Vocabulary

Question 1

What are the primary colors?

Answer 1

Red, yellow and blue

Question 2

What are the secondary colors?

Answer 2

Green, purple and orange

Question 3

What does RAM stand for in a computer?

Answer 3

Random-access memory

Question 4

What does CPU stand for in a computer?

Answer 4

Central processing unit

Question 5

Name two examples of Internet browsers.

Answer 5

Safari, google chrome, maxthon, internet explorer

Question 6

What is a byte?

Answer 6

A unit of information in computers. It usually represents a letter or number.

Question 7

What is a megabyte (MB)?

Answer 7

1,048,576 bytes or 1,024 kilobytes

873 pages of plain text

Question 8

What is a gigabyte?

Answer 8

1024 megabytes.
341 digital pictures (3MB average file size)
256 MP3 audio files (with 4MB average file size)

Question 9

What is a terabyte?

Answer 9

1,024 gigabytes or 1,048,576 megabytes.
349,525 digital pictures (with 3MB average size)
262,144 MP3 (audio files)

Question 10

What is a petabyte?

Answer 10

1,024 terabytes

1,048,576 gigabytes

Question 11

What is a homophone?

Answer 11

Two words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have two different meanings. (E.g. Wine, whine)

Question 12

What is the word for two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: ‘sh’ in ‘shoe’)

Answer 12

Digraph or diagraph

Question 13

What is the word for two words that sound the same but spelled differently and have different meanings?

Answer 13

Homophone

Question 14

Anagram - (laverm) means to look at a wonderful thing

Answer 14

Marvel

Question 15

What is the word to describe a young horse under the age of four?

Answer 15

Colt

Question 16

What is the word for arranging words to tell what you know. It’s a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words.

Answer 16

Acrostic

Question 17

Chuck a weapon called this, used by Aboriginies; a good throw can send one 550 feet before it begins its return to sender

Answer 17

Boomerang

Question 18

Geometry: From the Latin for “agreeing”, it means identical in shape and size

Answer 18

Congruent

Question 19

Geometry: A pentadecagon is a polygon with this many sides

Answer 19

15

Question 20

Math: With a name meaning “many angles”, these shapes may or may not be convex

Answer 20

Polygon

Question 21

13-Letter Words: A polygon with 4 sides

Answer 21

Quadrilateral

Question 22

Unsolved Mysteries: This polygon off Florida supposedly sucks up planes and ships without a trace; don’t forget your shorts!

Answer 22

Bermuda Triangle

Question 23

Triple Homophones: a coin, an aroma, and mailed

Answer 23

Cent, scent, sent

Question 24

Triple Homophone: to calculate relative mass, a specific road and a part of milk

Answer 24

Weigh/way/whey

Question 25

Homophones: got up, or lines of seats

Answer 25

Rose/rows

Question 26

Homophones: To lower something, or to coordinate a movie’s sound and picture

Answer 26

Sink/sync

Question 27

Homophone: Discover, or charged a penalty

Answer 27

Find/fined