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Guess the year
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- 1Guess the year!Divide into teams of 6 people.
Each team will submit 1 answer per question.
The winning team wins 1 signature each to use themselves or to give to a friend.
- 2The Telephone a) 1876 b) 1905 c) 1950The telephone was invented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell.
- 3The Lightbulb a) 1679 b) 1779 c) 1879The lightbulb was invented in 1879. It was Thomas Edison who made the lightbulb into a practical low current version.
- 4The Internet a) 1956 b) 1973 c) 1980In 1973, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn developed Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP) which was an important landmark in creating a global network of interconnected computers which could share information.
- 5The Mobile Phone a) 1980's b) 1990's c) 2000's1980's The mobile phone enabled people to take calls on the move, rather than be tied to a landline. Mobile phones also enabled text messages to be sent.
- 6WWW World Wide Web a) 1980 b) 1990 c) 2000Tim Berners Lee wrote software for the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1990. This helped to revolutionize the internet and provide a permanent store for information on webpages which were easily accessible.
- 7WIFI a) 1990's b) 2000's c) 2010'sWiFi 1990s – Wifi or wireless fidelity is a technology which allows users to access the internet without a cable.
- 8The Smartphone a) 2005 b) 2007 c) 2010The Smartphone (2007) The Smartphone combined many technologies in one. The modern smartphone has enabled calls, texts, internet access, camera and a variety of apps.
- 9Netflix a) 1997 b) 1999 c) 2000Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in a small California city called Scotts Valley in Santa Cruz county
- 10Facebook a) 2000 b) 2002 c) 2004On February 4, 2004, a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg launches The Facebook, a social media website he had built in order to connect Harvard students with one another.
- 11TikTok a) 2010 b) 2015 c) 2017It launched in 2017 for iOS and Android in most markets outside of mainland China; however, it became available worldwide only after merging with another Chinese social media service, Musical.ly, on 2 August 2018.
- 12EXTRA! When did space exploration begin? a) 1957 b) 1963 c) 1969October 4, 1957, when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth. This happened during the period of political hostility between the Soviet Union and the United States known as the Cold War.
- 13Penicillin a) 1925 b) 1928 c) 1930In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered the first antibiotic, penicillin, which he grew in his lab using mold and fungi. Without antibiotics, infections like strep throat could be deadly.
- 14Electricity a) 1800 b) 1816 c) 1821In 1821 Michael Faraday discoveries that when a wire carrying an electric current is placed next to a single magnetic pole, the wire will rotate. This led to the development of the electric motor. Ten years later, he became the first person to produce an electric current by moving a wire through a magnetic field.
- 15Anaesthesia a) 1700's b) 1800's c)1900'sDuring the early 1800s, ether and nitrous oxide were both widely abused by folks attending ‘laughing parties’. When the laughter died down, someone pointed out the substance could help mask pain, and anaesthesia was born.
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