CS as a Catalyst Quiz 1

Question 1

One of the first and most important applications of the ARPANET was

Question 2

What term is used to describe a high-speed Internet connection?

Question 3

The two principal catalysts for the Information Age have been

Question 4

The mechanical adding machines of Pascal and Leibniz were not widely adopted because?

Question 5

High-level programming languages were developed in order to?

Question 6

Google’s old slogan that Steven Levy mentioned as being coined in 2003 is

Answer 6

Do no evil

Question 7

The 19th century was about

Question 8

The 20th century was about

Question 9

The 21st century is often referred to as

Question 10

This robot is a weed-killing crop scanner:

Question 11

Why are computers generally better at weather forecasting than humans?

Question 12

A social problem where image search can be impactful is:

Question 13

Computer Science gives us the opportunity to

Answer 13

reinvent things

Question 14

What is the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes?

Answer 14

technology

Question 15

What is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction?

Answer 15

Society

Question 16

What is the differentiation of intentions; decisions and actions between those that are considered acceptable and those that are not?

Answer 16

Morality

Question 17

What systematizes defends and recommends concepts for moral conduct?

Answer 17

Ethics

Question 18

What is a technology invented in 1795 by Nicholas-Jacques Conte?

Answer 18

pencil

Question 19

The active smuggling trade in graphite from the graphite mines near Keswick during the Napoleonic wars shows poor

Question 20

The promises and perils of Computer Science are often compared to

Answer 20

Pandora’s box

Question 21

Self-driving car dilemmas reveal that

Answer 21

Moral choices are not universal

Question 22

A moral principle often used while building self-driving cars is:

Answer 22

Minimize harm

Question 23

Who has a big role in fuelling worries about job loss?

Answer 23

media

Question 25

_____ considers the challenges in making computers useful and usable and accessible.

Answer 25

Human-computer interaction

Question 26

Who is Muḥammad al-Khwārizmī?

Question 27

Who is considered the first computer programmer in the world?

Answer 27

Ada Lovelace

Question 28

The mechanical adding machines of Pascal and Leibniz were not widely adopted because?

they were difficult to program.

they were expensive.

they were unreliable.

they could not handle fractions.

Question 29

High-level programming languages were developed in order to?

Answer 29

make it possible to program computers in English.

improve the computation speed of computers.

make the programming faster and less prone to errors.

speed up the translation between English and French during world war II.

Question 30

Google’s old slogan that Steven Levy mentioned as being coined in 2003 is

Answer 30

Don’t be evil.

Question 31

The 20th century was about

physics and engineering

digital arts

online communication

data revolution

Question 32

This robot is a weed-killing crop scanner:

Question 33

The ______ created the first online communities.

Answer 33

telephone