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UMW History
100
Atari’s “Pong” is widely known as one of the first video games — but what video game, created almost 15 years earlier, was Pong based on?
Tennis for Two
100
She helped develop COBOL, one of the first widely used programming languages
Who is Grace Hopper?
100
What part of a computer is primarily responsible for carrying out instructions and calculations
CPU - Central Processing Unit
100
What was the Python programming language named after?
Monty Python
100
When was the University of Mary Washington renamed from the Mary Washington College?
2004
200
In what century was the word “computer” first used, to describe a human who performed calculations rather than a machine?
1600s / 17th century
200
She is widely considered the first computer programmer because she wrote an early algorithm designed for a computer
Who is Ada Lovelace?
200
What is this?
RAM - Random Access Memory
200
In Java, what does this print:
double result = 5 / 2;
System.out.println(result);
2.0
200
UMW hosted which regional ACM conference, whose goal is to support women and racial minorities in computing fields, in 2022?
CAPWIC
300
The first Apple computer, Apple I, was sold for what devilish price?
$666.66
300
He helped crack the German Enigma code during World War II and is considered a founder of modern computer science
Who is Alan Turing?
300
How many bytes are in a kilobyte?
1,024
300
In python, what do 0, "", [], and None have in common?
They all evaluate to False
300
What former faculty member is famous for co-founding the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in 1942 and organizing Freedom Rides in 1961, long before he began teaching at the then Mary Washington College?
Dr. James Farmer
400
“Plankalkül,” created in the early 1940s by German civil engineer Konrad Zuse, is considered the first what?
Programming Language
400
He was an important pioneer in the technology industry and became one of the first Black executives at a major technology company
Who is Roy Clay Sr.?
400
What is CPU speed generally measured in?
Gigahertz
400
In C, what does a Segmentation fault (core dumped) error mean?
Your program tried to access a memory location it wasn't allowed to reach.
400
James Farmer Hall, originally known as Trinkle Hall, was originally used to serve what purpose?
Library
500
The internet as we know it first began as ARPANET, a research project under the US Department of Defense, in 1966. What does ARPANET stand for?
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
500
She was a NASA mathematician whose calculations helped make early American space missions possible
Who is Katherine Johnson?
500
Which two companies dominate the PC processor market?
Intel and AMD
500
What was the first computer virus called?
The Creeper
500
Who helped to design the program for a major in Computer Science? Starting as a one-year assignment sponsored by the Dahlgren Laboratory under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act, UMW kept this person who later served as Chair of the Department of Computer Science and as System Administrator for the department’s Hewlett-Packard network and UNIX operating system from 1993 to 1997
ohn H. Reynolds