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Ultimate IT Quiz Questions!

Know your terabytes from your gigabytes? Or are you a floppy disc? Time to take the quiz and find out!

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Beano Quiz Team • Updated August 19th 2024

Imagine a world without computer technology... you can't! There'd be no quizzes like this for a start! So how much do you know about gadgets and microchips? Take this quiz and see if you're an IT expert!

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What was the first computer that had a colour display?

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What percentage of people are said to plug their USB devices incorrectly during their first attempt?

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How are you supposed to pronounce the file name PNG?

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates' house was partly designed on a Mac. True or false?

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What do you call a computer's main circuit board?

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What does I.T. stand for?

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Who created the first modern computer? 

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What do the IT companies Microsoft, Apple, HP, Google all have in common? 

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What is nomophobia?

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Firefox and Opera are types of what?

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What percentage of people in the world have never made a phone call? 

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What shape was the original design for the iPhone, which was never used? 

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How much will Facebook pay you if you find a bug in their code?

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In 1936, Russia built a computer that ran on what? 

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What language is most used on the internet?

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This butler is associated with a search engine called Ask. What's his name?

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What was the first portable computer?

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