# 🧾 The Bar Code Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. What do bar codes primarily encode?  
**Answer:** Information about a product (like price and item number)  
**Taglines:**  
- Stripes that spill secrets  
- Not fashion, just function  
- Readable by robots  
- Your snack’s social security number  
- Data, disguised as boredom  

### 2. What type of machine is used to read bar codes?  
**Answer:** Scanner  
**Taglines:**  
- Zap, pay, go  
- Light show for labels  
- Laser beam of commerce  
- Modern magic wands  
- Retail’s red-eyed wizard  

### 3. What’s the name of the most common type of bar code used on retail products?  
**Answer:** UPC (Universal Product Code)  
**Taglines:**  
- The barcode MVP  
- Universally boring, universally useful  
- UPC: You Purchase Constantly  
- Retail’s favorite tattoo  
- Grocery store fingerprints  

### 4. What year was the first product scanned with a bar code?  
**Answer:** 1974  
**Taglines:**  
- The year checkout lines changed forever  
- Disco, stripes, and scanners  
- 1974: beep heard 'round the store  
- Scanning since bell bottoms  
- Barcode’s birthday bash  

### 5. What was the first item ever scanned with a bar code?  
**Answer:** A pack of Wrigley’s gum  
**Taglines:**  
- Scan me up, chewy  
- Bar code's juicy debut  
- A minty moment in tech history  
- Gum: small product, big legacy  
- The gum that changed groceries  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. Bar codes use a pattern of black and white ______ to store data.  
**Answer:** Lines  
**Taglines:**  
- Minimalist info highway  
- Stripes that snitch  
- Zebra print for nerds  
- Fashion for machines  
- Linear logic  

### 2. The invention of the bar code revolutionized ______.  
**Answer:** Retail  
**Taglines:**  
- Checkout goes bionic  
- Shopping: now with lasers  
- Retail therapy meets data  
- Scan and scam no more  
- Line management miracle  

### 3. The bar code system was co-invented by Bernard Silver and ______.  
**Answer:** Norman Joseph Woodland  
**Taglines:**  
- Dynamic duo of digital dots  
- Woodland: not just a forest  
- Barcode Batman and Robin  
- Nerds who changed shopping  
- Unsung heroes of stripy glory  

### 4. Bar codes are now often replaced or enhanced by ______ codes.  
**Answer:** QR  
**Taglines:**  
- Square is the new stripe  
- Bar code’s edgier cousin  
- Upgrade your scan  
- QR: Quick Response, Quite Revolutionary  
- Barcode 2.0  

### 5. A bar code includes a ______ digit to ensure it's read correctly.  
**Answer:** Check  
**Taglines:**  
- Barcode’s proofreading pal  
- Just in case your scanner's drunk  
- The safety net of stripes  
- Built-in math cop  
- Data’s final boss  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What retail company first used the bar code?  
A) Walmart  
B) Kroger  
C) Marsh Supermarket ✅  
D) Safeway  
**Taglines:**  
- Marsh made the first beep  
- Not flashy, just historic  
- Supermarket history in a gum pack  
- Kroger who?  
- Marsh was first to scan  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] What organization manages global bar code standards?  
A) FDA  
B) ISO  
C) GS1 ✅  
D) FCC  
**Taglines:**  
- Barcode overlords  
- GS1: the stripe police  
- You scan because they said so  
- The code behind the codes  
- Bureaucracy, but make it global  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] What does the “U” in UPC stand for?  
A) Unified  
B) Universal ✅  
C) Unlocked  
D) Uncoded  
**Taglines:**  
- It’s everywhere. Literally.  
- One code to rule them all  
- “Universal” means your soup can and your soda share DNA  
- The “U” stands for “ubiquitous”  
- Also stands for “ugh, scanning again”  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] How many digits are in a standard UPC-A code?  
A) 8  
B) 10  
C) 12 ✅  
D) 14  
**Taglines:**  
- Twelve angry digits  
- A dozen reasons your cashier isn’t impressed  
- UPC-A: the A is for “annoyingly exact”  
- Count ‘em, curse them  
- Every digit tells a story  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] What part of a bar code encodes the manufacturer?  
A) First 6 digits ✅  
B) Middle 4 digits  
C) Last digit  
D) None—it’s random  
**Taglines:**  
- Manufacturer ID: stripy signature  
- Who made it? Check the front 6  
- Your cereal box has a social  
- The first 6: corporate DNA  
- Bar codes doxxing your granola
