Why Shockwave?
Question: Shockwave is the online viewer for what?
- Afterburner
- Authorware
- Director
- Java
Answer: Director
March 31st, 2008
Archive for March, 2008
Quite a bit
Question: How many colors can be represented with an 8 bit .GIF file?
- 16
- 256
- 512
- more than 16 million
Answer: 256
March 30th, 2008
Tinkertoys
Question: Who wrote the game Pinball Construction Set?
- Dan Bunten
- Bill Gates
- Bill Budge
- a project group of 30 people
Answer: Bill Budge
March 29th, 2008
WOPR
Question: In the movie War Games, what was the secret backdoor password used to access the WOPR computer?
- global thermonuclear war
- falkin
- joshua
- raptor
Answer: joshua
March 28th, 2008
Not bad for a dropout
Question: Bill Gates dropped out of which of the following educational institutions?
- Harvard
- MIT
- Northwestern
- Yale
Answer: Harvard
March 27th, 2008
OOL
Question: What was the first object oriented language?
- C++
- Logo
- Smalltalk
- Simula
Answer: Simula
March 26th, 2008
Watch your language
Question: Which computer language was the predecessor to Scheme?
- Fortran
- Cobol
- C
- LISP
Answer: LISP
March 25th, 2008
If I only had a brain
Question: What CPU was found in the original Macintosh?
- 6502
- 8088
- 68000
- 68010
Answer: 68000
March 24th, 2008
T1
Question: How many individual channels comprise a T1 line?
- 21
- 24
- 27
- 32
Answer: 24
March 23rd, 2008
Which end-ian is up?
Question: 'Big-endian' describes a computer architecture in which, within a given multi-byte numeric representation,
- the most significant byte has the lowest address
- the most significant byte has the highest address
Answer: the most significant byte has the lowest address
March 22nd, 2008