General Knowledge

Science and Technology Section 3

1.  A coating of dust on a computer's main circuit boards has this probable consequence

A. Overheating
B. Short circuits
C. Slower hard disk
D. None
2.  According to CNN, how much did Internet traffic increase between 1994 and 1996?

A. Two times
B. Five times
C. Ten times
D. Twenty-five times
3.  In 1983, which person was the first to offer a definition of the term 'computer virus'?

A. McAfee
B. Smith
C. Cohen
D. Norton
4.  What is the World Wide Web?

A. A computer game
B. A software program
C. The part of the Internet that enables information-sharing via interconnected pages
D. Another name for the Internet
5.  What is the Websites code for the country United Kingdom?

A. GB
B. UK
C. EN
D. EG
6.  What is a MAC?

A. A Computer made by Apple
B. Memory Address Corruption
C. Mediocre Apple Computer
D. Media Access Control
7.  What is the Websites code for the country Spain?

A. SI
B. SP
C. ES
D. SN
8.  The first web server was built in:
A. 1990 in Geneva, Switzerland
B. 1985 in Berkeley, California
C. 1988 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
D. 1947 in Berningham, UK
9.  In what year did the Symantec Corporation first release Norton Antivirus?
A. 1990
B. 1995
C. 1988
D. 1997
10.  The IBM PC-XT was the first to include a hard drive. What was the capacity of this disk?
A. 20 MB
B. 1.44 MB
C. 10 MB
D. 750 KB

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