Technology 1
In 1977 Dennis Hayes & Dale Heatherington invented this device enabling a PC to transmit data via phone lines.
What is a Modem?
Erase a hard disk before disposing of a computer: putting personal data out there risks this 2-word crime.
What is Identity Theft?
They clean floors perform surgery and have gone to Mars before people have.
What are robots?
The main circuit board of the computer which allows most of the computer parts to attach to it.
What is a Motherboard?
In 1956, this Dutch computer scientist and mathematician developed an algorithm for finding the shortest path between nodes.
Who is Edsger W. Dijkstra
The first atom bomb using this transuranium element was detonated on July 16 1945 in New Mexico.
What is Plutonium?
If you're using a GPS device to get around you should know GPS stands for this.
What is the Global Positioning System?
Drawings discovered in 1967 showed this artist invented the chain drive around 1492.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
An electronic spreadsheet that allows data to be entered in rows and columns.
What is Microsoft Excel?
Best-selling gaming console of all times.
What is PS2?
The name of this colorful wireless headset technology refers to a tech trade association founded in 1998.
What is Bluetooth?
Mathematician, computer scientist, cryptanalyst, widely considered to be the Father of Theoretical Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.
Who is Alan Turing?
Information processed by a computer.
What is Data?
A software package designed to create electronic presentations consisting of a series of separate pages or slides.
What is Power Point?
The famous Mario Party games give you Mario, Luigi, Princess Daisy, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Wario, Toad, and Waluigi. More playable characters were added, name one.
Who is Donkey Kong / Shy Guy / Kemek / Birdo / or Koopa?
In this online game, you play as a “champion” and try to destroy an opposing team’s nexus.
What is League of Legends?
Charles Proteus Steinmetz did the math & came up with a way for this type of current circuitry to work.
What is AC (Alternating Current)?
HTTP stands for...
What is Hypertext Transfer Protocol?
These devices advocated by firemen can work by detecting either ions or changes in light.
What are Smoke Detectors?
Apple has the App Store, this rival has Play.
What is Google?
The IBM computer of 1928 stored its data on these.
What are Punch Cards?
The brain behind Amazon Echo she can turn on your thermostat or tell you who won a medieval battle.
Who is Alexa?
This game features a war between humans and an alien alliance known as the Covenant.
What is Halo?
These plural units of computer processing power stand for floating-point operations per second.
What are Flops?
This system brought Microsoft into the console gaming world.
What is Xbox?