Technology Terminology Jeopardy A - DE - FG - MM - SS - Z $100 $200 $300 $400 $500

A - D - $100 A box in a spreadsheet or table where you can enter information.

A - D - $100 What is a cell?

A - D - $200 A strip of information running up and down, like in a newspaper.

A - D - $200 What is a column?

A - D - $300 Where the action is on your screen, shown by a flashing line.

A - D - $300 What is a cursor?

A - D - $400 A program that helps you manage large collections of information. You can use it to store, sort, and easily find information.

A - D - $400 What is a database?

A - D - $500 On a PC, the background behind all your windows, menus, and dialog boxes.

A - D - $500 What is desktop?

E - F - $100 Sending and receiving messages through a computer network.

E - F - $100 What is ?

E - F - $200 Separate but related pieces of information you can enter in a database, such as a name, address, or city.

E - F - $200 What is a field?

E - F - $300 A collection of information stored on your computer with its own name.

E - F - $300 What is a file?

E - F - $400 An area that holds a group of documents. Also called a directory.

E - F - $400 What is a folder?

E - F - $500 Is used to perform mathematical calculations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

E - F - $500 What is a formula?

G - M - $100 Any part of a computer system that you can see or touch, such as a keyboard, screen, mouse and so on.

G - M - $100 What is hardware?

G - M - $200 A little picture on your screen that you can click on with your mouse. It can represent a file, program, peripheral, or tool.

G - M - $200 What is an icon?

G - M - $300 The biggest computer network in the world, reaching millions of people, on thousands of interconnected networks.

G - M - $300 What is the Internet?

G - M - $400 To gain access to a computer system, usually by entering your user name and password.

G - M - $400 What is log in?

G - M - $500 To enlarge a window to fill your whole screen.

G - M - $500 What is maximize?

M - S - $100 To reduce a window on your screen.

M - S - $100 What is minimize?

M - S - $200 A powerful blend of text, graphics, sound, animation, and video on your computer.

M - S - $200 What is multimedia?

M - S - $300 A group of connected computers that allows people to share information and equipment.

M - S - $300 What is a network?

M - S - $400 A horizontal line of boxes in a spreadsheet or table.

M - S - $400 What is a row?

M - S - $500 A bar at the edge of a window you can use to move through a document.

M - S - $500 What is a scroll bar?

S - Z - $100 Electronic instructions that tell your computer what to do.

S - Z - $100 What is software?

S - Z - $200 A program used for accounting, budgeting, and other types of number-crunching.

S - Z - $200 What is a spreadsheet?

S - Z - $300 The process of sending and receiving information over a distance.

S - Z - $300 What is telecommunications?

S - Z - $400 A horizontal strip of buttons near the top of a window that provides shortcuts for commonly used commands.

S - Z - $400 What is a toolbar?

S - Z - $500 Software you can use to produce documents, including letters, reports, manuals, and newsletters.

S - Z - $500 What is a word processor?