Computer Scavenger Hunt

Computer Scavenger Hunt

Searching this computer hunt could make you more knowledgeable about the computer than your teacher. Go for it! Use the links to go to a site that has the answer.

1. What does DVD stand for?

2. What is a Microsoft Word Table?

3. What is a Table Column?

4. What is a home page?

5. What is an example of a word processing application?

6. What was ENIAC?

7. What contribution did Ada Byron make to computing?

8. What kind of wafers are used at Intel to make computer chips?

9. What do they call the suit that cleanroom technicians must wear while making computer

chips?

10. Give an example of a computer job. (Career)

11. What are the Keyboard home row keys

12. What is a bit?

13. How many bits in a byte?

14. How many nibbles in a byte?

15. The ARPANET 's development began in 1966. It was an experiment to connect universities to share information. What do we call this today?

16. In what year was the first World-Wide Web software created by Tim Berners-Lee? (Hint search in the timeline only)

17. Project Gutenberg puts on the Internet public domain literature and information.

18. What was the first document posted?

19 . When were floppy disks introduced? (hint they were first called magnetic disks)

20. How many megabytes of data can a factory made audio CD hold?

21. What do the letters CD-ROM stand for?

22. Name three computer peripherals.

23. What does GUI (pronounced "goo-ey") mean?

24 . What is an advantage of the Dvorak keyboard?

25. What is a computer virus?

26. How did Marcian Hoff's invention change computers? Look him up.