1 Quiz Show Technology Terms As of Fall 2011

2 Vocabulary Quiz Board AcronymsHardwareSoftwareAnythingPeopleInternet $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $600 $600 $600

Internet for $100 3  True or false – We are living in the Information Age.  Link Link

Internet Answer for $100  True 4

Internet for $200  Digital Native – best answer –A. someone who is very good with computers –B. someone who learned a lot about computers as an adult –C. someone who was born in a world that contained computer technology in their every day surroundings  Link Link 5

Internet Answer for $200  C. People born in a world with technology all around them. 6

Internet for $300  Who owns the Internet a.The U.S. Government b.The World Wide Web Consortium c.No One d.Facebook e.Google Link 7

Internet Answer for $300  C. No One 8

Internet for $400  What is the name for a person born into a world that did not have a computer technology in their everyday lives a.Digital Immigrant b.Digital Native c.Digital Dummy d.Digital Guru Link 9

Internet Answer for $400  A. Digital Immigrant 10

Internet for $500  Cloud computing True or False – is when you access applications and services over the Internet – like Facebook, iTunes, YouTube a.True b.False Link 11

Internet Answer for $500  True 12

13 Acronyms - $100  PC  Link Link

14 Acronyms - $200  GUI  Link Link

15 Acronyms – 3  KB  Link Link

16 Acronyms - 4  WYSIWYG  Link Link

17 Acronyms - 5  LAN  Link Link

18 Acronyms $100  The Acronym for Personal Computer

19 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

20 Acronyms $300  The Acronym Kilobytes –  Approximately bytes of Data  1 KB stores about a one page single spaced text.

21 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

22 Acronyms $500  Local Area Network  Used to link computers and printers throughout an organization such as a school or business that are located on the same premises.

23 Hardware for $100  What is the component that stores data permanently  Link Link

24 Hardware Answer $100  Hard drive also known as the C: Drive

25 Hardware for $200  What is the most important component that determines the speed of the computer  Link Link

26 Hardware Answer $200  CPU also known as  Central Processing Unit  Processor  Microprocessor  The Brain of the computer

27 Hardware for $300  The Processor of the computer provides a.Brain power b.Performs calculations c.Executes commands d.Provides temporary storage e.A, b, c f.B, c, d – Link Note there will not be this many choices on final Link

28 Hardware Answer for $300 – e CPU is described all these ways - brainpower, calculations, and commands

29 Hardware $400  What is the largest computer network in the world? a.The world wide web b.The Internet c.The Router d.None of the above  Link Link

30 Hardware Answer for $400  B. The Internet

31 Hardware for $500  What unit of measure determines the speed of the CPU and RAM and what is the definition?  Link Link

32 Hardware Answer for $500  Hertz  One single oscillation of an electromagnetic wave.  Bonus Question Bonus Question Bonus Question

33 Software for $100  What type of software is your Windows XP considered –Operating System –Application –Data  Link Link

34 Software Answer for $100  Operating System  Example – Windows XP, Linux, Mac OS X Tiger

35 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 Link

36 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

37 Software for $300  Given this pathname identify the primary folder – A:\FallSem2004\English\Essay1.doc  Link Link

38 Software Answer for $300  FallSem2004

39 Software for $400  Software is/are a.The logical part of the computer b.The invisible part of the computer c.Things such as peripheral devices d.Files and applications e.A and b f.A b and d g.A c and d h.None of the above – Link Note there will not be this many choices on the final. Link

40 Software Answer for $400 – F. logical, invisible, files, applications

41 Software for $500  What is a Killer Application? a.A piece of software that corrupts your computer so nothing works b.A computer that is a lemon and you have to return on a warranty c.A program application so awesome that you have to buy a computer to run it. d.A new type of virus that your anti-virus software does not know how to fix. Link

42 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 $200

43 Software Bonus Answer $200  Visicalc – the electronic spreadsheet used on the Apple II Computer.  For final remember that it is the spreadsheet

Software for $600  What was the Killer Application for the first MacIntosh computer?  Link Link 44

Software Answer for $600  Desktop Publishing 45

46 Anything for $100  The first killer application for the Internet was?  Link Link

47 Anything Answer for $100 

48 Anything for $200  The speed of the processor and RAM is measured by what unit.  Link Link

49 Anything Answer for $200  Hertz – electronic magnetic waves

50 Anything for $300  The science that designs products to increase people’s productivity and to reduce physical fatigue is called???  Link Link

51 Anything Answer for $300  Ergonomics

52 Anything for $400  The subfolder for the pathname A:/Homework/essay1.doc is?  Link Link

53 Anything Answer for $400  There is none only a primary folder - homework  A:/Homework/essay1.doc is?  Try again  The subfolder for C:/fall2006/homework/essay1.doc  Link Link

54 Anything Try Again for $300  Homework is the subfolder and the primary folder is fall2006  C:/fall2006/homework/essay1.doc

55 Anything for $500  What type of computer would you want to purchase to track and do simulations of hurricanes?  Link Link

56 Anything Answer for $500  A supercomputer

Anything for $600  Where is Silicon Valley a.Boston Massachusetts b.Atlanta Georgia c.San Jose/San Francisco area d.Los Angeles e.None of the above Link 57

Anything Answer for $600  C. San Jose/San Francisco area  It is the Technology Capital so to speak or our country.  Other areas are important but this area is significant.  It is called Silicon valley because computer chips are made of silicon!! 58

59 Hardware – Bonus Question - $600  What component determines the number of applications that can be running at the same time.  Link Link

60 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  IT is Temporary.

61 Gigabyte – Answer for $400  1 billion bytes  About 3000 average length novels or 1500 large color pictures.

People for $100  Who invented the first major selling personal computer – Apple II? a.Bill Gates and Paul Allen b.Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac c.Tim-Berners Lee d.Grace Hopper e.President Eisenhower  Link Link 62

Answer for People for $100  B. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak 63

People for $200  Who invented the first popular applications for the personal computers and eventually had the rights to the most popular operating system? a.Bill Gates and Paul Allen b.Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac c.Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn d.Grace Hopper e.President Eisenhower LINK 64

Answer for People $200  a. Bill Gates & Paul Allen of Microsoft 65

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? a.Bill Gates and Paul Allen b.Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac c.Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn d.Grace Hopper e.President Eisenhower Link 66

Answer for People for $300  c. Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn 67

People for $400  Who wrote the first computer language (COBOL) that had English- like commands such as move, add, subtract? a.Bill Gates and Paul Allen b.Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac c.Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn d.Grace Hopper e.President Eisenhower LINK LINK 68

Answer for People for $400  D. Grace Hopper 69

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. a.Bill Gates and Paul Allen b.Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac c.Tim-Berners Lee d.Grace Hopper e.President Eisenhower LINK LINK 70

Answer for People for $500  C. Tim Berners Lee 71

People for $600  Who was instrumental in starting the Advanced Research Projects Agency - ARPA that poured money into scientific research in technology. a.Bill Gates and Paul Allen b.Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac c.Tim-Berners Lee d.Grace Hopper e.President Eisenhower - LINK LINK 72

Answer People for $600  E - President Eisenhower 73

Acronyms for $600  What does MB stand for? Link 74

Acronyms for $600 Answer  Megabytes – is equal to about 1 million bytes of data  1 megabyte can store about 3 average length novels  Bonus Acronym 75

Bonus Acronym  What does GB stand for Link 76

Bonus Acronym Answer  GB stands for Gigabyte – is equal to about 1 billion bytes of data  1 GB can store about 3000 average length novels.  FYI – TB is for Terabytes – 1 trillion bytes of data. 77