100 Technology Trivia Questions & Answers 2026

Tech Inventions & Milestones — 25 Questions

1. When was the World Wide Web invented? (1989 — by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN)
2. Who invented the telephone? (Alexander Graham Bell, 1876)
3. When was the first iPhone released? (June 29, 2007)
4. Who founded Apple? (Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, 1976)
5. Who founded Microsoft? (Bill Gates and Paul Allen, 1975)
6. Who founded Amazon? (Jeff Bezos, 1994)
7. Who founded Google? (Larry Page and Sergey Brin, 1998)
8. When was Facebook founded? (February 4, 2004 — by Mark Zuckerberg)
9. What is Moore's Law? (Transistor count doubles roughly every 2 years — proposed by Gordon Moore in 1965)
10. What was ARPANET? (First network with packet switching — precursor to the internet, 1969)
11. Who invented the lightbulb (practical version)? (Thomas Edison, 1879)
12. What was the first commercial computer? (UNIVAC I, 1951)
13. When was email invented? (1971 — Ray Tomlinson sent the first network email)
14. What does USB stand for? (Universal Serial Bus)
15. Who invented the transistor? (Shockley, Bardeen, Brattain at Bell Labs, 1947)
16. What was the first video game? (Tennis for Two, 1958 — or Spacewar! 1962 — or Pong commercially, 1972)
17. What does GPS stand for? (Global Positioning System)
18. When was the first satellite launched? (Sputnik 1 — October 4, 1957)
19. What does WIFI stand for? (Wireless Fidelity — though it's technically just a brand name)
20. What is Bluetooth named after? (Harald Bluetooth — 10th-century Danish king who united tribes)
21. When was the first text message sent? (December 3, 1992 — "Merry Christmas")
22. What is the most visited website? (Google.com)
23. Who owns YouTube? (Google — acquired for $1.65 billion in 2006)
24. What is 5G? (Fifth generation mobile network — faster speeds, lower latency)
25. What is quantum computing? (Computing using quantum bits (qubits) — exponentially faster for certain problems)

Tech Companies & CEOs — 25 Questions

1. Who is the current CEO of Apple (2026)? (Tim Cook — since 2011)
2. Who is the CEO of Tesla? (Elon Musk)
3. What does FAANG stand for? (Facebook/Meta, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google)
4. What country is Samsung from? (South Korea)
5. What does IBM stand for? (International Business Machines)
6. Who founded Twitter (now X)? (Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, Evan Williams, 2006)
7. Who bought Twitter in 2022? (Elon Musk — for $44 billion)
8. What is the most valuable tech company? (Apple or Microsoft — depends on the day)
9. Where is Silicon Valley? (San Francisco Bay Area, California)
10. What does Microsoft Azure compete with? (AWS (Amazon), Google Cloud — cloud computing market)

AI & Emerging Tech — 20 Questions

1. What does AI stand for? (Artificial Intelligence)
2. What is machine learning? (AI systems that learn from data without explicit programming)
3. What is deep learning? (ML using neural networks with many layers)
4. What is ChatGPT? (Large Language Model chatbot by OpenAI — launched November 2022)
5. Who created ChatGPT? (OpenAI — co-founded by Sam Altman and Elon Musk)
6. What is Claude? (AI assistant created by Anthropic)
7. What is the Turing Test? (Test of machine intelligence — can a machine fool a human into thinking it's human?)
8. Who proposed the Turing Test? (Alan Turing, 1950)
9. What is blockchain? (Distributed ledger technology — records transactions in immutable blocks)
10. What is Bitcoin? (First cryptocurrency — created by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009)
11. What is NFT? (Non-Fungible Token — unique digital asset on blockchain)
12. What is augmented reality (AR)? (Digital information overlaid on real world — Pokemon Go, Google Glass)
13. What is virtual reality (VR)? (Immersive digital environment — Meta Quest, PlayStation VR)
14. What is the metaverse? (Virtual, interconnected 3D spaces — Meta's vision for the internet)
15. What is IoT? (Internet of Things — everyday devices connected to the internet)