Trivial Net – Computer and Tech Trivia for Geeks

Clash of the Titans

Question: OS/2 was originally a joint venture between IBM and…?

• Computer Associates
• Intel
• Microsoft
• Sears

Answer: Microsoft

Add comment December 31st, 2007

Early days

Question: Which computer was not released in 1976?

• Apple I
• Cray I
• Altair 8800

Answer: Altair 8800

The Altair, based on the 8080 microprocessor, was released in 1975.

Add comment December 30th, 2007

Yahoo!

Question: Yahoo! was created in what year?

• 1993
• 1994
• 1995
• 1996

Answer: 1994

Add comment December 29th, 2007

Diskette recognition

Question:

• Low density (720KB)
• High density (1.44MB)
• Ultra-high density (2.88MB)

Answer: Low density (720KB)

Add comment December 28th, 2007

Win 3.1

Question: What is the correct order of menu items in the Windows 3.1 Program Manager?

• File, Edit, Options, Window, Help
• File, Edit, Window, Help
• File, Options, Window, Help
• File, Options, Windows, Help

Answer: File, Options, Window, Help

Add comment December 27th, 2007

UNIX version 7

Question: What University ’stole’ Version 7 of UNIX before it was released?

• University of California, Berkeley
• University of Waterloo
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Answer: University of Waterloo

Dennis Ritchie came to Waterloo to give a talk to the Computer Science Club about the then ’soon-to-be-released’ version 7. For his demos, he dialed up Bell Labs; he was very careful to hide the phone number, however, because he didn’t have a password on his account back then. Everybody was suitably impressed and Ritchie returned to New Jersey. A month later, the Computer Science Club’s long distance phone bill arrived, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Add comment December 26th, 2007

ASCII

Question: In what year was ASCII developed?

• 1961
• 1963
• 1965
• 1967

Answer: 1963

Add comment December 25th, 2007

Strange bedfellows

Question: The Prodigy online service began as a joint venture between IBM and…?

• Apple
• CompuServe
• Microsoft
• Sears

Answer: Sears

Add comment December 24th, 2007

Scott Adams

Question: True or False: Scott Adams, author of the Dilbert comic strip, is the same Scott Adams who created the series of text adventure games.

• True
• False

Answer: False

Add comment December 23rd, 2007

New and improved 80386

Question: What was the first company to market a computer based on Intel’s 386 processor?

• Compaq
• Hewlett Packard
• IBM
• Intel

Answer: Compaq

Add comment December 22nd, 2007