General Interesting Trivia

What does "www" stand for in website addresses?

• world would work

• world wide work

• world wide web

What does "GPS" in cars and cell phones stand for?

• Go Park South

• Global Positioning System

• Global Postion Satellite

The United States is one of only 3 countries in the world that does not use the metric system. These 3 countries use the Imperial System.

• True

• False

Computer scientists Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn are credited with inventing the Internet communication protocols we use today and the system referred to as the Internet.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Source: Brittanica.com

The Baby boomers are a designated group of people who were born between 1946 and 1964 because there was a statistically significant increase in the number of births that occurred.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Source: study.com

Millennials are also referred to as Generation Y and this is the group of people born between 1982-2003.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Source: www.teaching.cornell.edu

Generation X were the people born between 1965-1980.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Source: www.kasasa.com

The Founder of FaceBook is Mark Zuckerberg.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Co-founders were Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. The founders of Facebook initially limited membership to Harvard students.

Source: wikipedia.com

“The genesis of Netflix came in 1997 because of a late fee of about $40, for Apollo 13.”

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Netflix was co-founded in 1997 by executives Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. At the time, Hastings had just sold his software company, Pure Atria, to Rational Software. Source: www.foxbusiness.com

The audition to get on The Voice is only 1:30 (90 seconds).

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Source: https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/how-to-get-cast-on-the-voice-71599/