Computer Science Trivia
Unit 1 Vocab
Unit 2 Vocab
Unit 3 Vocab
Hollywood loves Computers
100

A popular operating system, launched in 1991, also has its own mascot, Tux the penguin?

What is Linux?

100

When there is compression and the process is reversible.

What is Lossless Compression?

100

A type of computer that forwards data across a network.

What is a router?

100

Some program statements run when triggered by an event, like a mouse click or a key press

What is event driven programming?

100
This movie starred Sandra Bullock before computer were cool.

What is, "The Net!"?

200

The acronym for a computer’s main memory system sounds like a Daft Punk album or a horned mountain animal.

What is RAM?

200

Smart personal property.

What is Intellectual Property?

200

An agreed-upon set of rules that specify the behavior of some system.

What is a protocol?

200

This never affects a code.

What is a comment?

200

In this movie, Keanu Reeves finds out he might be, "The One!"

What is the Matrix?

300

It sounds like a circus performer from Taos and allows you to download PDFs

Adobe Acrobat

300

A ten option representation.

What is a decimal?

300

The system responsible for translating domain names like example.com into IP addresses

What is a Domain Name System or DNS?

300

When program statements run in order, from top to bottom.

What is sequential programming?

300

In this movie, a robot is purchased to be a family friend until things go horribly wrong.

What is M3GAN?

400

A delicious computer term that web browser programmer Lou Montulli coin to refer to information that is sent from the browser to the web server?

What is a Cookie?

400

A vampire once ______ me when I was walking home from a Halloween party.

What is a bit?

400

Can continue to function even in the event of individual component failures.

What is fault-tolerant?

400

The inputs and outputs that allow a user to interact with a piece of software.

What is a user interface?

400

In this TV show, Rami Malek plays a hacker bent on destroying E-Corp, the corporation he's paid to protect.

What is Mr. Robot?

500

This sounds like a military rank or KFC's trademark?

What is the Kernel?

500

Eight bits will get you a ______.

What is a byte?

500

The inclusion of extra components so that a system can continue to work even if individual components fail,

What is redundancy?

500

The steps or phases used to create a piece of software.

What is the development process?

500

In this film, a mysterious portal pulls four misfits into the Overworld, a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination.

What is "A Minecraft Movie"?

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