Tech Stumbles & Blunders
Bugs, recalls, and outages, oh my! Play this trivia game featuring some of tech's biggest stumbles and blunders.
15 questions · Published May 2, 2022
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. Whose death in 2009 caused multiple websites, including Google and Twitter, to crash due to overwhelming traffic?
Michael Jackson's death on June 25th, 2009, caused a massive influx of internet traffic, crashing sites like Google, Twitter, TMZ, and Wikipedia.
- Multiple Choice
2. In 2018, an errant text message was sent out warning people that a ballistic missile was heading to _____________.
A ballistic missile alert was mistakenly issued over television, radio, and cell phones to residents of Hawaii in January 2018. The alert was rescinded thirty-eight minutes later and state officials blamed a miscommunication during a drill for the errant message.
- Fill In The Blank
3. Ikee, the first iPhone virus discovered in 2009, simply changed users phone wallpaper to a picture of much-memed singer ________ Astley.
The Ikee worm was a fairly harmless virus that infected jailbroken iPhone's by replacing user's lock screen wallpaper with a picture of Rick Astley.
- Multiple Choice
4. Which electronics giant recalled over half a million video cameras in 1998 because the camera's night vision feature allowed users to see through clothes?
Due to special filters and new night vision technology, the Sony Handycam could see through almost any clothing, even making out tattoos under garments.
The company issued a recall of 700,000 camcorders.
- Multiple Choice
5. A U.S. ban on the export of _____________ forced designers to re-engineer the Hindenburg to use highly flammable hydrogen gas instead.
The Hindenburg was originally designed to be filled with helium, but the United States would not lift the ban on exporting the gas, so German engineers re-designed the aircraft to use hydrogen for lift.
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