A set of instructions that tells a computer what to do.
What is software?
100
A small computer made to be used by one person at a time.
What is a PC or Personal Computer?
100
The zeros and ones that make up the most basic computer language.
What is binary code?
100
The man who invented the digital camera.
Who is Steven Sasson?
200
A device used to type information into the computer.
What is a keyboard?
200
It controls the way hardware works together with other software.
What is system software?
200
A computer that uses the OS X Lion operating system.
What is a Macintosh?
200
Files are usually sorted in these.
What is folders?
200
He founded Microsoft with Bill Gates.
Who is Paul Allen
300
A device that displays information from the computer.
What is a monitor?
300
It lets you perform particular tasks with your input.
What is applications software?
300
A computer used by many people at the same time.
What is a Server?
300
A popular lossy bitmap image format used by digital cameras and to display photographs on the Web.
What is .jpeg or .jpg?
300
Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone
Who founded Twitter?
400
A tool for storing data and instructions.
What is a hard drive?
400
This helps keep a hard drive in order and a computer running smoothly.
What is Utilities software?
400
Powerful computers used by corporate and government organizations for critical applications.
What is a Mainframe?
400
The suffix at the end of a filename that indicates what type of file it is.
What is a file extension?
400
This co-founder of Apple computers was also chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios.
Who is Steve Jobs?
500
It directs how information flows in, out and through the computer.
What is a CPU or Central Processing Unit?
500
The most popular software available for Word processing.
What is Microsoft Word?
500
A portable device that integrates the display, keyboard, a pointing device, processor, memory and hard drive all in a battery-operated package.
What is a laptop?
500
The place in a computer where the operating system, application programs, and data in current use are kept so that they can be quickly reached by the computer's processor.
What is RAM or Random Access Memory?
500
A computer developed by Steve Jobs after he left Apple.