Are You a Computer Geek?

The first time a computer was used to predict the results of a presidential election was in 1952. Conventional wisdom and the UNIVAC computer disagreed. Whose side did Walter Cronkite take?

Walter Cronkite sided with the computer and announced Dwight D. Eisenhower would be the 34th president of the United States

Walter Cronkite went with the opinion polls and reported a victory for Adlai Stevenson and a crushing defeat for the reputation of the computer

Neither: Walter Cronkite just sat on the information

True or false? In 1997, a computer named Deep Purple beat chess wizard Garry Kasparov.

True

False

The type of UNIVAC computer delivered to the U.S. Census Bureau in 1951 was sold with a printer that cost:

$25,000

$92,500

$185,000

Computer demos have a long and glorious history that all started in 1960, with the PDP-1, a $125,000 precursor to the minicomputer. What game was played to test the setup of the PDP-1?

Pac Man

Spacewar!

Space Invaders

Splat man

Which of the following is not a computer language?

BASIC

Algol

Fortran

PEMDAS

What was the first personal computer?

The TRS-80

The Apple

The Kenbak-1

HAL

In 1984, Apple Computer kicked off its campaign for the Macintosh computer in a $1.5 million Super Bowl ad. What was the name of the $10,000 flop the Mac replaced?

Bart

Maggie

Homer

Lisa

What type of memory is used to temporarily store information that the computer is currently working with?

RAM

ROM

BIOS

How do you pronounce SCSI?

sicksy

sucksy

scuzzy

sexy

Who said, "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers"?

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates

IBM Chairman Thomas Watson

Hewlett Packard Co-Founder David Packard

Internet advocate and former Vice President Al Gore