What unit of length is equal to around 5.8 trillion miles?
A light year
15
What does CPU stand for?
Central Processing Unit
15
What was the name of the first internet search engine, which was created in 1990?
Sammy
Freddie
Archie
Joey
15
In what year was Nintendo founded?
1889
1988
1975
1946
15
What is the name of the classic 1972 arcade game based on table tennis?
Pong
15
What does the term LASER stand for?
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
25
What is the name of the British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web in 1989?
Bob Kahn
Tim Berners-Lee
Claude Shannon
Bob Taylor
20
In what year did the first transatlantic radio broadcast occur?
1901
1833
1870
1942
15
True or False? In the 1980s, Nintendo and Sega introduced a new generation of video game consoles with graphics that equaled or exceeded the capabilities of personal computers.
True
10
True or False? Sega was the first to introduce battery-powered storage cartridges that enabled players to save games in progress so that they could later continue playing right where they had left off.
False (It was Nintendo)
15
What was the first computer system that used color display?
Apple 1
Kenbak-1
IBM 650
Altair 8800
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The _________ system manages and programs hardware resources for a computer.
operating
15
What is the computer's main circuit board called?
a motherboard
15
________ is used to store short-term running programs and data in a computer
