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Quiz Show

• Technology Terms

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Vocabulary Quiz Board
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Acronyms - 100

• PC
• Link

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Acronyms - 200

• GUI
• Link

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Acronyms 3

• KB
• Link

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Acronyms - 4

• WYSIWYG
• Link

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Acronyms - 5

• CRT
• Link

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Acronyms 100

• The Acronym for Personal Computer

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Acronyms 200

• The Acronym for Graphical User Interface
• When users could point and click at graphical
  items rather than typing out all the commands.
  For example,
• Copy a/english/essay1.doc to c/my
  documents/english/essa1.doc

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Acronyms 300

• The Acronym Kilobytes 1000 bytes of Data

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Acronyms 400

• The Acronym for the phrase What You See is What
  You Get
• What you see on your screen is what prints on the
  printer

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Acronyms 500

• Cathode Ray Tube TV like monitor rather than
  flat panel monitors

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Hardware for 100

• What is the component that stores data
  permanently
• Link

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Hardware Answer 100

• Hard drive also known as the C Drive

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Hardware for 200

• What is the most important component that
  determines the speed of the computer
• Link

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Hardware Answer 200

• CPU also known as
• Central Processing Unit
• Processor
• Microprocessor
• The Brain of the computer

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Hardware for 300

• The Processor of the computer provides
• Brain power
• Performs calculations
• Executes commands
• Provides temporary storage
• A, b, c
• B, c, d
• Link

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Hardware Answer for 300

• e CPU is described all these ways - brainpower,
  calculations, and commands

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Hardware 400

• What is the third most important component for
  the overall speed and performance of the computer
  and what does it do?
• Link

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Hardware Answer for 400

• BUS it is the communication pathway for data to
  flow to and from all components of the computer.

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Hardware for 500

• What unit of measure determines the speed of the
  CPU and RAM and what is the definition?
• Link

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Hardware Answer for 500

• Hertz
• One single oscillation of an electromagnetic
  wave.
• Bonus Question

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Software for 100

• What type of software is your Windows XP
  considered
• Operating System
• Application
• Data
• Link

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Software Answer for 100

• Operating System
• Example Windows XP, Linux, Mac OS X Tiger

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Software for 200

• Data files are software and each file that is
  saved has a __________ at the end of the name
  Please give one example.
• Link

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Software Answer for 200

• Extension that identifies the type of file it
  is
• Examples
• RTF Rich Text Format
• Doc Word Document
• WPS Works
• XLS Excel spreadsheet
• PPT PowerPoint

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Software for 300

• Given this pathname identify the primary folder
  A\FallSem2004\English\Essay1.doc
• Link

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Software Answer for 300

• FallSem2004

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Software for 400

• Software is/are
• The logical part of the computer
• The invisible part of the computer
• Things such as peripheral devices
• Files and applications
• A and b
• A b and d
• A c and d
• None of the above
• Link

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Software Answer for 400

• F. logical, invisible, files, applications

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Software for 500

• What is a Killer Application?
• A piece of software that corrupts your computer
  so nothing works
• A computer that is a lemon and you have to return
  on a warranty
• A program application so awesome that you have to
  buy a computer to run it.
• A new type of virus that your anti-virus software
  does not know how to fix.
• Link

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Software Answer for 500

• A program application so awesome that you have to
  buy a computer to run it
• Bonus What was the first killer application and
  what computer company benefited. For 200

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Software Bonus Answer 200

• Visicalc the electronic spreadsheet used on the
  Apple II Computer.

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Anything for 100

• A single spaced 1 page report takes up about ____
  storage space.
• Link

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Anything Answer for 100

• 1 Kilobyte
• Bonus for 100
• 3000 average length novels take up about _____
  storage space
• Link

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Anything Bonus Answer for 100

• 1 Gigabyte (GB)
• Quadruple bonus 400 how many bytes is a
  gigabyte? Answer

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Anything for 200

• The speed of the processor and RAM is measured by
  what unit.
• Link

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Anything Answer for 200

• Hertz electronic magnetic waves

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Anything for 300

• The science that designs products to increase
  peoples productivity and to reduce physical
  fatigue is called???
• Link

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Anything Answer for 300

• Ergonomics

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Anything for 400

• The subfolder for the pathname A/Homework/essay1.
  doc is?
• Link

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Anything Answer for 400

• There is none only a primary folder
• Try again
• The subfolder for C/fall2006/homework/essay1.doc
• Link

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Anything Try Again for 300

• Homework is the subfolder and the primary folder
  is fall2006

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Anything for 500

• What type of computer would you want to purchase
  to track and do simulations of hurricanes?
• Link

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Anything Answer for 500

• A supercomputer

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Anything for 600

• Where is Silicon Valley the captital of
• Boston Massachusetts
• Atlanta Georgia
• San Jose/San Francisco area
• Los Angeles
• None of the above
• Link

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Anything Answer for 600

• C. San Jose/San Francisco area

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Hardware Bonus Question - 600

• What component determines the number of
  applications that can be running at the same
  time.
• Link

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Hardware Bonus Answer - 600

• RAM the larger the Random Access Memory the
  more applications (Internet, Word, PowerPoint)
  can be running at the same time.
• RAM is also commonly referred to as just memory.

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Gigabyte Answer for 400

• 1 billion bytes
• About 3000 average length novels or 1500 large
  color pictures.

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People for 100

• Who invented the first major selling personal
  computer Apple II?
• Bill Gates and Paul Allen
• Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac
• Tim-Berners Lee
• Grace Hopper
• President Eisenhower
• Link

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Answer for People for 100

• B. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

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People for 200

• Who invented the first popular applications for
  the personal computers and eventually had the
  rights to the most popular operating system?
• Bill Gates and Paul Allen
• Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac
• Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn
• Grace Hopper
• President Eisenhower
• LINK

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Answer for People 200

• a. Bill Gates Paul Allen of Microsoft

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People for 300

• Who is/are the fathers of the Internet and won
  the Medal of Freedom Award from the President for
  spreading democracy with the development of the
  Internet?
• Bill Gates and Paul Allen
• Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac
• Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn
• Grace Hopper
• President Eisenhower
• Link

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Answer for People for 300

• c. Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn

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People for 400

• Who wrote the first computer language (COBOL)
  that had English-like commands such as move, add,
  subtract?
• Bill Gates and Paul Allen
• Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac
• Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn
• Grace Hopper
• President Eisenhower LINK

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Answer for People for 400

• D. Grace Hopper

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People for 500

• Who invented the World Wide Web by creating HTML,
  the language of web pages, and URL names so that
  each web page could have its own unique address.
• Bill Gates and Paul Allen
• Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac
• Tim-Berners Lee
• Grace Hopper
• President Eisenhower LINK

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Answer for People for 500

• C. Tim Berners Lee

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People for 600

• Who was instrumental in starting the Advanced
  Research Projects Agency - ARPA that poured
  money into scientific research in technology.
• Bill Gates and Paul Allen
• Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac
• Tim-Berners Lee
• Grace Hopper
• President Eisenhower - LINK

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Answer People for 600

• E - President Eisenhower