Tech industry trivia

8 tech industry trivia questions, from easy to hard. Tap a question to see the answer. They're real questions from Rubicon, where you type the answer yourself and an AI judge reads what you meant.

This set covers Technology & Platforms.

Questions and answers

  1. Easy According to Metcalfe's law, a network's value grows in proportion to what mathematical power?

    A network's value grows proportionally to the square of the total number of connected users.

  2. Easy Which smartphone update shortly before the pandemic made scanning QR codes effortless for everyday users?

    Phone cameras gained native scanning abilities, allowing users to scan codes without downloading any separate third-party apps.

  3. Easy Why did restaurants and shops suddenly replace paper menus with QR codes during the pandemic?

    Businesses adopted them so customers could access information on personal phones without touching shared paper menus or surfaces.

  4. Medium During which decade was the World Wide Web's inaugural web page hosted on a NeXT computer?

    The earliest website was hosted on a NeXT computer in the 1990s, specifically launching in 1991.

  5. Medium How do rideshare platforms transfer their largest physical capital expenses directly onto the drivers themselves?

    Drivers must supply their own vehicles, absorbing all fuel, maintenance, insurance, and long-term depreciation costs.

  6. Medium How did Google's distribution strategy for Android fundamentally differ from Apple's approach with iOS?

    Google licensed its mobile operating system freely to multiple hardware manufacturers, whereas Apple kept iOS exclusive to its own proprietary devices.

  7. Hard Why did early analog cellphones lose service abroad while GSM devices seamlessly connected across foreign national borders?

    GSM enabled roaming by decoupling user identity from hardware with SIM cards and standardizing network protocols across carriers.

  8. Hard Which Unix innovation for passing plain text between distinct programs directly parallels how modern microservices exchange data through standard web APIs?

    The Unix pipe concept established streaming output from one program directly into another using a common universal text format.

Now try it yourself

Reading the answer is the easy part. Here are three more tech industry questions, with no options to pick from. You type what you know, and the judge marks what you meant, typos and all.

Play tech industry trivia

No account needed.

More topics

All topics