GENERAL COMPUTER Jeopardy ABCDE

50 Points A What is this? Go back

50 Points A a silicon chip Go back

40 Points A What is this? Go back

40 Points A Motherboard. The CPU or chip is the item with the lever. Go back

30 Points A What is this? Go back

30 Points A RAM. One slot is empty. One slot has RAM on a DIMM card. Go back

20 Points A What is it? Go back

20 Points A A hard drive. Go back

10 Points A What is it? Go back

10 Points A USB key or flash memory drive. Go back Go back

50 Points B What is this? Go back

50 Points B SD CARD. It is flash memory designed to be used in a camera. Go back Go back

40 Points B What is this? Go back

40 Points B This is an "arduino" board, microcontroller chip. A very cheap, open source computer which can be used in art projects, switches, sensors, lights etc. seehttp:// Go back

30 Points B How do you set up a microphone using Windows? Go back

30 Points B Go to control panel / sound. Go back

20 Points B Speakers – input or output devices? Go back– Go back

20 Points B Output Go back Go back

10 Points B How do you change your keyboard to use International Characters using WINDOWS? Go back Go back

10 Points B Look for the tiny keyboard on the bottom toolbar. Click and choose. Go back Go back

50 Points C What is the smallest unit of storage in a computer? Go back

50 Points C A bit. (A single binary digit or a single 0 or 1 using base 2). Go back

40 Points C What is a byte? Go back

40 Points C One byte = grouping of 8 bits e.g One byte can store one letter, e.g. 'b' or 'x' Go back

30 Points C How many bytes is a KB (approx) Go back

30 Points C 1 Kilobyte KB - about 1 thousand bytes A small text is about 2 KB A 5 page paper might be 100 KB Go back Go back

20 Points C What is a MB? Go back

20 Points C 1 megabyte (million bytes approx.) (MP3 audio is about 1 megabyte per minute) Go back

10 Points C 1 GB = _________bytes or __________MB Go back

10 Points C 1 GB = billion bytes or 1000 MB An ordinary computer in 2012 might have 4 GB or RAM Go back

50 Points D Gigahertz is a measure of ____. Go back Go back

50 Points D Gigahertz is a measure of speed, very roughly the rate that at a CPU can do its simplest operation per second. Go back Go back

40 Points D Alice has 600 MB of data. Bob has 700 MB of data. Will it all fit on Alice's 2 GB thumb drive? Go back Go back

40 Points D Yes it fits: 600 MB MB is 1300 MB MB is 1.3 GB, so it will fit on the 2 GB drive no problem. Go back Go back

30 Points D Alice has 100 small images, each of which is 500 KB. How much space do they take up overall in MB? Go back

30 Points D 100 times 500 KB is KB, which is 50 MB. Go back

20 Points D You made a 20 minute sound recording as an MP3 audio file. About how much data will that be, expressed in MB? Go back Go back

20 Points D MP3 audio takes up about 1 MB per minute. 20 minutes = 20MB Go back Go back

10 Points D What kind of software program is Firefox? Go back

10 Points D It is a web browser. Go back

50 Points E What kind of program is Open Office? Go back

50 Points E It is Open Source productivity software. It does the job of MS Word, Excel. PowerPoint and others, but it is free. Go back

40 Points E What kind of a program is Windows? Go back

40 Points E It is an operating system. It is the INTERFACE between the user and the computer. Go back

30 Points E Which company made MAC OS? Go back

30 Points E Apple! Go back

20 Points E Computers that are linked together to share data and programs are said to be _________. Go back

20 Points E networked. A local area network is called a LAN. Go back

10 Points E What does it mean to use a cold reboot on your computer? Go back Go back

10 Points E A reboot occurs when a computer is shutdown and then it is started up again. A cold reboot means that all power is turned off on your computer when it is shutdown and then it is started up again. Go back Go back