QUIZ WHIZ
1- Which of these is not one of the early ‘protocols’ or ways to use the Internet?
A- FTP
B- Blogging
C- Telnet
D- Gopher
2- What was the name of the controversial software surveillance system developed by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and used during investigations circa 2000–02?
A- PRISM
B- Blue Iris
C- Carnivore
D- ECHELON
3- What does the acronym FTP stand for?
A- File tripling power
B- File transfer protocol
C- Free transistor protocol
D- Fast total processing
4- When was Microsoft founded?
A- 1969
B- 1986
C- 1975
D- 1980
5- Which of these is not a kind of computer?
A- Apple
B- Lada
C- Dell
D- Lenovo
6- What part of a URL is unique and assigned by a registrar accredited by ICANN?
A- Protocol type
B- Hosting server
C- IP address
D- Domain name
7- Who designed the high-speed computers known as supercomputers?
A- Alan Turing
B- Seymour R. Cray
C- Bill Atkinson
D- Larry Page
8- Which of these was the first cell phone to use the Android operating system?
A- LG Voyager
B- T-Mobile G1
C- BlackBerry Storm
D- Samsung Rant
9- Which company released its first notebook computer, the 316LT, in 1989?
A- Apple
B- Dell
C- Hewlett-Packard
D- Lenovo
10- Who created WikiLeaks?
A- Bill Gates
B- Alan Turing
C- Julian Assange
D- David Karp
11- In the 1990s, this company created a computer programming language called Java:
A- Sun Microsystems, Inc.
B- IBM
C- Microsoft Corporation
D- Oracle Corporation
12- Who coined the term ‘bug’ to refer to unexplained computer failures?
A- Grace Hopper
B- Ada Lovelace
C- Anita Borg
D- Jean Bartik
Answers on page 12-13