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Quiz: Challenge Yourself with These 20 Obsolete Technology Question


  1. What was the name of the first widely used portable music player to play cassette tapes?
  2. Which brand of phone, decommissioned in January 2022, was popular with business professionals for its physical QWERTY keyboard?
  3. Used for navigation, which doubly reflecting instrument measures the angular distance between two visible objects?
  4. What device, used by internal combustion engines to control and mix air and fuel, has been largely replaced by fuel injection?
  5. What writing tool was often made from a moulted flight feather of a goose?
  6. A gnomon was a vital part of which time-telling device?
  7. A vital part of the first commercially made electronic televisions, what does the acronym CRT stand for?
  8. What name was given to an early form of gramophone that used cylinders and was able to record as well as reproduce sound?
  9. Which television signal technology was replaced by digital encoding transmissions?
  10. Which obsolete storage format was introduced by Sony in the 1980s as a higher-quality alternative to VHS?
  11. Sometimes called telecopying, what was 'Fax' short for?
  12. Which publication was advertised with the 1970s slogan: "Let your fingers do the walking"?
  13. William Oughtred is credited with inventing which hand-operated mechanical calculator?
  14. A velocipede was an early type of what?
  15. What word came into common usage with the early 1960s introduction of a patented film and instant photos?
  16. In 1997, about half of all US homes with internet access used which online service provider?
  17. What was the world's first teletext information service, started by the BBC in 1974 and ended in October 2012?
  18. The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced in February 2019 that there were 130,000 of what still in use, which will be phased out?
  19. The ZX81 home computer was produced by which research company?
  20. Name Apple's media player and store that was discontinued at the end of 2021?


Answers



  1. Sony Walkman
  2. BlackBerry
  3. Sextant
  4. Carburettor
  5. Quill
  6. Sundial
  7. Cathode-ray tube
  8. Phonograph
  9. Analogue
  10. Betamax
  11. Facsimile
  12. Yellow Pages
  13. Slide rule
  14. Bicycle
  15. Polaroid
  16. AOL
  17. Ceefax
  18. Pagers
  19. Sinclair Research
  20. iTunes