Computers and the internet quiz
Checked on 4 November 2026
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What does the H in HTML, the language of web pages, stand for?
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The answer is Hypertext.
HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, the standard language for documents shown in a web browser.
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The programming language Python takes its name from what?
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The answer is A British comedy series.
Python is named after the British comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus.
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Which keyboard layout is used in France and Belgium?
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The answer is AZERTY.
The AZERTY layout, named after the first six letters on its top row, is used in France, Belgium and some African countries.
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Bluetooth wireless technology is named after a king who united tribes in which country?
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The answer is Denmark.
The name comes from King Harald Bluetooth, who united the Danish tribes into a single kingdom.
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Who devised the QWERTY keyboard layout in the early 1870s?
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The answer is Christopher Latham Sholes.
The QWERTY layout was created in the early 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes, a newspaper editor and printer from Wisconsin.
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Linus Torvalds was a student at which university when he began work on what became the Linux kernel?
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The answer is University of Helsinki.
Torvalds took a Unix course at the University of Helsinki in 1990, then began writing the kernel that became Linux.
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Wi-Fi is based on which family of IEEE standards?
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The answer is 802.11.
Wi-Fi is a family of wireless network protocols built on the IEEE 802.11 standards.
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In October 1969 a student at UCLA tried to type "login" over the ARPANET. Which first two characters actually arrived?
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The answer is lo.
Only the first two letters of "login" got through, so the first characters successfully sent over the ARPANET were "lo".
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The world's first webcam, created in 1991 at the University of Cambridge, pointed at what?
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The answer is A coffee pot.
The Trojan Room coffee pot in the Cambridge Computer Laboratory was the subject of the world's first webcam, created in 1991.
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The domain symbolics.com, the earliest .com domain, was registered in which year?
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The answer is 1985.
Symbolics registered symbolics.com on 15 March 1985, making it the earliest .com domain in the world.