Name origins
"Nintendo" is a Japanese word meaning
a) Leave luck to heaven
b) Fun television game
c) Too much excitement
"Leave luck to heaven"
The original company Atari was founded in 1972 in:
1) the USA
2) Japan
3) France
It was founded in California in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney.
Fun fact: The company's products, such as Pong and the Atari 2600, helped define the electronic entertainment industry from the 1970s to the mid-1980s.
What was the estimated number of active video gamers worldwide in 2017?
1) 1.21 billion
2) 2.21 billion
3) 3.21 billion
2) 2.21 billion gamers worldwide
To see a graph showing the statistics and estimates see IMAGE: gamer statistics
The first computer company was:
1) EEC
2) IBM
3) Commodore International
1) EEC
The first computer company was the Electronic Controls Company and was founded in 1949 by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the individuals who helped create the ENIAC computer.
To read more about ENIAC computer, see IMAGE: ENIAC
The founder of Atari founded another business - one of the famous restaurant chains. It was:
1) Chuck E. Cheese
2) Cheesecake Factory
3) Wendy's
1) Chuck E. Cheese
The first Chuck E. Cheese restaurant opened in 1977, and it was called Pizza Time Theatre.
Atari is a video game and computer brand. The name Atari comes from Japanese and:
1) it is a name of the company's creator's daughter
2) it is equivalent to the term "check" in chess
3) it is a name of a town in Japan
2) it is equivalent to the term "check" in chess
Fun fact: The word 'atari' is also used in Japanese when a prediction comes true or when someone wins a lottery.
Microsoft was founded:
1) by Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak in 1976
2) by Bill Gates and Steve Jobs in 1970
3) by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975
3) by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975
To find out how they met and see their picture as young people, see IMAGES: Allen and Gates AND Allen and Gates Young
How many Microsoft Windows versions are there?
1) 10
2) 16
3) 26
3) 26
To see the list of versions, see IMAGE: list of Windows versions
Which of the following was the first home video game system sold in the U.S.?
1) Atari 2600 aka Video Computer System
2) Fairchild Camera and Instruments Video Entertainment System aka Channel F
3) Magnavox Odyssey
Magnavox Odyssey
For a picture and more info, see IMAGE: Magnavox Odyssey
Atari's first game, Pong (similar to table-tennis), was named so because the name "Ping-Pong" was already copyrighted and:
1) pong is the sound the game makes when the ball hits the paddles
2) the person who developed the game was nicknamed Pong
3) the word pong means tennis in Japanese
1) pong is the sound the game makes when the ball hits the paddles
To see what the early game of Pong looked like, watch video: Atari Pong 1972
Where did the name Apple Computer come from?
1) The founders wanted their startup to be in front of Atari in the phone book.
2) It was a tribute to Apple Records, the music label of the Beatles, because the founders were big Beatles fans.
3) One of the founders was on an apple diet.
3) One of the founder was on an apple diet.
To read the full story, see IMAGE: Apple name story
Apple was founded:
1) by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak in 1976
2) by Steve Jobs ang Bill Gates in 1970
3) by Steve Wozniak and Paul Allen in 1975
1) by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak in 1976
To see an image of young Jobs and Wozniak, see IMGAE: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak Young
To read the details, see IMAGE: Wozniak and Jobs.
To watch a video about Steve Wozniak constructing the first Apple computer, see video: Steve Wozniak talks about constructing Apple I
The price of Apple I, Apple's first computer, was:
1) $999,99
2) $777,77
3) $666,66
3) $666,66
The Apple I (Apple 1) was the first Apple computer that originally sold for $666.66. The computer kit was developed by Steve Wozniak in 1976 and contained a 6502 8-bit processor and 4 kb of memory, which was expandable to 8 or 48 kb using expansion cards.
To see Apple I, see IMAGE: Apple I
Which 3 machines were referred to as the "1977 trinity" - mass-market, ready-assembled computers which allowed a wide range of people to use computers?
1) Commodore PET, Apple II and TRS-80
2) Commodore 64, Atari and Apple I
3) Microsoft PC, Apple and Commodore 64
1) Commodore PET, Apple II and TRS-80
For more info, see IMAGE: 1977 Trinity
Incensed by the violence in such games as Mortal Kombat and Night Trap, two US senators launched a Senate investigation into video-game violence in 1993. One of these senators was Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin. The other was:
1) Al Gore, Tennessee
2) Joseph Lieberman, Connecticut
3) Bill Bradley, New Jersey
2) Joseph Lieberman, Connecticut
In 1994 the Entertainment Software Rating Board was established to rate video games for violent content. These ratings informed buyers of the recommended age of players for video games as well as any violent or risqué material in the game.
Source: https://www.factmonster.com
Where did the name Windows come from?
1) The founders had an office with huge windows and they really liked the view.
2) The operating system displays content on the screen in different windows.
3) The founders worked in a room with no windows and they thought that one day the operating system would make them rich and they could move to a beautiful office.
2) It is because the OS displays content on the screen in different Windows. Early computer operating systems had the minimalistic command line-styled interface where user operated the computers by typing different commands. Later, the need for a graphical desktop was felt. Xerox was one of the early adopters of the WIMP (Window, Icons, Menu and pointing device) concept on a desktop metaphor. (Source: fossbytes.com)
Current headquarters of Atari SA is:
1) Sunnyville, California, USA
2) Tokyo, Japan
3) Paris, France
3) Paris, France
What is the video game revenue in Chile according to statistics from 2016?
1) around $150,000,000
2) around $50,000,000
3) around $100,000,000
1) around $150,000,000
To see the map with the exact number, see IMAGE: Video Game Revenue Chile
What do historians consider to be the first design concept of a general-purpose computer?
1) the Soviet MIR computer from 1965
2) Commodore PET from 1977
3) the Analytical Engine - a machine, first proposed in 1837
The Analytical Engine is a machine, first proposed by Charles Babbage in 1837, that is considered to be the concept for the first general mechanical computer.
Historians consider it to be the first design concept of a general-purpose computer, because:
-The design permitted basic programmatic flow control (a mechanism or code that compensates for differences in the flow of data into and out of a communication device, such as a computer Modem or network device. Flow control is necessary for data communications because the sending computer may be faster than the receiving computer; sending the data too fast would result in errors or lost data.)
-It was programmed using punch cards.
-It featured integrated memory.
For more info, see IMAGE: Analytical Engine
In the classic video game Donkey Kong, the hero was originally named Jumpman. Jumpman was later named Mario by members of the Nintendo of America's staff because of his resemblance to who?
1) Mario Andretti, a racecar driver
2) Mario Segale, their landlord
3) Mario Puzo, a famous author
2) Mario Segale, their landlord
To read more about this story, see IMAGE: Mario Story
The game "Tetris" was named after:
1) "Tetrad" - a group of four cells produced during cell division (because the designer was impressed with discoveries in genetics and he though the shapes in his game looked like the divided cells)
2) "Tetra" - a tropical freshwater fish of the genus Hemigrammus (because it was the designer's favorite fish)
3) Greek word "tetra" meaning “four” + the word "tennis" (because tennis was the designer’s favorite sport)
3) Greek word "tetra" meaning “four” + the word "tennis" (because tennis was the designer’s favorite sport)
To find out more, see IMAGE: Tetris name origin
What was the first computer virus called?
1) Trojan
2) Reaper
3) Creeper
3) Creepr
Creeper, named for a character on the “Scooby Doo” cartoon show, is generally recognized at the first computer virus. It was written in 1971 by Bob Thomas of BBN Technologies and spread through DEC PDP-10 computers on ARPAnet (early Internet), displaying the message, "I'm the creeper, catch me if you can!"
And the first antivirus program? Reaper, which was created to delete Creeper.
Source: https://gcn.com/blogs/tech-trivia/2011/08/first-computer-virus.aspx
1) 22 years old
2) 13 year old
3) 35 years old
When was the word "computer" first used?
1) 1945
2) 1885
3) 1613
The word "computer" was first recorded as being used in 1613 and originally was used to describe a human who performed calculations or computations. The definition of a computer remained the same until the end of the 19th century, when the industrial revolution gave rise to machines whose primary purpose was calculating.
Mario's brother, Luigi, is green, because:
1) Luigi was the designer's son's favorite character, and he asked for the character's clothes to be green
2) There wasn’t enough memory left in the game to add a unique color to the game's palette, so the designer copied the color from another character from the game: the turtle.
3) The real person behind Mario's character had a brother and the brother always wore a green shirt.
2) is the correct answer.
Luigi was designed for multiplayer purposes and most of us knew him as Green Mario or ‘Player 2’. He was designed as an exact copy of his brother Mario but obviously couldn’t have the same wardrobe as him. There wasn’t enough memory left for him to have a new palette, so he borrowed the green color from Koopa’s shell. Koopas represent a group of turtle-like creatures in the game. There are many different types of Koopas, the most common being Koopa Troopas.
Source: http://knowit707.blogspot.com/2018/02/fun-facts-about-mario.html
To see a picture of Koopa, see IMAGE: Koopa Troopa