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1. What was the first man-made satellite launched into space?
2. What year did the first color television broadcast take place?
3. What was the name of the small robotic rover deployed during the 1997 Mars Pathfinder mission?
4. Bluetooth technology was named after a 10th-century king from which region?
5. AlphaGo's 2016 victory was significant because which board game has more possible moves than atoms in the universe?
6. DVD technology, launched in 1996, used which digital compression standard for its video?
7. In the famous 1968 'Mother of All Demos,' what material was the first computer mouse made of?
8. What was the name of the game played at the very first organized video game tournament in 1972?
9. What was the name of the first commercial 3D printing process invented by Chuck Hull?
10. Which Morse code letter was sent during the first transatlantic radio transmission in 1901?
11. The shift from mechanical to electronic calculators was made possible by which chip technology?
12. NASDAQ, founded in 1971, was the first stock market in the world to be what?
13. Fiber optic cables transmit data using which medium instead of electricity?
14. What is the primary technical advantage of 5G networks over 4G in terms of response time?
15. Which security protocol, vital for e-commerce, was first introduced by Netscape in 1994?
16. What kind of organism was the first literal 'computer bug' found by Grace Hopper's team?
17. High-temperature superconductors are revolutionary because they can be cooled using which relatively cheap substance?
18. What did Alexander Graham Bell's 1876 telephone use to convert sound into electrical signals?
19. What does the term 'Xerography,' the basis for modern photocopying, literally mean?
20. What is the ultimate purpose of the heat generated by nuclear fission in a power plant?