, X-NEWS: spcvxb alt.folklore.computers: 19716K Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-3 14/03/90 VAX/VMS V5.4; site spcvxb.spc.edu \ Path: spcvxb.spc.edu!rutgers!noao!asuvax!ukma!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!T  zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!wupost!uunet!sun-barr!newstop!eastapps!pyrite!sgolson" Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers) Subject: Questions from Computer Bowl III ) Message-ID: <11071@eastapps.East.Sun.COM> 0 From: sgolson@pyrite.East.Sun.COM (Steve Golson) Date: 20 Feb 92 19:37:16 GMT- Reply-To: sgolson@east.sun.com (Steve Golson)  Sender: news@East.Sun.COM , Organization: Trilobyte Systems, Carlisle MA
 Lines: 471  M The third Computer Bowl sponsored by The Computer Museum was held in San Jose K at the San Jose Convention Center on April 26, 1991. The questions used are 
 listed below.   K [Keep in mind these questions were posed in early 1991! Some of the answers  may be out of date.]  M -----------------------------------------------------------------------------    	ROUND ONE QUESTIONS  M 1. The last two letters in the names of many early computers were "AC", as in 5 ILLIAC or ENIAC. What did the letters "AC" stand for?   1 2. How many data bits are there in the S-100 bus?   B 3. A computer language is named after a famous 17th century French0 mathematician. What was his first or given name?  L 4. Almost 10 years ago, in October 1981, Steve Jobs appeared on the cover ofM "Inc. Magazine". In that photo, was Jobs wearing a tee shirt, a bathing suit,  or a shirt and jacket?  L 5. In the 1959 movie "Desk Set", Katherine Hepburn and her staff are worriedK they might be replaced by a computer being installed by Spencer Tracy. What I was the name of that computer? Was it EMORAC, Calla Lilly One, or UNIVAC?   N 6. In the 1950s a computer company was the sponsor of a TV quiz show. Was that8 computer company IBM, RCA, Burroughs, or Remington Rand?  M 7. The quiz show was a well-known TV program at the time. Was it called "I've 5 Got A Secret", "What's My Line", or "Beat The Clock"?   M 8. In the mid 1970s, one of the first real personal computers was introduced. D The computer was named after a destination visited by the space shipM Enterprise on the program "Star Trek". What was the name of that destination, @ and that computer? Was it IMSAI, SOL, Altair 8800, or Apple Two?  I 9. Who was the recipient of the first Turing Award? Was it John McCarthy, / Donald Knuth, Edgstra Dijkstra, or Alan Perlis?   * 10. What does the term "BITNET" stand for?  K 11. Punch cards were initially developed in 1801 by a textile mill owner to M automate the patterns woven into cloth by his textile loom. What was the name 7 of the individual who first developed this application?   F 12. There are mainly two layouts for a computer keyboard -- the QWERTYK keyboard and the Dvorak keyboard. However, several of the letters appear in N the same position on both keyboards. How many of the alphabetic keys appear in? the same place on both layouts? Is it two, four, six, or eight?   G 13. Can you tell me which are the two letters that are the same on both 
 keyboards?  K 14. The mouse has become a standard computer input device. Who invented the  mouse?  M -----------------------------------------------------------------------------    	ROUND TWO QUESTIONS  N 1. Who composed the Chinese room problem in an attempt to prove that computers can't think?  N 2. Some computer scientists are a bit odd -- one famous computer pioneer had aC hatred for street musicians. Was this Pascal, Leibnitz, or Babbage?   M 3. "High Sierra" is the name of a CD-ROM standard. What is the origin of that N name? Was it named after the chief designer's dog, a communications code word, or a hotel?   9 4. What was the first machine with an Ethernet interface?   I 5. There is a computer company whos name is AST Research. The name of the K company came from the first initials of each of its three founders. Can you  give me their names?  K 6. It's almost a cliche that many Silicon Valley companies started out in a J garage. Of the following companies, which one did not start in a garage --* Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Televideo, or Sun?  M 7. One company that did start in a garage was Hewlett-Packard. The garage was N on a street in Palo Alto. The two men were Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. What was the name of the street?   J 8. Digital Research Incorporated is often referred to as DRI. But in fact,K when it was first formed it was called IDR. What did the letters stand for?   L 9. Which of the following was named after a person -- heap sort, quick sort, shell sort, or bubble sort?   & 10. What do the letters BCD stand for?  M 11. Before Seymour Cray cofounded Control Data, he was a computer engineer at / what company -- Sperry Rand, IBM, or Honeywell?   = 12. What was the first encyclopedia to appear in CD-ROM form?   L 13. Three computer companies have the word "Packard" in their names. Can you name those three companies?   F 14. Ada Lovelace is often referred to as the first programmer. But herJ father's occupation had nothing to do with computers or math. What did Ada" Lovelace's father do for a living?  N 15. A book entitled "Who Got Einstein's Office?" is about an institution whereC a lot of early computer research was done. What is the institution?   M 16. What book containing a bird's name is about illegal break-ins on computer 	 networks?   F 17. The Book of the Month Club recently offered a new novel based on aK computer theme. What was the name of the book -- was it "Goodbye Mr. Mips", : "The Open Window Version 3.0", or "The Difference Engine"?  M 18. Kurt Vonnegut once wrote a short story about a computer that wrote poetry L and then eventually committed suicide. What was the name of that computer --( was it called EPICAC, MYCIN, or Dresden?  M -----------------------------------------------------------------------------    	ROUND THREE QUESTIONS  K 1. [holding up comptometer] This is a comptometer from The Computer Museum. K The question is -- who developed the adding system for this machine? Was it  Pascal, Leibniz, or Babbage?  K 2. The bit is a very common and important computer term. Who first used the < word bit? Was it John Tukey, Donald Knuth, or John McCarthy?  I 3. LOGO has been a popular educational language for children. Who created  LOGO?   M 4. Atari is the name of a personal computer company, but it is also a word in , the Japanese language. What does Atari mean?  K 5. Among the early machines in the history on computers were the ENIAC, the J ILLIAC, and the MANIAC. MANIAC was an acronym for mechanical and numericalK integrator and computer. The question is -- where was the MANIAC built? Los ' Alamos, Livermore, or Cambridge, Mass.?   K 6. The word Sun in the company name Sun Microsystems is an acronym. What do  the letters SUN stand for?  K 7. For years, BASIC was one of the most commonly used programming languages I for personal computers. The word BASIC is an acronym. What do the letters 
 stand for?  H 8. PLATO is the name of an educational software environment. PLATO is an  acronym. What does it stand for?  I 9. In August 1981, nearly 10 years ago, a major new personal computer was " introduced. What was the computer?  F 10. If you wanted to square all the integers from 1 to 10,000 -- whichL computer would you pick to get the job done most quickly? The TRS-80 Model I
 or the ENIAC?   N 11. While today we talk about the 80386 and the 80486 Intel processors, one ofJ the earliest Intel chips was the lowly 4004. What was the first commercialM application of the 4004? Was it used in an early personal computer, a factory D process controller, a Japanese calculator, or a frequency modulator?  M 12. What do you call a local area network method that routes messages through ( each workstation on the network in turn?  J 13. 3COM is a well-known name in the local area network field. The companyL name is short form three separate words, each of which begin with the prefix" "COM". What are those three words?  I 14. The database program DBASE IV is an upgrade of DBASE III, which is an F upgrade of DBASE II. For what operating system was DBASE II originally written?  N 15. Deep Thought is now considered to be one of the world's best chess-playingG computers. But way back in 1967, a computer, for the first time, beat axJ serious chess player during a state chess tournament in Massachusetts. TheN computer's designer was Richard Greenblatt. What was the name of the computer?5 Was it BORIS, Matemaster, Mac Hack IV, or EN PASSANT?w  K 16. In 1679 a famous mathematician perfected the binary system of notation.u Who was that mathematician?0  I 17. Arcade-style video games are often thought of as male oriented. Yet a N woman named Dona Bailey designed one of the most successful video games. Which2 game was it -- Centipede, Tempest, or Ms. Pac-Man?  I 18. According to an article in IEEE Spectrum magazine, what was the first9? video game to become popular with women players as well as men?   L 19. Computer Space, Pong, Spacewar, and Space Race are all names of computerN video games. Which of these, in 1970, became the first commercial video arcade game?U  L 20. A byte is usually defined as eight bits. What is the term for four bits?  D 21. The haloid process describes a process in which of the followingE activities: manufacturing ICs, soldering components, or photocopying?e  L 22. What color is the stripe painted on the raised floor of the machine room in the AI Lab at MIT??  L 23. While working at Xerox, Gary Starkweather is credited with inventing the@ laser printer. When did that happen? Was it 1969, 1973, or 1977?  H 24. I'll give you two names. You tell me in what field they do research: Berliner and Schank.  M -----------------------------------------------------------------------------n   	ROUND FOUR QUESTIONS   M 1. One piece of technology that has never quite made it is the picture phone.9N When and where was the picture phone first displayed? Was it the 1939 New YorkI World's Fair, the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, or the 1964 New York World's- Fair?V  N 2. Which of the following machines is not a binary machine? Atanasoff Machine,# Bell Labs One, UNIVAC, or CDC 1604?0  ; 3. How many jobs can an IBM S/360 computer execute at once?h  J 4. John von Neumann is a well-known pioneer in the computer field. In whatF area did he get his first college degree? Was it chemical engineering,2 electrical engineering, or mechanical engineering?  K 5. What do the following three things have in common? BORIS, SHRDLU, MYCIN?c  I 6. Roger Penrose wrote a book about artificial intelligence. What was itsh title?  N 7. There are several expert systems which have been developed for a variety ofD application areas. I'll name the expert system, you name the author.   	a. Hearsays	 	b. MYCIN  	c. Dendrald  I 8. What was the name of the first artificial intelligence program? Was its5 called The Logical Theorist, Logician, or QWERTYUIOP?e  K 9. When the original Macintosh computer first came out, how much RAM did it  have?   D 10. Where is the Charles Babbage Institute located? Is it in London,  Washington D.C., or Minneapolis?  M 11. Here are three words -- MILLIAC, DILLIAC, and SILLIAC. One of those wordsn& was the name of a computer. Which one?  M 12. The computer magazine "ANTIC" is devoted to coverage of computers made by- what manufacturer?  J 13. There is a famous vignette in which a well-known computer pioneer saysN "Let me show you a nanosecond" and the person holds up a short length of wire. Who is that computer pioneer?i  J 14. In 1936, a paper that was perhaps the most important in the history ofN computer science was published. It was titled "On Computable Numbers". Who was the author?M  N 15. The names of the people who worked on the development of a famous personalF computer were etched on the inside of its case. What was the computer?  N 16. If you were using Lotus 1-2-3 and you wanted to center a label, what labelJ prefix would you use? Would it be -- a caret, a quote, an apostrophe, or a back slash?   K 17. If you were using WordPerfect and the letters "POS" are blinking on them  screen, what does that tell you?  6 18. What are the three operating modes of Windows 3.0?  L 19. We all know the term DOS, short for disk operating system. But there wasJ also an operating system called SOS. What did the letters "SOS" stand for?  ' 20. On what microcomputer was SOS used?e  I 21. If I were configuring a peripheral and I entered the following input:t? "1200 N 8 1" -- what kind of peripheral would I be configuring?,  L 22. On an external modem there are usually several LED indicators to provideH you with feedback on what the modem is doing. Can you tell me what these! indicators stand for: CD, OH, AA?   N 23. Computer pioneer Charles Babbage was interested in many different kinds ofI inventions. According to the book "Digital Deli", Babbage tried to invent K which one of the following gadgets: a portable steam engine, a cotton candym' machine, or shoes for walking on water?h  M -----------------------------------------------------------------------------  Answers are next!e rM -----------------------------------------------------------------------------i   	ANSWERS TO ROUND ONEt   1. Automatic Computere   2. Eight  % 3. Blaise -- his last name was Pascaln   4. Shirt and jacketu  	 5. EMORACi   6. Remington Randr   7. What's My Linew   8. Altair 8800   9. Alan Perlis, 1966   10. Because It's Time Networke   11. Joseph Marie Jacquardn   12. Two    13. A and M7   14. Doug Engelbart  M -----------------------------------------------------------------------------    	ANSWERS TO ROUND TWOo   1. John Searle  
 2. Babbage  3 3. Hotel -- Del Webb's High Sierra Hotel and Casinot   4. The Altow  ' 5. Albert Wong, Safi Qureshey, Tom Yueno   6. Sun   7. Addison Street   ! 8. Intergalactic Digital Researcho  
 9. Shell sort-   10. Binary coded decimal   11. Sperry Rand-  
 12. Grolier's-  3 13. Hewlett-Packard, Packard-Bell, Ferranti-Packard-   14. He was a poet -- Lord Byron[  - 15. Institute for Advanced Study in Princetonm   16. "The Cuckoo's Egg"   17. "The Difference Engine"t  
 18. EPICAC  M -----------------------------------------------------------------------------y   	ANSWERS TO ROUND THREEt  	 1. Pascalf  
 2. John Tukeyo   3. Seymour Papertu  1 4. It means warning or check, from the game of Goe  
 5. Los Alamosa   6. Stanford University Network  3 7. Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Codec  5 8. Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operationsl  	 9. IBM PC   1 10. TRS-80 Mode I in 0.66 seconds vs 6.00 secondse   11. Japanese calculatort   12. Ring network  , 13. Communications, computers, compatibility   14. CP/M   15. Mac Hack IVt   16. Gottfried Willhelm Leibnitz    17. Centipede, for Atari   18. Pac-Mani   19. Computer Space   20. A nibble   21. Photocopying  
 22. Yellow   23. 1969   24. Artificial intelligence   M -----------------------------------------------------------------------------r   	ANSWERS TO ROUND FOUR   1. 1964 New York World's FairC  	 2. UNIVACm   3. One   4. Chemical engineering    5. They are all AI programsa   6. "The Emperor's New Mind"A   7. Hearsay -- Raj Reddys    MYCIN   -- Edward Shortlife    DENDRAL -- Edward Feigenbaum    8. Logical Theorista   9. 128kc   10. Minneapolism   11. SILLIACf  	 12. Atario   13. Grace Murray Hoppero   14. Alan Turingi  
 15. Macintoshd  	 16. Caretg   17. Num lock is on  . 18. Standard, Real, Enhanced (or 386 Enhanced)  " 19. Sophisticated Operating System   20. Apple II  ; 21. A modem -- 1200 bps, no parity, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit0  ) 22. Carrier detect, off hook, auto answer    23. Shoes for walking on water  M ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 