1 Quiz Show Technology Terms

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

3 Acronyms - $100  PC  Link Link

4 Acronyms - $200  GUI  Link Link

5 Acronyms – 3  KB  Link Link

6 Acronyms - 4  WYSIWYG  Link Link

7 Acronyms - 5  LAN  Link Link

8 Acronyms $100  The Acronym for Personal Computer

9 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

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

11 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

12 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.

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

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

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

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

17 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

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

19 Hardware $400  What is the third most important component for the overall speed and performance of the computer and what does it do?  Link Note this is not on the final Link

20 Hardware Answer for $400  BUS – it is the communication pathway for data to flow to and from all components of the computer.

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

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

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

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

25 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

26 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

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

28 Software Answer for $300  FallSem2004

29 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

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

31 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

32 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

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

34 Anything for $100  A single spaced 1 page report takes up about ____ storage space.  Link Link

35 Anything Answer for $100  1 Kilobyte  Bonus for $100  3000 average length novels take up about _____ storage space  Link Link

36 Anything Bonus Answer for $100  1 Gigabyte (GB)  Quadruple bonus $400 – how many bytes is a gigabyte? Answer Answer

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

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

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

40 Anything Answer for $300  Ergonomics

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

42 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

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

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

45 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 46

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. 47

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

49 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.

50 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 51

Answer for People for $100  B. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak 52

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 53

Answer for People $200  a. Bill Gates & Paul Allen of Microsoft 54

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 55

Answer for People for $300  c. Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn 56

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 57

Answer for People for $400  D. Grace Hopper 58

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 59

Answer for People for $500  C. Tim Berners Lee 60

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 61

Answer People for $600  E - President Eisenhower 62

Acronyms for $600  What does MB stand for? Link 63

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 64

Bonus Acronym  What does GB stand for Link 65

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. 66