Question 1

Match each achievement with the person behind it:

Accepted Answer

The World Wide Web ↔ Tim Berners-Lee, The Analytical Engine ↔ Charles Babbage, Helping crack the Enigma code ↔ Alan Turing, The book "Al-Jabr wal-Muqabala" (on algebra) ↔ Al-Khwarizmi — From al-Khwarizmi in Baghdad to Babbage and Turing in Britain and Berners-Lee at CERN, ideas built up until we reached our digital world.

Question 2

Match each technology with an example of it:

Accepted Answer

Virtual reality ↔ Goggles that take you into a fully digital world, Augmented reality ↔ Digital graphics appearing over the live camera image, Internet of Things ↔ An air conditioner you turn on remotely from your phone, Cloud computing ↔ Saving your photos on remote servers — Virtual reality replaces the world and augmented reality adds to it, the Internet of Things connects devices, and the cloud stores and runs things remotely.

Question 3

Match each term with its meaning:

Accepted Answer

URL ↔ The address of a page or file on the internet, GPS ↔ Global Positioning System, IP address ↔ A numeric address that identifies a device on a network, Wi-Fi ↔ A wireless connection to a network — We use these terms every day: we type a URL in the browser, GPS finds our location, every connected device has an IP address, and we connect to the internet wirelessly through Wi-Fi.

Question 4

Order these pioneers by when they were born, from earliest to latest:

Accepted Answer

Al-Khwarizmi, then Ada Lovelace, then Alan Turing, then Tim Berners-Lee — Al-Khwarizmi lived in the 9th century CE, Ada was born in 1815, Turing in 1912, and Berners-Lee in 1955.

Question 5

Order these milestones in computing history from oldest to newest:

Accepted Answer

Charles Babbage designs the Analytical Engine, then The ENIAC computer is completed, then The transistor is invented, then The World Wide Web is proposed — The Analytical Engine was designed in the 1830s, ENIAC was completed in 1945, the transistor was invented in 1947, and the Web was proposed in 1989.

Question 6

Order the storage units from smallest to largest:

Accepted Answer

Byte, then Kilobyte, then Megabyte, then Gigabyte, then Terabyte — Each unit is about a thousand times the one before it (1024 in binary counting).

Question 7

Choose all the true statements about SDAIA in Saudi Arabia:

Accepted Answer

Its full name is the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority, It was founded in 2019 — SDAIA was founded in 2019 to lead national work in data and artificial intelligence as part of Saudi Vision 2030.

Question 8

Select all the storage units larger than a gigabyte:

Accepted Answer

Terabyte, Petabyte — A terabyte is about a thousand gigabytes, and a petabyte is about a thousand terabytes, while megabytes and kilobytes are smaller.

Question 9

Choose all the true statements about the ENIAC computer:

Accepted Answer

It was huge and filled a large room, At first, it was programmed by plugging in cables and setting switches by hand, It was one of the first electronic digital computers — ENIAC was completed in the 1940s and weighed about 27 tons, decades before the internet and small computers.

Question 10

Choose all the true statements about cloud computing:

Accepted Answer

You can access your files from any connected device, Data is stored on remote servers, You usually need an internet connection to access the files — "The cloud" is a figurative name for servers in data centers here on the ground that we reach over the internet.

Question 11

Choose all the devices that can be part of the Internet of Things:

Accepted Answer

A smart fridge connected to the internet, A smartwatch that sends its data to your phone, A security camera you can watch remotely — The Internet of Things means devices that connect to a network and exchange data; a paper book and a spoon don't connect to anything.

Question 12

Choose all the examples of using artificial intelligence:

Accepted Answer

Machine translation of texts, Recognizing speech and turning it into text, Suggesting videos that match your interests — Translation, speech recognition and suggestions learn from data, while a fixed timer and a ruler learn nothing.

Question 13

Virtual reality can be used for training, such as training pilots and doctors.

Accepted Answer

True ✔ — Virtual reality lets people practice difficult or dangerous situations in a safe environment before facing them in real life.

Question 14

Alan Turing was a British mathematician.

Accepted Answer

True ✔ — Turing was born in London in 1912 and helped lay the foundations of computer science and artificial intelligence.

Question 15

A robot must be shaped like a human.

Accepted Answer

False ✖ — Robots come in many shapes: arms in factories, round home vacuum cleaners, and vehicles that explore planets.

Question 16

Artificial intelligence means the computer has feelings and awareness like a human.

Accepted Answer

False ✖ — Artificial intelligence is software that performs tasks that usually need human intelligence, like recognizing and predicting; having feelings is not what defines it.

Question 17

Augmented reality completely blocks out the real world from the user.

Accepted Answer

False ✖ — Augmented reality adds digital elements on top of the real world you see; the one that shuts you off from it is virtual reality.

Question 18

A transistor is smaller than a vacuum tube and uses less power.

Accepted Answer

True ✔ — That is why computers went from machines that filled whole rooms to devices that sit on a desk and then fit in a pocket.

Question 19

Ada Lovelace lived in the 20th century.

Accepted Answer

False ✖ — Ada Lovelace lived in the 19th century (1815-1852), about a century before electronic computers were invented.

Question 20

The word "algorithm" comes from the name of the Muslim scholar al-Khwarizmi.

Accepted Answer

True ✔ — Al-Khwarizmi's books were translated into Latin, where his name was written as Algoritmi, and that gave us the word "algorithm."

Technology Quizzes questions with answers

Q1: Match each achievement with the person behind it:

Q2: Match each technology with an example of it:

Q3: Match each term with its meaning:

Q4: Order these pioneers by when they were born, from earliest to latest:

Q5: Order these milestones in computing history from oldest to newest:

Q6: Order the storage units from smallest to largest:

Q7: Choose all the true statements about SDAIA in Saudi Arabia:

Q8: Select all the storage units larger than a gigabyte:

Q9: Choose all the true statements about the ENIAC computer:

Q10: Choose all the true statements about cloud computing:

Q11: Choose all the devices that can be part of the Internet of Things:

Q12: Choose all the examples of using artificial intelligence:

Q13: Virtual reality can be used for training, such as training pilots and doctors.

Q14: Alan Turing was a British mathematician.

Q15: A robot must be shaped like a human.

Q16: Artificial intelligence means the computer has feelings and awareness like a human.

Q17: Augmented reality completely blocks out the real world from the user.

Q18: A transistor is smaller than a vacuum tube and uses less power.

Q19: Ada Lovelace lived in the 20th century.

Q20: The word "algorithm" comes from the name of the Muslim scholar al-Khwarizmi.