Neuralink - Quiz
Neuralink
  • 1. What type of company is Neuralink Corp.?
A) Robotics manufacturing corporation
B) American neurotechnology company
C) Biotechnology research lab
D) Artificial intelligence software firm
  • 2. What is Neuralink developing?
A) Automated surgical robots
B) Implantable brain-computer interfaces
C) Virtual reality headsets
D) Artificial intelligence algorithms
  • 3. Who founded Neuralink along with a team of eight scientists and engineers?
A) Max Hodak
B) Benjamin Rapoport
C) Jared Birchall
D) Elon Musk
  • 4. In what year was Neuralink launched?
A) 2016
B) 2018
C) 2015
D) 2017
  • 5. When was Neuralink first publicly reported?
A) May 2019
B) March 2017
C) January 2016
D) April 2018
  • 6. Where was the company originally based?
A) Fremont, California
B) Del Valle, Texas
C) Austin, Texas
D) San Francisco, California
  • 7. Where does Neuralink plan to build a three-story building with office and manufacturing space?
A) San Francisco
B) Mission District
C) Fremont
D) Del Valle
  • 8. How far east of Gigafactory Texas is the planned Del Valle building?
A) About 20 miles
B) About 10 miles
C) About 50 miles
D) About 5 miles
  • 9. How much funding had Neuralink received by 2019?
A) $55 billion
B) $650 million
C) $158 million
D) $100 million
  • 10. How much of the 2019 funding was provided by Elon Musk?
A) $158 million
B) $58 million
C) $650 million
D) $100 million
  • 11. How many employees did Neuralink have by 2019?
A) 8
B) 1,500
C) 90
D) 150
  • 12. What kind of device did Neuralink announce it was working on in 2019 that resembles a sewing machine?
A) A device capable of implanting very thin threads into the brain
B) A laser-guided tissue repair tool
C) A device for stitching closed surgical wounds automatically
D) A machine that weaves artificial neural tissues
  • 13. What was the width of the threads implanted by Neuralink's 2019 device?
A) 20 to 25 μm
B) 1 to 2 μm
C) 10 to 15 μm
D) 4 to 6 μm
  • 14. How many electrodes were used in the 2019 demonstration that read information from a lab rat?
A) 90
B) 158
C) 1,500
D) 2002
  • 15. In what year did Neuralink originally anticipate starting experiments with humans?
A) 2019
B) 2020
C) 2023
D) 2024
  • 16. To which year was the human experiment timeline later moved from 2020?
A) 2021
B) 2023
C) 2025
D) 2024
  • 17. As of May 2023, for what has Neuralink been approved in the United States?
A) High-volume production
B) Human trials
C) Animal testing
D) Commercial sales
  • 18. On what date did Elon Musk announce that Neuralink had successfully implanted a device in a human?
A) January 29, 2024
B) February 8, 2024
C) September 2024
D) April 2021
  • 19. What is the name of the first human patient who received a Neuralink device implant?
A) Noland Arbaugh
B) Max Hodak
C) Benjamin Rapoport
D) Jared Birchall
  • 20. Why has the company faced criticism regarding animals?
A) For the large number of primates that were euthanized after medical trials
B) For failing to provide adequate food to test subjects
C) For testing unapproved drugs on lab rats without consent
D) For releasing modified animals into the wild
  • 21. What do the monkeys' veterinary records allegedly show regarding the medical trials?
A) Complications with surgically implanted electrodes
B) Miraculous recoveries from paralysis
C) Infections caused by improper cage sanitation
D) Behavioral changes unrelated to the surgery
  • 22. What is the name of Neuralink's latest development effort announced in September 2024?
A) Precision
B) NeuraLink
C) Neural Lace
D) Blindsight
  • 23. What is the purpose of Neuralink's Blindsight development effort?
A) To enhance normal human vision beyond standard biological limits
B) To enable blind people whose visual cortex is undamaged to regain some level of vision
C) To restore hearing to deaf individuals using auditory nerve stimulators
D) To allow paralyzed patients to walk using robotic exoskeletons
  • 24. What status did the Blindsight development receive from the U.S. federal government?
A) Breakthrough status
B) Small disadvantaged business status
C) Commercial exemption status
D) Priority patent status
  • 25. Who performed Canada's first Neuralink brain implant surgeries in August and September 2025?
A) Precision Neuroscience staff
B) Toronto's University Health Network
C) Gigafactory Texas medical team
D) Delaware Court of Chancery
  • 26. What condition did the two Canadian patients who received Neuralink surgeries in 2025 have?
A) Severe brain diseases
B) Pong addiction
C) Cervical spinal cord injuries
D) Undamaged visual cortex blindness
  • 27. Name one of the eight founding scientists and engineers of Neuralink besides Elon Musk.
A) Pedram Mohseni
B) Max Hodak
C) Jared Birchall
D) Noland Arbaugh
  • 28. Who were the owners of the rights to the name "NeuraLink" approached by Musk's proxies in January 2017?
A) Tim Gardner and Tim Hanson
B) Max Hodak and Benjamin Rapoport
C) Pedram Mohseni and Randolph Nudo
D) Philip Sabes and Vanessa Tolosa
  • 29. What was Neuralink's short-term aim announced in April 2017?
A) To allow monkeys to play video games
B) To make devices to treat serious brain diseases
C) To achieve symbiosis with artificial intelligence
D) To manufacture automated sewing machines
  • 30. What is Neuralink's eventual goal sometimes called transhumanism?
A) Human enhancement
B) Artificial evolution
C) Neural networking
D) Cortical replacement
  • 31. From what fictional universe did Elon Musk derive part of his inspiration for neural lace?
A) Snow Crash
B) Neuromancer
C) The Culture
D) Matrix
  • 32. Who authored the series of 10 novels titled The Culture?
A) Elon Musk
B) Benjamin Rapoport
C) Iain M. Banks
D) Max Hodak
  • 33. How did Musk define the neural lace?
A) A chemical compound that repairs neurons
B) A mechanical helmet for reading brainwaves
C) A digital layer above the cortex
D) A surgical thread made of silicon
  • 34. According to Musk, what is the long-term goal regarding artificial intelligence?
A) To achieve symbiosis with artificial intelligence
B) To destroy all artificial intelligence entities
C) To completely replace human thought with AI
D) To regulate AI through government oversight
  • 35. How does Musk perceive artificial intelligence if left unchecked?
A) As an existential threat to humanity
B) As a minor inconvenience to society
C) As the ultimate solution to all diseases
D) As a harmless video game simulation
  • 36. To what does Musk compare the expected function of the Neuralink device regarding memory and state?
A) A digital library catalog
B) A smartphone cloud synchronization
C) A computer hard drive backup
D) A video game saved game situation
  • 37. Who was listed as Neuralink's CEO, CFO, and president in 2018?
A) Benjamin Rapoport
B) Max Hodak
C) Elon Musk
D) Jared Birchall
  • 38. What was Jared Birchall's primary role outside of Neuralink in 2018?
A) Co-founder of OpenAI
B) Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery
C) CEO of Tesla
D) Head of Musk's family office
  • 39. What was Elon Musk's ownership status in Neuralink as of September 2018?
A) Chief executive officer and sole owner
B) President and chief financial officer
C) Majority owner without an executive position
D) Minority shareholder and board chairman
  • 40. According to Tesla's October 2026 proxy statement, what position does Musk hold at Neuralink?
A) Chief executive officer
B) President
C) Chief financial officer
D) Director of engineering
  • 41. Why did co-founder Benjamin Rapoport leave Neuralink in 2018?
A) Pressure from OpenAI
B) Relocation to Texas
C) Safety concerns
D) Financial disagreements
  • 42. What company did Benjamin Rapoport found after leaving Neuralink?
A) Tesla
B) NeuraLink Corp.
C) OpenAI
D) Precision Neuroscience
  • 43. What type of electrodes does Precision Neuroscience emphasize compared to Neuralink?
A) Penetrating electrodes
B) Wireless radio electrodes
C) Surface electrodes
D) Thread-based electrodes
  • 44. According to a 2020 article by Stat News, how many of the eight founding scientists remained at Neuralink by August 2020?
A) Zero
B) Only three
C) All eight
D) Only two
  • 45. In what neighborhood and city was Neuralink headquartered as of 2020?
A) Gigafactory, Texas
B) Del Valle, Texas
C) Fremont, California
D) Mission District, San Francisco
  • 46. Which company did Neuralink share the Pioneer building with in San Francisco?
A) Stat News
B) Precision Neuroscience
C) OpenAI
D) Tesla
  • 47. In what month and year did Neuralink demonstrate a monkey playing "Pong" using an implant?
A) March 2017
B) May 2021
C) April 2021
D) January 2024
  • 48. Since what year had technology allowing a monkey to move a computer cursor with neural signals existed before Neuralink's Pong demonstration?
A) 2010
B) 2016
C) 1995
D) 2002
  • 49. What engineering progress did scientists acknowledge in Neuralink's 2021 monkey demonstration?
A) Making the implant wireless and increasing the number of implanted electrodes
B) Using surface electrodes instead of penetrating ones
C) Teaching the monkey to speak English through the implant
D) Eliminating the need for any surgical procedure
  • 50. When did co-founder and president Max Hodak announce he no longer worked with Neuralink?
A) April 2021
B) May 2021
C) January 2022
D) February 2024
  • 51. How many of the original eight co-founders remained at Neuralink as of January 2022?
A) Zero
B) Only two
C) Only three
D) All eight
  • 52. On what date did Musk change Neuralink's business incorporation state from Delaware to Nevada?
A) January 29, 2024
B) April 2025
C) December 2025
D) February 8, 2024
  • 53. Which judge voided Elon Musk's $55 billion pay package at Tesla, prompting the Nevada re-incorporation?
A) Noland Arbaugh
B) Kathaleen McCormick
C) Max Hodak
D) Jared Birchall
  • 54. What court reversed the Delaware Court of Chancery's decision regarding Musk's Tesla pay package in December 2025?
A) Nevada Supreme Court
B) U.S. Small Business Administration
C) Delaware Supreme Court
D) U.S. federal government
  • 55. In April 2025, how did Neuralink erroneously label itself in a federal filing?
A) A publicly traded corporation
B) A non-profit research foundation
C) A foreign neurotechnology entity
D) A "small disadvantaged business"
  • 56. On which federal website was the erroneous business designation box checked by Neuralink in April 2025?
A) Tesla.com
B) Neuralink.net
C) SAM.gov
D) OpenAI.org
  • 57. How much money did Neuralink raise in a Series E round in June 2025?
A) $100 million
B) $158 million
C) $55 billion
D) $650 million
  • 58. What was Neuralink's reported pre-money valuation during its June 2025 Series E funding round?
A) About $55 billion
B) About $158 million
C) About $9 billion
D) About $100 million
  • 59. At the end of 2025, what did Musk announce Neuralink would begin in 2026?
A) Relocation of headquarters to San Francisco
B) Human trials in Canada
C) Mass euthanasia of primates
D) "High-volume production" of its devices
  • 60. What type of surgical procedure did Musk state Neuralink would move to in 2026?
A) A manual sewing-machine guided procedure
B) An almost entirely automated surgical procedure
C) A surface electrode attachment procedure
D) A non-surgical intravenous insertion procedure
  • 61. In what year did Gizmodo report that Neuralink remained highly secretive about its work?
A) 2020
B) 2019
C) 2018
D) 2017
  • 62. In what year did the Neuralink team reveal the technology of its first prototype during a live presentation?
A) 2020
B) 2019
C) 2021
D) 2018
  • 63. What is the primary biocompatible material used to make Neuralink's probes?
A) Platinum
B) Polyimide
C) Silicon
D) Titanium
  • 64. What type of thin conductor is used alongside polyimide in the probes?
A) Aluminum or tungsten
B) Copper or silver
C) Nickel or iron
D) Gold or platinum
  • 65. How many wires does each individual probe contain?
A) 128 or 256
B) 512 or 1024
C) 48 or 96
D) 12 or 24
  • 66. How many independent electrodes does each wire contain?
A) 16
B) 64
C) 32
D) 128
  • 67. What material is the insertion head needle made of?
A) Tungsten-rhenium
B) Titanium alloy
C) Stainless steel
D) Pure platinum
  • 68. What powers the needle of the surgical robot?
A) A hydraulic pump
B) A linear motor
C) A piezoelectric actuator
D) A stepper gear mechanism
  • 69. How is the tungsten wire in the pincher configured at the tip?
A) Bent at the tip
B) Sharpened to a microscopic point
C) Coated in gold plating
D) Flattened into a paddle shape
  • 70. How many amplifiers that can be individually programmed are included in Neuralink's recording system?
A) 256
B) 512
C) 1,536
D) 64
  • 71. What compression ratio was stated as necessary to transmit Neuralink's implant data wirelessly?
A) More than 200x
B) Up to 50x
C) At least 1,000x
D) Exactly 10x
  • 72. What specific type of compression was required for Neuralink's public challenge?
A) Thermal
B) Lossless
C) Lossy
D) Acoustic
  • 73. How did software consultant Roy van Rijn describe the prospect of 200x lossless compression?
A) Outdated technology
B) Just outlandish
C) Easily achievable
D) Boringly simple
  • 74. Which of the following animals has Neuralink NOT used for surgical device implantation tests according to the text?
A) Pigs
B) Rabbits
C) Sheep
D) Monkeys
  • 75. Which advocacy group has criticized Neuralink for its animal testing?
A) WHO
B) PETA
C) NASA
D) FIFA
  • 76. What was the name of the pig featured in Neuralink's August 2020 live demo whose brain activity was displayed?
A) Gertrude
B) Joyce
C) Dorothy
D) Peppa
  • 77. Approximately what diameter is the coin-sized Neuralink device implanted in Gertrude?
A) 5 millimeters
B) 23 millimeters
C) 100 millimeters
D) 50 millimeters
  • 78. What was the name of the pig in the 2020 demo that had no implant?
A) Joyce
B) Babe
C) Dorothy
D) Gertrude
  • 79. What was the name of the pig in the 2020 demo that had a chip implanted and then removed?
A) Joyce
B) Gertrude
C) Wilbur
D) Dorothy
  • 80. How many monkeys did the PCRM believe died or were euthanized as a result of experiments involving at least 23 total monkeys?
A) 100
B) 15
C) 2
D) 50
  • 81. Which news organization cited employee claims that testing was rushed due to Elon Musk's demands for fast results?
A) Fox News
B) BBC
C) The Onion
D) Reuters
  • 82. What media outlet published a September 2023 exposé detailing primate deaths based on public records and confidential interviews?
A) Vogue
B) Cosmopolitan
C) Wired
D) Sports Illustrated
  • 83. What complication was NOT among those recorded with the installation of electrodes in primate records?
A) Spontaneous combustion
B) Partial paralysis
C) Brain swelling
D) Bloody diarrhea
  • 84. In what year did the FDA initially reject Neuralink's application to begin human trials?
A) 2020
B) 2017
C) 2022
D) 2024
  • 85. What inflammatory tissue response did a subset of pigs implanted with the device develop in their brains?
A) Fractures
B) Cataracts
C) Tumors
D) Granulomas
  • 86. What did Musk claim about Blindsight during his March 2024 announcement on X?
A) It was already working in monkeys
B) It was being manufactured underwater
C) It had already been approved for human commercial use
D) It required no hardware components
  • 87. Which newspaper reported in February 2025 that the Department of Agriculture's inspector general had been investigating Neuralink since 2022?
A) The Wall Street Journal
B) The Washington Post
C) USA Today
D) The New York Times
  • 88. Who is the chairman of the SEC mentioned in the letter posted by Musk in December 2024?
A) Antony Blinken
B) Gary Gensler
C) Jerome Powell
D) Janet Yellen
  • 89. Who fired at least 17 inspectors general during the first week of his second term in January 2025?
A) Phyllis Fong
B) President Donald Trump
C) Elon Musk
D) Gary Gensler
  • 90. What is the name of the USDA inspector general whose office had opened the Neuralink investigation and was fired in January 2025?
A) Ryan Merkley
B) Roy van Rijn
C) Gertrude Pig
D) Phyllis Fong
  • 91. What did Musk say the coin-sized device could eventually help treat?
A) Neurological conditions
B) Digestive disorders
C) Broken bones
D) Common colds
  • 92. What major safety concern was cited by the FDA regarding Neuralink's 2022 application?
A) Magnetic resonance failure
B) Bluetooth interference
C) Overheating processor
D) Lithium battery
  • 93. In which city is the Barrow Neurological Institute located?
A) Houston, Texas
B) Los Angeles, California
C) Seattle, Washington
D) Phoenix, Arizona
  • 94. What is the name of Neuralink's brain–computer interface device implanted in a human on January 28, 2024?
A) Telepathy
B) NeuronX
C) Synapse
D) MindLink
  • 95. What percentage of the device's implant threads did Noland Arbaugh say had completely detached?
A) 85%
B) 50%
C) 25%
D) 10%
  • 96. What was the pseudonym of Neuralink's second trial participant?
A) Paul
B) Alex
C) John
D) Bob
  • 97. Which software did the second trial participant use to create 3D designs?
A) Blender
B) Autodesk Fusion
C) AutoCAD
D) SolidWorks
  • 98. Who was the first UK patient to have a Neuralink implant inserted?
A) Paul
B) Noland
C) Andres
D) Alex
  • 99. How many participants were enrolled in Neuralink trials worldwide as of January 2026?
A) 21
B) 50
C) 7
D) 12
  • 100. How many threads are used in Neuralink's current implant?
A) 128
B) 64
C) 16
D) 32
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