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1. What was the first computer virus called?
2. What year did the Hubble Space Telescope launch?
3. Deep Blue was the first computer to defeat a reigning world champion in which strategic game?
4. During the 2007 keynote, Steve Jobs described the iPhone as a combination of which three products?
5. What unique property do superconductors exhibit, as demonstrated by the 1986 discovery?
6. Who made the first-ever public mobile phone call in 1973 using a Motorola device?
7. What is the minimum number of GPS satellites a receiver must 'see' to determine a 3D position?
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. The CRISPR gene-editing technology was originally discovered as a defense mechanism in which organisms?
11. What was the name of the game played at the very first organized video game tournament in 1972?
12. What vehicle did Project Loon use to attempt to provide internet to remote locations?
13. On what medium did the first digital camera prototype store its 0.01-megapixel images?
14. Fiber optic cables transmit data using which medium instead of electricity?
15. Penicillin belongs to which class of life-saving medical technology?
16. Who was the first person to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of X-rays?
17. What complex biological puzzle did the AI system AlphaFold solve in 2020?
18. Which product was the first ever to be scanned using a commercial barcode in 1974?
19. What was the storage capacity of the first commercial USB flash drive released in 2000?
20. What is the primary technical advantage of lithium-ion batteries over older battery types?