Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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How thin is Apple’s new AirBook computer?
a. | 1/4 inch | b. | 1/2 inch | c. | 3/4
inch | d. | 1 inch |
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Meg Whitman, CEO of eBay, recently announced that she plans to retire. What
company did she work for before eBay?
a. | Archer Daniels Midland | b. | Bain | c. | McKinsey | d. | Booz Allen
Hamilton |
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What is a Pleo?
a. | an iPhone | b. | a PDA | c. | a
robot | d. | a GPS |
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How much money will the U.S. General Accounting Office reportedly save annually
by putting its “blue-cover” report on the web, instead of printing hard copies?
a. | $100,000 | b. | $350,000 | c. | $500,000 | d. | $1,000,00 |
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The computer jargon "little-endian" and "big-endian" are
derived from what book?
a. | Through the Looking Glass | b. | The Secret Garden | c. | The Wind in the
Willows | d. | Gulliver's Travels |
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Which of the following was an Apple-endorsed procedure for the Apple III to
ensure that the machine's integrated circuits were securely in their sockets?
a. | Drop the computer one foot onto a flat surface | b. | Push each chip into
its socket by hand | c. | Run the computer
upside-down | d. | Submerge the motherboard for five minutes into a solution of 90% distilled warm water
and 10% rubbing alcohol |
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Who coined the term 'bit'?
a. | Donald Knuth | b. | Ada Lovelace | c. | John Tukey
| d. | Alan Turing |
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Considering the chronology in the book 2001: A Space Odyssey, in what year does
the HAL-9000 computer become operational?
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What company created the PDF file format?
a. | Adobe | b. | Aldus | c. | IBM | d. | Netscape |
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10.
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What 1999 freeware game brought with it many users' first spyware
infestation?
a. | Doom | b. | Elf Bowling | c. | Frogger | d. | Castle
Wolfenstein |
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