New Media Quiz Questions

Question 1

Other terms used to describe ‘new media’ include all of the following except: Digital Media, Mainstream Media, Emerging Media, Media

Answer 1

Mainstream Media

Question 2

Around what date did the term ‘digital media’ rapidly accelerate?

Answer 2

1990s

Question 3

Which ones of the following doesn’t have real time only as a limitation?

Answer 3

ideograms

Question 4

Of the following, which was the first method of communication that could be infinitely changed, and moved around to interpret different abstract concepts?

Answer 4

Alphabetic writing

Question 5

Which is not an advantage of papyrus over stone?

Answer 5

Permanence

Question 6

Early newspapers were among the first forms of

Answer 6

Propaganda, Advertisement, Mass Media

Question 7

The printing press offered multiple orders of magnitude improvements in printing in all of the following except

Answer 7

Quality of content

Question 8

To connect 10 computers without a router you’d need how many cables? with a router?

Answer 8

45; 10

Question 9

How many bytes are in 48 megabits?

Answer 9

6000000

Question 10

Apple was founded on

Answer 10

April 1 1976

Question 11

Apple was originally called

Answer 11

Apple Computer Inc

Question 12

Who is the current CEO of Google?

Answer 12

Sundar Pichai

Question 13

In what decade was the electric television invented?

Answer 13

1920s

Question 14

What traffic does Netflix use at peak time?

Answer 14

1/3

Question 15

What 5 companies are actively working on artificial intelligence/machine learning?

Answer 15

Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Apple

Question 16

Who thinks that AI can pose a threat to humanity?

Answer 16

Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, Elon Musk

Question 17

Which sense do VR experts view as the most difficult to simulate?

Answer 17

Touch

Question 18

What is the core tech innovation of modern VR?

Answer 18

Positional Tracking

Question 19

Where did the term virtual reality first appear?

Answer 19

In a piece of threatre fiction

Question 20

When did the term ‘new media’ first come to use?

Answer 20

Early 1900s

Question 21

A medium is

Answer 21

The singular form of media; a thing that conveys other things; a means or channel of general communication

Question 22

What type of writing preceded alphabetic?

Answer 22

Logographic

Question 23

An integrated development environment is

Answer 23

An application that includes many necessary tools for software development, like editor and debugger

Question 24

Source code repository

Answer 24

A managed environment for storing the source code that comprises an application

Question 25

Standard library

Answer 25

Set of pre-made software that can be reused and reapplied

Question 26

SQL is a way to interact with

Answer 26

relational databases

Question 27

SQL stands for

Answer 27

Structured query language

Question 28

Client-side code

Answer 28

Runs on a user's computer

Question 29

Server-side code

Answer 29

Runs on a web server

Question 30

Router

Answer 30

Broadcasts connection wirelessly

Question 31

Modem

Answer 31

Decodes the signal from cable companies

Question 32

Domain Name System

Answer 32

An address book for websites

Question 33

IP

Answer 33

Internet protocol; a set of communication protocols that define how data should travel

Question 34

3 pillars of the web

Answer 34

URL, HTTP, HTML

Question 35

URL

Answer 35

address system that keeps track of web documents

Question 36

HTTP

Answer 36

A transport protocol to find documents when given their URLs

Question 37

HTML

Answer 37

a document format allowing for embedded hyperlinks

Question 38

Whole widget integrating menas

Answer 38

hardware and software

Question 39

The Original Macintosh

Answer 39

was first to be promoted by super bowl commercial; first mass market computer to use a GUI; first mass market computer to be mouse based

Question 40

According to Steve Jobs, 'Design is not just what it looks and feels like, it's...'

Answer 40

How it works

Question 41

where is apple HQ?

Answer 41

Cupertino CA

Question 42

Who was depicted in Apple's original logo?

Answer 42

Isaac Newton

Question 43

Not a radical new feature of iPhon

Answer 43

Copy and paste for text

Question 44

Who created Android

Answer 44

Andy Rubin

Question 45

When was Android acquired by Google?

Answer 45

2005

Question 46

Google's line of pure android phones

Answer 46

nexus

Question 47

Current smartphone operating systems

Answer 47

iOS and Android

Question 48

Largest manufacturer of Android phones

Answer 48

Samsung

Question 49

Obama's election data effort

Answer 49

Project Narwhal

Question 50

Google founders

Answer 50

Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Question 51

Apple founders

Answer 51

Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne

Question 52

Percentage of audio listening time spent listening to podcasts compared to radio

Answer 52

1/25 spent

Question 53

What % of US adults get news via social media?

Answer 53

60

Question 54

What percent of US hasn't heard of podcasting?

Answer 54

50

Question 55

Elon Musk is a founder or co founder of

Answer 55

SpaceX, PayPal, Tesla

Question 56

In 2014 how many transcations of Bitcoin did Overstock conduct?

Answer 56

1000000

Question 57

Which of the following did paul graham call essential for a startup?

Answer 57

rapid growht

Question 58

Agile development

Answer 58

Process through which startups create minimum viable products

Question 59

Value proposition

Answer 59

Features or elements that make a business or product uniquely attractive to consumers

Question 60

Ephemeral messaging

Answer 60

Goes away

Question 61

Texts are limited to

Answer 61

160 characters

Question 62

What % do people use twitter/instagram/FB every day?

Answer 62

40,60,70

Question 63

Dialogic transmission systems

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Transmit from many sources to many receivers

Question 64

Monologic Transmission systems

Answer 64

One source to many receivers

Question 65

7 building blocks of social media

Answer 65

identity, conversations, sharing, presence, relationships, reputation, and groups

Question 66

VCRs were first widely adopted in the

Answer 66

1970s

Question 67

AI research began in earnest in

Answer 67

1950s

Question 68

3 variations of virtual reality

Answer 68

Augmented; diminshed; mediated reality