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GENERAL COMPUTER Jeopardy
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50 PointsA
What is this?
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a silicon chip
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40 Points A
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Motherboard. The CPU or chip is the item with the lever.
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30 PointsA
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RAM. One slot is empty. One slot has RAM on a DIMM card.Go back
20 Points A
What is it?
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20 Points A
A hard drive.
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10 Points A
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USB key or flash memory drive. Go back
50 PointsB
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SD CARD. It is flash memory designed to be used in a camera.
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40 Points B
What is this?
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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/
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30 PointsB
How do you set up a microphone using Windows?
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30 PointsB
Go to control panel / sound.
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20 Points B
Speakers – input or output devices?Go back
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OutputGo back
10 Points B
How do you change your keyboard to use International Characters using WINDOWS?
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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?
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50 PointsC
A bit. (A single binary digit or a single 0 or 1 using base 2).
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40 PointsC
What is a byte?
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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'
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30 PointsC
How many bytes is a KB (approx)Go back
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1 Kilobyte KB - about 1 thousand bytes A small email text is about 2 KB A 5 page paper might be 100 KB
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20 PointsC
What is a MB?Go back
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1 megabyte (million bytes approx.)(MP3 audio is about 1 megabyte per minute)
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10 PointsC
1 GB = _________bytes or __________MB
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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.
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30 Points D
Alice has 100 small images, each of which is 500 KB. How much space do they take up overall in MB?
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30 Points D
100 times 500 KB is 50000 KB, which is 50 MB.
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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?
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20 Points D
MP3 audio takes up about 1 MB per minute. 20 minutes = 20MB
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10 PointsD
What kind of software program is Firefox?
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10 PointsD
It is a web browser.
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50 PointsE
What kind of program is Open Office?
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50 PointsE
It is Open Source productivity software. It does the job of MS Word, Excel. PowerPoint and others, but it is free.
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40 PointsE
What kind of a program is Windows?
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40 PointsE
It is an operating system. It is the INTERFACE between the user and the computer.
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30 PointsE
Which company made MAC OS?
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30 PointsE
Apple!
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20 PointsE
Computers that are linked together to share data and programs are said to be _________.
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20 PointsE
networked. A local area network is called a LAN.
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10 PointsE
What does it mean to use a cold reboot on your computer?
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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.
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