Unplugged (each question is a wireless technology)
Programming Languages
100
This unit is the smallest unit of data commonly used in computing. It has a single binary value, either 0 or 1.
What is a bit?
100
The iconic Mario platformer game for the SNES.
What is Super Mario World?
100
This former presidential candidate famously claimed to have been instrumental in the creation of the internet.
Who is Al Gore?
100
This wireless communication technology requires line of sight and communicates via light and is commonly used by television remotes.
What is Infrared Radiation (IR)?
100
Named after a snake, this relatively modern language uses dynamically-typed variables.
What is Python?
200
Also known as the processor or microprocessor, this computer part is commonly refereed to as the brains of the computer.
What is the CPU?
200
This "super" racing game let players take control of one of eight Mario series characters and is the first in a very famous series of kart racing games.
What is Super Mario Kart?
200
These two men are the Steves that are credited with founding Apple.
Who are Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak?
200
A close to mid range wireless communication technology commonly used to link phones to headphones and speakers.
What is Bluetooth?
200
This language is the most commonly used data manipulation language.
What is Structured Query Language (SQL)?
300
A folding computer that is portable and suitable for use while traveling.
What is a laptop?
300
Not including the directional pad and start and select buttons, this is the number of action buttons on the revolutionary super Nintendo controller.
What is 6?
300
This man is the inventor of the groundbreaking technology known as the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
300
This device is used in homes and businesses to broadcast Wi-Fi signals across a local area.
What is a router?
300
This is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Apple Inc. for use in IOS.
What is Swift?
400
No computer would be complete without an adequate one of these because it provides the power to every other component.
What is the power supply? (PSU)
400
This is a boxing game was developed and published by Nintendo for the SNES and released in September of 1994 in North America.
What is "Super Punch Out!!"?
400
This man is well known for his electrical experimentation and invention, particularly in the area of alternating current.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
400
A method of securing a Wi-Fi network using a pre-shared key designed for home users without an enterprise authentication server.
What is WPA (will accept WPA2 or anything with WPA)?
400
When solving problems, programmers will sometimes use this technique, which involves writing out fake code that is human readable to sketch out a solution before actually coding it.
What is Pseudo Code?
500
This high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard was designed to replace the older PCI as a common method of hooking up components inside a PC.
What is PCIe or PCI Express?
500
This 90s year is the year that the super nintendo was released in the United States.
What is 1991?
500
This man is a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the creator of the Java programming language.
Who is James Arthur Gosling?
500
Satellites are often used to broadcast wireless signals, but location unpredictability is an issue. This term refers to a satellite with an orbital period the same as Earth's rotational period.
What is Geosynchronous?
500
Java was originally created as a set top box language named after this tree.