Tech quiz of the year 2019
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
How well do you know your tech? We test Chris Fox, Zoe Kleinman, Dave Lee and Jane Wakefield’s knowledge of the top technology stories of 2019. And please do play along with them and test yourself against our teams. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones.
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| 0:00.0 | On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:05.6 | And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:08.3 | In this series, we're going to have a planet off. |
| 0:10.8 | I feel like Jupiter wins. |
| 0:12.8 | And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit. |
| 0:15.9 | We're talking about your bog standard. |
| 0:17.8 | Ice, not the fancy one. |
| 0:20.1 | Science with funny bits. |
| 0:21.9 | The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:24.1 | Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.5 | Hello and welcome to this very festive edition of TechTent. |
| 0:35.6 | It's that time of year again for our traditional end-of-year |
| 0:38.6 | quiz. We've got two eager teams of BBC Tech reporters ready to tackle questions about stories |
| 0:44.1 | from the past 12 months. The teams will buzz in and if they get the answer right, they get |
| 0:48.3 | first chance to answer a follow-up question. If not, the other team can have a go. Each of the |
| 0:53.0 | questions offer a total of three |
| 0:55.0 | points. The quiz will end when they hear this sound. Got it? Got it, folks? Yes. Yes. Keeping score today |
| 1:03.7 | will be Tech Tent's executive editor. You didn't know we had one, did you? Rob Stevenson. Hi, Rob. |
| 1:09.2 | Welcome to be invited in the 10. Thanks very much. |
| 1:11.6 | You're very welcome. We have to say that. And our teams, we have Chris Fox and Jane Wakefield. |
| 1:17.7 | Let's hear your buzzer. |
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