Q 01/05

Which small Pacific country earns millions a year by licensing its ISO code, TV, as an internet domain?

A) Tonga

B) Vanuatu

C) Tuvalu

D) Nauru

Answer · why

C) Tuvalu

Tuvalu makes little local use of .tv, yet video sites such as Twitch made it so valuable that a 2021 deal with GoDaddy raised the government's yearly ...

Q 02/05

The ISO country code CH comes from Confoederatio Helvetica, the Latin name of which multilingual European country?

A) Switzerland

B) Belgium

C) Luxembourg

D) Liechtenstein

Answer · why

A) Switzerland

Switzerland used the Latin name because it is neutral toward the country's four official languages, which is also why its web addresses end in .ch.

Q 03/05

Which Caribbean territory struck gold in the artificial intelligence boom because its ISO country code happens to be AI?

A) Aruba

B) Antigua

C) Barbados

D) Anguilla

Answer · why

D) Anguilla

Anguilla's treasury collects the fees on every .ai address, and a minister said the domain would bring in about 47% of state income in 2025, up from u...

Q 04/05

The United Kingdom's web addresses end in .uk, but which two letters are its official ISO country code?

A) EN

B) GB

C) BT

D) BI

Answer · why

B) GB

GB, for Great Britain, was meant to be the web domain too, but British academics had set up .uk a few months before the ISO-based list was compiled, a...

Q 05/05

Which country's ISO code, CA, is identical to the postal abbreviation of the US state of California?

A) Canada

B) Cameroon

C) Cyprus

D) Chile

Answer · why

A) Canada

Canada's code doubles as its web domain, and .ca addresses are open only to people and organisations that meet Canadian presence requirements.