Technology quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded which technology company?

   Answer: Apple

   Why: Their first product, the Apple I, was hand-built by Wozniak and sold as a bare circuit board without a keyboard or monitor.

2. 2 Medium

   What toy was used to build Google's first server storage rack?

   Answer: LEGO bricks

   Why: In 1996 Page and Brin housed ten 4 GB drives, 40 GB in total, in Lego bricks because they were cheap and easy to modify.

3. 3 Hard

   How much did the first commercial hard drive in 1956 weigh?

   Answer: Over one ton

   Why: Fifty 24-inch platters held five million six-bit characters, just 3.75 MB, in a cabinet forklifts had to load onto cargo planes.

4. 4 Easy

   Which test asks whether AI can pass for a human?

   Answer: Turing test

   Why: Alan Turing proposed this imitation game in 1950 to replace the philosophical question of whether machines can think.

5. 5 Medium

   Which company designed the Simon Personal Communicator, the first smartphone?

   Answer: IBM

   Why: It reached shops in 1994 with a touchscreen, a fax machine and about an hour of battery life, and sold roughly 50,000 units.

6. 6 Hard

   What was the original name of the image editing software Photoshop?

   Answer: Display

   Why: Thomas Knoll wrote it as a side project on a Mac Plus, and his brother John saw the commercial potential while working at Industrial Light and Magic.