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Code your way through computer science! Challenge yourself with questions about programming languages, computer hardware, software development, algorithms, tech companies, and the fascinating world of computing.

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Easy Questions

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Question 1easy

If you were to code software in this language you'd only be able to type 0's and 1's.

Question 2easy

What does CPU stand for?

Question 3easy

What does the "MP" stand for in MP3?

Question 4easy

What does the computer software acronym JVM stand for?

Question 5easy

In any programming language, what is the most common way to iterate through an array?

Question 6easy

HTML is what type of language?

Question 7easy

The programming language 'Swift' was created to replace what other programming language?

Question 8easy

Which programming language shares its name with an island in Indonesia?

Question 9easy

The series of the Intel HD graphics generation succeeding that of the 5000 and 6000 series (Broadwell) is called:

Question 10easy

Which company was established on April 1st, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne?

Question 11easy

The C programming language was created by this American computer scientist.

Question 12easy

According to the International System of Units, how many bytes are in a kilobyte of RAM?

Question 13easy

Which computer language would you associate Django framework with?

Question 14easy

What amount of bits commonly equals one byte?

Question 15easy

How long is an IPv6 address?

Question 16easy

How many values can a single byte represent?

Question 17easy

What does LTS stand for in the software market?

Question 18easy

What is the code name for the mobile operating system Android 7.0?

Question 19easy

In computing, what does LAN stand for?

Question 20easy

What language does Node.js use?

Question 21easy

In the programming language Java, which of these keywords would you put on a variable to make sure it doesn't get modified?

Question 22easy

The numbering system with a radix of 16 is more commonly referred to as

Question 23easy

What does the Prt Sc button do?

Question 24easy

In "Hexadecimal", what color would be displayed from the color code? "#00FF00"?

Question 25easy

On Twitter, what was the original character limit for a Tweet?

Question 26easy

In computing, what does MIDI stand for?

Question 27easy

What is the most preferred image format used for logos in the Wikimedia database?

Question 28easy

What does GHz stand for?

Question 29easy

Which computer hardware device provides an interface for all other connected devices to communicate?

Question 30easy

This mobile OS held the largest market share in 2012.

Question 31easy

In web design, what does CSS stand for?

Question 32easy

When Gmail first launched, how much storage did it provide for your email?

Question 33easy

What is the domain name for the country Tuvalu?

Question 34easy

How many kilobytes in one gigabyte (in decimal)?

Medium Questions

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Question 1medium

Which operating system was released first?

Question 2medium

In HTML, which non-standard tag used to be be used to make elements scroll across the viewport?

Question 3medium

Which of the following languages is used as a scripting language in the Unity 3D game engine?

Question 4medium

In CSS, which of these values CANNOT be used with the "position" property?

Question 5medium

Unix Time is defined as the number of seconds that have elapsed since when?

Question 6medium

Which internet company began life as an online bookstore called 'Cadabra'?

Question 7medium

What is the correct term for the metal object in between the CPU and the CPU fan within a computer system?

Question 8medium

Nvidia's headquarters are based in which Silicon Valley city?

Question 9medium

What is the number of keys on a standard Windows Keyboard?

Question 10medium

In programming, what do you call functions with the same name but different implementations?

Question 11medium

What was the name given to Android 4.3?

Question 12medium

While Apple was formed in California, in which western state was Microsoft founded?

Question 13medium

How many cores does the Intel i7-6950X have?

Question 14medium

When was the programming language "C#" released?

Question 15medium

Whistler was the codename of this Microsoft Operating System.

Question 16medium

What is the main CPU is the Sega Mega Drive / Sega Genesis?

Question 17medium

In programming, the ternary operator is mostly defined with what symbol(s)?

Question 18medium

Which of these people was NOT a founder of Apple Inc?

Question 19medium

Which of these is the name for the failed key escrow device introduced by the National Security Agency in 1993?

Question 20medium

The name of technology company HP stands for what?

Question 21medium

What does the 'S' in the RSA encryption algorithm stand for?

Question 22medium

Generally, which component of a computer draws the most power?

Question 23medium

What does the acronym CDN stand for in terms of networking?

Question 24medium

What does AD stand for in relation to Windows Operating Systems?

Question 25medium

.at is the top-level domain for what country?

Question 26medium

What does the term MIME stand for, in regards to computing?

Question 27medium

Which programming language was developed by Sun Microsystems in 1995?

Question 28medium

How many bits make up the significand portion of a single precision floating point number?

Question 29medium

Which of the following is a personal computer made by the Japanese company Fujitsu?

Question 30medium

In the server hosting industry IaaS stands for...

Question 31medium

What five letter word is the motto of the IBM Computer company?

Question 32medium

What does the term GPU stand for?

Question 33medium

What is known as "the brain" of the Computer?

Question 34medium

Which coding language was the #1 programming language in terms of usage on GitHub in 2015?

Question 35medium

.rs is the top-level domain for what country?

Question 36medium

What does "LCD" stand for?

Question 37medium

Laserjet and inkjet printers are both examples of what type of printer?

Question 38medium

The teapot often seen in many 3D modeling applications is called what?

Question 39medium

On which day did the World Wide Web go online?

Question 40medium

What is the name of the default theme that is installed with Windows XP?

Question 41medium

On which computer hardware device is the BIOS chip located?

Question 42medium

The computer OEM manufacturer Clevo, known for its Sager notebook line, is based in which country?

Question 43medium

Which one of these is not an official development name for a Ubuntu release?

Question 44medium

Which of these programming languages is a low-level language?

Question 45medium

How many bytes are in a single Kibibyte?

Question 46medium

What was the first Android version specifically optimized for tablets?

Question 47medium

When did the online streaming service "Mixer" launch?

Question 48medium

Moore's law originally stated that the number of transistors on a microprocessor chip would double every...

Question 49medium

What was the first commerically available computer processor?

Question 50medium

In computing terms, typically what does CLI stand for?

Question 51medium

All of the following programs are classified as raster graphics editors EXCEPT:

Question 52medium

In the programming language "Python", which of these statements would display the string "Hello World" correctly?

Question 53medium

Approximately how many Apple I personal computers were created?

Question 54medium

How fast is USB 3.1 Gen 2 theoretically?

Question 55medium

What did the name of the Tor Anonymity Network orignially stand for?

Question 56medium

What does RAID stand for?

Hard Questions

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Question 1hard

What does the International System of Quantities refer 1024 bytes as?

Question 2hard

Lenovo acquired IBM's personal computer division, including the ThinkPad line of laptops and tablets, in what year?

Question 3hard

The internet domain .fm is the country-code top-level domain for which Pacific Ocean island nation?

Question 4hard

The acronym "RIP" stands for which of these?

Question 5hard

What internet protocol was documented in RFC 1459?

Question 6hard

How many Hz does the video standard PAL support?

Question 7hard

What major programming language does Unreal Engine 4 use?

Question 8hard

What was the first company to use the term "Golden Master"?

Question 9hard

What is the name of the process that sends one qubit of information using two bits of classical information?

Question 10hard

Which of these was the name of a bug found in April 2014 in the publicly available OpenSSL cryptography library?

Question 11hard

Who is the original author of the realtime physics engine called PhysX?

Question 12hard

According to DeMorgan's Theorem, the Boolean expression (AB)' is equivalent to:

Question 13hard

Which of the following computer components can be built using only NAND gates?

Question 14hard

What type of sound chip does the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) have?

Question 15hard

What is the codename of the eighth generation Intel Core micro-architecture launched in October 2017?

Question 16hard

What was the name of the first Bulgarian personal computer?

Question 17hard

Which data structure does FILO apply to?

Question 18hard

Which RAID array type is associated with data mirroring?

Question 19hard

What was the name of the security vulnerability found in Bash in 2014?

Question 20hard

Dutch computer scientist Mark Overmars is known for creating which game development engine?

Question 21hard

What is the name given to layer 4 of the Open Systems Interconnection (ISO) model?

Question 22hard

Released in 2001, the first edition of Apple's Mac OS X operating system (version 10.0) was given what animal code name?

Question 23hard

What vulnerability ranked #1 on the OWASP Top 10 in 2013?

Question 24hard

The Harvard architecture for micro-controllers added which additional bus?

Question 25hard

Which of these names was an actual codename for a cancelled Microsoft project?

Question 26hard

Which of these is not a key value of Agile software development?

Question 27hard

Which of these is not a layer in the OSI model for data communications?

Question 28hard

Which of these Cherry MX mechanical keyboard switches is both tactile and clicky?

Question 29hard

Who invented the "Spanning Tree Protocol"?

Question 30hard

Which kind of algorithm is Ron Rivest not famous for creating?

Question 31hard

America Online (AOL) started out as which of these online service providers?

Question 32hard

Who is the founder of Palantir?

Question 33hard

Which of the following is the oldest of these computers by release date?

Question 34hard

What port does HTTP run on?

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