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Pew Research CenterNovember 25, 2014

Web IQ Quiz

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How much do you know about the web and digital technology?

Test your knowledge of technology and the web by taking our short 12-question quiz. When you finish, you will be able to compare your “Web IQ" with the average online American based on the results of our nationally representative survey of 1,066 adult internet users conducted September 12-18. You can also see how your results compare to online Americans based on age, gender and education.

The Internet and the World Wide Web are the same thing
- True
- False

Twitter limits the number of characters per tweet to 140
- True
- False

Moore’s Law relates to how many transistors can be put on a computer chip
- True
- False

When a company posts a privacy policy, it ensures that the company keeps confidential all the information it collects on users
- True
- False

The first widely popular graphical Web browser, released in 1993, was:
- Netscape Navigator
- Internet Explorer
- Mosaic
- Opera

Who is this technology leader?
- Steve Jobs of Apple Computer
- Sergei Brin of Google
- Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook
- Bill Gates of Microsoft

Who is this internet leader?
- Marissa Mayer of Yahoo!
- Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook
- Meg Whitman of Hewlett Packard
- Arianna Huffington of Huffington Post

The Apple iPhone was first released in what year?
- 2005
- 2007
- 2009
- 2011

Choose the bigger amount of information:
- A kilobyte
- A megabyte

“Net Neutrality” refers to:
- The postings on websites that are nonpartisan
- A promise by users of some websites that they will not make critical comments
- The way Wikipedia editors are instructed to handle new entries on their site
- Equal treatment of digital content by internet service companies

Which university was the first on Facebook?
- Harvard
- Stanford
- MIT
- Univ. of Illinois

What does "URL" stand for?
- Ultra Reliable Linkage
- User Responsibility Liability
- Unique Rate Limit
- Uniform Resource Locator

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