The ever so slighty geeky quiz

The questions have been collated from various locations on the Internet.

If any of the answers are disputed and wikipedia doesn’t provide the answer,

the judges decision is final.

Round 1

The warm up round… a few not so serious questions to get into the swing of the quiz type thing.

They are not necessarily about IT, but all have a slight geek factor.

R1.Q1

What's the first universal question of telephone help desk support?

a. Is the power cable plugged in? b. Have you tried turning it on and off again?c. Has it burst into flames?d. All of the above

R1.Q2

What celebrity on this list co-founded

a still functioning Internet business?

a. William Shatner

b. Al Gore

c. Alyssa Milano

d. All of the above

R1.Q3

The suit-clad supervisor’s math question. If you have 10 IT staff doing an adequate

job and you subtract 8 IT staff, you get:

a. Two IT staffers suffering, but who cares about that? b. Three IT staffers … wait, what was the question?c. Better support service due to more privacy and desk

space in the IT department's officesd. A salary bonus due to cost-saving genius

R1.Q4

What exactly is a deflector shield?

a. An energy shield that surrounds space-going vessels to protect them from physical damage

b. Ceramic tiles used to shield the space shuttle from the heat of re-entry

c. The language and mannerisms used by most male computer professionals to keep females at bay

d. A charged plasma field under development that will protect space travelers from space-going health risks

R1.Q5

Which of these are satellites?

a. Sputnik I

b. The moon

c. Ganymede

d. All of the above

R1.Q6

For what is Guglielmo Marconi

best known?

a. the invention of the steam engine

b. the development of the incandescent lamp

c. the invention of the polygraph test

d. the development of wireless telegraphy

R1.Q7

A TI-83 is:

a. An old worthless computer

b. A scientific calculator

c. An Intel processor

d. A slide rule model

R1.Q8

After a gigabyte comes ...

a. terabyte

b. megabyte

c. byte

d. kilobyte

R1.Q9

What classic screen actress co-invented

spread-spectrum wireless technology?

a. Hedy Lamarr

b. Mata Hari

c. Greta Garbo

d. Ingrid Bergman

R1.Q10

What does the "Q" in QBasic stand for?

a. quote

b. quick

c. quite

d. quit

Round 2

How well do you know your music?

You listen to MP3’s, you listen to CDs, but

how much do you really know about them?

R2.Q1

What does MP3 mean?

a. Media Player 3

b. Nothing in particular, just MP3

c. Microsoft Player 3

d. MPEG Audio Layer 3

R2.Q2

My MP3 player runs on rechargeable batteries, as do most. Which of these is

NOT a rechargeable battery?

a. Nickel-Cadmiumb. Nickel Metal Hydridec. Lithium Iond. Alkaline

R2.Q3

My MP3 player uses memory chips to store its music. What is this kind of

memory called?

a. speedy memoryb. flash memoryc. write-only memoryd. bubble memory

R2.Q4

MP3 files can be made with higher or

lower "bitrates". Files with higher bitrates

can be compressed more than those with

lower bitrates.

• True

• False

R2.Q5

Approximately how much data can be

stored on a CD?

a. 1.5 gigabytes

b. 6 gigabytes

c. 0.5 gigabytes

d. 0.75 gigabytes

R2.Q6

How thick is a CD?

a. 2.56 cm

b. 1.2 mm

c. 0.5 microns

d. 3.14159 furlongs

R2.Q7

How fast does a CD spin

when being read?

a. 78 rpm

b. 1200 - 3000 rpm

c. 200 - 500 rpm

d. 40 - 100 rpm

R2.Q8

In what 'direction' is data

stored on a CD?

a. first out to in, then in to out

b. outside to inside

c. inside to outside

d. random access

R2.Q9

The song is called White & Nerdy, but

can you name the artist?

Round 3

General IT knowledge….

Okay, some questions in this round might be

a tad harder than the last couple of rounds, but it’s

all stuff we should know, whether or not we do

know it is a different matter entirely.

R3.Q1

How many sockets/ports does the

TCP/IP protocol support in total?

a. 64,256

b. 65,764

c. 68,512

d. 65,536

R3.Q2

Why do so many Linux geeks prefer to operate the system in console mode?

a. It's faster -- people who get little sex have faster fingers

b. It's faster -- it's where we learned so we know how to get everything done

c. It's more impressive to the opposite sexd. It's more impressive to managers, thus

providing job security

R3.Q3

Why has Linux still not become a dominant factor on the business desktop?

a. Because the real power on the corporate desktop is Microsoft Office

b. It costs too muchc. Penguins frighten administrative assistantsd. Because Microsoft is holding 235 open source

patent violations and we're all desperately scared

R3.Q4

How do you combat process starvation?

a. Hot dogs and beer; you can combat anything with hot dogs and beer

b. Define a process request delimiter within the sub-process \\root/bin/BS

c. Add an aging factor to the priority of each process request in the scheduling system

d. Food stamps

R3.Q5

How many standard RAID

levels are there?

a. 4

b. 5

c. 7

d. Only a digital Sherpa knows the answer

R3.Q6

Server side Java servlets have done a lot for web server and application server functionality. However, which of the following processing methods are they NOT designed to replace?

a. Active Server Pagesb. CGI scriptsc. Various C/C++ proprietary plug-insd. Cookies

R3.Q7

What does DOS stand for?

R3.Q8

What does HTML stand for?

R3.Q9

What key do you press 5 times to turn

StickyKeys on or off?

a. Shift

b. K

c. S

d. Caps Lock

R3.Q10

In 1988 one of the most common viruses was unleashed. Activated every Friday the 13th, the virus affects both .EXE and .COM files and deletes any programs run on that day. What is the name of that virus?

a. Chernobylb. I Love Youc. Melissad. Jerusalem

R3.Q11

What is the term that describes a situation

where a difference of opinion in an internet

community starts to turn ugly and becomes an

unruly exchange of barbs, insults, and

sometimes even threats?

R3.Q12

Which of these mythical creatures likesto show up and wreak havoc on internet

forums and newsgroups?

a. Dwarvesb. Elvesc. Trollsd. Gnomes

Round 4

How well do you know your job?

Some role specific questions, this is where

having a mixture of skills in your team will

come in handy.

R4.Q1

What should be done by the project manager to ensure that all work in the

project is included?       

a. Create a contingency planb. Create a risk management planc. Create a WBS d. Create a scope statement

R4.Q2

What should a project manager do orfollow to ensure clear boundaries for

project completion?       

a. Scope verificationb. Completing a scope statementc. Risk management pland. Scope definition

R4.Q3

The two levels of design for

software architecture are:

a. coding design and architectural design

b. data design and architectural design

c. pattern design and data design

d. architectural design and XP design

R4.Q4

If a software engineer wants to check the complexity of an architecture, he may

use______________.

a. dependenciesb. architecture testingc. couplingd. beta testing

R4.Q5

In networking, what does ATM stand for?

a. Automatic Transferral of Multiplex

b. Asynchronous Transfer Mode

c. Aggregated Topograpghy Method

d. Automatic Teller Machine

R4.Q6

Which is USUALLY the largest:

a. MAN,

b. LAN

c. or WAN?

R4.Q7

Which of the following IP addresses

would not be found on the Internet?

a. 192.168.3.4

b. 38.176.55.44

c. 190.5.7.126

d. 131.107.5.65

R4.Q8

Given the IP address 38.176.229.5 and the subnet mask of 255.0.0.0, what is the

address class?

a. Class Db. Class Bc. Class Ad. Class C

R4.Q9

What is another, less formal name for Build Verification Testing?

a. White box testingb. Smoke testingc. Black box testingd. Performance testinge. Build Tests

R4.Q10

What sort of testing looks at

the structure of the code?

a. Black Box Testing

b. White Box Testing

c. System Testing

d. Data Flow Testing