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1. What year was the World Wide Web invented?
2. What does USB stand for?
3. Deep Blue was the first computer to defeat a reigning world champion in which strategic game?
4. Which electrical component was used by the thousands in ENIAC's circuitry to process data?
5. SpaceX's Falcon 1 was the first privately developed rocket of what fuel type to reach orbit?
6. What kind of system did John Logie Baird use for his first 1926 television demonstration?
7. Who was the reigning world chess champion defeated by IBM's Deep Blue in 1997?
8. AlphaGo's 2016 victory was significant because which board game has more possible moves than atoms in the universe?
9. What was the maximum cruising speed of the Concorde in Mach numbers?
10. What structural design feature of the Tesla Model S allows for a lower center of gravity and improved safety?
11. What was the name of the game played at the very first organized video game tournament in 1972?
12. On what medium did the first digital camera prototype store its 0.01-megapixel images?
13. The shift from mechanical to electronic calculators was made possible by which chip technology?
14. What theory about the origin of the universe did the 1964 discovery of CMB radiation confirm?
15. Penicillin belongs to which class of life-saving medical technology?
16. What does the tech acronym 'WYSIWYG' stand for in document editing?
17. In which medical field was a robot first used to assist in a surgical procedure in 1985?
18. High-temperature superconductors are revolutionary because they can be cooled using which relatively cheap substance?
19. Which of these technologies was NOT one of the three core pillars of the original 1991 World Wide Web?
20. Why did the first commercial digital watch (the Pulsar) have a dark screen until a button was pressed?