996 by Martine 237. Google Buzz, Google Friend
Rothblatt in Silver Springs, MD, Connect, and Orkut were all Google
specializing in lung disease and products that were retired attempts
organ manufacturing, is ______ at a social media platform. The
Therapeutics Corporation. Fill in the fourth attempt was named what?
one word blank, also the “U” name
for an airline based out of Chicago, Answer: Google+
IL.
238. The character simply named
Answer: United Therapeutics "Baby" had many famous
commercials; in 2008's Super Bowl
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 XLII the protagonist interrupted Science program in Renewable
himself with a burp-up after saying Energy Engineering? The campus
"Check it, click, I just bought a of this school is in the city of
stock. You just saw me buy a Klamath Falls and there are
stock." What financial technology additional campuses in Wilsonville
company was behind this famous and Salem.
campaign?
Answer: Oregon
Answer: E-Trade
244. Consisting of thousands of
239. The Atanasoff-Berry mass-produced small satellites in
Computer, the world’s first "low Earth orbit," what is the name
electronic digital computer, was of the "satellite internet
built during the 1930s in what U.S. constellation" that is being
state nicknamed the “Hawkeye constructed by Elon Musk's SpaceX
State”? to provide satellite internet access?
Naturally, the devices are primarily
Answer: Iowa powered by solar panels.

240. What e-commerce company, Answer: Starlink

whose name is taken from the
Japanese word for "optimism," has 245. The "Hello Girls" were women
been called "the Amazon of sworn into the U.S. Army Signal
Japan?" The company is also the Corps during World War I, tasked
current jersey sponsor of the NBA's with operating what piece of
Golden State Warriors. technology?

Answer: Rakuten Answer: switchboard

241. Headquartered in Chicago, 246. Tony Stark tries on his

what repetitively named company magnanimous dude persona at the
claims to be the world's leading start of "Captain America: Civil War"
provider of in-flight Internet and by funding all student projects at
entertainment? what New England school?

Answer: Gogo Answer: MIT

242. With revenue over $700 247. Unicode, the standard for
million in 2018 and more than 20 character encoding used to
years in the education technology represent multilingual text as binary,
market, what is the name of the is the successor of what US
privately-held DC-based company encoding standard?
which claims more than 17,000
schools and organizations in 100 Answer: ASCII
countries as customers? The
company's name is likely to remind 248. Loon is a a company working
you of something you'd find in a on providing Internet access to rural
school. and remote areas by using high-
altitude balloons in the stratosphere
Answer: Blackboard Inc that create an aerial wireless
network. Loon is a subsidiary of
243. The "Institute of Technology" what much larger company?
in what U.S. state was the first
college to offer a Bachelor of
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 Answer: Alphabet
Answer: Portal
249. LiMux was a project for
migrating what huge Bavarian city 255. What company providing
from Windows to Linux? hosting for software development
and distributed version control
Answer: Munich familiar to computer programmers is
known for its iconic Octocat (part
250. The Williams tube, named for cat, part octopus) logo?
inventor Freddie Williams, was the
first digital storage device to use Answer: Github
what kind of memory storage? The
"spontaneous" phrase was 256. Although the name sounds
memorably revived in a Daft Punk like it means a very small sum of
album title. money in Europe or the US, what
Chinese tech company's name
Answer: Random Access actually comes from characters that
mean "galloping fast information?"
251. You know those annoying
"prove you're not a robot" tests that Answer: Tencent
you have to take on websites
sometimes? They're known as 257. We're not sure if he's into
CAPTCHAs. And CAPTCHA is making his own beer, but CAP
actually an acronym standing for theorem is also known by the name
"Completely Automated Public of a computer scientist with what B-
______ test to tell Computers and word surname?
Humans Apart." What surname fills
in the blank? Answer: Brewer

Answer: Turing 258. What American rapper and

singer launched to stardom when
252. In 1992, NASA mission his single "Trap Queen" rose to No.
specialist Mae Jemison became the 2 on the Billboard Hot 100? This
first Black woman in space when man was born with glaucoma in
she traveled aboard what space both eyes which eventually required
shuttle whose name has a British an ocular prosthesis in his left eye.
spelling?
Answer: Fetty Wap
Answer: Endeavour
259. A November 1998 article
253. What “A” drug is a nasal titled "New CYBERSCAPE: Digital
spray used to treat congestion Assistants Get Sophisticated" was
caused by colds or allergies, with the first article in the New York
chemical name oxymetazoline? Times's archive to use what now-
ubiquitous word which, despite its
Answer: Afrin name, does not necessarily refer to
the IQ of a pocket computer?
254. Amazon has the "Echo" line
of products. Google has "Home." Answer: Smartphone
Sharing a name with a video game
about a murderous computer, what 260. In February 2018, a federal
is Facebook's similar hardware line lawyer announced that a former
that includes a tablet screen meant engineer from what tech company
for video calls? was not wrongly fired after his
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 controversial memo sparked an Answer: Vaxess Technologies
internet backlash and led to his own
termination? 266. Which interdisciplinary field is
concerned with the computational
Answer: Google interrogation of large-scale
biological data, typically as applied
261. Hardly anyone could have to molecular genetics and
predicted that supply chain and e- genomics? One-word answer
commerce software company required.
NetSuite would get scooped up in
2016 by what future-focused, Answer: Bioinformatics
Austin-based tech company?
267. "Smart" contact lenses
Answer: Oracle developed at the University of
California-Davis are being promoted
262. What Canadian company was as an innovative way to predict and
founded "accidentally" by Tobias detect what second-leading cause
Lütke in 2004 while he was building of blindness?
an online shopping platform for
snowboarding gear? For a period of Answer: Glaucoma
time in 2020, the tech-based
ecommerce platform was the most 268. What is the common
valuable public Canadian company alphanumeric abbreviation for the
by market capitalization. "predictive text technology"
developed by Tegic
Answer: Shopify Communications and used on
mobile phones prior to the
263. Founded in 2007 as 10gen in widespread adoption of
New York City by Dwight Merriman touchscreen keyboards?
and Kevin Ryan, what is the name
of the software company that Answer: T9
develops and sells support for a
popular open source NoSQL 269. First released with the 2020
database? MacBook Air, what is the
alphanumeric name of the first
Answer: MongoDB Apple-designed processor used in
its computers, which acts as a CPU
264. Before the Wi-Fi branding and a GPU and is replacing many
originated, a university in Pittsburgh Intel Core chips?
build the first campus-wide wireless
Internet network and named it Answer: M1
Wireless Andrew. What was this
school? 270. Condor Cluster was the
nickname of the supercomputer
Answer: Carnegie Mellon built by the Air Force Research
Laboratory in 2010 made of 1,760
265. What “V” biotech startup, units of what video game console
started in Boston in 2011, is that debuted November 11, 2006
working on a platform of stability to and was the first to use Blu-ray
allow for global delivery of Discs?
vaccines? Their name is fittingly a
spin on a shorthand of the word Answer: Sony PlayStation 3
“vaccine.”

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271. "More bars in more places"
was a mid-2000s commercial Answer: Recombinant DNA
slogan for what American
technology company? 277. What was the name of the
personal computer, one of the first
Answer: ATT aimed at individual business users
to present a graphical user
272. In a feat of inter-species interface, that Steve Jobs named
biotechnology, researchers at the after his daughter?
University of Wyoming were able to
insert the silk-producing gene from Answer: Lisa
spiders into what mammal which
enabled them to harvest long 278. Name one of the three words
strands of spider milk from the represented by the acronym URL.
animal's milk?
Answer: Uniform Resource Locator
Answer: Goats
279. Sandra Bullock played Angela
273. Easily confused for a coyote, Bennett, a systems analyst for the
Wilber is the paintbrush-chomping fictional Cathedral Software
mascot of what open source company in what 1995 thriller movie
graphics editor? that featured no fishermen or
trapeze artists?
Answer: GIMP/GNU Image
Manipulation Program Answer: The Net

274. In December 2020, Walmart 280. Following Marshmallow,

became the first major partner of Nougat, and Oreo, what 2018
what technology company to host a release was the last Android OS to
"shoppable livestream"? Fashion be named for a dessert?
items were purchasable through
Walmart without leaving this Answer: Pie
popular app created by the
technology company. 281. What “N” cloud computing
company, owned by Oracle, offers
Answer: TikTok supply chain planning software?
Their company name implies they
275. Also known as an offer a variety of software that is
exoskeleton, what is the "O" term internet accessible.
for a device applied externally that
is used to modify the structural and Answer: Netsuite
functional characteristics of the
skeletal and/or neuromuscular 282. Your computer is switching to
systems? a different _____ when you receive
an HTTP code 101. What word fills
Answer: Orthosis in the blank?

276. What is the "R" name for DNA Answer: Protocol

created by combining fragments
from different sources? These are 283. AMD is an American
occasionally referred to as semiconductor company based in
"chimeric" DNA and are considered Santa Clara that has been an
a key feature in much of DNA industry-leader for developing
biotechnology applications. computer processors. The company
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 is a primary competitor to both Intel
and Nvidia. What does AMD stand Answer: Amadeus
for?
289. What was the name of the
Answer: Advanced Micro Devices seven-letter brand of tablet
computers designed for young
284. Researchers at the University children and first released in 1999?
of Texas at San Antonio built a The device resembled a talking
robot in 2018 designed to be small book and quickly became the best-
enough to help fight cancer and selling toy in specialty stores.
serve other surgical methods. The
device was entered into the Answer: LeapPad
Guinness World Records as the
"smallest medical robot" as it has a 290. Founded by Russian brothers
spherical radius of only 120 Pavel and Nikolai Durov, what
______. What very-small unit fills social media app has become
the blank? central to the Ukrainian war effort,
helping information to circulate
Answer: Nanometers despite Russia's crackdown on
other platforms?
285. John Deere is a famed
inventor of the plow and is also Answer: Telegram
mentioned in the same breath as
Cyrus McCormick, the inventor of 291. The Danish director Lars von
what critical farming tool with a Trier is considered a co-creator of
morbid-sounding name? what film movement that originated
in Denmark and features traditional
Answer: Mechanical reaper values of story, acting, and theme
while excluding the use of elaborate
286. What cult British TV series special effects or technology?
focused on three members of the IT
department at the fictional Answer: Dogme 95
Reynholm Industries?
292. Ancient Chinese doctors used
Answer: The IT Crowd onion stalks to perform the function
of what tube, used to remove fluids
287. The dominant semiconducting from a body cavity?
material used in current
photovoltaic technology is typically Answer: catheter
referred to as c-Si. What does that
hyphenated series of three letters 293. The Palace of Westminster is
stand for? home to what iconic piece of
architectural technology, completed
Answer: Crystalline silicon in 1859 and designed by Augustus
Pugin?
288. What is the Spain-
headquartered software company, Answer: Big Ben
with annual revenue of more than
$5.5 billion, that creates technology 294. A medical device company,
for travel searches, accommodation founded in 1998 in Shanghai,
and transportation bookings, and China, makes of the ENO
more? The company shares its pacemaker and the Spyderview
name with a famous composer’s arrhythmia assesment, is
middle name. ______Port. Fill in the one word
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 blank, also a metric prefix meaning Answer: Microsoft
“one millionth.”
300. What technology company
Answer: MicroPort was founded in 1982, had a
portmanteau name, was acquired
295. Maker of devices such as by Hewlett-Packard in 2002, and
Nintendo gaming consoles, briefly featured Apple CEO Tim
iPhones, and Amazon Kindle, the Cook as a Vice President?
Taiwanese manufacturer Hon Hai
Technology Group is better known Answer: Compaq
by what "sly" name?
301. What is the "double O" name
Answer: Foxconn of the web testing and diagnostics
company founded in Seattle in 2006
296. What “i” term refers to a that has a well-known, eponymous
technology based real estate internet speedtest?
purchaser, who purchases a
property instantly and takes on the Answer: Ookla
full burden of owning, marketing,
and reselling a property? Its name 302. Known for its "millennial-
is similar to that of the iPhone, but friendly" tech platform and
for a purchaser. branding, what is the name of the
insurance technology company that
Answer: IBuyer offers rental, homeowner, and pet
insurance policies in the United
297. In January 2020, global States and additional policies
payments company Visa acquired a outside the country? The company
financial technology startup for a was founded, in part, by the co-
price of more than $5 billion. The founder of Fiverr in 2015 and
company provides the "plumbing" became a publicly traded company
for linking bank accounts to in 2020.
payment apps so transfers can be
easily sent over Wi-Fi or cellular Answer: Lemonade
networks. The company shares its
name with a clothing pattern. What 303. What type of radiation therapy
is the company? uses positively-charged particles to
treat cancerous and noncancerous
Answer: Plaid tumors?

298. Now used to describe any Answer: Proton therapy

technophobe, what group of
northern English weavers gained 304. Vinod Khosla, a billionaire
notoriety in the early 19th century and founder of an eponymous
for smashing cloth-manufacturing venture capital firm, is also a
equipment? cofounder of what company that
created the Java programming
Answer: Luddites language?

299. What public U.S. technology Answer: Sun Microsystems

company had the 3rd highest
Market Cap at the close of each 305. Japanese chemist Akira
quarter in 2017? The company's Yoshino switched from low-yield
name is a portmanteau. polyacetylene to a carbonaceous
material electrode in 1985, locking
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 in what critical piece of cell phone Answer: Qubit
tech?
311. Juliano Pinto is a paraplegic
Answer: Lithium-ion battery man who symbolically "kicked off"
an event in WHAT COUNTRY in
306. Formally approved by the 2014 by using a mind-controlled
U.S. Department of Defense, what robotic exoskeleton?
is the name of the information
security certification known by a Answer: Brazil (World Cup)
five-letter initialism with ~148,000
qualified holders as of January 312. There is a Utah-based survey
20211? The organization software company that planned to
overseeing this certification was go public in 2018 but was instead
formed in mid-1989 as a non-profit. sold to tech giant SAP. Three years
later the company was finally taken
Answer: CISSP public by parent company SAP.
What is this company founded by
307. Green biotechnology refers to Ryan Smith?
biotechnology used in the
environmental sector, whereas what Answer: Qualtrics
color is used to describe
biotechnology used in the medical 313. What term is used in place of
and pharma field? the traditional "manufacturing" when
referring to the production of steel
Answer: Red or semiconductors?

308. Mastercard's Pay Pass and Answer: Fabrication

Tap & Go technology allow
smartphone users to tap their 314. Called a "giant brain" by the
phone to use contactless-enabled media, ENIAC was a pioneering
payment methods for checkout. computer that debuted in 1946 after
What three-letter communication being built in secret at what
protocol is typically used for this southernmost Ivy League
implementation? university?

Answer: NFC Answer: University of Pennsylvania

309. According to the official 315. The microphone, the receiver,

website, "Project Sunroof is a solar and the battery are three of the four
calculator from ______ that helps major components typically found in
you map your roof's solar savings hearing aids which are one of the
potential." What technology most common types of bionic
company's name is missing from device. What is the fourth major
that sentence? category?

Answer: Google Answer: Amplifier

310. Coined by theoretical 316. What is the name of the

physicist Benjamin Schumacher, oceanic planet where cloning
what single word is used for the technology is developed and the
basic unit of information in quantum Clone Army is created and trained?
computing? Obi-Wan visits this planet during
"Attack of the Clones."

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 Answer: Kamino African mammal.

317. If someone complains about Answer: Meerkat

their aching erythrocytes, they're
overthinking things and talking 323. Lonza Group AG is a
about what really important oxygen multinational chemical and
deliverers? biotechnology company
headquartered in Basel, a city in
Answer: Red blood cells what European country? It was
established in the late 19th century.
318. The field workers for the FDA
are often known as "Investigators" Answer: Switzerland
but they have a more technical
name abbreviated as CSOs. What 324. What parent company of
does this initialism stand for? These several medical technology
are the folks that inspect production companies, founded in 2015 in
facilities, illnesses, and review Erlangen, Germany, traces its
cases of medical devices or drugs. origins back to 1847 and Werner
von S______? Fill in the “S” blank,
Answer: Consumer Safety Officers a company who likes to refer to
itself as “Healthineers”.
319. After testing between 2019
and 2020, Walmart recently Answer: Siemens
expanded its partnership with Gatik.
What cutting-edge technology 325. Not to be confused with
system does Gatik develop and earphones, what Nike technology
produce? Other competitors in the featured on shoes like The Alphafly
space include Waymo and Zoox. works like an airbag to help athletes
conserve energy? We're looking for
Answer: Self-driving trucks two words here.

320. What competing real estate Answer: Air Pod

website with a seltzer-sounding
name did Zillow buy in 2015 for 326. The term "robot" was
$2.5bn in stock? introduced in what form of literature
(novel, play, short story, article,
Answer: Trulia book, poem) by Czech writer, Karel
Capek, in 1920?
321. What multinational technology
and internet company, owner of Answer: Play
Fitbit, launched its own Finance
website in 2006, tracking stocks 327. Joseph F. Engelberger,
and earnings along with financial considered the "Father of Robotics,"
news? created the world's first industrial
robot in 1961, which was used on
Answer: Google the assembly line for what
automotive company?
322. What live-streaming app
quickly gained popularity in 2015 Answer: General Motors
before its access to Twitter was
axed due to the social media giant's 328. Postmates plans to develop a
acquisition of rival app Periscope? fleet of street delivery robots under
This short-lived app (it was retired what “S” company name? The
in 2016) is named for a small name implies the robots will help
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 and provide for Postmates 2020, the open-source software
customers. package YARP is written in C++ for
connecting sensors, processors,
Answer: Serve Robotics and actuators in what type of object
that represents the third letter in the
329. The man who replaced Travis software's acronym?
Kalanick as CEO of Uber in 2017
was previously CEO of what U.S.- Answer: Robots
based travel company with a name
mean to evoke speed and 335. Zoox, Pony.ai, and Aurora are
convenience? all technology startups that have
collectively raised billions of venture
Answer: Expedia capital dollars working in what
specific field of software?
330. According to Fast Metrics, the
fastest internet in the world was Answer: Autonomous vehicles
considered to be in the country
where the highest % of Wi-Fi 336. Following his political career,
connections had a speed of at least Al Gore achieved meme infamy
4 Mbps. The leading country met status when he claimed to invent
this qualification with more than the internet. However, he is widely
95% of its internet connections as credited with coining what 2-word
of 2015. What is this eastern automotive phrase for the internet?
hemisphere nation?
Answer: Information Superhighway
Answer: South Korea
337. Boston College was in what
331. IEEE 802.3 is a collection of athletic conference before joining
standards produced to define the the Atlantic Coast Conference
physical layer and data link of wired (ACC) in 2005?
Ethernet. The standards are named
for the group which drafted them, Answer: Big East
IEEE. What does this acronym
stand for? 338. As of January 2019, what
company is the source of the
Answer: Institute of Electrical and largest data breach in known
Electronics Engineers history? This former tech favorite
admitted that up to three billion
332. In what year did the first AWS accounts had secure information
(Amazon Web Services) service compromised in 2013 by a
launch to the public? We'll give you suspected state-actor.
credit if your response is within two
years of the correct answer. Answer: Yahoo

Answer: 2004 (2002 - 2006 339. What is the five-letter "B"

accepted) word that is used to refer to a
dosage of fast-acting insulin that is
333. Bright's disease is an often given via the continuously-
inflammation in what organ? attached "pump" device worn by
some diabetics?
Answer: Kidney
Answer: Bolus
334. First released in 2002 and
actively maintained through at least
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340. What British woman is 346. In what year did Apple
considered to have written the first standardize their chargers with the
ever piece of computer software, introduction of the Lightening
developing an algorithm for Charles cable?
Babbage’s theoretical Analytical
Engine in the 1840s? She was the Answer: 2012
only child of George Gordon, Lord
Byron, she is best known with an 347. What does "TED" stand for in
“L” last name. the context of the popularized TED
Talks and Conferences?
Answer: Ada Lovelace
Answer: Technology Entertainment
341. Deeper Insights, Five AI, and Design
Beyond Analysis are some of the
top AI companies in what 348. What fast-casual cafe-bakery
international city? chain was founded with a location in
Faneuil Hall Market in Boston in
Answer: London 1977? The company shared
ownership with Panera for many
342. According to an analysis by years before the companies were
the UK's National Cyber Security split in 1999. However, in
Centre that investigated passwords November 2017, the companies
belonging to hacked accounts joined forces again when Panera
worldwide, what is the most announced it was acquiring this
common six-letter "word" that is chain.
used for passwords that don't
require numbers or punctuation? Answer: Au Bon Pain

Answer: Qwerty 349. What company's mid 1960's

"Drafting System" is often
343. As of March 2018, what is the considered a tipping point in
world's best-selling PC game? revealing the benefits of computer-
aided design (CAD)?
Answer: Minecraft
Answer: IBM
344. Equifax infamously
announced a cyber-security breach 350. Before the name Java, the
in which over 140 million coding language was known by
consumers' personal data including what arboreal name that also has
names, Social Security numbers, poignancy in the Pokemon
and driver license numbers were universe?
stolen. In what year did this hack
(and disclosure of the hack) occur? Answer: Oak

Answer: 2017 351. What venture-backed

company focused on a singular
345. What technology company kitchen device called it quits in 2017
found a surprise hit on its hands in largely due to the fallout stemming
early 2018 with a viral app from a critical and, frankly,
comparing selfies to famous pieces embarrassing revelation regarding
of art? its product's uselessness.

Answer: Google Answer: Juicero

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352. In the early 19th century,
Charles Babbage designed a Answer: Isaac Asimov
theoretical computer that could be
programmed, can called it the 357. The Computer Museum was
Analytical what? This name may a museum that opened in 1979 and
have come from the idea that inputs operated in three different locations
from the user would be converted until 1999. It closed in 2000 and
into the computer’s functions. sent much of its collection across
the country to the Computer History
Answer: Analytical Engine Museum in California. In what city
would you have found the
353. With a valuation north of $1 Computer Museum while it was
billion and more than $700 million open?
raised in venture capital, what is the
four-letter company that offers Answer: Boston
business credit cards to technology
companies and brands itself as "the 358. Headquartered (somewhat
financial OS for the next generation ironically?) in Santa Clara,
of business"? California, what is the name of the
American cybersecurity company
Answer: Brex that serves 85 of the Fortune 100
and is the home to both the Unit 42
354. Policybazaar and ZhongAn threat research team and the Ignite
Insurance are both technology- cybersecurity conference?
based insurance companies that
have received large amounts of Answer: Palo Alto Networks
funding through the Vision Fund
which is one of the world's largest 359. Name one of the two online
venture capital funds and is payments companies founded in
associated with what Japanese the late 1990s that eventually
telecom giant? merged and became known as
PayPal.
Answer: SoftBank
Answer: Confinity and X.com
355. Radiation therapy for cancer
patients works by damaging the 360. What mosquito-borne tropical
DNA of cancer cells through either disease infects up to 500 million
direct or indirect ionization of atoms people per year, is typically
in a DNA chain. Indirect ionization transmitted by the Aedes aegypti,
occurs when what "liberated" has the alternate name "breakbone
molecule with an unpaired valence fever," and is referred to in a Jin
electron is formed? Dynasty Chinese encyclopedia as
"water poison"?
Answer: Free radical
Answer: Dengue Fever
356. What author of both popular
science and science fiction laid out 361. The Alto computer released in
his “Three Rules Of Robotics” in 1973 was the first to feature a GUI
1942, explaining how robots could (graphical user interface). Although
protect humans and themselves, Apple's far more successful
which influenced later real world Macintosh system brought the GUI
robot makers. He expounded on to wider acclaim, what was the
these rules in many short stories, company that released the Alto?
including his “I, Robot” collection.
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 Answer: Xerox what term is this concept more
often referred? This other, more
362. What medical “d”evice common term is also an acronym
company, founded in 1999 and for a risky type of athletic feat and
headquartered in San Diego, functions as a Microsoft Excel
California, manufactures blood formula.
glucose monitors for diabetes
management? Answer: Base

Answer: Dexcom 368. What British computer

scientist is widely credited with
363. ESR, which is measured by inventing the World Wide Web? No,
placing a blood sample in a test the answer is not Al Gore. And yes,
tube to see how quickly the red we've had dozens of folks write that
cells settle, stands for "erythrocyte in as their answer.
___ rate." What word goes in the
blank? Answer: Tim Berners-Lee

Answer: sedimentation 369. What 2017 book, subtitled

"An Intimate History," focuses on
364. As an April Fools’ Day prank, the history of human molecular
Google announced in 2008 that it codes while spanning biology,
had perfected what type of olfactory history, neuroscience and more?
technology? The company clarified The author previously won a
that it only worked if your nose was Pulitzer Prize for a book on cancer.
close enough to your monitor.
Answer: The Gene
Answer: Scratch-and-sniff
370. The newly-released iPhone
365. When the full extent of the 11 is considered by tech journalists
2020 SolarWinds-focused and Apple itself as the direct
cyberattack on the U.S. federal successor to what previous model
government was starting to be name?
understood, Microsoft's president
described the attack as "largest and Answer: xs max
most sophisticated the world has
ever seen." The malware 371. Written in Python and used as
responsible for the attack was an open-source workflow
named for what astronomical- management platform, what is the
sounding explosion? name of the "ventilated" Apache-
managed project started at Airbnb
Answer: Sunburst in 2014 and designed under the
"configuration as code" principle?
366. Officially announced in
February 2019, the "Mate X" folding Answer: Airflow
cell phone will be manufactured and
sold by what electronics giant? 372. What “C” cybersecurity,
founded in Sunnyvale, CA in 2011,
Answer: Huawei has a two word name that implies it
can attack problems quickly across
367. The radix is the number of a variety of software? Its logo is a
unique digits, including zero, used red hawk swooping in.
to represent numbers in a
"positional numeral system." By
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 Answer: Crowdstrike went public in February 2021.

373. How many bits would you Answer: Metromile

have if you added two nibbles and
one crumb? 380. Allied codebreakers at
Bletchley Park and 1990s
Answer: 10 bits  (nibble = 4 bits, programmers trying to establish
crumb = 2 bits) anonymous Internet banking create
the storylines in what 1999 Neal
374. What is the "sunny" parent Stephenson novel with a 13-letter
company of InvestorInfo, PitchBook, title?
and ByAllAccounts?
Answer: Cryptonomicon
Answer: Morningstar
381. What “A” technology from
375. What English man was a Microsoft allows desktop
mathematician, philosopher, applications to link to the web? Its
inventor and mechanical engineer, name is a word followed by a letter
and is largely considered the that is late in the alphabet.
originator of the concept of a digital
programmable computer? Hint: his Answer: ActiveX
name rhymes with a common
vegetable 382. What is the five-letter name of
the London-based company that
Answer: Charles Babbage provides software for virtual events
and raised *three* rounds of
376. Since 1990, curious canines venture capital in 2020 totaling
Nipper and Chipper were frequently more than $170 million? The
featured on advertisements for what company grew from 5,000 to over 3
tech company as their official million users during the year.
mascots?
Answer: Hopin
Answer: RCA
383. What university initially
377. Baha hearing devices are maintained the text file named
good for more than the beach, since HOSTS.TXT that mapped host
Baha is just an acronym for WHAT- names to the numerical addresses
anchored hearing aids? of computers on the ARPANET?

Answer: Bone Answer: Stanford

378. What man promoted the idea 384. Considered critical
of sterile surgery while working at components of nanotechnology,
the Glasgow Royal Infirmary and is what is the term for liquids (and
considered the pioneer of antiseptic their manipulation for scientific
surgery? users) that are geometrically
constrained to sub-millimeter sizes?
Answer: Joseph Lister
Answer: Microfluids
379. What is the alliteratively-
named San Francisco-based 385. If you've got some hollow
technology company that offers needles filled with cold fluid meant
pay-per-mile car insurance? The to destroy cancerous fluid, you're
company was founded in 2011 and performing what cancer treatment
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 that starts with "C"?
Answer: EyeToy
Answer: Cryoablation
391. Software developers at
386. What “Z” company, founded Disney created Hyperion, a
in 2009 in Boston, MA, offers program to produce more realistic
disaster recovery for cloud animated scenes by determining
technology, and is now a subsidiary the correct angle and intensity of
of Hewlett-Packard? Its logo is its light and shadows, that is Disney’s
name written in red, with the “O” at in-house version of what type of
the end crossed out, like it was a software?
zero.
Answer: Renderer
Answer: Zerto
392. The H-Store system is
387. According to local considered one of the most
prosecutors, a computer hacker prominent examples in the class of
from what European nation parallel database management
successfully logged in to Donald systems which are typically known
Trump's Twitter account in October by what six-letter name?
2020 by guessing the password
"MAGA2020!"? Answer: NewSQL

Answer: Netherlands 393. Under the supervision of Dr.

Alan Isen in a television studio, who
388. "Show me photos from our was the first U.S. President to
anniversary" was a quote in the appear in public wearing contact
love story commercial about a lenses? This occurred during the
woman named "Loretta" that decade in which contact lenses first
provoked tears in viewers from what had mass appeal thanks to
technology giant in 2020? improved manufacturing
technology.
Answer: Google
Answer: Lyndon Johnson
389. Combining an integrated
image guidance system and a linear 394. In June 2021, Medtronic
accelerator on a robotic announced a successful
manipulator, what is the name of prostatectomy performed by their
the medical robot invented by John robotic assisted surgical system
Adler at Stanford and released by with what same name as an annual
Accuray Incorporated? The science fiction literary award?
dangerous-sounding device is
frequently used for tumor removal Answer: Hugo
and other oncological procedures.
395. What “K” IT infrastructure
Answer: CyberKnife technology company, based out of
Armonk, New York, started as a
390. What was the name of the spinoff of IBM? Its logo is its own
color digital camera device, similar name, spelled out in lowercase
to a webcam, for the PlayStation 2? orange letters.
Released in 2003, the 6-letter
device used computer vision and Answer: kyndryl
gesture recognition to allow players
to interact with games.
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396. What “S” biotech company,
started in Seattle, WA in 2018, is
using engineered cells to repair
damaged cells and genes to fight
disease? Its name is the Arabic
word for “year.”

Answer: Sana Biotechnology

397. Biotech scientists at

Germany's Max Planck Institute
have experimented with using what
stimulating chiral alkaloid as a
defensive substance against
herbivorous insects? This
substance is often associated with
human usage in various forms.

Answer: Nicotine

398. What “E” wallet company

makes a smart wallet that uses
RFID technology that prevents
would be wallet thieves from
accessing the credit cards on the
inside?

Answer: Ekster

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