Christmas tech quiz: The answers and the winner

An iPhone 17 Pro from Vodafone Ireland was up for grabs

Photograph: Getty
Photograph: Getty

Below are the correct answers to Ciara O’Brien’s Christmas Tech quiz. The winner of the iPhone 17 Pro from Vodafone Ireland is Dominica O’Malley, Salthill, Galway.

  1. The Oscars
  2. Social media
  3. DeepSeek
  4. Tines
  5. It was an AI-generated band
  6. Roomba-maker iRobot
  7. Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg
  8. It generated anti-Semitic and offensive content, praising Adolf Hitler
  9. StatSports
  10. Jony Ive’s start-up IO
  11. Galway
  12. Gareth Sheridan from Nutriband
  13. Nano Banana
  14. Patrick Collison
  15. Storm Éowyn
  16. Intel 3/Intel 4
  17. Trust and safety
  18. Dual headquarters in San Francisco and Dublin
  19. Although Cork is considered an AI hub, there was no official award at the Tech Industry Alliance Leaders Awards
  20. Cloudflare.
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Ciara O'Brien

Ciara O'Brien

Ciara O'Brien is an Irish Times business and technology journalist