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Engineering Trivia Night
Engineering Trivia Night
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1
In what year did the first home computer games appear?
1974
1980
1963
1958
2
What does AC and DC stand for in the electrical field?
A Rock Band from Australia
Average Current and Discharged Capacitor
Atlantic City and District of Columbia
Alternating Current and Direct Current
3
Modern TV's draw power even if turned off. The circuit the power is used in does what function?
High voltage
Sound
Remote control
Color balance
4
In what year was the "@" chosen for its use in e-mail addresses?
1972
1976
1984
1980
5
In which decade with the first transatlantic radio broadcast occur?
1900s
1870s
1850s
1860s
6
In which decade was the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) founded?
1930s
1950s
1880s
1850s
7
What is the term to ask the computer to put information in order numerically or alphabetically?
Record
Report
Sort
Crop
8
Changing computer language of 1’s and 0’s to characters that a person can understand is called…
Decoding
Executing
Highlighting
Clip Arting
9
Made from a variety of materials, such as carbon, which inhibits the flow of current...?
Resistor
Choke
Capacitor
Inductor
10
Who developed Yahoo?
Vint Cerf & Robert Kahn
D.Steve Case & Jeff Bezos
Dennis Ritchie & Ken Thompson
David Filo & Jerry Yang
11
How fast is the speed of light?
100,000 km/sec
300,000 km/sec
200,000 km/sec
12
Experts say the healthiest way to view a computer monitor is by…
Using special glasses that filter out UV rays
Adjusting the screen for maximum contrast
Viewing from a darkened room
Placing it 18-30 inches away from your eyes
13
What do you call a computer on a network that requests files from another computer?
A web server
A router
A client
A host
14
The letters, ’DOS’ stand for…
Disk Out System
Data Operating System
Data Out System
Disk Operating System
15
Who made the first electric light bulb?
Thomas Edison
Joseph Swan
Humphry Davy
16
‘CD’ computer abbreviation usually means?
Compact Disc
Change Data
Copy Density
Command Description
17
In which decade was the Internet first implemented?
1960s
1950s
1980s
1940s
18
Another name for a computer chip is…
Micro processor
Macro chip
Micro chip
Execute
19
Which of these is not a computer?
Paseo
Acorn
Aptiva
Macintosh
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What does ‘www’ stand for?
world wide window
world wide web
world wide war
world wide wares
