Components
Units of Measurement
Computer Terminology
The Internet
Famous Computer Scientists
100
This is the "brain" of the computer.
What is a CPU?
100
This is the smallest unit of measurement in a computer.
What is a bit?
100
The basic language of a computer.
What is binary?
100
A measure of how fast a file can be transmitted over the internet.
What is bandwidth?
100
One of the first programmers at NASA (or NACA).
Who is Katherine Johnson?
200
This is the part of the computer connecting everything together.
What is a motherboard?
200
This is the unit of measurement that is equal to 8 bits.
What is a byte?
200
A series of instructions designed to tell the computer what to do.
A program/software
200
The medium used in the internet backbone under the sea.
What is fibre optics?
200
The programmer who coined the term 'bug'.
Who is Grace Hopper?
300
This computer part loses all the data stored every time the power is turned off.
What is RAM?
300
This unit of measurement is the base unit for clock speed.
What is a hertz?
300
IoT is the acronym for.
Internet of Things
300
The term for the length of time it takes a single package to get to it's destination.
What is latency?
300
The daughter of Lord Byron, and considered to be the first computer programmer.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
400
This computer part is used to store data long term.
What is a hard drive?
400
This unit of measurement means (approximately) 1,000,000,000,000 bytes.
What is a terabyte?
400
A network of networks.
What is the internet?
400
The address of a device on the network.
What is an IP address.
400
A British computer scientist who helped develop the Enigma machine.
Who is Alan Turing?
500
A part of the computer used to cool the CPU.
What is the heat sink?
500
This unit of measurement means 1,000,000 hertz.
What is a megahertz?
500
This is the word for devices connected to your computer that add extra functionality.
What is a peripheral?
500
The name of the server responsible for translating written addresses to numerical addresses on the internet.
What is the Domain Name Service.
500
The engineer responsible for developing the video game cartridge.
Who is Jerry Lawson?
