Computer Scavenger Hunt by Cindy O'Hora Directions: Use the links to go to a site that has the answer. Use your back button to return to this page for the next question.
If a link is broken or you see a STOP sign, use your online searching skills to find information that will help you answer the question.
1. List the 4 components all computers have in common.
2. What is a dingbat?
3. What is a handshake?
4. What is a home page?
5. What handles can you not hold in your hand?
6. What was ENIAC?
7. How did a team of women affect the success of ENIAC? (Here's a clue: the year was 1946)
8. What kind of wafers are used at Intel to make computer chips? Be specific!
9. What do they call the suit that cleanroom technicians must wear while making computer chips?
10. What does modem stand for anyway? (Search the Webopedia site)
11. I think the person who coined these computer terms must have been hungry.
What is a bit?
12. How many bits are in a byte?
Use the database Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing to learn
13. How many nibbles are in a byte?
14. The ARPANET began in 1969. What do we call this network of computers today?
15. In what year was the first World-Wide Web software created by Tim Berners-Lee?
16. Project Gutenberg puts on the Internet public domain literature and information. What was the first document posted?
17. Douglas Engelbart was a computer visionary of the 1960's. What did he invent that you find handy?
18. What do the letters CD-ROM stand for?
19. Name three computer peripherals.
20. What does GUI (pronounced "goo-ey") mean?
21 What is an advantage of the Dvorak keyboard?
22. What is a computer virus?
23. How did Marcian Hoff's invention change computers?
24. What is a gigaflop?
25. Name a mammal, other than humans, that uses a computer. (Use your online research skills to find Project Delphis)
"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." ~ Thomas A. Edison