Tech Jeopardy

Coding

100

Instructing the code to do the same thing multiple times, or until a condition is met.

Loop

200

A set of instructions a program will follow to do A, then B, and then C.

algorithm

300

An error or fault in an app, computer program, or software that makes it produce an unexpected result

Bug

400

A singular unit of information that is commonly represented as a 0 or 1.

Bit

500

A value that changes depending on the data and information the specific program receives.

VARIABLE

History

100

What year did the Apple iPhone first become available? Was it: 2005, 2006 or 2007?

2007

200

What Year was Nintendo founded?

1889

300

True or false? Nintendo was founded after the year 1900.

False

400

Did the original Sony Playstation use CDs or cartridges to play games?

CDs

500

What science fiction writer wrote the three laws of robotics?

Isaac Asimov

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

   
   

2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

   
   

3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Computers and Internet

100

What does the abbreviation WWW stand for?

World Wide Web

200

In terms of computing, what does ROM stand for?

Read Only Memory

300

Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari and Explorer are types of what?

Web browsers

400

What does CPU stand for?

Central Processing Unit

500

This is like the phone book for the internet. It translates simple names website addresses into IP addresses.

Domain Name Service, or DNS

Misc

100

One gigabyte is equal to how many megabytes?

1000

200

While building magnetrons at MIT in the 1940s, Percy Spencer noticed a melting chocolate bar in his pocket. This led to the invention of what household device?

Microwave

300

PDF is, unsurprisingly, an acronym. Name any of the three words represented by PDF.

Portable Document Format

400

Often pronounced “gooey”, GUI is short for what well-known three-word tech term?

Graphical User Interface

500

Used in electronic messages and web pages, they are similar to emoticons but are actual pictures instead of typographics. What are they?

Emojis

Gaming

100

Which video game console released in 2006 pioneered the use of motion controls in its gameplay?

Nintendo Wii

200

What is the highest-selling gaming console to date?

Playstation 2

300

In what early computer game did pioneers often die of dysentery? The game was later inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame.

The Oregon Trail

400

What was the first commercially successful video game?

Pong

500

Condor Cluster was the nickname of the supercomputer built by the Air Force Research Laboratory in 2010 made of 1,760 units of what video game console that debuted November 11, 2006 and was the first to use Blu-ray Discs?

Sony PlayStation 3