1. What disease crippled President Franklin D.

Roosevelt and led him to help the

nation find a cure?
a. !Polio
b. Cancer
c. HIV
d. Meningitis

2. The Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear bomb ever tested, had a yield of 50
megatons but theoretically had a maximum yield of how much?
a. 200 Megatons
b. 75 Megatons
c. 150 Megatons
d. !100 Megatons

3. The idea of Socialism was articulated and advanced by whom?

a. Vladimir Lenin
b. !Karl Marx
c. Vladimir Putin
d. Joseph Stalin

4. During the Spanish Civil War 1936, Francisco Franco fought for which political
faction?
a. !Nationalist Spain
b. Papal State
c. Popular Front
d. Republican Spain

5. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.

a. !True
b. False

6. How many women joined the United States Armed Services during World War II?
a. 100,000
b. 225,000
c. !350,000
d. 500,000

7. When was the Grand Patriotic War in the USSR concluded?

a. December 11th, 1945
b. September 2nd, 1945
c. August 9th, 1945
d. !May 9th, 1945

8. Which of these theoretical phycisists first predicted the existence of

antimatter?
a. Niels Bohr
b. !Paul Dirac
c. Werner Heisenberg
d. Albert Einstein
1. The Harvard architecture for microcontrollers added which additional bus?
a. Control
b. Data
c. !Instruction
d. Address

2. Which internet company began life as an online bookstore called 039;Cadabra039;?

a. !Amazon
b. eBay
c. Shopify
d. Overstock

3. FLAC stands for quot;Free Lossless Audio Condenserquot;039;

a. !False
b. True

4. Which computer hardware device provides an interface for all other connected
devices to communicate?
a. Central Processing Unit
b. !Motherboard
c. Hard Disk Drive
d. Random Access Memory

5. Which one of these is not an official development name for a Ubuntu release?
a. !Mystic Mansion
b. Utopic Unicorn
c. Trusty Tahr
d. Wily Werewolf

6. Linux was first created as an alternative to Windows XP.

a. True
b. !False

7. Linus Sebastian is the creator of the Linux kernel, which went on to be used in
Linux, Android, and Chrome OS.
a. True
b. !False

8. In computing, what does MIDI stand for?

a. !Musical Instrument Digital Interface
b. Modular Interface of Digital Instruments
c. Musical Instrument Data Interface
d. Musical Interface of Digital Instruments

9. How many bytes are in a single Kibibyte?

a. 2400
b. 1000
c. !1024
d. 1240
10. What was the name of the first Bulgarian personal computer?
a. Pravetz 82
b. Pravetz 8D
c. !IMKO1
d. IZOT 1030

11. What type of sound chip does the Super Nintendo Entertainment System SNES have?
a. PCM Sampler
b. Programmable Sound Generator PSG
c. FM Synthesizer
d. !ADPCM Sampler

12. Lenovo acquired IBM039;s personal computer division, including the ThinkPad
line of laptops and tablets, in what year?
a. !2005
b. 1999
c. 2002
d. 2008

13. Who is the founder of Palantir?

a. !Peter Thiel
b. Mark Zuckerberg
c. Marc Benioff
d. Jack Dorsey

1. The term quot;batteryquot; to describe an electrical storage device was coined

by?
a. !Benjamin Franklin
b. Alessandro Volta
c. Luigi Galvani
d. Nikola Tesla

2. Which company designed the quot;Betamaxquot; video cassette format?

a. LG
b. !Sony
c. Fujitsu
d. Panasonic

3. When did the CD begin to appear on the consumer market?

a. 1992
b. 1962
c. !1982
d. 1972

4. When was the iPhone released?

a. 2005
b. !2007
c. 2004
d. 2006
5. Who built the first laser?
a. Nikola Tesla
b. Jack Kilby
c. Edith Clarke
d. !Theodore Harold Maiman

6. Which company developed the Hololens?

a. Oculus
b. HTC
c. Tobii
d. !Microsoft

7. Which round does a WW2 M1 Garand fire?

a. 7.62x51mm
b. .308
c. 7.62
d. !.3006

8. Out of all of the NASA Space Shuttles, which 2 have been destroyed in disasters?
a. Discovery and Endeavour
b. None of the Above
c. !Challenger and Columbia
d. Enterprise and Atlantis