Riddles
What lies on the ground, a hundred feet in the air?
A millipede.
What is the usual scale of difficulty?
Easy. Normal. Hard.
What should you do before opening the case of a PC?
Turn the PC off and disconnect the power. (Unless the issue requires otherwise)
What does a CPU do?
Translate, calculate, decode and process data that has been executed.
What game is played in the classroom tournament?
(Hint: it runs on a calculator)
Doom, or mor specifically Z-Doom
I eat, I can sleep, I breathe oxygen but a drink will kill me. What am I?
Fire.
What is a Sandbox Game?
A game in which there is no fixed or forced storyline and ending.
Why do we not use faulty PSUs?
Faulty PSUs have the potential to catch fire, refuse to work and even explode.
What does NVMe stand for?
Non-Volatile Memory Express
What should you do to e-waste, especially hard drives, before putting them in the e-waste bin?
Throw them down the blue stairs to ensure their destruction. (Make sure it's broken)
"What's black and white and red all over?"
(Hint: "a")
Newspapers or books.
What is the most popular game in the world? (As of 2023, and probably of all time)
Minecraft
What components should you not try to disassemble in a PC?
All of them.
What happened to the first 4090s that went wrong?
The power connectors melted.
Does ITATDON have a class Discord server?
Yes, and if it doesn't - make one.
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg. (Or a horse)
What is an FPS?
A First Person Shooter.
What can happen to a PC if you do not follow ESD precautions?
(It's happened in this room before)
The device could malfunction in a variety of ways. It could 'fry', refuse to boot and possibly catch fire. (Including melting 2 gold-plated CPU pins together)
What did Nasa use 4.5KB of to get to the moon, that we need 8GB of to use the PCs normally?
Random Access Memory, AKA: RAM.
When did ITATDON get a kettle?
(Hint: 1 year before the tin lids)
2022
The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place.
The letter E.
What is the oldest Video Game? (Processing computer, not mechanical)
Pong. (Tennis for two was made on a mechanical-based machine and did not display video.)
Why should you not install foreign programs from untrustworthy sources?
A variety of reasons. Viruses, trojans, worms and other malware, ransomware, spyware, and even brick programs can enter your device through infected or false programs. They may even pose as official software.
When was the first GB-capacity hard drive built, and how much did it cost at the time?
The first GB-capacity hard drive was the IBM3380 was built in 1980. It cost US$81,000 and only held 2.52GB of storage.
How many cans of Jarra coffee were consumed in ITATDON during 2023?
At the time of writing, nearly 6 cans.