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Enjoy these Office Big Brain quizzes we've created for you, helping to test the Office knowledge you have.
Question 1
What is the name of an early
| abaca | |
| abattoir | |
| abacus | |
| abecedarian | |
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Abaci (plural form of abacus) were found in ancient civilizations. The Greeks used gigantic marble abaci and the Romans used three types of abaci. Chinese invented wooden abaci which had been transported to Japan later in its abacus history. The oldest known abacus was made of white marble and found on the island of Salamis, Greece.
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Question 2
Which of these desktop necessities came first?
| paper clip | |
| rubber band | |
| cellophane tape | |
| mechanical pencil | |
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If you selected rubber band, you were right! Rubber bands were invented/discovered around 1845. Mechanical pencils followed in 1879, then paper clips in 1900 and lastly cellophane tape in 1937.
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Question 3
When was the telephone patented?
| 1876 | |
| 1836 | |
| 1877 | |
| 1887 | |
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1876 is the correct answer, though the other dates are important invention milestones, too. In 1836 the telegraph was patented, in 1877 Edison invented the carbon telephone transmitter, extending the clarity and range of the telephone and in 1887 Edison developed the New Phonograph, using a wax cylinder and opening a door to voice and sound recording.
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Question 4
Which relative of a celebrity invented Liquid Paper?
| David Cassidy´s stepmother, Shirley Jones | |
| Ron Howard´s brother, Clint | |
| Sonny & Cher´s daughter, Chastity | |
| Michael Nesmith´s mother, Bette | |
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Bette Clair McMurray Graham, the mother of Michael Nesmith a member of the musical band the Monkees, was an inventor and entrepreneur. In the early 1950’s, an idea occurred to Bette to use tempera paint to cover typing errors. The product was originally called "Mistake Out." In 1956, using her kitchen blender she combined paint with other chemicals to develop and refine her product.
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Question 5
When was the Internet born?
| 1957 | |
| 1969 | |
| 1971 | |
| 1986 | |
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1969 is the date associated with the birth of the Internet when ARPANET was commissioned to research into networking. In 1957 the USSR launched the Sputnik satellite, starting global communications. In 1971 e-mail was invented and in 1986 the Internet really began to take off as the number of hosts hit 5,000. (Today hosts exceed 19 million.)
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Question 6
What is the name of the keyboard set-up that is in common use today?
| dvorak | |
| qwerty | |
| segovia | |
| typo | |
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If you guessed ´qwerty´ you answered correctly. The qwerty layout keyboard was invented by Christopher Sholes in the 1870s. Interestingly, the lesser-used dvorak keyboard allows typists to reach much faster typing speeds and is considered to be less likely to cause RSI keyboarding injuries.
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