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Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

______ is the man behind the World Wide Web. He originated the idea of sharing information freely via hyperlinks, created HTML (the basic language behind every web page) and came up with the idea of each web page having a unique address, or URL.

  1. Brewster Kahle

  2. Tim Berners Lee

  3. Jimmy Wales

  4. Bram Cohren
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989, created HTML, and proposed the system of unique URLs. He developed these while working at CERN to facilitate information sharing among researchers.

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

_______ and ______ are the co-founders of the most popular search engine on the web "Google".

  1. Larry Page and Meg Whitman

  2. Mark Zuckerberg and Tom Anderson

  3. Sergey Brin and Meg Whitman

  4. Sergey Brin and Larry Page
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Google was founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1998 while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The other options incorrectly pair Google founders with leaders from other companies (Meg Whitman led eBay, Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook, Tom Anderson co-founded MySpace).

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Under the expert leadership of ________, eBay grew from a small online auction site to the largest marketplace in the world of both new and used goods.

  1. Meg Whitman

  2. Dave Winer

  3. Bram Cohen

  4. Craig Newmark
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Meg Whitman served as eBay's CEO from 1998-2008, transforming it from a small online auction site into the world's largest marketplace for new and used goods. The other options are notable tech figures but not associated with eBay's growth.

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Craig Newmark is the founder of Craigslist, the largest online classifieds site in the world. People in every country use Craigslist to advertise items for sale, connect with people in the community, or purchase anything from puppies to real estate.

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Craig Newmark founded Craigslist in 1995, which became the world's largest online classifieds site. It's used globally for buying/selling items, community connections, and everything from pets to real estate listings.

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

_______ created the peer to peer file sharing programme known as BitTorrent.

  1. Bram Cohen

  2. Brewster Kahle

  3. Tim Berners-Lee

  4. Jeff Bezos
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Bram Cohen created BitTorrent in 2001, a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing protocol. The other options are notable tech figures but not associated with BitTorrent (Brewster Kahle founded Internet Archive, Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web, Jeff Bezos founded Amazon).

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

_______ the founder of Facebook.

  1. Larry Page

  2. Meg Whitman

  3. Tom Anderson

  4. Mark Zuckerberg
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 while at Harvard University. The other options are notable tech leaders but not Facebook's founder (Larry Page co-founded Google, Meg Whitman led eBay, Tom Anderson co-founded MySpace).

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Smallest flower in the world is:

  1. mucomeal

  2. verelia

  3. duckweed

  4. watermeal
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Watermeal (genus Wolffia) is the smallest flowering plant in the world. These tiny aquatic plants are less than 1mm in diameter and float on water surfaces. Duckweed is also small but larger than watermeal, while the other options appear to be misspelled or fictional names.