Q 01/05

Which tech billionaire was photographed in 2016 with tape covering the webcam and microphone jack of his laptop?

A) Jeff Bezos

B) Travis Kalanick

C) Mark Zuckerberg

D) Elon Musk

Answer · why

C) Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg gave the habit away by accident in a post celebrating Instagram's half a billion users. Covering the lens stops spyware from watching ...

Q 02/05

Unwanted bulk email takes its name from which canned meat, chanted over and over in a Monty Python sketch?

A) Spam

B) Treet

C) Corned beef

D) Vienna sausage

Answer · why

A) Spam

Spam is repeated so relentlessly in the sketch that it drowns out everything else, which is how early internet users felt about junk messages flooding...

Q 03/05

What name for luring someone with a fake online identity comes from a 2010 documentary featuring Nev Schulman?

A) Gaslighting

B) Breadcrumbing

C) Ghosting

D) Catfishing

Answer · why

D) Catfishing

Catfishing took its name from a story told in the film about catfish shipped with live cod, and spread widely in 2013 when football star Manti Te'o wa...

Q 04/05

Which web company admitted in 2017 that a 2013 hack had exposed all three billion of its user accounts?

A) AOL

B) Yahoo

C) MySpace

D) Hotmail

Answer · why

B) Yahoo

Yahoo had first put the damage at one billion accounts in December 2016, then tripled the figure ten months later.

Q 05/05

Which password topped SplashData's Worst Passwords List for 2016, making up 4% of all those surveyed?

A) qwerty

B) letmein

C) 123456

D) football

Answer · why

C) 123456

123456 alone accounted for one in every 25 passwords surveyed, and the 25 most common entries together covered more than a tenth.