Recap: Results of Chicago’s Tech Trivia Event

On Wednesday, January 29^th, Tech In Motion: Chicago hosted its first ever Tech Trivia event with over 150 techies present. As everyone arrived, teams were formed and then it was off to the races! 

We broke the event up into 4 rounds, worth 20 points each, plus a final bonus round. If you weren’t able to make it, here are the questions we asked – see how well you would have done!

Round 1: Logos

Round 2: General Chicago Trivia

1. There were 7 Chicagoland companies that filed for an IPO in 2013. Name one. Textura, CDW, Claires, Potbelly, ASC Acquisition, Levy Acquisition, Hennessey Capital Acquisition
2. In October 2013, John Tolva stepped down as the city’s CTO to join which environmentally focused engineering firm? PositivEnergy Practice
3. Which online clothing seller did Groupon acquire in January of this year? Ideeli
4. Howard Tullman, a veteran Chicago entrepreneur, was just named as the CEO of what company in November of 2013? 1871

Round 3: General Tech Trivia

1. What does HTML stand for? Hyper Text Markup Language
2. What programming language does Android use? Java
3. What is the #1 blogging platform in the world? Wordpress
4. Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded what large internet based company? Google

Round 4: Multiple Answers

Name 10 of the 50 fastest growing companies by five-year revenue growth according to an article published by Crains in June of 2013.  Answers HERE

Bonus Round: Tech In Motion  Name 4 past Tech in Motion presenters.

And here are the results:

Congrats to our winners, Team V Nation, who walked away with $125 in Amazon gift cards and some great SWAG from our sponsors!

So how do you think you would have done? Any suggestions for us next time?

We want to thank everyone for coming out to the event and being such great participants. Thanks again to Jobspring Partners, Workbridge Associates, Microsoft, Start-Up Institute and Grind for helping make the event a huge success!