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Jeopardy
Performance Challenge!
System Unit
CPU
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Data
Final Jeopardy
$100 Question from DATA
Binary digit (p 52)
$100 Answer from DATA
What is a “bit”?
$200 Question from DATA
Eight bits (p 52)
$200 Answer from DATA
What is a “byte”?
$300 Question from DATA
ONE BILLION bytes (p 52)
$300 Answer from DATA
What is a “gigabyte”?
$400 Question from DATA
A universal coding
standard (p 54)
$400 Answer from DATA
What is “Unicode”?
$500 Question from DATA
A sound file developed
by the Motion Pictures
Expert Group (p 55)
$500 Answer from DATA
What is an MPEG file?
$100 Question from SYSTEM UNIT
Main circuit board inside (p 57)
$100 Answer from SYSTEM UNIT
What is the “motherboard”?
$200 Question from SYSTEM UNIT
The computer that beat
all human Jeopardy
champions (p 59)
$200 Answer from SYSTEM UNIT
Watson
$300 Question from SYSTEM UNIT
Measured in hertz (p 60)
$300 Answer from SYSTEM UNIT
What is the system
PROCESSING SPEED?
$400 Question from SYSTEM UNIT
Stores information while
the computer is running
(p 62)
$400 Answer from SYSTEM UNIT
What is “main
memory” (RAM)?
$500 Question from SYSTEM UNIT
Places where you connect
external hardware devices
(p 70)
$500 Answer from SYSTEM UNIT
What are “ports”?
$100 Question from CPU
Coordinates operations
within the CPU (p 74)
$100 Answer from CPU
What is the “control unit”?
$200 Question from CPU
Fetch-DecodeExecute-Store
(p 76)
$200 Answer from CPU
What constitutes a
MACHINE CYCLE?
$300 Question from CPU
The number of transistors
per square inch doubles
every two years (p 74)
$300 Answer from CPU
What is Moore’s Law
$400 Question from CPU
Quartz crystal, similar to a
person’s heartbeat, that
signals all other computer
components (p 75)
$400 Answer from CPU
What’s the “system clock”?
$500 Question from CPU
Groups of high-speed
memory within the CPU
(p 75)
$500 Answer from CPU
What are “registers”?
$100 Question from PERFORMANCE
Switching from dial-up to
broadband service (p 79)
$100 Answer from PERFORMANCE
What’s one way to
improve your Internet
connection?
$200 Question from PERFORMANCE
Adding additional RAM (p 77)
$200 Answer from PERFORMANCE
What’s one way to
improve your system
performance?
$300 Question from PERFORMANCE
While CPU is processing
one instruction, it begins
fetching another (p 80)
$300 Answer from PERFORMANCE
What is “pipelining”?
$400 Question from PERFORMANCE
Creating computer components
at the atomic level (p 81)
$400 Answer from PERFORMANCE
What is “nanotechnology”?
$500 Question from PERFORMANCE
Rearranging storage so that
data from large documents
is all in one location (p 77)
$500 Answer from PERFORMANCE
What is “defragmenting”
your hard drive?
$100 Question from CHALLENGE
A good thing to wear
if you’re taking
apart your computer
$100 Answer from CHALLENGE
What is an ANTISTATIC
WRISTBAND (p 77)
$200 Question from CHALLENGE
Computing that uses light
to perform computations
(p 84)
$200 Answer from CHALLENGE
What is OPTICAL
COMPUTING?
$300 Question from CHALLENGE
These function simultaneously
as processor and memory (p 83)
$300 Answer from CHALLENGE
What are QUANTUM
BITS (Qubits)
$400 Question from CHALLENGE
Processors work on different
jobs v. processors work on
the same job (p 81)
$400 Answer from CHALLENGE
What is Multiprocessing
v.
Parallel processing
$500 Question from CHALLENGE
22nm (p 79)
$500 Answer from CHALLENGE
What is 22 nanometers?
(the size of today’s transistors)
Final Jeopardy
New product that conducts electricity
better than copper, is stronger than
steel, conducts heat better than
diamonds, and can transmit
electronic impulses faster than silicon
(p 82)
Final Jeopardy Answer
What is a carbon nanotube?