Jeapardy

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Control panel, accessibility options, mouse

Windows XP, how do you change your settings so you can use the keyboard to control the cursor on the screen?

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Cathode Ray tube

Great. My computer's monitor is made up of a bunch of flashing red, green and blue lights. Why would I care? Because it's cool. Or I think it's cool. If you agree, here's a fun FITB question. If you disagree, I punish you with this fun FITB question. Given the context of this quiz, what does CRT stand for?

300

EBCDIC

The IBM card format with 80 columns and 12 rows was used with IBM mainframe computers since mid-1960s to encode data in which format?

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Silicon

When you look at a processor, you normally see a plastic or ceramic case with metal pins and possibly other metal parts. However, the active component inside is made of a different material - which one?

500

Black leaves all lights off, white turns them all on.

Well, that was somewhat confusing. Don't do anymore weird questions like that anymore, OK? I'll try, but no promises. However, something new has come up. On a monitor screen, how do you tell the difference between black and white?

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So my computer screen is made up of pixels. Whoopdedo? My pretty pictures and advanced video games are just little dots of light randomly changing colours. Well, no. Not exactly. In one pixel, how many different colours of light are there?

200

FF0000

. I'm starting to understand. My monitor doesn't draw objects; it dabs small dots. But before it does that it uses its internal electronic little art pallette to find the correct mix of red, green and blue. There you are! You're on your way! But a computer being what it is, everything has to be in code. On most computers, what is the hexadecimal code for red?

300

Controlling French weaving looms

For what was the stiff format punched card first used?

400

Intel

Which company invented the ATX form factor?

500

One of a very set of internal data storage locations that can be manipulated extremely fast and conveniently

In the context of CPU architecture, what does the term "register" mean?