Computer Basics
WVHS Alumni
Internet Basics
Movies
Computer People
100
A general-purpose machine that processes data according to a set of instructions that are stored internally either temporarily or permanently.
What is a computer?
100
He teaches health and coaches baseball.
Who is Mr. Coleman?
100
A menu option at the top of the screen that shows any websites that have been previously saved for you to return to on a different day, much like a traditional bookmark is used for books.
What is Favorites?
100
Poor, young boy finds golden ticket.....
What is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
100
Founder of Microsoft. Currently riches man in US.
Who is Bill Gates?
200
To make a change to existing data.
What is edit?
200
She teaches in the middle school and is married to a high school teacher?
Who is Mrs. Coleman?
200
Default setting, or the page that opens up when you start your Browser.
What is a home page?
200
Stars Simba, Mufasa, and Scar.
What is The Lion King?
200
Founder of Apple, Inc?
Who is Steve Jobs?
300
in a graphical user interface (GUI), a small, pictorial, on screen representation of an object, such as a document, program, folder or disk drive.
What is an icon?
300
He will be the new Athletic Director next year.
Who is Mr. Bennett?
300
Hypertext which, when clicked, connects you to another site or another page within the same site.
What are links?
300
Thriller starring Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. Remake of classic tv show.
What is Mission Impossible?
300
Co-founder of Apple. Currently on Dancing With the Stars.
Who is Steve Wozniak?
400
System software that allows your computer to work.
What is an operating system?
400
He played baseball at Lindsey Wilson College and now is an administrator at WVHS?
Who is Mr. Krummen?
400
A software program that allows users to access the Internet.
What is a browser?
400
First feature-length, fully computer-gernerate major motion picture. Created by Pixar.
What is Toy Story?
400
Co-founder of Microsoft. Owns Seattle Seahawks and Portland TrailBlazers.
Who is Paul Allen?
500
A system malfunction in which the computer stops working and has to be restarted.
What is a crash?
500
Ran track in the mid-1990's. Now an actor in Hollywood. Has appeared in numerous tv shows including: 24, The Closer, Cold Case, The Unit, and many others.
Who is Ryan Smith?
500
Information (in this case URLs, Web addresses) created by a Web server and stored on a user's computer. This information lets Web sites the user visits to keep of a user's browsing pattterns and preferences.
What is a "cookie"?
500
Dorothy's last name in "The Wizard of Oz".
What is Gale?
500
English computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
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