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What was the first item Amazon sold when it launched?
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- 1. What was the first item Amazon sold when it launched?
- A. A CD
- B. A book (answer)
- C. A DVD
- D. A toaster
Amazon started as an online bookshop in 1995. - 2. The word 'emoji' comes from which language?
- A. English
- B. Japanese (answer)
- C. Korean
- D. Chinese
It roughly means picture plus character. - 3. What does 'URL' stand for?
- A. Universal resource link
- B. Uniform resource locator (answer)
- C. User reference line
- D. Unified route list
It is a web address. - 4. In which year was Wikipedia launched?
- A. 1998
- B. 2001 (answer)
- C. 2004
- D. 2007
It launched on 15 January 2001. - 5. What was YouTube's first ever video about?
- A. A cat
- B. A zoo (answer)
- C. A skateboard
- D. A cooking tip
'Me at the zoo' was uploaded in 2005. - 6. What symbol is used to start a hashtag?
- A. @
- B. # (answer)
- C. &
- D. *
Hashtags spread widely on Twitter from 2007. - 7. Which company owns Instagram?
- A. Google
- B. Meta (answer)
- C. Microsoft
- D. Apple
Facebook bought it in 2012 and later renamed itself Meta. - 8. What does 'Wi-Fi' officially stand for?
- A. Wireless fidelity
- B. Wide frequency
- C. Nothing - it's a brand name (answer)
- D. Wireless firewall
It was chosen as a catchy trademark. - 9. What was the original name of Google's search engine project?
- A. BackRub (answer)
- B. SearchMe
- C. Googol
- D. WebCrawler
It was named for analysing back links. - 10. What does 'GIF' stand for?
- A. Graphics interchange format (answer)
- B. General image file
- C. Graphic internet frame
- D. Grouped image format
Its creator said it should be pronounced 'jif'. - 11. Roughly how many characters could an original tweet hold?
- A. 100
- B. 140 (answer)
- C. 200
- D. 280
The limit doubled to 280 in 2017. - 12. What is the most-used emoji in many global studies?
- A. Heart
- B. Face with tears of joy (answer)
- C. Thumbs up
- D. Fire
It was Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year for 2015.
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