Hardware
Released in 1977, this Apple computer was one of the first highly successful personal computers for homes and schools.
What is the Apple II?
Nintendo’s most famous video game character.
Question: Who is Mario?
The technology that allows mobile phones to transmit voice and data wirelessly.
What is cellular technology?
The best know co-founder of Microsoft.
Who is Bill Gates?
This 1965 law, named for an Intel co-founder, predicted that the number of transistors on a chip would double roughly every two years.
What is Moore’s Law?
This imaging technology uses strong magnets and radio waves to create detailed images of organs and tissues.
What is MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)?
This central component acts as the “brain” of the computer, executing instructions and processing data.
What is a CPU (Central Processing Unit)?
Popular game console series from Sony.
What is PlayStation?
This Swedish company, founded in 1876, became a global leader in mobile phones and network equipment.
What is Ericsson?
The first electronic general-purpose computer built in the 1940s at the Univ of Pa.
What is ENIAC?
For years, this unofficial Google motto urged employees to maintain ethical behavior, even as the company grew into a tech giant.
What is “Don’t be evil”?
This gene-editing technology allows scientists to modify DNA with high precision.
What is CRISPR?
This component temporarily holds data that your computer is actively using, allowing faster access than reading from storage.
What is RAM (Random Access Memory)?
This company launched the Xbox console in 2001 to compete with Sony and Nintendo.
What is Microsoft?
This device converts digital signals from your computer into analog signals to transmit over telephone lines.
What is a modem?
The first widely used programming language for business data processing.
What is COBOL?
The concept of networks of smart devices communicating automatically—linking thermostats, cars, appliances, and more.
What is the “Internet of Things,”
Tiny devices that can travel through the bloodstream to deliver drugs or perform microsurgery are known as this.
What are nanobots or medical micro-robots?
This board inside your computer connects all components and allows them to communicate with each other.
What is a motherboard?
Released in 1980, this maze-chomping arcade game became one of the most recognizable video games of all time.
What is Pac-Man?
This technology uses thin strands of glass or plastic to transmit data as pulses of light, allowing extremely fast internet and communication.
What is fiber optics?
This 19th-century mathematician designed the “Analytical Engine,” often called the first concept of a general-purpose computer.
Who is Charles Babbage?
These networks are designed to carry huge amounts of data at extremely high speeds, paving the way for self-driving cars and smart cities.
What is 5G technology?
It is the correct spelling of a law Enacted in 1996 that sets national standards for protecting patients’ medical information and privacy.
What is HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?
Invented in 1964 by Douglas Engelbart, this device originally had a wooden shell and a single metal wheel.
What is the computer mouse?
This open-world game from Mojang lets players build and explore blocky landscapes, becoming a global phenomenon since 2011.
What is Minecraft?
This American company introduced the first commercial long-distance telephone network in 1877 and eventually became part of AT&T.
What is the Bell Telephone Company?
In 1837, this mathematician wrote what’s considered the first computer algorithm, intended for Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This digital ledger technology underlies cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin by recording transactions across many computers.
What is blockchain?
They are lab-grown mini-organs allow researchers to study disease and test drugs without using full human organs.
Final Jeopardy Answer
The jeopardy answer.