Q 01/05

Which fairy tale names the breadcrumb trail showing visitors where they are in a website?

A) Little Red Riding Hood

B) Hansel and Gretel

C) Jack and the Beanstalk

D) The Gingerbread Man

Answer · why

B) Hansel and Gretel

Hansel and Gretel left a trail of crumbs to find their way home, and breadcrumb links let a visitor retrace a route up a site. The trail usually runs ...

Q 02/05

Which character was the standard Office Assistant until Office XP turned it off by default?

A) Clippy

B) Rocky

C) Links

D) Cortana

Answer · why

A) Clippy

Clippy, officially named Clippit, was a paperclip character that arrived with Office 97. At the Office XP launch in 2001, a man in a Clippit costume b...

Q 03/05

Which company patented one-click ordering, then licensed the idea to Apple for its online store?

A) eBay

B) Walmart

C) Amazon

D) PayPal

Answer · why

C) Amazon

Amazon was granted the patent in September 1999 and licensed one-click ordering to Apple the following year. Apple paid $1 million for it and later ad...

Q 04/05

Which US state used the confusing butterfly ballot that may have cost Al Gore votes in 2000?

A) Michigan

B) Wisconsin

C) Virginia

D) Florida

Answer · why

D) Florida

Florida's Palm Beach County used the layout, and many voters who meant to pick Gore marked Pat Buchanan or spoiled their ballots. The state was settle...

Q 05/05

Which food names the three-line icon that Norm Cox drew for the 1981 Xerox Star workstation?

A) Hamburger

B) Club sandwich

C) Meatball

D) Falafel

Answer · why

A) Hamburger

Hamburger is the nickname for its accidental likeness to a burger, though the lines were meant to look like the text of a small printed menu. The icon...