Computer Facts Scavenger Hunt

Scavenger Hunt From Computer Insides-Out Hunt by Cindy

O'Hora: http://homepage.mac.com/cohora/ext/cguts.pdf
Instructions: use your favorite search engine (Google/Yahoo/Dogpile/Etc.) to
find the answers to the following questions. Good luck!

1. What does DVD stand for? digital versatile disc

2. What is a dingbat? an ornament, character, or spacer used in typesetting
3. What is a handshake? How your computer handles communications between
multiple foreign entities

4. What is a home page? index page or main page accesses

5. What handles can you not hold in your hand? Digital handles like old cb raido, and
internet nicknames.

6. What was ENIAC? really old :P first general-purpose electric computer basically a
giant calculator

7. What contribution did Ada Byron make to computing? Technically created the first
computer program and predict the use of a machine that could run it.

8. What kind of wafers are used at Intel to make computer chips? This is a really old

joke :P Silicon wafers(because this is for school I had to stop myself from attaching
a meme to this I like the joke though)

9. What do they call the suit that clean room technicians must wear while making
computer chips? Ive seen it called a bunny suit and an anti-static jump suit

10. What does modem stand for anyway? A transmitter for digital and electronic data
11. What is a bit? Smallest unit of digital memory
12. How many bits in a byte? 8
13. How many nibbles in a byte? 2
14. The ARPANET 's development began in 1966. It was an experiment to connect

universities to share information. What do we call this today? Internet though it

was designed for military purpose initially

15. What is a thumb drive? It is a drive the size of your thumb.. small USB drive that
typically stories data, but might only have programs on them to be installed onto
other devices

16. How many megabytes of data can a factory made audio CD hold? 700 that kind of
why they are no longer used

17. What do the letters CD-ROM stand for? Compact Disc Read-Only Memory
18. Name three computer peripherals. Web cam, mouse, speaker
19. What does GUI (pronounced "goo-ey") mean? graphical user interface
20. What is an advantage of the Dvorak keyboard? Dvorak layout uses less finger
motion, increases typing rate, and reduces errors compared to the standard
QWERTY

21. What is a computer virus? Malicious computer code s a malware program that,

when executed, replicates by inserting copies of itself (possibly modified) into other
computer programs, data files, or the boot sector of the hard drive; when this
replication succeeds, the affected areas are then said to be "infected".

22. How did Marcian Hoff's invention change computers?

23. What mammal, other than humans, uses a computer? Dolphins, mice, prime apes
such as a gorilla and chimpanzee recently a hamster have all been taught to do
limited thing with computers other than mammals a crow was taught to spell out
words on a computer to get a treat..