Unit 1
A rough, early version of a product used to test and refine ideas.
Prototype
This team won the 2025 NBA Championship.
OKC Thunder
The 1982 album “Thriller” is the best-selling album of all time, recorded by this pop legend.
Michael Jackson
Aureolin is a shade of what color?
Yellow
This measures the maximum amount of data that can be transferred over a network in a given period of time.
Bandwidth
A historic computer developed in 1945 that weighed about 50 tons.
ENIAC
This country launched a new space telescope in 2025 to search for planets outside our solar system and study distant galaxies.
Japan
This 2023 movie about a popular doll became the highest-grossing film of the year worldwide.
Barbie
What company was initially known as "Blue Ribbon Sports"?
Nike
Who invented the World Wide Web?
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
This is a plain-English outlines of steps that guide programmer before they write code.
Pseudocode
In September 2025, this super typhoon struck parts of southern China after hitting Taiwan and the Philippines.
Typhoon Ragasa
This country hosted the 2024 Summer Olympics, bringing athletes from all over the world together.
Paris / France
What is the world’s largest retailer?
Walmart
What device connects two separate networks and directs data between them?
Router
Visual diagram that uses symbols to show processes and decisions.
Flowchart
Highest-grossing concert tour of all time
Eras Tour
This game, featuring colorful characters battling to be the last one standing, became hugely popular during the pandemic.
What is the name of the Chinese philosophical system that emphasizes harmony with nature?
Taoism
What does DNS stand for, and what does it do?
Domain Name System
Difference Engine
This late-2023 video game release became a worldwide hit, featuring characters like Mario, Link, and Pikachu in an all-star Nintendo crossover.
Super Smash Bros.
This 2023 film, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Cillian Murphy, told the story of the creation of the atomic bomb.
Oppenheimer
How many dots appear on a pair of dice?
42
What type of cyberattack overwhelms a server with fake traffic to make it unavailable to legitimate users?
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack