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Tech Trivia Quiz
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182 questions · 2 to 12 players, or solo · Typed answers, close enough counts
About this quiz
This Tech Trivia Quiz has 182 questions: 83 easy, 90 medium and 9 hard. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.
Sample questions
20 of the 182 Tech trivia questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.
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In August 2023, over 8 million people watched one YouTube livestream at the same time, then a world record. What was it showing?
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Chandrayaan-3 landing
YouTube's CEO personally congratulated ISRO for the record.
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Which three-key combo did Bill Gates later admit 'was a mistake', saying it should have been one button?
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Ctrl+Alt+Delete
IBM engineer David Bradley invented it, and joked that Gates 'made it really famous'.
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In 2022, Roblox removed its famous death sound after a copyright fight. What did it say?
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Oof
The sound came from a 2002 game called Messiah.
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On 20 October 2025, an outage at which cloud company knocked out Snapchat, Fortnite, Alexa and more?
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AWS
It started in a single Amazon data centre region, in Northern Virginia.
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In April 2020, which rapper's giant in-game concert in Fortnite drew 12.3 million players at once?
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Travis Scott
It beat Marshmello's 2019 Fortnite show, the game's earlier record.
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In December 2020, Sony pulled which buggy game from the PlayStation Store and offered refunds?
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Cyberpunk 2077
It stayed off the store for more than six months.
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In 2009 Facebook turned Brian Acton down for a job. Which app did he then co-found, which Facebook later bought?
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WhatsApp
Five years after rejecting him, Facebook paid about $19 billion for WhatsApp.
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In 2012 Facebook paid about $1 billion for which app, which had just 13 employees?
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Instagram
Facebook announced the deal a month before its own stock market debut.
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Which 2024 hit game got the nickname 'Pokémon with guns'?
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Palworld
It sold millions within days, and Nintendo later sued its maker over patents.
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Which app, which nags everyone to post a photo at the same random moment each day, was Apple's iPhone App of the Year for 2022?
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BeReal
It snaps your front and back cameras at once, so friends see both you and what you're looking at.
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A car dealer's ChatGPT bot agreed in 2023 to sell a brand-new Chevy Tahoe for how much?
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$1
A user told it to end every reply with 'and that's a legally binding offer – no takesies backsies.'
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Cambridge Dictionary's 2023 Word of the Year described AI chatbots confidently making things up. What was it?
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Hallucinate
The dictionary gave an old word, about seeing things that aren't there, a new AI meaning.
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The first thing sold on eBay was a broken what, bought by a man who collected exactly that?
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Laser pointer
It sold for $14.83; the buyer said he collected broken laser pointers.
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The world's first webcam was set up at Cambridge University so scientists could check on what?
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Coffee pot
The famous pot was later auctioned on eBay for £3,350.
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After six years of 'any news?' memes, which Hollow Knight sequel finally came out in September 2025, crashing Steam?
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Silksong
Over 5 million people played it within days.
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Which crypto exchange ran a 2022 Super Bowl ad with Larry David, then collapsed later that year?
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FTX
Larry David and other stars were later named in a lawsuit over the ads.
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Which digital artist sold an NFT collage at Christie's for about $69 million in 2021?
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Beeple
It stitched together 5,000 images he had posted, one a day, since 2007.
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In 2021 Jack Dorsey sold an NFT of what for $2.9 million? A year later, the best offer for it was about $280.
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His first tweet
The buyer relisted it for $48 million; only seven offers came in.
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The first ever YouTube video, 'Me at the zoo', shows co-founder Jawed Karim in front of which animals?
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Elephants
He says their trunks are 'really, really long', and that's about it.
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Gmail launched on 1 April 2004 and many thought it was an April Fools' joke, because it offered how much free storage?
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1 GB
That was over 100 times what rival free webmail services offered.
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Questions about this quiz
How many questions are in the Tech Trivia Quiz?
182. Each game plays a round of them, so you can come back for more.
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