My Trip Around the Internet Trivia Quiz

Answer: Yahoo!

The name Yahoo! comes from a race of people, created in "Gulliver's Travels", which is ruled by horse-like creatures known as Houyhnhnms in a reversal of the traditional role of humans and horses.

On a personal note, I opened up my first post college e-mail account on Yahoo! in 1997 and met my wife through the now defunct Yahoo! Personals.

Answer: Google

A Googol is 10 raised to the 100th power (a one followed by 100 0's). Since its founding in the late 1990's, Google has become the most well known search engine to the extent that when someone decides to search for information on the internet they will say they are Googling it. Google has since expanded its services to include Google Maps and Gmail and has also purchased sites such as YouTube.

Answer: electoral-vote

Electoral-Vote was started in 2004 by an American computer science professor teaching in the Netherlands who wanted to encourage Americans living abroad to vote in the 2004 election. Early on it primarily focused on aggregating state by state polling data to show where the electoral college was likely to go at any given point in time.

By 2015 a UCLA history professor joined the staff and the column expanded to feature daily political commentary with a focus on promoting voting by as many eligible citizens as possible. On Saturdays they answer reader questions while Sundays are devoted to letters to the editor.

Answer: Premierleague

The Premier League is the top football (soccer) league in England and possibly the top one in the world. Its website gives the upcoming schedule with specific times for the next few weeks as well as matchups for each matchday for the rest of the season. It also has results, standings, news, and highlights from across the league.

Answer: Wikipedia

Wikipedia started as an online encyclopedia in early 2001. It is free to use (although user donations are encouraged for frequent users) and most articles can be edited by anyone. This means that users can see updates shortly after things happen. For example, sports league standings are often updated within a few minutes after each game ends and current events can be frequently checked.

Answer: olympics

The website for the Olympics has results of every Olympic games since 1896. Want to know who finished 5th in the high jump in the 1896 games? You can look it up on the Olympic website. They have highlights going as far back as the 1908 London games. Full event replays start to become available with the 1988 Calgary winter games. For the more recent games, full event replays are available for all of the event finals and most of the preliminary rounds.

So if you are like me and want to watch everything but don't have 20 or so devices to line up side by side to watch everything live, you can go back and watch every event in full in the days/weeks/months/years following the games.

Answer: Facebook

Facebook was one of the first social networking platforms and allows people from all over the world to communicate with each other. You can also follow various celebrities, political figures, sports teams, and the like in order to keep up with their latest news. Some performers even have live shows on Facebook.

Answer: Amazon

Starting as an online bookstore in 1994, Amazon has since turned into the largest online retailer in the world and one of the largest overall companies. With around 50 departments, you can buy things from food to clothing to books and have them shipped directly to your residence.

They also run their own streaming service, Prime Video, which gives access to movies and television programs including some original programming. And best of all is the Kindle which allows you to download e-books without having to wait for them to be shipped.

Answer: bridgewinners

Bridge Winners is a site to post and read about all sorts of things related to the world of contract bridge. Formed by several experts at the game of bridge, Bridge Winners is a forum for players to ask questions to help improve their games as well as to discuss various tournaments and give their opinions on all things related to the great and challenging game of bridge.

Answer: funtrivia

Fun Trivia is of course the number one place to test your knowledge while playing fun games and quizzes. Of course, you already knew that or you wouldn't already be here.