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Digital culture quiz

How well do you know the internet you scroll every day?

Free to use with your own team, courtesy of WorkplaceHero - workplacehero.co.uk

Question sheet

1. What was the first item Amazon sold when it launched?
- A. A CD
- B. A book
- C. A DVD
- D. A toaster
2. The word 'emoji' comes from which language?
- A. English
- B. Japanese
- C. Korean
- D. Chinese
3. What does 'URL' stand for?
- A. Universal resource link
- B. Uniform resource locator
- C. User reference line
- D. Unified route list
4. In which year was Wikipedia launched?
- A. 1998
- B. 2001
- C. 2004
- D. 2007
5. What was YouTube's first ever video about?
- A. A cat
- B. A zoo
- C. A skateboard
- D. A cooking tip
6. What symbol is used to start a hashtag?
- A. @
- B. #
- C. &
- D. *
7. Which company owns Instagram?
- A. Google
- B. Meta
- C. Microsoft
- D. Apple
8. What does 'Wi-Fi' officially stand for?
- A. Wireless fidelity
- B. Wide frequency
- C. Nothing - it's a brand name
- D. Wireless firewall
9. What was the original name of Google's search engine project?
- A. BackRub
- B. SearchMe
- C. Googol
- D. WebCrawler
10. What does 'GIF' stand for?
- A. Graphics interchange format
- B. General image file
- C. Graphic internet frame
- D. Grouped image format
11. Roughly how many characters could an original tweet hold?
- A. 100
- B. 140
- C. 200
- D. 280
12. What is the most-used emoji in many global studies?
- A. Heart
- B. Face with tears of joy
- C. Thumbs up
- D. Fire

1. B - A book
Amazon started as an online bookshop in 1995.
2. B - Japanese
It roughly means picture plus character.
3. B - Uniform resource locator
It is a web address.
4. B - 2001
It launched on 15 January 2001.
5. B - A zoo
'Me at the zoo' was uploaded in 2005.
6. B - #
Hashtags spread widely on Twitter from 2007.
7. B - Meta
Facebook bought it in 2012 and later renamed itself Meta.
8. C - Nothing - it's a brand name
It was chosen as a catchy trademark.
9. A - BackRub
It was named for analysing back links.
10. A - Graphics interchange format
Its creator said it should be pronounced 'jif'.
11. B - 140
The limit doubled to 280 in 2017.
12. B - Face with tears of joy
It was Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year for 2015.