Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Question: The sampling rate, (how many samples per second are stored) for a CD is...?

1) 48.4 kHz
2) 22,050 Hz
3) 44.1 kHz
4) 48 kHz

Question: Compact discs, (according to the original CD specifications) hold how many minutes of music?

1) 74 mins
2) 56 mins
3) 60 mins
4) 90 mins

Question: The base 10 (or decimal - our normal way of counting) number 65535 is represented in hexadecimal as...?

1) 0xFFFFF
2) 0xFFFF
3) 0xFFF
4) 0xFFFFFF

Question: Where is the headquarters of Microsoft located?

1) Santa Clara, California
2) Tucson, Arizona
3) Richmond, Virginia
4) Redmond, Washington

Question: In what year was the "@" chosen for its use in e-mail addresses?

1) 1976
2) 1972
3) 1980
4) 1984

Question: What was the first ARPANET message?

1) "lo"
2) "hello world"
3) "mary had a little lamb"
4) "cyberspace, the final frontier"

Question: Where is the headquarters of Intel located?

1) Redmond, Washington
2) Tucson, Arizona
3) Santa Clara, California
4) Richmond, Virginia

Question: In which year was MIDI introduced?

1) 1987
2) 1983
3) 1973
4) 1977

Question: '.BAK' extension refers usually to what kind of file?

1) Backup file
2) Audio file
3) Animation/movie file
4) MS Encarta document

Question: '.MPG' extension refers usually to what kind of file?

1) WordPerfect Document file
2) MS Office document
3) Animation/movie file
4) Image file

Question: '.BAT' extension refers usually to what kind of file?

1) Compressed Archive file
2) System file
3) Audio file
4) Backup file

Question: '.JPG' extension refers usually to what kind of file?

1) System file
2) Animation/movie file
3) MS Encarta document
4) Image file

Question: '.MOV' extension refers usually to what kind of file?

1) Image file
2) Animation/movie file
3) Audio file
4) MS Office document

Question: '.TXT' extension refers usually to what kind of file?

1) Text File
2) Image file
3) Audio file
4) Adobe Acrobat file

Question: '.TMP' extension refers usually to what kind of file?

1) Compressed Archive file
2) Image file
3) Temporary file
4) Audio file

Question: Who created Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)?

1) Paul Zimmerman
2) Tim Berners-Lee
3) Marc Andreessen
4) Ken Thompson

Question: Who co-founded Hotmail in 1996 and then sold the company to Microsoft?

1) Shawn Fanning
2) Ada Byron Lovelace
3) Sabeer Bhatia
4) Ray Tomlinson

Question: Who co-created the UNIX operating system in 1969 with Dennis Ritchie?

1) Bjarne Stroustrup
2) Steve Wozniak
3) Ken Thompson
4) Niklaus Wirth

Question: Who is largely responsible for breaking the German Enigma codes, created a test that provided a foundation for artificial intelligence?

1) Alan Turing
2) Jeff Bezos
3) George Boole
4) Charles Babbage

Question: Who built the world's first binary digit computer: Z1...?

1) Konrad Zuse
2) Ken Thompson
3) Alan Turing
4) George Boole

Question: Who developed Yahoo?

1) Dennis Ritchie & Ken Thompson
2) David Filo & Jerry Yang
3) Vint Cerf & Robert Kahn
4) Steve Case & Jeff Bezos

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