1. 5/24/2015Columbus State University 1 Computing and Technology Quiz

2. 5/24/2015Columbus State University2 Name two founders of Microsoft. Top row: Steve Wood (left), Bob Wallace, Jim Lane. Middle row: Bob O'Rear, Bob Greenberg, Marc McDonald, Gordon Letwin. Bottom row: Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood, Paul Allen. Pic taken on the morning of December 7, 1978

3. 5/24/2015Columbus State University3 Name two founders of Apple. On April Fool's Day, 1976, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs released the Apple I computer and started Apple Computers. The Apple I was the first with a single circuit board used in a computer.Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs

4. 5/24/2015Columbus State University4 What is the global network of millions of computers linked by telephone, cable, and fiber-optic links that can share information?

5. 5/24/2015Columbus State University5 What is a set of eight binary digits (bits that are either 0 or 1) that represent a letter, number, or symbol? (01000011)

6. 5/24/2015Columbus State University6 What is the term for a computer program, usually produced and used maliciously, that can destroy or damage computer information? It is transmitted by floppy disk or by downloading an infected file from an online source.

7. 5/24/2015Columbus State University7 What is the area inside the computer that allows the computer to store and/or act on information coded in binary code?

8. 5/24/2015Columbus State University8 What does WWW stand for?

9. 5/24/2015Columbus State University9 Name a search engine.

10. 5/24/2015Columbus State University10 What is 1 + 1 in binary?

11. 5/24/2015Columbus State University11 What is the name of the language you use to write a web page?

12. 5/24/2015Columbus State University12 What is a hot spot in computer jargon?

13. 5/24/2015Columbus State University13 What is the unit used for measuring a computer's memory or disk capacity that is equal to approximately one billion bytes or 1,024 megabytes?

14. 5/24/2015Columbus State University14 What is the basic language of computers, made up on ones and zeros?

15. 5/24/2015Columbus State University15 What do we call a set of instructions that the computer follows?

16. 5/24/2015Columbus State University16 Who is the president and CEO of eBay? Meg Whitman

17. 5/24/2015Columbus State University17 Who developed Linux? In 1991, Linus Torvalds began to work on the Linux kernel while he was attending the University of Helsinki.Linus Torvalds

18. 5/24/2015Columbus State University18 Who started Amazon.com? Amazon was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos It is common lore that Bezos wrote its business plan while he and his wife drove a 1988 Chevrolet Blazer from Fort Worth, Texas to Bellevue, Washington.

19. 5/24/2015Columbus State University19 What was the first item sold on eBay? The very first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer for $14.83.laser pointer

20. 5/24/2015Columbus State University20 The Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha company was founded in Japan in 1934. Today, under the more compact name YKK Co., it is known as the world-leading manufacturer of which everyday product? A YKK factory site in Macon, Ga., produces 7 million zippers a day, in a total of 1,500 styles in more than 427 standard colors. It's the largest zipper factory in the world.

21. 5/24/2015Columbus State University21 The first coin-operated vending machine dates from at least the first century BC. What product did the machine dispense? The first vending machine is believed to have been invented by Hero of Alexandria, a first-century inventor. His machine accepted a coin and then dispensed a fixed amount of holy water.

22. 5/24/2015Columbus State University22 Where was the first automatic teller machine in the U.S. installed? Citizens and Southern National Bank in Valdosta, Ga., installed the country´s first automatic teller machine

23. 5/24/2015Columbus State University23 When was the first email sent? The first e-mail was sent in 1971. Ray Tomlinson of the research firm Bolt, Beranek and Newman sent the first e-mail when he was supposed to be working on a different project. Tomlinson, who is credited with being the one to decide on the "@" sign for use in e-mail, sent his message over a military network called ARPANET. When asked to describe the contents of the first email, Tomlinson said it was “something like "QWERTYUIOP"”

24. 5/24/2015Columbus State University24 When was the World Wide Web “born”? In 1990, The World Wide Web was born when Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN, the high-energy physics laboratory in Geneva, developed HyperText Markup Language. HTML, as it is commonly known, allowed the Internet to expand into the World Wide Web, using specifications he developed such as URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol).