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Computers in Film
Logic
100
Also called phalanges, these parts of your body are the origin of the word "digit".
What are fingers?
100
It's the number of people in our class, but in hexadecimal?
What is 0x15?
100
More than 1 petabyte of space was required to store all the imagery and animations from this blockbuster film by James Cameron.
What is Avatar?
100
A chart of true and false combinations for digital logic is called this.
What is a truth table?
200
This is the maximum value you can represent in binary with the fingers of one hand.
What is 31?
200
A common data type in computer science that can be either true or false is called this.
What is Boolean?
200
A young teenager saves the day when she successfully reboots a UNIX computer in this blockbuster dinosaur film.
What is Jurassic Park?
200
A type of logic gate that can be used for simple, reversible encryption.
What is XOR?
300
This is the process by which an image or a sound wave is converted to a computer-readable format.
What is digitizing?
300
The goal of this popular app is to reach 2 ^ 11.
What is 2048?
300
In this film, when a programmer is transported inside the software world of a mainframe computer, he must struggle to survive deadly games by throwing digital discs and riding "light cycles".
What is Tron?
300
This pointy-eared science fiction character is well known for his logic.
Who is Mr. Spock?
400
The opposite of digital, information in this form is comprised of a continuous signal, such as a sound wave from an instrument or a phonograph record.
What is analog?
400
Heartbleed and MyDOOM, and StuxNet are examples of these undesirable computer programs.
What is a virus?
400
This classic space epic features a computer with artificial intelligence that goes insane and begins to murder its ship's crew.
What is 2001: A Space Odyssey?
400
Together, AND and NOT produce this kind of logic gate.
What is NAND?