Q 01/05

Which country opened the first embassy inside the virtual world Second Life, on its Diplomacy Island?

A) Sweden

B) Estonia

C) The Maldives

D) Singapore

Answer · why

C) The Maldives

The Maldives beat Sweden to it: the Maldives' embassy on Diplomacy Island let visitors quiz a computer-generated ambassador about visas and trade. Swe...

Q 02/05

The word 'metaverse' was coined in which 1992 novel, whose hacker hero delivers pizza for the Mafia?

A) Neuromancer

B) Snow Crash

C) The Diamond Age

D) Ready Player One

Answer · why

B) Snow Crash

Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson named that hero Hiro Protagonist, and his Metaverse is a single Street running around a featureless black planet. St...

Q 03/05

Which author sued to have his name removed from the 1992 VR film The Lawnmower Man?

A) Stephen King

B) Michael Crichton

C) Dean Koontz

D) Clive Barker

Answer · why

A) Stephen King

Stephen King's 1975 story was about a Pan-worshipping satyr who mows lawns, nothing like the film, and New Line kept his name on the video box anyway....

Q 04/05

The Quest 2 headset launched in 2020 requiring users to log in with what, a rule dropped after a backlash?

A) A phone number

B) A credit card

C) An Instagram account

D) A Facebook account

Answer · why

D) A Facebook account

A Facebook account was mandatory until Meta's 2022 'Meta account' system let owners unhook their headsets from Facebook logins. Some users had found t...

Q 05/05

Apple's Vision Pro launched without handheld controllers; a wearer selects an item by looking at it and doing what?

A) Blinking twice

B) Nodding their head

C) Pinching two fingers

D) Snapping their fingers

Answer · why

C) Pinching two fingers

Pinching two fingers together is the click: dragging the pinched fingers drags a window and flicking the wrist scrolls. An outward screen called EyeSi...