Hardware Inside
Software
Operations
Hardware Outside
Computer Trivia
100
Brains of the computer
What is the CPU?
100
Scratch, Chrome, and Google Docs, but not Windows
What are some applications?
100
Steps to turn off the computer correctly
What is the clicking the shutdown button on the Windows menu?
100
Allows you to hear sound on your computer
What is the headphone port (or "audio in")?
100
OptiPlex 7010
What is the computer used in our classroom?
200
Stores downloaded images
What is the hard disk drive?
200
A person who creates software
What is a programmer (or developer, or software engineer, or coder)?
200
A famous software manufacturer
Who is Microsoft? Or who is Apple? Or many other possible answers!
200
Connects flash drives
What is the USB port?
200
Two computers that aren't laptops or desktops
What are the iPhone and the iPad (or Surface or Nexus or iPod or many others)?
300
Nervous system of the computer
What is the motherboard?
300
Windows or Macintosh OS X, but not Chrome
What are some operating systems?
300
Word meaning that you copied something from your computer to the Internet
What is "upload"?
300
Connects wired networks
What is the Ethernet port (or the network port)?
300
Something that started in 1998
What is Google?
400
Controls the monitor
What is the graphics (or video) card?
400
Two things BIOS does
What are "checks the hardware when the computer starts" and "loads the operating system"? (or "communicates with the hardware" or "responds to keys or mouse")?
400
A famous hardware manufacturer that doesn't make software
Who is Dell? Or who is Sony? Or many other possible answers.
400
Port that connects to monitors
What is the VGA port?
400
Something that started around 1989-1991
What is the World Wide Web?
500
Two DIFFERENT parts with 3-letter names
What are the CPU and RAM?
500
Google and Bing, but not Chrome
What are search engines (or web sites)?
500
Word or phrase meaning that you disconnected from your personal work space within the computer, but the computer is still running
What is "log off" (or "log out")?
500
A particular part that there are EXACTLY 2 of
What are power buttons?
500
Something that started in 1969
What is the Internet?
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