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Quiz about Jumbles Computer Troubles
Quiz about Jumbles Computer Troubles

Jumble's Computer Troubles Trivia Quiz


Meet my good friend, Jumble: ever the computer pro, he is a bit absent-minded and has a tendency to get things all mixed up! See if you can help him get his PC back in tip-top shape by decoding the anagrammed computer terms.

A multiple-choice quiz by darthrevan89. Estimated time: 7 mins.
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Author
darthrevan89
Time
7 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
296,164
Updated
Jul 16 22
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
8 / 10
Plays
1370
Awards
Top 20% Quiz
Question 1 of 10
1. Instructions: The words that form the anagram are capitalized (excludes the word "I"), and a definition of the word you are looking for is inside the question.

"Can you believe it -- the other DAY someone BROKE my ___ !" bemoans Jumble. "Now how am I going to type all those e-mails and letters without this particular input device?

Answer: (One Word)
Question 2 of 10
2. Jumble has just come back from the store, all ready to install his exciting new computer game! Only to realize, too late, that his computer doesn't meet the system requirements. "It seems MY computer needs MORE ___ -- the random-access kind, not read-only. Another 256-megabyte stick should do," Jumble decides.

Answer: (One Word)
Question 3 of 10
3. "Hmm," Jumble pondered, "I need to find information about TEN INERT elements. I think I'll access the World Wide Web to do some research."

Answer: (One Word)
Question 4 of 10
4. Due TO some not-so-MINOR problems with his cathode ray tube device, Jumble decides to spring for a new display. "I'll just head down to the local electronics store and look at a liquid crystal display device," Jumble says. "It will take up much less desk space than the rather bulky and heavy one I have now."

Answer: (One Word)
Question 5 of 10
5. One day Audio, a friend of Jumble's, came by to play his favorite compact disc for Jumble. After putting it in the disc drive, and telling the media program to "play," they hear no music! As they PEER at the two sound devices, Jumble ASKS himself, "Did I forget to turn the volume up?"

Answer: (One Word, plural)
Question 6 of 10
6. Eco-conscious Jumble always makes sure to have his monitor turn itself off after an hour or so to conserve power, but before it turns off, he does like to watch the ___ come on for a bit! It's quite mesmerizing as it animates across the screen, preventing burn-in. Jumble's favorite pattern is called "SEER'S CAVERN."

Answer: (One or Two Words, ignore punctuation)
Question 7 of 10
7. Always the skeptic, Jumble has kept his distance from the latest Microsoft Windows releases and stuck with his favorite, if mildly outdated, version. "Perhaps someday I will OPT to try a newer version. YET all the SAME," Jumble GRINS, "you won't catch me in any hurry to get Vista."

Answer: (Two Words, first letters "O" and "S")
Question 8 of 10
8. "I think I'll run defrag on my storage drives today. It might take a few hours, but it should help improve the speed and performance of my computer -- things have been a little sluggish of late. Although," ADDS Jumble, "had I not been SHIRKing my duties and done this long ago, the defragmentation process on these devices would undoubtedly be much quicker."

Answer: (Two Words, plural)
Question 9 of 10
9. "Oh, how I DO ABHOR the TERM 'fried' in relation to my electronics!" Jumble cries. "Which seems to describe this virtually melted piece of hardware right now: the heart of my computer containing the central processing unit, among other key elements. Ah, well, off to search my vast array of spare hardware for another."

Answer: (One Word, 11 letters, ignore "I")
Question 10 of 10
10. Jumble has returned from a weekend trip to the mountains with a digital camera full of snapshots! He gets out his handy plug-and-play card reader, plugs it into one of the sockets on the front of his computer (without having to reboot the computer), and gets the pictures off the camera's card. "I could just take the card to the store, BUT," Jumble says, "I'll do it like the PROS instead."

Answer: (Two Words, first word is 3-letter acronym)

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1. Instructions: The words that form the anagram are capitalized (excludes the word "I"), and a definition of the word you are looking for is inside the question. "Can you believe it -- the other DAY someone BROKE my ___ !" bemoans Jumble. "Now how am I going to type all those e-mails and letters without this particular input device?

Answer: Keyboard

The most common layout for an English language computer keyboard is called QWERTY, named after the first six letters on the upper row of letter keys. This layout was designed by Christopher Sholes, who invented the first practical typewriter in the mid-19th century. An alternative to the QWERTY keyboard is Dvorak, designed by and named for Dr. August Dvorak.

The Dvorak keyboard was created to be a more efficient configuration than the QWERTY.
2. Jumble has just come back from the store, all ready to install his exciting new computer game! Only to realize, too late, that his computer doesn't meet the system requirements. "It seems MY computer needs MORE ___ -- the random-access kind, not read-only. Another 256-megabyte stick should do," Jumble decides.

Answer: Memory

Random-access memory, better known by the acronym RAM, is a kind of data storage that allows information to be accessed quickly in any order. Another type of memory is ROM, or read-only memory. One form of ROM is the compact disc, "read-only" in that the information stored on it (usually) cannot be altered.
3. "Hmm," Jumble pondered, "I need to find information about TEN INERT elements. I think I'll access the World Wide Web to do some research."

Answer: Internet

The Internet is, as its name implies, a series of interconnected networks that allows for many forms of information exchange and communication, one of which being the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web is a system of hypertext documents accessible through the Internet containing text, images, etc. Oh, and you might want to inform Jumble that there are only six naturally occuring inert elements...
4. Due TO some not-so-MINOR problems with his cathode ray tube device, Jumble decides to spring for a new display. "I'll just head down to the local electronics store and look at a liquid crystal display device," Jumble says. "It will take up much less desk space than the rather bulky and heavy one I have now."

Answer: Monitor

CRT (cathode ray tube) monitors are much less popular nowadays than the LCD (liquid crystal display) units. The CRT contains an electron gun and a fluorescent screen; the electron beam is accelerated and deflected to form images on the screen. LCD monitors display images by an array of pixels in front of a light source or reflector.

They are flat-panel, and much more space-efficient. Though there are some drawbacks, LCDs are usually considered superior to CRTs.
5. One day Audio, a friend of Jumble's, came by to play his favorite compact disc for Jumble. After putting it in the disc drive, and telling the media program to "play," they hear no music! As they PEER at the two sound devices, Jumble ASKS himself, "Did I forget to turn the volume up?"

Answer: Speakers

Some computers, such as laptops, come with built-in speakers. Usually, though, a computer has to have these external devices to produce sound. But - no dice unless the volume is turned up, Jumble!
6. Eco-conscious Jumble always makes sure to have his monitor turn itself off after an hour or so to conserve power, but before it turns off, he does like to watch the ___ come on for a bit! It's quite mesmerizing as it animates across the screen, preventing burn-in. Jumble's favorite pattern is called "SEER'S CAVERN."

Answer: Screensaver

The screensaver program was initially designed to prevent phosphor burn-in. Once Jumble gets his LCD monitor, though, he won't have to worry about this problem; burn-in is a problem with CRT monitors (especially older ones) when non-moving text or images appear on the screen for too long. One function of modern screensavers is simply to be entertaining!
7. Always the skeptic, Jumble has kept his distance from the latest Microsoft Windows releases and stuck with his favorite, if mildly outdated, version. "Perhaps someday I will OPT to try a newer version. YET all the SAME," Jumble GRINS, "you won't catch me in any hurry to get Vista."

Answer: Operating System

An OS (operating system) is a necessary piece of software that manages and coordinates between the hardware, applications, and the user. Microsoft Windows is a commonly used OS. Windows Vista, designed as successor to Windows XP (XP for e"XP"erience), has not received an overly warm reception. Windows XP is generally the the preferred system.
8. "I think I'll run defrag on my storage drives today. It might take a few hours, but it should help improve the speed and performance of my computer -- things have been a little sluggish of late. Although," ADDS Jumble, "had I not been SHIRKing my duties and done this long ago, the defragmentation process on these devices would undoubtedly be much quicker."

Answer: Hard Disks

Hard disk drives are usually internal storage devices, though there are external hard drives as well. The storage capacity for hard drives today has greatly increased from that of their predecessors. Older hard drives usually stored no more than 5 or 10 megabytes, whereas today they are made in the giga- and tera- byte range. One gigabyte is 1000 megabytes, and a terabyte is 1000 gigabytes.
9. "Oh, how I DO ABHOR the TERM 'fried' in relation to my electronics!" Jumble cries. "Which seems to describe this virtually melted piece of hardware right now: the heart of my computer containing the central processing unit, among other key elements. Ah, well, off to search my vast array of spare hardware for another."

Answer: Motherboard

A motherboard, or mainboard, is the primary circuit board of the computer. The motherboard contains slots and sockets for the CPU (central processing unit), graphics and sound cards, and RAM.
10. Jumble has returned from a weekend trip to the mountains with a digital camera full of snapshots! He gets out his handy plug-and-play card reader, plugs it into one of the sockets on the front of his computer (without having to reboot the computer), and gets the pictures off the camera's card. "I could just take the card to the store, BUT," Jumble says, "I'll do it like the PROS instead."

Answer: USB Port

USB (Universal Serial Bus) is a convenient way to interface devices with a computer. The USB ports are often used to connect devices such as a keyboard, mouse, printer, scanner, and other such input devices. USB aids in "plug and play" and "hot swapping" - connecting and disconnecting devices without having to reboot the computer.
Source: Author darthrevan89

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