Technology Quiz: 18 Questions on Computing and the Internet

Technology questions split into two halves: the acronyms everyone types without decoding, and the history almost nobody learned on purpose. Both make good quiz material because the answers are fixed and checkable.

Easy technology questions

1. What does WWW stand for? — World Wide Web
2. Which company makes the iPhone? — Apple
3. What does PC stand for? — Personal computer
4. What is the brain of a computer called? — The processor, or CPU
5. Which company owns Android? — Google
6. What does Wi-Fi connect you to? — A wireless network

Medium technology questions

1. Who co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen? — Bill Gates
2. What does URL stand for? — Uniform Resource Locator
3. In which decade was the World Wide Web invented? — The 1990s
4. What does RAM stand for? — Random Access Memory
5. Which social network was founded in 2004 at Harvard? — Facebook
6. What does HTTP stand for? — HyperText Transfer Protocol

Hard technology questions

1. Who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web? — Tim Berners-Lee
2. What was the first widely used web browser called? — Mosaic
3. Who is considered the first computer programmer? — Ada Lovelace
4. What does GPU stand for? — Graphics Processing Unit
5. Which programming language was created by Guido van Rossum? — Python
6. What does the ‘S’ in HTTPS indicate? — Secure — the connection is encrypted

Acronyms are the most reliable technology questions: they never go out of date and there is never an argument about the answer.