Microsoft Office
Keyboard
Radio and Telephone
Television
The Desktop
100
This Office program is for users to type their esssays, stories, resumes, etc. This specific one has the well-known "Office Helper," the little paper clip cartoon that asks questions.
What is Microsoft Word?
100
These are the fingers that you place on the two bumps on the 'F' and 'J' keys on the keyboard when you begin to type.
What are the index (pointer) fingers?
100
1878: He was the first to transmit and receive radio waves when he noticed that his induction balance caused noise in the receiver of his homemade telephone.
Who is David E. Hughes?
100
Philo Farnsworth was given this nickname. He had his brilliant idea taken from him before he could patent it; but this idea is now a worldwide phenomenon.
Who is the Father of Television?
100
This program is very similar to Microsoft Word, with less options, and without the 'Office Helper.'
What is the Notepad?
200
This Office program creates slideshows for presentations.
What is Microsoft Powerpoint?
200
This is the biggest key on the keyboard, and probably the most used one. This key has even been used for the typing of this question.
What is the spacebar?
200
This is a tube filled with iron fillings, a primitive form of a radio signal detector used in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
What is a coherer?
200
Houses used to have these placed on their rooves for better picture from another one of these in orbit in outer space. Arthur C. Clarke unintentionally produced the idea for this.
What is a satellite dish?
200
This is the 'E' that you click on for your web surfing needs.
What is the Internet Browser?
300
This Office program helps with math problems, creates graphs, and makes lists quickly and easily.
What is Microsoft Excel?
300
This key starts new paragraphs, inserts type into address bars, and begins certain programs.
What is the enter key?
300
This was the year that Thomas Edison took a patent on radio communication between ships.
When is 1885?
300
The first film to be shot in this form was made in 1838; movies are still being released in this ever-popular form, including 'My Bloody Valentine,' 'Up,' and 'Monsters vs. Aliens.'
What is 3-D?
300
This is the storage area that deleted items appear in. These items are always available in case they are needed for reviving back to your system, unless cleared of the storage, of course.
What is the Recycle Bin?
400
The Office program that makes anything from brochures to business cards, and everything in between.
What is Microsoft Publisher?
400
This key is used at the start of each sentence, for names, and for proper nouns like titles. This key is under the enter key.
What is the shift key?
400
This man invented the telephone in 1875
Who is Alexander Grahm Bell?
400
This man invented the rabbit ears antennae for televisions somewhere between 1940 and 1950.
Who is Marvin Middlemark?
400
This is a 'sandbox play' type of program that allows you to draw, copy pictures, and even type text into one image. Various options make this program interesting and even fun to use.
What is Paint?
500
The main program for computers, opposes Macintosh Apple, and is home to many proframs, including Word, Powerpoint, and Publisher.
What is Microsoft Windows?
500
This key is specially for Microsoft Windows. When you push it, the start bar at the bottom or side of the screen appears so yo don't have to close down any programs you are working on.
What is the Windows Key?
500
This man was the inventor of the radio.
Who is Guglielmo Marconi?
500
This man was the first person to discover the standard that televisions used for scanning in 1884. He was the man that the Nipkow disc was named after.
Who is Paul Nipkow?
500
This file holder is the most important one for students, office workers, or journalists. It holds word files, powerpoint presentations, etc. and it saves them all into one area for easy finding.
What is My Documents?
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