GENERAL COMPUTER Jeopardy

A B C D E

50 50 50 50 50

40 40 40 40 40

30 30 30 30 30

20 20 20 20 20

10 10 10 10 10

50 PointsA

What is this?

Go back

50 PointsA

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 PointsA

What is this?Go back

30 PointsA

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

50 PointsB

What is this?Go back

50 PointsB

SD CARD. It is flash memory designed to be used in a camera.

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.see http://www.arduino.cc/

Go back

30 PointsB

How do you set up a microphone using Windows?

Go back

30 PointsB

Go to control panel / sound.

Go back

20 Points B

Speakers – input or output devices?Go back

20 Points B

OutputGo back

10 Points B

How do you change your keyboard to use International Characters using WINDOWS?

Go back

10 Points B

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

50 PointsC

What is the smallest unit of storage in a computer?

Go back

50 PointsC

A bit. (A single binary digit or a single 0 or 1 using base 2).

Go back

40 PointsC

What is a byte?

Go back

40 PointsC

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

30 PointsC

How many bytes is a KB (approx)Go back

30 PointsC

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

20 PointsC

What is a MB?Go back

20 PointsC

1 megabyte (million bytes approx.)(MP3 audio is about 1 megabyte per minute)

Go back

10 PointsC

1 GB = _________bytes or __________MB

Go back

10 PointsC

1 GB = billion bytes or 1000 MB

An ordinary computer in 2012 might have 4 GB or RAMGo back

50 PointsD

Gigahertz is a measure of ____.Go back

50 PointsD

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

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

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 50000 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

20 Points D

MP3 audio takes up about 1 MB per minute. 20 minutes = 20MB

Go back

10 PointsD

What kind of software program is Firefox?

Go back

10 PointsD

It is a web browser.

Go back

50 PointsE

What kind of program is Open Office?

Go back

50 PointsE

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

Go back

40 PointsE

What kind of a program is Windows?

Go back

40 PointsE

It is an operating system. It is the INTERFACE between the user and the computer.

Go back

30 PointsE

Which company made MAC OS?

Go back

30 PointsE

Apple!

Go back

20 PointsE

Computers that are linked together to share data and programs are said to be _________.

Go back

20 PointsE

networked. A local area network is called a LAN.

Go back

10 PointsE

What does it mean to use a cold reboot on your computer?

Go back

10 PointsE

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