CPU Architecture
File storage
Input devices
Python
General knowledge
100
The "brain" of the computer
What is the CPU?
100
Tiny dots that make up an image
What are pixels?
100
Name this device
What is a microphone?
100
Function to output data to the screen
What is print()?
100
Name of the computer's main circuit board
What is the motherboard?
200
CPU component that carries out logical operations
What is the ALU?
200
Type of compression that permanently deletes data
What is lossless compression?
200
Sensor used in a central heating system
What is a temperature sensor?
200
Type of statement that can perform conditional logic
What is an if statement?
200
The number of bits in one byte
What is 8 bits?
300
Full name of the cycle that runs processes
What is the fetch-decode execute cycle?
300
Basic character set with 128 characters
What is ASCII?
300
Device that converts sensor data for a microprocessor to read
What is an Analogue to Digital Converter?
300
The output of this code
What is "More than 4" and "More than 6"?
300
One of the founders of Microsoft
Who is Bill Gates or Paul Allen?
400
CPU register that stores the address of the next instruction in a program
What is the Program Counter?
400
The term for the number of bits that represent each sample in a sound wave
What is sample resolution?
400
Sensor that measures the acidity/alkalinity of soil
What is a pH sensor?
400
The output of this code
What is "you won!"?
400
First company to mass produce self-driving cars
What is Tesla?
500
What is overclocking?
When the clock speed is too fast that the CPU cannot complete an FDE cycle within each pulse and it becomes unsynchronised
500
Lossless algorithm that groups together repeating pixels and stores the number of occurrences
What is run-length encoding?
500
Device that converts control signals into mechanical motion
What is an actuator?
500
The term for symbols such as <, >, ==, != etc.
What are conditional operators?
500
The person who cracked the Enigma code during World War 2
Who is Alan Turing?