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100

What is the binary number 1001 in decimal?

What is 9?

100

A contraction of "Binary Digit";  the single unit of information in a computer, typically represented as a 0 or 1

What is a bit?

100

ASCII is a system used to abstract binary numbers to represent this kind of data. 

What is text?

100

The binary number 101 in decimal.

What is 5?

100

A way of representing information using only two options.

What is binary?

200

The way of representing information containing 10 options.

What is decimal?

200

Error from attempting to represent a number that is too large.

What is an overflow error?

200

The total amount of numbers that can be represented by an 4-bit binary system?

What is 16?

200

The decimal number 6 in binary.

What is 110?

200

A collection of 8 binary digits or bits. 

What is a byte?

300

A computer uses 4 bits to represent decimal numbers (0, 1, 2, 3 and so on) in binary. What is the SMALLEST number for which an overflow error occur?

What is 16?

300

Data with values that change continuously, or smoothly, over time. Some examples might include music, colors of a painting, or position of a sprinter during a race.

What is analog data?
300

These three color are channels used in binary when used to represent images or photographs.

What are red, green, and blue? (rgb)

300

The binary number 10001 in decimal.

What is 17?

300

Data that changes discretely through a finite set of possible values

What is digital data?

400

The 8-bit binary representation of the decimal number 58?

What is 00111010?

400

A process for reducing the number of bits needed to represent something in which some information is lost or thrown away. This process is not reversible.

What is lossy compression?

400

The total amount of numbers that can be represented by an 8-bit binary system?

What is 256?

400

The decimal number 20 in binary.

What is 10100?

400

A process for creating a digital representation of analog data by measuring the analog data at regular intervals.

What is sampling?

500

A process for reducing the number of bits needed to represent something without losing any information. This process is reversible.

What is lossless compression?

500

A collection of public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work, used when an author wants to give people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that they have created

What is Creative Commons?

500

The decimal representation of the number 513.

What is 513?
500

The binary representation of the decimal number 171.

What is 10101011?
500

A work or invention that is the result of creativity, such as a piece of writing or a design, to which one has rights and for which one may apply for a patent, copyright, trademark, etc

What is intellectual property?

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