Wow. What a night 🦾
1200 Participants from 40 countries
With close to 300 teams joining the fun; it was a night to remember 🚀 Around 1200 participants from 40 different countries took part in the Science + Tech – Online Quiz during the 2021 – 10 year anniversary – edition of the Dutch Technology Week.
From zoology to physics
Together we tackled questions about all kinds of subjects, from chemistry to maths, from zoology to physics, and from the latest gadgets right down to ancient Greek drinking cups! We discussed cars, planes, rockets, gaming consoles, parachutes in mid-air, and much more. We also tackled several brain teasers and analyzed a custom lego structure.
Passion for science & tech!
It’s great to see so many international teams joined the fun – We even had over 100 teams playing from outside the Netherlands! It’s fantastic to be able to connect all of these people through a joint passion for science and technology!
How did your team do?
Below you can find the top 10 teams. The full ranking can be viewed here. The international vibe is also represented in our top 3; with the Netherlands and Germany taking bronze and silver and through our Croatian winners of this year’s quiz: Comfortably Dumb!
See you again at Dutch Technology Week 2022 – or at one of our other events before then 🖖
🏆 The top 10 – Science + Tech – Online Quiz
01. Comfortably Dumb | 🇭🇷 530
02. Fappy and his dolphins | 🇩🇪 510
03. Where MI? | MI-Partners | 🇳🇱 509
04. Schrodinger stroopwafels | TMC | 🇳🇱 505
05. Hindu ulidawara sangha |
Yellamma Dasappa College alumni | 🇳🇱 504
06. The Nagibators | 🇱🇻 🇱🇺 🇳🇱 501
07. Threepeat | CWI | 🇳🇱
08. EE2007 | TU/e alumni | 🇳🇱 500
09. CRaB|🇳🇱 495
10. ReMaticles | ASML | 🇳🇱 495
Live stream Science + Tech quiz!
Thursday June 3rd 2021 – 20:30 UTC +2
From Einstein to iPhone, from Newton to Hawking and from the history of science to the latest gadgets, you can expect all sorts of questions in this quiz, which tackles all of the major and minor topics from the world of science and technology.
Live Streaming Quiz
Make a team and join the fun! You’ll be able to watch the quiz via a live stream on our Youtube channel. The stream will go live around 20:00 PM Netherlands time. The show will start at 20:30 PM and last till about 23:00 PM. You can check your local starting time here! Be prepared: make sure your team captain has registered your team in advance, grab a tasty drink and some snacks and set up a video chat with your teammates before we start.
Live stream
How to play?
Your team captain will submit your answers through an online form, which will be available through the below link on the day of the quiz. There are no physical prizes; you are playing to have a good time with your team and for a shot at eternal fame and glory! During the quiz, we’ll tell you which teams are likely to end up in the top 10. Due to a manual check on the answers after the quiz, the official final ranking will be published in the days after the quiz.
Answer Forms
Sign up now!
On the following page you can sign up your team. Please note that teams should be registered by ONE person only: the team captain! We ask you to come up with a fun team name and let us know if you’re playing on behalf of a company (the company name will also be shown in the ranking). The email address you use for registering your team, also needs to be used for submitting the answers during the quiz. It will serve is your team’s identification.
Sign up now
San Francisco
11:30
São Paulo
15:30
London
19:30
Eindhoven
20:30
Dubai
22:30
Bangalore
23:59
Ready? Set? Quiz!
The quiz will be live streamed on Youtube. It will be hosted in English and is suitable for an international audience. This gives everyone – world wide – the opportunity to join the event. Invite your colleagues, friends and family! The quiz can be played in teams of up to 5 persons.
You can play the live stream on your TV, computer, laptop, or smartphone. You can simultaneously set up a group chat / call / video conference with your team buddies. Or – if local Covid measurements allow it – bring one or more teams together at your work, bar or lunchroom for the real pub quiz experience! Participation is 100% free of charge.
What to expect?
Do you know the difference between AC & DC?
Are you familiair with the latest gadgets?
Do you keep a calculus book on your bedside table?
Are you an expert on the latest tech super heroes who are changing the world?
From Einstein to iPhone, from Newton to Hawking and from the history of science to the latest gadgets, you can expect all sorts of questions in this quiz, which tackles all of the major and minor topics from the world of science and technology.
How to play?
During the quiz the captain of you team will submit your answers through an online form. This is done after each round of 10 questions. After the final question of every round you’ll have 2 more minutes to finalize your answers and to submit them. We will be using a lot of open questions during this quiz and everything will be checked automatically, but still requires a manual check to ensure the best team wins. This means that during the quiz we’ll tell you which teams are likely to end up in the top 10, but the final ranking will be published within the days after the quiz.
There are no physical prizes; you are playing to have a good time with your team and for a shot at eternal flame and glory!
Is your team going to win?
This online pub quiz could be the perfect challenge for you. The quiz promises to be fun, challenging and maybe a little geeky! Fun is the main goal: everyone is a winner. We expect everyone to play fairly (without googling the answers). This ensures the most fun time for yourselves and the competition.
In edition 2020 we had over 300 teams joining the fun from all over the world!
Powered by the Dutch Technology Week
During the Dutch Technology Week the most amazing and innovative technology stories will be told. The high-tech industry delivers a lot of great performances, and we are very proud of that! To share this pride companies, government, and knowledge institutes work together for a week full of technological surprises. During the DTW everyone can see, feel and experience how promising and stimulating it is to contribute to inventions that change the world.
Looking back at
Science + Tech – Online Quiz 2020
It was an absolute pleasure hosting the Science + Tech Online Quiz on June 11th 2020 and it was especially amazing to see teams from all over the world joining the fun. 🚀
333 teams took on the challenge, with a grand total of over 1200 participants. Players from 38 different countries on 4 different continents took part. Some played in groups of friends, while others played on behalf of their company or University.
The participants tackled 50 questions about a wide variety of Science + Tech related topics. Famous inventors, gadgets, animals and their shells, mobius strips, the Spice Girls (oh yes!), the periodic table and many other fun facts made an appearance.
We asked our players to estimate the number of M&M’s in a jar; a question that was also used as a tie-breaker to make sure everyone had a unique position in the ranking. Some teams were exceptionally good at this! The team that came closest to the correct answer “853” was just 8 M&M’s off and several other teams were just 9 or 10 off.
A lot of teams did an excellent job, far exceeding our expectations in spite of some very challenging questions. 🏆 The winning team was The elements (Thermo Fisher Scientific), with an incredible final score of 510 points.
You can view the entire ranking here.
🏆 The top 10 🏆
1. The elements (Thermo Fisher Scientific) 510
2. Comfortably Dumb (University of Zagreb) 493
3. Los Chipirones: Reloaded 490
4. Tentin Quarantino (Eindhoven University of Technology) 488
5. You’re a Quizard, Harry! 486
6. Q.E.D. 481
7. Tokamakkers 480
8. Trailblazers 477
9. Team Don (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani – Dubai) 474
10. Team 2 (Tech Xperience 2020) 466