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Internet Jeopardy 1Basic Computer Study Guide
By Leigh Lewis
12/14/07
Internet Jeopardy
What do you call pieces of information sent by a web server to track where you have been on the Internet?
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Answer: A Cookie
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What do you call someone who develops and builds computer hardware?
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Answer: An engineer
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What do you call a program that allows you to access the web (ex. Mozilla, Foxfire or AOL)?
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Answer: A browser
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What do you call the unique name that identifies an Internet site?
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Answer: The domain name
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What do you call an address on the Internet?
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Answer: URL
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What do you call a small picture that represents an object or program?
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Answer: Icon
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What is the term for transferring information from one computer to the one you are using?
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Answer: Download
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What is the technology called that allows humans to talk over Internet connections?
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Answer: VOIP
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What do you call the part of a browser that lets you search the Web for a specific topic (ex. Google)?
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Answer: A search engine
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What is the term for transferring data from the computer you are using to another computer?
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Answer: Upload
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What do you call an online journal?
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Answer: A blog
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What do you call someone who designs computer software?
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Answer: programmer
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This term is short for wireless fidelity
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Answer: WI-FI
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What is the name for an information site on the web, usually containing several pages, including a homepage?
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Answer: A web site
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What do you call data going into the computer?
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Answer: input
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Term for colored text or icon on a webpage that allows you to move automatically to another site by clicking on it
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Answer: hyperlink
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What do you call a chunk of programming code that spreads through corrupted files and causes great damage?
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Answer: A virus
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Common term for touring the Web
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Answer: surf
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Term coined by science fiction writer to describe the whole range of available information through the Internet
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Answer: Cyberspace
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What do you call a program that organizes numbers (data) into columns & rows (ex. Excel)?
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Answer: spreadsheet
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What do you call the main page for a website?
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Answer: a homepage
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What do you call a collection of programs that control & run your computer system & programs (ex. Windows)?
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Answer: Operating System
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A term for finding and correcting computer errors
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debugging
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What do you call the number system that computers use; they only use 2 digits, 1 and 0?
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Answer: binary
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What do you call data or information coming out of your computer?
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Answer: output
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What does “WWW” mean?
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Answer: World Wide Web
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Now that you have finished, you can review again until you get them all correct.
Good luck on the final!
