1. GENERAL COMPUTER Jeopardy ABCDE 50 40 30 20 10

2. 50 Points A What is this? Go back

3. 50 Points A a silicon chip Go back

4. 40 Points A What is this? Go back

5. 40 Points A Motherboard. The CPU or chip is the item with the lever. Go back

6. 30 Points A What is this? Go back

7. 30 Points A RAM. One slot is empty. One slot has RAM on a DIMM card. Go back

8. 20 Points A What is it? Go back

9. 20 Points A A hard drive. Go back

10. 10 Points A What is it? Go back

11. 10 Points A USB key or flash memory drive. Go back Go back

12. 50 Points B What is this? Go back

13. 50 Points B SD CARD. It is flash memory designed to be used in a camera. Go back Go back

14. 40 Points B What is this? Go back

15. 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://www.arduino.cc/ Go back

16. 30 Points B How do you set up a microphone using Windows? Go back

17. 30 Points B Go to control panel / sound. Go back

18. 20 Points B Speakers – input or output devices? Go back– Go back

19. 20 Points B Output Go back Go back

20. 10 Points B How do you change your keyboard to use International Characters using WINDOWS? Go back Go back

21. 10 Points B Look for the tiny keyboard on the bottom toolbar. Click and choose. Go back Go back

22. 50 Points C What is the smallest unit of storage in a computer? Go back

23. 50 Points C A bit. (A single binary digit or a single 0 or 1 using base 2). Go back

24. 40 Points C What is a byte? Go back

25. 40 Points C One byte = grouping of 8 bits e.g. 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 One byte can store one letter, e.g. 'b' or 'x' Go back

26. 30 Points C How many bytes is a KB (approx) Go back

27. 30 Points C 1 Kilobyte KB - about 1 thousand bytes A small email text is about 2 KB A 5 page paper might be 100 KB Go back Go back

28. 20 Points C What is a MB? Go back

29. 20 Points C 1 megabyte (million bytes approx.) (MP3 audio is about 1 megabyte per minute) Go back

30. 10 Points C 1 GB = _________bytes or __________MB Go back

31. 10 Points C 1 GB = billion bytes or 1000 MB An ordinary computer in 2012 might have 4 GB or RAM Go back

32. 50 Points D Gigahertz is a measure of ____. Go back Go back

33. 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

34. 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

35. 40 Points D Yes it fits: 600 MB + 700 MB is 1300 MB. 1300 MB is 1.3 GB, so it will fit on the 2 GB drive no problem. Go back Go back

36. 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

37. 30 Points D 100 times 500 KB is 50000 KB, which is 50 MB. Go back

38. 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

39. 20 Points D MP3 audio takes up about 1 MB per minute. 20 minutes = 20MB Go back Go back

40. 10 Points D What kind of software program is Firefox? Go back

41. 10 Points D It is a web browser. Go back

42. 50 Points E What kind of program is Open Office? Go back

43. 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

44. 40 Points E What kind of a program is Windows? Go back

45. 40 Points E It is an operating system. It is the INTERFACE between the user and the computer. Go back

46. 30 Points E Which company made MAC OS? Go back

47. 30 Points E Apple! Go back

48. 20 Points E Computers that are linked together to share data and programs are said to be _________. Go back

49. 20 Points E networked. A local area network is called a LAN. Go back

50. 10 Points E What does it mean to use a cold reboot on your computer? Go back Go back

51. 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