147 Information Technology Trivia Questions (Ranked from Easiest to Hardest)

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August 24, 2025
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Information Technology (IT) is the use of computers and software to manage and process information. It has become an essential part of modern society and is used in almost every industry and field. There is a wide range of IT trivia questions that can be asked, whether you're an IT professional or someone who is curious about the field.

Here are some examples of IT trivia questions you might come across: What is the most widely used programming language? Who created the World Wide Web? What is the name of the first computer virus? What was the first search engine? These questions cover a wide range of IT topics, including programming languages, software development, internet, and computer security.

In addition to the technical aspects of IT, there are also many fun and interesting facts to learn about. For example, did you know that the most widely used programming language is JavaScript? Or that the World Wide Web was created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989? These trivia questions will not only test your knowledge, but also give you a glimpse into the many fascinating aspects of IT and its impact on our society, culture, and everyday life.

147 Information Technology Trivia Questions Ranked From Easiest to Hardest (Updated for 2025)

1. Although the keyboard shortcut for copying information is Ctrl + C, the shortcut for pasting information is not Ctrl + P (that's a shortcut for printing). Instead, the shortcut letter for pasting is closer to the shortcuts for copying and cutting. What letter is used to paste information when clicked synchronously with Ctrl?

Answer: V


2. Legend has it that the QWERTY keyboard layout was designed to make typists slow down so they wouldn’t jam up their typewriters. However, the origin of the keyboard arrangement actually goes back to telegraph operators who used which code to type out messages one dot-dash at a time?

Answer: Morse


3. In 1999 Shigetaka Kurita invented what keyboard additions for cell phones that would eventually replace emoticons and even get their own movie?

Answer: Emojis


4. What high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language was indirectly named by designer James Gosling after a very caffeinated Indonesian island?

Answer: Java


5. Which acronym for a computer’s main memory system sounds like a Daft Punk album or a horned mountain animal?

Answer: RAM


6. What computer and printer giant was founded in 1939 in Palo, Alto, CA? It is sometimes better known by the two-letter acronym based on its founders' names.

Answer: Hewlett-Packard


7. Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN) is a cellular technology developed by which American telecommunications company that also brought you the RAZR flip phone?

Answer: Motorola


8. Supposedly pronounced as "wizziwig," what is the meaning of the acronym WYSIWYG? The phrase largely means that the printer will print what you see on your monitor.

Answer: What you see is what you get


9. What thread-count-soundin' free program in the Google Docs Editors suite corresponds to Excel in Microsoft's Office suite of software?

Answer: Sheets


10. It sounds like a circus performer from Taos and allows you to download PDFs with the greatest of ease. I'm talking about what A-word family of software?

Answer: Adobe Acrobat


11. Which "C" American tech conglomerate is headquartered in San Jose, was founded in 1984 by a couple of Stanford computer scientists, and is known for its products and services like Jabber and Webex?

Answer: Cisco


12. A precursor to Wi-Fi was an Ethernet connection. A precursor to Ethernet was the ALOHAnet, which used a UHF wireless packet network to connect parts of what U.S. state?

Answer: Hawaii


13. What delicious computer term did web browser programmer Lou Montulli coin to refer to information that is sent from the browser to the web server?

Answer: Cookie


14. Today, Gmail is by far the most popular email service in the world, with 1.5 billion users worldwide. But it's not the first Gmail: in 2004, the original Gmail was a service for fans of what lasagna-addicted comic strip character?

Answer: Garfield


15. The first Android-powered device from Samsung Mobile also became the first in a long-running product line for the company. What was the name of this device?

Answer: Samsung Galaxy


16. Typically considered the successor to dial-up internet access in many American homes, what was the "B" term for wide bandwidth data transmission which was able to transport multiple signals and traffic types? This replacement technology allowed for always-on and faster internet.

Answer: Broadband


17. Now appearing prophetic, what device was announced in 2007 with the following slogan? "This is only the beginning."

Answer: iPhone


18. Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi were MIT students that founded a file hosting service in 2007. Fast forward 11 years, and they were taking this company public with an Initial Public Offering. What is the name of this "D" company?

Answer: Dropbox


19. What open-source operating system was written in way more than three lines of code and named for a short poetry form?

Answer: Haiku


20. What “M” computer security company, founded by namesake John in 1987 before being acquired by Intel in 2011, is well known for its anti-virus software that is available to individual consumers?

Answer: McAfee


21. SQL is based on the relational form of which kind of math that starts with A?

Answer: Algebra


22. Wi-Fi is a family of wireless network protocols modeled after the IEEE 802 set of LAN protocols. What does the initialism LAN stand for?

Answer: Local Area Network


23. For more than 40 years, THINK was the motto for what frequently acronym'd company also referred to as "Big Blue"?

Answer: IBM


24. What term is used for the most basic level or core of an operating system, responsible for resource allocation, file management, and security? In a different context, this word can also mean the seed and hard husk of a cereal.

Answer: Kernel


25. Dutch programmer Guido van Rossum is the main author of what programming language that’s named after a famous group of British comedians?

Answer: Python


26. What is the typical four-letter word that is occasionally referred to as "Whole Home" Wi-Fi which leverages a main router and a series of nodes placed around a home for full coverage? These all share the same SSID and password.

Answer: Mesh Wi-Fi


27. Steve Jobs is famously one of the two men who co-founded Apple in 1976. The other co-founder was also named Steve. What was this other man's surname?

Answer: Wozniak


28. If you have an iPhone and send a text to another iPhone user via iMessage, the bubbles look blue. If you send a text to an Android user, the bubble is green because it’s being sent as which kind of message?

Answer: SMS


29. Larry Ellison co-founded a company in 1977 with the rather boring name of Software Development Laboratories (SDL). In 1983, the company introduced what word into its official name? This new word is the name of the company today and also means a person considered to provide wise counsel or prophetic predictions.

Answer: Oracle


30. In what early computer game did pioneers often die of dysentery? The game was later inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame.

Answer: Oregon Trail


31. The 2.0 version of the Android operating system was nicknamed "Eclair" and the 2.3 version was nicknamed "Gingerbread." In between was the five-letter name of a cold dessert that exploded in popularity in the 2000s with self-serve toppings. What dessert is this?

Answer: Froyo


32. In the early 2000s, Motorola pioneered the concept of a flip phone (or “fashion phone”) with which sharp-looking and sounding cellphone model?

Answer: Razr


33. Titan Rain was a series of attacks on U.S. computers that started in 2003. The hackers gained access to defense networks at places like Lockheed Martin and NASA. Which country did the attacks originate from?

Answer: China


34. Doug Engelbart was the inventor of what computer accessory? The first one was made from wood.

Answer: Mouse


35. Saying that you sent an “e-mail” (or email) is so common that it’s easy to forget the word is actually a shortened version of which term?

Answer: Electronic Mail


36. Which type of computing uses techniques like “fuzzy logic” and estimates instead of precise data to work out tough-to-solve problems? (Hint: It’s the opposite of “hard” computing.)

Answer: Soft


37. In the early days of the Internet, BBS was an electronic way to share messages with other people on a network. The S is for "system," and the BB stands for which physical poster location you’d find in a community hub like an office breakroom or grocery store?

Answer: Bulletin Board


38. Andy Rubin is known as one of the three founders of what massively popular cell phone operating system?

Answer: Android


39. How many times would you have had to hit the 4 button to text the word “Hi” on a flip phone’s non-T9 number pad?

Answer: 5 Times


40. What “A” antivirus software is a freeware solution available across multiple platforms, with an amoeba-like orange “A” as a logo? It is also a pirate word meaning “Stop.”

Answer: Avast


41. What is the 6-letter term for a group of computers networked together and used by hackers to steal information?

Answer: Botnet


42. If you get a 404 error, don’t bother going looking! What two-word phrase does the HTTP code mean?

Answer: Not Found


43. The four principle wireless encryption standards available at most access points are WPA, WPA2, WPA3, and which less-secure fourth option?

Answer: WEP


44. The Fugaku supercomputer has topped the list of the fastest computers in the world since 2020. Reaching such an explosive height makes its name fitting, since it was named after what stratovolcano in Japan?

Answer: Mount Fuji


45. It sounds like how you’d describe a waterfall or the train of a beautiful gown, but CSS is actually a must-know acronym for web designers. What does CSS stand for?

Answer: Cascading Style Sheet


46. The IdeaPad laptop and ThinkCenter desktop are models offered by what Hong Kong hardware company?

Answer: Lenovo


47. Featuring a logo shaped like a bird, what is the name of the programming language released by Apple in 2014 for use in developing apps for iOS, macOS, watchOS, and more?

Answer: Swift


48. To go to a website, you know to type in its URL. What’s the technical term for the text in the web address that comes after the “www” part?

Answer: Domain Name


49. What technology publication was founded by Louis Rossetto and has a title one letter away from a synonym for "sleepy?"

Answer: Wired


50. The tiny town of Green Bank, West Virginia is located within the National Radio QZ because it is home to the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope. This means that there are strict Wi-Fi and cell phone restrictions in the city. What does QZ stand for in this context?

Answer: Quiet Zone


51. One-terabyte drives were necessary when 1000 gigabytes of memory were necessary. However, what is the term for 1000 terabytes?

Answer: Petabyte


52. The "man without a head" is the emblem of what Guy-Fawkes-lovin' hacker group that reemerged in 2020?

Answer: Anonymous


53. Which term describes binary (e.g., yes/no, true/false) data, values, and operators that are helpful for web searches and programming?

Answer: Boolean


54. In 2014, what language did Apple develop for developers (and no, it's not a homage to the "Blank Space" singer, though you could check your code for those with isEmpty) ?

Answer: Swift


55. What type of printer works by implementing a moving head that prints in a line-by-line motion but in contrast to inkjets, employs an impact head and ribbon method of printing, punching tiny holes through the ribbon and into the page, leaving a mark?

Answer: Dot Matrix


56. What is the seven-letter branded software standard created by Apple that enables a car radio or touchscreen to be a display and a controller for an iOS device?

Answer: CarPlay


57. No flexibility on your answers! Launched in 2006, Amazon's EC2 stands for what Compute Cloud?

Answer: Elastic


58. What A-word is given to a software application that automatically downloads or displays marketing banners or pop-ups when a user is online?

Answer: Adware


59. According to a former Facebook employee, the company used to have a master password that could unlock any user's account. This password was a variation on the name of what martial artist and actor, perhaps because he definitely couldn't be considered "too weak"?

Answer: Chuck Norris


60. I didn't know Hansel and Gretel were web designers. What name is given to secondary navigation aids that assist users in understanding the relationship between their location on a page, and higher-level pages?

Answer: Breadcrumbs


61. What American tech company had a microprocessor facility in Costa Rica that at one time was responsible for 20% of Costa Rican exports and 5% of the country's GDP?

Answer: Intel


62. Aye, aye, captain! Abbreviated as the C64, what 8-bit home computer and gaming device was named “the best-selling single computer model of all time” by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2011?

Answer: Commodore 64


63. What is the tasty name of the series of small single-board computers developed by an eponymous foundation in the UK and often used for the promotion of teaching computer science concepts in schools and developing countries?

Answer: Raspberry Pi


64. While working at Motorola in the 1970s, Martin Cooper invented what is typically considered the first cell phone. Cooper is a graduate of IIT: an Institute of Technology located in what state?

Answer: Illinois


65. Developed for Microsoft Windows, what password recovery tool is named after the first two sons of Adam and Eve in the biblical Book of Genesis?

Answer: Cain and Abel


66. Although the company maintains and distributes many types of open-source software, it is most well-known for its enterprise Linux and virtualization products. What is this company headquartered in Raleigh and purchased by IBM in 2019? You might also see their name written when visiting a haberdasher.

Answer: Red Hat


67. Used in electronic messages and web pages, they are similar to emoticons but are actual pictures instead of typographics. What are they?

Answer: Emojis


68. Ridley Scott directed the dystopian, Orwell-inspired, hammer-tossing commercial for what now-behemoth but then-underdog company during the 1984 Super Bowl?

Answer: Apple


69. Introduced in 1985, what line of Commodore personal computers has a name that means "friend" in English?

Answer: Amiga


70. For some reason, it wasn't until 2016 that Tim Berners-Lee won the Association for Computing Machinery's top "Nobel-level" award, named for what British mathematician and computer scientist?

Answer: Alan Turing


71. In 2005, Linus Torvalds created software for tracking changes on files in order to improve development of the Linux kernel. Since 2005, the open-source software has had Junio Hamano as the core maintainer. What is the three-letter name of this uber-popular software among developers?

Answer: Git


72. While working at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center during the 1970s, computer scientist Larry Tesler coined what three common computer commands first used to edit documents on a word processor he co-created called Gypsy?

Answer: Cut


73. Which computer company based in Taiwan is known for its PCs, including the ZenBook, VivoBook, and Republic of Gamers laptop?

Answer: Asus


74. Norton AntiVirus is an anti-malware and anti-virus software package that has been developed and distributed by what company since 1991? This parent company has a portmanteau'd name and was first publicly traded in 1989.

Answer: Symantec


75. The integrated circuit intended to securely store information and a key on a mobile phone is widely known as a SIM card. What does SIM stand for?

Answer: Subscriber Identity Module


76. With an initial release in 2003, what is the free open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MySQL (or MariaDB) database that features numerous plugins and templates known as "Themes" and is currently used by 39% of the 10 million most-popular websites in the world?

Answer: WordPress


77. What technology company was founded in 1993 with the vision that the next wave of computing would be graphics-based? The company took its name from the Latin word for "envy" and features product families GeForce, Quadro, and Tegra.

Answer: Nvidia


78. LiMux was a project for migrating what huge Bavarian city from Windows to Linux?

Answer: Munich


79. What is the name of the research and advisory firm that puts out "magic quadrants", ranking different enterprise software products?

Answer: Gartner


80. Ad Astra Rocket, Avantica, and Nimiq are all companies that are part of the economic shift from cattle ranching to information technology in what Costa Rican province?

Answer: Guanacaste


81. Also used to describe your mental capacity to take on tasks, what "B" word means the maximum amount of data that can be transmitted over an internet connection in a given amount of time?

Answer: Bandwidth


82. Which Chinese search engine is the second-largest in the world and has a name that means “100 times?”

Answer: Baidu


83. If you’re not an Apple fan, which Android-powered, spacey-sounding line of Samsung smartphones might meet your technological needs?

Answer: Galaxy


84. Starting with "The Girl in the Spider's Web" in 2015, what Swedish author took over from the late Stieg Larsson in telling the story of fictional emo superhacker Lisbeth Salander?

Answer: David Lagercrantz


85. While designing the IBM Stretch computer in 1956, computer scientist Werner Buchholz was one of the first people to coin what four-letter term that is equivalent to eight bits?

Answer: Byte


86. Elk Cloner was one of the first microcomputer viruses that ended up “in the wild,” having escaped the computer system it was written on. It started as a joke written by a high school student, who put it on what now obsolete piece of tech that also ended up being the means through which the virus was spread from one machine to the next?

Answer: Floppy disk


87. When Douglas Engelbart came up with the first computer mouse in the 1960s, he probably should have considered the possibility of hand splinters, since the prototype was made of what material?

Answer: Wood


88. In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue had all the right moves and became the first computer to be a champion player at what game?

Answer: Chess


89. What term is given to malicious software or code that is considered to fall in the category between normal software and a virus?

Answer: Grayware


90. The Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the world’s first electronic digital computer, was built during the 1930s in what U.S. state nicknamed the “Hawkeye State”?

Answer: Iowa


91. What is the name of the software that can screen an image or document for text and make it readable and searchable (for example, converting a PDF to a text file)?

Answer: Optical Character Recognition


92. Loon is a company working on providing Internet access to rural and remote areas by using high-altitude balloons in the stratosphere that create an aerial wireless network. Loon is a subsidiary of what much larger company?

Answer: Alphabet


93. What company providing hosting for software development and distributed version control familiar to computer programmers is known for its iconic Octocat (part cat, part octopus) logo?

Answer: GitHub


94. C++, Java, and Python are just a few of many examples of which kind of computer coding language that’s abbreviated OOP?

Answer: Object-Oriented Programming


95. A hexadecimal numbering system is useful if you have some “big bits” to wrangle and want shorter binary strings. Which base number does the system use?

Answer: 16


96. What “A” term describes a program capable of running on any computer regardless of its operating system? It kind of sounds like a round tree fruit that comes in red and green.

Answer: Applet


97. Not to be confused with rubber gloves, what document preparation software system that uses plain text is pronounced “lay tech?”

Answer: LaTeX


98. What is the "double O" name of the web testing and diagnostics company founded in Seattle in 2006 that has a well-known, eponymous internet speedtest?

Answer: Ookla


99. A November 1998 article titled "New CYBERSCAPE: Digital Assistants Get Sophisticated" was the first article in the New York Times's archive to use what now-ubiquitous word which, despite its name, does not necessarily refer to the IQ of a pocket computer?

Answer: Smartphone


100. Google Buzz, Google Friend Connect, and Orkut were all Google products that were retired attempts at a social media platform. The fourth attempt was named what?

Answer: Google+


101. Unicode, the standard for character encoding used to represent multilingual text as binary, is the successor of what US encoding standard?

Answer: ASCII


102. What is the common alphanumeric abbreviation for the "predictive text technology" developed by Tegic Communications and used on mobile phones prior to the widespread adoption of touchscreen keyboards?

Answer: T9


103. What cult British TV series focused on three members of the IT department at the fictional Reynholm Industries?

Answer: The IT Crowd


104. Named after a Founding Father associated with Philadelphia, what retro computer company manufactured clones of the Apple II series in the 1980s, including its Ace 1200 model?

Answer: Franklin


105. Headquartered in Colorado, what repetitively named company claims to be the world's leading provider of in-flight Internet and entertainment?

Answer: Gogo


106. Which adjective is used to describe computer memory that only retains data while the device is powered? This adjective can be used to describe a person liable to display rapid changes of emotion.

Answer: Volatile


107. Which Ancient Greek philosopher do we have to thank for the word “technology” since he coined the term “technologia” over 2,000 years ago?

Answer: Aristotle


108. What part of the human body is also a term that is often used to describe the main network connections that comprise the Internet or other major network?

Answer: Backbone


109. AMD is an American semiconductor company based in Santa Clara that has been an industry-leader in developing computer processors. The company is a primary competitor to both Intel and Nvidia. What does AMD stand for?

Answer: Advanced Micro Devices


110. Vinod Khosla, a billionaire and founder of an eponymous venture capital firm, is also a cofounder of what company that created the Java programming language?

Answer: Sun Microsystems


111. Which computer networking equipment manufacturer that was founded by Patrick Lo in 1996 sells products like “Orbi” and “Nighthawk” routers, modems, cable switches, and network-attached storage devices?

Answer: Netgear


112. What “divide” refers to the gaps in access to technology like smartphones and computers that contribute to inequalities in accessing resources and knowledge that’s available through the Internet?

Answer: Digital


113. Formally approved by the U.S. Department of Defense, what is the name of the information security certification known by a five-letter initialism with ~148,000 qualified holders as of January 2021? The organization overseeing this certification was formed in mid-1989 as a non-profit.

Answer: CISSP


114. IEEE 802.3 is a collection of standards produced to define the physical layer and data link of wired Ethernet. The standards are named for the group that drafted them, IEEE. What does this acronym stand for?

Answer: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers


115. Which kind of interface is slow because it transmits digital information bit by bit over a wire?

Answer: Serial


116. Called a "giant brain" by the media, ENIAC was a pioneering computer that debuted in 1946 after being built in secret at what southernmost Ivy League university?

Answer: University of Pennsylvania


117. In what year did the first AWS (Amazon Web Services) service launch to the public?

Answer: 2004


118. According to Fast Metrics, the fastest internet in the world was considered to be in the country where the highest % of Wi-Fi connections had a speed of at least 4 Mbps. The leading country met this qualification with more than 95% of its internet connections as of 2015. What is this Eastern Hemisphere nation?

Answer: South Korea


119. Which type of electrical cable can be used with your modem to provide a continuous Internet connection by hooking you up to your ISP through a landline, like your TV?

Answer: Coaxial


120. According to an analysis by the UK's National Cyber Security Centre that investigated passwords belonging to hacked accounts worldwide, what is the most common six-letter "word" that is used for passwords that don't require numbers or punctuation?

Answer: Qwerty


121. Following his political career, Al Gore achieved meme infamy status when he claimed to invent the internet. However, he is widely credited with coining what 2-word automotive phrase for the internet?

Answer: Information Superhighway


122. Deeper Insights, Five AI, and Beyond Analysis are some of the top AI companies in what international city?

Answer: London


123. In what year did Apple standardize their chargers with the introduction of the Lightning cable?

Answer: 2012


124. What British computer scientist with a hyphenated surname is known as the founder of the World Wide Web?

Answer: Tim Berners-Lee


125. Before the name Java, the coding language was known by what arboreal name that also has poignancy in the Pokémon universe?

Answer: Oak


126. In Excel, you can use the UNICHAR function to get a character from which ubiquitous information technology standard by its number?

Answer: Unicode


127. IBM's chess-playing computer Deep Thought was named after a computer designed to answer the "Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" in what "trilogy in five parts" by Douglas Adams?

Answer: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


128. Headquartered (somewhat ironically?) in Santa Clara, California, what is the name of the American cybersecurity company that serves 85 of the Fortune 100 and is the home to both the Unit 42 threat research team and the Ignite cybersecurity conference?

Answer: Palo Alto Networks


129. When the full extent of the 2020 SolarWinds-focused cyberattack on the U.S. federal government was starting to be understood, Microsoft's president described the attack as the "largest and most sophisticated the world has ever seen." The malware responsible for the attack was named for what astronomical-sounding explosion?

Answer: Sunburst


130. The Alto computer released in 1973 was the first to feature a GUI (graphical user interface). Although Apple's far more successful Macintosh system brought the GUI to wider acclaim, what was the company that released the Alto?

Answer: Xerox


131. The radix is the number of unique digits, including zero, used to represent numbers in a "positional numeral system." By what term is this concept more often referred to? This other, more common term is also an acronym for a risky type of athletic feat and functions as a Microsoft Excel formula.

Answer: Base


132. Officially announced in February 2019, the "Mate X" folding cell phone will be manufactured and sold by what electronics giant?

Answer: Huawei


133. Long before Kindles, the first of what type of digital reading material was published in 1971 by the founder of Project Gutenberg? (Bonus fact: The content of the technological tome? The U.S. Declaration of Independence.)

Answer: E-book


134. How many bits would you have if you added two nibbles and one crumb?

Answer: 10 Bits  (nibble = 4 bits)


135. There’s a pretty obvious hint for the name of the Earth-orbiting telecom unit that the Luxumbourg-based multinational tech co Intelsat S.A. is known for in its name. What is it?

Answer: Satellite


136. Written in Python and used as an open-source workflow management platform, what is the name of the "ventilated" Apache-managed project started at Airbnb in 2014 and designed under the "configuration as code" principle?

Answer: Airflow


137. Which 3-letter server scripting language is used to code dynamic web pages?

Answer: PHP


138. What English man was a mathematician, philosopher, inventor, and mechanical engineer, and is largely considered the originator of the concept of a digital programmable computer? His last name rhymes with a common vegetable.

Answer: Charles Babbage


139. What “A” technology from Microsoft allows desktop applications to link to the web? Its name is a word followed by a letter that is late in the alphabet.

Answer: ActiveX


140. Allied codebreakers at Bletchley Park and 1990s programmers trying to establish anonymous Internet banking create the storylines in what 1999 Neal Stephenson novel with a 13-letter title?

Answer: Cryptonomicon


141. To combat shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic, Bill Dally developed an open-source, low-cost ventilator as Chief Scientist at which American tech giant?

Answer: Nvidia


142. 50/50 shot: Research has shown that more than half of passwords created by humans contain which type of letter?

Answer: Vowel


143. What university initially maintained the text file named HOSTS.TXT that mapped host names to the numerical addresses of computers on the ARPANET?

Answer: Stanford


144. When it was built in the 1950s, the Weizmann Automatic Computer (WEIZAC) was one of the first computers of its kind in the world and the actual first in which Western Asian country?

Answer: Israel


145. What “K” IT infrastructure technology company, based out of Armonk, New York, started as a spinoff of IBM? Its logo is its own name, spelled out in lowercase orange letters.

Answer: Kyndryl


146. The H-Store system is considered one of the most prominent examples in the class of parallel database management systems which are typically known by what six-letter name?

Answer: NewSQL


147. With an estimated $38 billion in damage caused, what 2004 computer virus has been ranked the worst of all time? NB: For the computer fans this was technically a worm, not a virus, but it appears on the virus lists.

Answer: Mydoom

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