Q 01/05

The world's first webcam, switched on at the University of Cambridge in 1991, kept watch over what?

A) A coffee pot

B) A fish tank

C) A vending machine

D) A lava lamp

Answer · why

A) A coffee pot

A coffee pot in the Trojan Room was filmed so researchers elsewhere in the building could see whether it was empty before making the trip. The camera ...

Q 02/05

The Firefox browser, called Phoenix until a trademark dispute, is named after a nickname for which animal?

A) Red fox

B) Red panda

C) Fennec fox

D) Maned wolf

Answer · why

B) Red panda

Red panda is the animal behind the name, even though the logo shows a stylised fox. The browser was briefly called Firebird in between, until a databa...

Q 03/05

Which Pacific island nation earns millions of dollars a year by leasing out its .tv internet domain?

A) Tonga

B) Tokelau

C) Tuvalu

D) Vanuatu

Answer · why

C) Tuvalu

Tuvalu was assigned .tv as its country code long before streaming video made the two letters valuable. By 2019 royalties from the domain supplied abou...

Q 04/05

Which English computer scientist wrote the 1989 proposal at CERN that became the World Wide Web?

A) Clive Sinclair

B) Vint Cerf

C) Marc Andreessen

D) Tim Berners-Lee

Answer · why

D) Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee wrote the proposal in March 1989, and his manager judged it "vague, but exciting". He went on to build the first browser and the first...

Q 05/05

Which filler text, scrambled from a work by Cicero, do designers paste into unfinished web page layouts?

A) Carpe diem

B) Lorem ipsum

C) Quo vadis

D) Veni, vidi, vici

Answer · why

B) Lorem ipsum

Lorem ipsum is a garbled version of De finibus bonorum et malorum, in which Cicero argues that pleasure should be pursued rationally. Words were added...