Jeopardy Data System Unit CPU Performance Challenge! Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 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-Decode- Execute-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?