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WATSON Trivia Quiz

WATSON is an incredibly powerful computer. He can search his data files for any information on you, but let's see how much you know about him!

A multiple-choice quiz by tazemaster. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
tazemaster

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
337,895

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
1156

Last 3 plays: Guest 174 (5/10), Guest 71 (5/10), Guest 24 (3/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. What television show did WATSON appear on in February 2011?
Hint

Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?

Oprah

Jeopardy

20Q

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Question 2 of 10

2. What company created WATSON?
Hint

Advanced Computer Technology

Nova

IBM

Dell

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Question 3 of 10

3. How does WATSON get all the information inside his data files? Hint

Scientists downloaded documents onto him

He took standardized tests then was told the correct answer to each question

He was put through school

He read nonfiction books on different subjects

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Question 4 of 10

4. What does WATSON first come up with when presented with a question?
Hint

He categorizes it with similar ones

He identifies key words

He does a Google search within his data files

He comes up with hundreds of possible answers

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Question 5 of 10

5. Who was WATSON named for?
Hint

Thomas J Watson, IBM's founder

James D. Watson, a scientist

Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holme's assistant

John B. Watson, a psycologist

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Question 6 of 10

6. What IBM project is WATSON a part of? Hint

Text Mining

Language Translation

Deep Computing

DeepQA

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Question 7 of 10

7. How did WATSON receive questions asked by people? Hint

He has ears to hear out of

The questions were scanned into him

He read the questions off the screen

In an electronic text

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Question 8 of 10

8. How did WATSON prepare for the television quiz show on which he appeared? Hint

Scientists put him on quiz sites (such as Fun Trivia!)

He played against former contestants

He faced the scientists.

They gave him tons of random questions

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Question 9 of 10

9. How big was WATSON in 2011? Hint

Room size.

Normal computer size

Human size

Calculator size

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Question 10 of 10

10. At the time of his creation, WATSON was intended to be used in which of these areas? Hint

Law

Medicine

Genetics

Art

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What television show did WATSON appear on in February 2011?

Answer: Jeopardy

WATSON appeared on 'Jeopardy' three days in a row (the one game lasted three days). He went up against Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, the two top 'Jeopardy' contestants at that time, and won one million dollars!

2. What company created WATSON?

Answer: IBM

IBM stands for International Business Machines. Its headquarters are in Armonk, New York. It was founded in 1911 and merged four companies.

3. How does WATSON get all the information inside his data files?

Answer: Scientists downloaded documents onto him

The creators of WATSON downloaded thousands of documents onto WATSON. During Jeopardy, WATSON had no access to the Internet. WATSON can read electronic messages sent to him, but he can not read books like humans can. Putting WATSON through school would have been impractical and not efficient.

4. What does WATSON first come up with when presented with a question?

Answer: He comes up with hundreds of possible answers

WATSON's algorithms pull up hundreds of possible answers to any question. He then uses key words to narrow down his search. On Jeopardy, you could see WATSON's top three choices and how sure he was, represented by a percentage.

5. Who was WATSON named for?

Answer: Thomas J Watson, IBM's founder

IBM was the company that created WATSON, and it only seemed fitting they named it after the president, since WATSON was so smart and such a big project. WATSON proves what lots of smart people can do if they put their minds to it.

6. What IBM project is WATSON a part of?

Answer: DeepQA

The goal of the DeepQA project is to build a machine that successfully understands and communicates in the human, or natural, language, as opposed to computer language. I believe WATSON meets those requirements, how about you?

7. How did WATSON receive questions asked by people?

Answer: In an electronic text

WATSON receives electronic texts containing questions to be asked of him. He cannot hear or read things in our world.

8. How did WATSON prepare for the television quiz show on which he appeared?

Answer: He played against former contestants

The scientists put WATSON through a large number of practice 'Jeopardy' sessions to prepare him for the real deal. They brought in former contestants of various skills to play against him.

9. How big was WATSON in 2011?

Answer: Room size.

WATSON was the size of a room during his televised quiz show. During 'Jeopardy', WATSON's servers were in a separate room behind the stage. He wouldn't have fitted if he had tried to go on stage.

10. At the time of his creation, WATSON was intended to be used in which of these areas?

Answer: Medicine

At the time of writing, 2011, WATSON's creation team is working on trying to turn him into a product that can be used in hospitals to help diagnose diseases by studying the symptoms. Doctors are smart, but they only know so many kinds of sicknesses. WATSON could search the symptoms and come up with several possible diseases that the doctor can then act upon.

Source: Author tazemaster

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