COBOL
Language Acronyms
Databases
Women in IT
IT Celebrities
100

The four divisions of a COBOL program

Identification, Environment, Data, Procedure

100

Formula Translation

FORTRAN

100

IBM legacy data base application most popular before DB2

IMS

100

Navy admiral who led the development of COBOL for the DoD

Grace Hopper

100

Former IT project manager who now hosts Jeopardy!

Ken Jennings

200

What the acronym COBOL stands for

COmmon Business Oriented Language

200

Active Server Pages

ASP

200

The company whose employees created SQL

IBM

200

19th Century British mathematician who is considered the first computer programmer

Ada King, Countess of Lovelace

200

He was/is(?) married to Grimes

Elon Musk

300

Command used when passing data from an operator console or from the operating system

ACCEPT

300

Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instructions Code

BASIC

300

What is now this company first implemented SQL in an application

Oracle

300

Hewlett-Packard CEO who unsuccessfully ran in the California senate race in 2010

Carly Fiorina

300

Founder of the Truth Social media site

Donald Trump

400

Command use to invoke CICS, DLI or SQL statements

EXEC

400

Advanced Business Application Programming

ABAP

400

A table column that's a primary key in another table

Foreign Key

400

2016 biopic about African American mathematicians who worked behind the scenes in the NASA Computing division in the 1950s & 1960s

Hidden Figures

400

He was portrayed by Michael Fassbender in a 2015 biopic

Steve Jobs

500

Command used to send program response codes to the operating system

RETURN nn

500

List Processing

Lisp

500

The vendor our Catalog Manager tool is purchased from

BMC

500

She's the current CEO of Oracle Corporation

Safra Katz

500

They still run a major charitable foundation although now are divorced

Bill and Melinda Gates