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Technology - General Quiz

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General technology knowledge covers the broad landscape of how digital systems, devices, and innovations shape modern life. It spans computing fundamentals, the history of technolo...

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Which biometric authentication method is generally considered more secure and harder to spoof than fingerprint scanning?
- A. Iris Recognition
- B. Voice Recognition
- C. Hand Geometry
- D. Signature Matching
What does 'SIM' in SIM card stand for?
- A. Subscriber Identity Module
- B. Secure Index Memory
- C. System In Mobile
- D. Serial Internal Mode
What is the name of the high-speed data transfer technology developed by Intel that uses light (optical) or copper cables and supports daisy-chaining multiple devices?
- A. USB 2.0
- B. FireWire
- C. Thunderbolt
- D. SATA
Which Wi-Fi frequency band is better at traveling through walls and obstacles, but offers slower maximum data speeds?
- A. 2.4 GHz
- B. 5 GHz
- C. 6 GHz
- D. 60 GHz
What is the main physical difference between a standard LED monitor and an OLED monitor?
- A. LED monitors use gas, while OLED uses liquid
- B. OLED monitors require a backlight, while LED pixels produce their own light
- C. LED monitors require a backlight, while OLED pixels produce their own light
- D. OLED monitors are only made of plastic
What does 'Mbps' stand for?
- A. Memory bits per second
- B. Megabits per second
- C. Megabits per station
- D. Megabytes per second
Which of these is a low-power, short-range wireless communication protocol commonly used for smart home devices like lightbulbs and sensors?
- A. Zigbee
- B. HTTP
- C. Ethernet
- D. PCIe
What term describes a massive, high-performance computer used by large organizations for bulk data processing, such as census or financial transaction data?
- A. Microcomputer
- B. Supercomputer
- C. Mainframe
- D. Server Farm
Which engineer at Motorola is credited with making the first public handheld mobile phone call in 1973?
- A. Alexander Graham Bell
- B. Martin Cooper
- C. Steve Jobs
- D. Nikola Tesla
In 5G networking, what is the term for the high-frequency spectrum (above 24 GHz) that offers the fastest speeds but has very short range?
- A. Low-band
- B. Mid-band
- C. Millimeter Wave (mmWave)
- D. Sub-6 GHz
What is 'Kernel' in an operating system?
- A. The security wall
- B. The UI
- C. The file system
- D. The core part that manages hardware
What is 'CGI'?
- A. Core General Index
- B. Computer Generated Imagery
- C. Common Global Interface
- D. Central Graphic Input
Which is a mobile OS?
- A. Unix
- B. Linux
- C. Windows
- D. Android
What unit is used to measure the processing speed of the world's most powerful supercomputers?
- A. Gigaherz (GHz)
- B. Megabytes (MB)
- C. FLOPS (Floating Point Operations Per Second)
- D. RPM (Rotations Per Minute)
The Graphical User Interface (GUI), including windows and icons, was famously pioneered at which research center before being adopted by Apple?
- A. NASA
- B. Xerox PARC
- C. Bell Labs
- D. MIT
What does API stand for?
- A. Advanced Program Interaction
- B. Application Process Integration
- C. Applied Programming Internet
- D. Application Programming Interface
Who demonstrated the first computer mouse in 1968, an event now known as 'The Mother of All Demos'?
- A. Douglas Engelbart
- B. Bill Gates
- C. Alan Turing
- D. Ada Lovelace
What is the minimum number of satellites required for a GPS receiver to determine an accurate 3D position (latitude, longitude, and altitude)?
- A. Two
- B. Three
- C. Four
- D. Twenty-four
What is a 'Cold Wallet' in the context of cryptocurrency and digital assets?
- A. A wallet stored in a freezer
- B. An offline storage device used to keep private keys secure from online hackers
- C. A wallet that has been deleted
- D. A bank account for Bitcoin
Who is considered the first computer programmer?
- A. Charles Babbage
- B. Alan Turing
- C. Ada Lovelace
- D. Grace Hopper

Technology - General Quiz

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Which biometric authentication method is generally considered more secure and harder to spoof than fingerprint scanning?

What does 'SIM' in SIM card stand for?

What is the name of the high-speed data transfer technology developed by Intel that uses light (optical) or copper cables and supports daisy-chaining multiple devices?

Which Wi-Fi frequency band is better at traveling through walls and obstacles, but offers slower maximum data speeds?

What is the main physical difference between a standard LED monitor and an OLED monitor?

What does 'Mbps' stand for?

Which of these is a low-power, short-range wireless communication protocol commonly used for smart home devices like lightbulbs and sensors?

What term describes a massive, high-performance computer used by large organizations for bulk data processing, such as census or financial transaction data?

Which engineer at Motorola is credited with making the first public handheld mobile phone call in 1973?

In 5G networking, what is the term for the high-frequency spectrum (above 24 GHz) that offers the fastest speeds but has very short range?

What is 'Kernel' in an operating system?

What is 'CGI'?

Which is a mobile OS?

What unit is used to measure the processing speed of the world's most powerful supercomputers?

The Graphical User Interface (GUI), including windows and icons, was famously pioneered at which research center before being adopted by Apple?

What does API stand for?

Who demonstrated the first computer mouse in 1968, an event now known as 'The Mother of All Demos'?

What is the minimum number of satellites required for a GPS receiver to determine an accurate 3D position (latitude, longitude, and altitude)?

What is a 'Cold Wallet' in the context of cryptocurrency and digital assets?

Who is considered the first computer programmer?