C.L. TEST 57-75

Question 1

57. What is an amplifier?

Answer 1

In electronics, a device that takes a small electrical signal and converts it into a large one

Question 2

57. What are some things that are used with an amplifier?

Answer 2

Stereo systems, electric guitars, computer speakers, and hundreds of other items

Question 3

58. What was the Apollo program?

Answer 3

A series of space flights undertaken by the United States with a goal of landing a man on the moon

Question 4

58. Who was the first man to set foot on the moon?

Answer 4

Neil Armstrong

Question 5

60. What is artificial intelligence?

Answer 5

The means of duplicating or imitating intelligence in computers, robots, or other devices

Question 6

60. What can artificial intelligence do?

Answer 6

Solve problems, discriminate among objects, and respond to voice command

Question 7

61. Who was Alexander Graham Bell?

Answer 7

An American inventor and scientist of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Question 8

61. What year did Alexander Graham Bell invent the telephone?

Answer 8

1876

Question 9

63. What does Binary mean?

Answer 9

Anything composed of two parts

Question 10

63. What do switches have?

Answer 10

A binary character

Question 11

64. What’s a bit?

Answer 11

The smallest unit of information

Question 12

64. What does one bit correspond to?

Answer 12

Yes or no

Question 13

65. What’s a sonic boom?

Answer 13

The sharp exclusive sound generated by an airplane traveling at speeds greater than the speed of sound

Question 14

65. What does the sonic boom compare to when it follows the aircraft?

Answer 14

Like a following wake to a ship

Question 15

66. What is a byte?

Answer 15

In computer technology, a unit of information made up of bits

Question 16

66. What does the typical personal computer have in bytes?

Answer 16

Hundreds to thousands to millions of bytes

Question 17

67. What is celcius?

Answer 17

A temperature scale in which zero degrees is the freezing point of water and 100 is the boiling

Question 18

67. What is celcius generally denoted to?

Answer 18

C

Question 19

68.What was Chernobyl?

Answer 19

A place in Ukraine where a nuclear power plant underwent a meltdown in in 1986

Question 20

68.What kind of gases spread out in Chernobyl?

Answer 20

Radioactive

Question 21

69.What is a computer virus?

Answer 21

A program that enters a computer

Question 22

69.How do computer virus’ spread?

Answer 22

Machine to machine, on disks and throughout the Internet

Question 23

70.What are Cryogenics?

Answer 23

The branch of technology concerned with the behavior of materials at very low temperatures

Question 24

70.What were the temperatures near in Cryogenics?

Answer 24

Absolute zero

Question 25

71.Who was Thomas A. Edison?

Answer 25

An American inventor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Question 26

71.How many devices did Thomas Edison patent?

Answer 26

More the a thousand devices, including on the phonograph and incandescent lightbulb

Question 27

72.What was he referred to?

Answer 27

“Wizard of Menlo Park”

Question 28

72.Where did he get his referred name?

Answer 28

His home town in New Jersey

Question 29

73.What is Mass Media?

Answer 29

20th century newspapers, motion pictures, radio, television, and magazines

Question 30

73.What do Mass Media items all have in common?

Answer 30

All have technical capacity to deliver information to millions of people

Question 31

74.What is a meltdown?

Answer 31

The most serious accident that can occur at a nuclear reactor

Question 32

74.What was one of the places that had a meltdown?

Answer 32

Three Mile Island