Technology trivia questions and answers
The Quickfire pack has 50 Technology questions, all written in English and Spanish. Here are 15 of them. Hosts get the full set, ready to put on a TV with players answering on their phones.
Tap a question to reveal the answer. The sample runs from very easy to very hard, like the pack itself. Showing 15 of 50 questions.
What does 'WWW' stand for in a website address?Very easy
Answer: World Wide Web.
What does 'URL' stand for?Very easy
Answer: Uniform Resource Locator
What does 'HTTPS' add compared to 'HTTP'?Very easy
Answer: Encryption (TLS) for secure communication
What is 'phishing'?Easy
Answer: A scam that tricks you into revealing sensitive info
What does 'open source' mean?Easy
Answer: Source code is publicly available to view/modify
What is a database index used for?Easy
Answer: To speed up searches/queries
What does 'latency' mean in networking?Intermediate
Answer: Delay between request and response
What is a 'container' (e.g., Docker)?Intermediate
Answer: A lightweight packaged environment for running software
What is a DDoS attack?Intermediate
Answer: Overwhelming a service with traffic to make it unavailable
What is the CAP theorem in distributed systems?Hard
Answer: You can’t simultaneously guarantee Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance
What is an XSS vulnerability?Hard
Answer: Injecting malicious scripts into web pages
What is 'sharding' in databases?Hard
Answer: Splitting data across multiple machines
What problem does consensus (e.g., Paxos/Raft) solve?Very hard
Answer: Getting distributed nodes to agree on a single value/state
What is homomorphic encryption (in one line)?Very hard
Answer: Compute on encrypted data without decrypting it
What is ACID in databases?Very hard
Answer: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability
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