Computer Science Trivia
A popular operating system, launched in 1991, also has its own mascot, Tux the penguin?
What is Linux?
When there is compression and the process is reversible.
What is Lossless Compression?
A type of computer that forwards data across a network.
What is a router?
Some program statements run when triggered by an event, like a mouse click or a key press
What is event driven programming?
What is, "The Net!"?
The acronym for a computer’s main memory system sounds like a Daft Punk album or a horned mountain animal.
What is RAM?
Smart personal property.
What is Intellectual Property?
An agreed-upon set of rules that specify the behavior of some system.
What is a protocol?
This never affects a code.
What is a comment?
In this movie, Keanu Reeves finds out he might be, "The One!"
What is the Matrix?
It sounds like a circus performer from Taos and allows you to download PDFs
Adobe Acrobat
A ten option representation.
What is a decimal?
The system responsible for translating domain names like example.com into IP addresses
What is a Domain Name System or DNS?
When program statements run in order, from top to bottom.
What is sequential programming?
In this movie, a robot is purchased to be a family friend until things go horribly wrong.
What is M3GAN?
A delicious computer term that web browser programmer Lou Montulli coin to refer to information that is sent from the browser to the web server?
What is a Cookie?
A vampire once ______ me when I was walking home from a Halloween party.
What is a bit?
Can continue to function even in the event of individual component failures.
What is fault-tolerant?
The inputs and outputs that allow a user to interact with a piece of software.
What is a user interface?
In this TV show, Rami Malek plays a hacker bent on destroying E-Corp, the corporation he's paid to protect.
What is Mr. Robot?
This sounds like a military rank or KFC's trademark?
What is the Kernel?
Eight bits will get you a ______.
What is a byte?
The inclusion of extra components so that a system can continue to work even if individual components fail,
What is redundancy?
The steps or phases used to create a piece of software.
What is the development process?
In this film, a mysterious portal pulls four misfits into the Overworld, a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination.
What is "A Minecraft Movie"?