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1. AVG
2. Panda
3. Symantec
4. Xargon


 
Correct! Xargon is not an anti-virus company or a name of a product from an anti-virus
company. However, each of the other companies is associated with anti-virus software. A
listing of anti-virus companies can also be found on document CH000514.

Of the 37,482 people who have answered this quiz question 18,469 have answered it
correctly and 19,013 have answered it incorrectly. Based off these results this question has
been given a difficulty level of hard.



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1. Bill Gates
2. Douglas Englebart
3. John Mauchly
4. Robert Noyce

Correct! The mouse or mice was invented by Douglas Englebart in 1963, who at the time was
working at the Stanford Research Institute, which was a think tank sponsored by Stanford
University.

Of the 42,650 people who have answered this quiz question 16,777 have answered it correctly
and 25,873 have answered it incorrectly. Based off these results this question has been given a
difficulty level of hard.




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1. DOS
2. HTML
3. Java
4. PHP



 

Correct! DOS or MS-DOS is a command line interpreter and has no direct relation to the
Internet or web development.

Of the 32,848 people who have answered this quiz question 20,238 have answered it
correctly and 12,610 have answered it incorrectly. Based off these results this question has
been given a difficulty level of medium.

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1. Bill Gates
2. Jerry Yang
3. Gordon E. Moore
4. Sergey Brin

Correct! With Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore was one of the founders of the Intel
corporation and is also widely known for Moore's law.

Of the 43,657 people who have answered this quiz question 19,503 have answered it
correctly and 24,154 have answered it incorrectly. Based off these results this question has
been given a difficulty level of hard.




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1. Windows 99
2. Windows 2000
3. Windows ME
4. Windows XP

Correct! Windows 98 was released in June of 1998, a few years later Microsoft Windows 2000
was released in February 2000. Although this was the answer to this months quiz there were
other versions of Windows released after Windows 98 including: Windows 98 SE, Windows CE
2.1 and 3.0. See our Windows history page for a history timeline of Microsoft Windows.

Of the 53,004 people who have answered this quiz question 22,672 have answered it correctly
and 30,332 have answered it incorrectly. Based off these results this question has been given a
difficulty level of hard.



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1. iPod Mini
2. iPod Nano
3. iPod Shuffle
4. iPod Vision

Correct! iPod Vision is not a name of an iPod that Apple has released. The iPod Mini, iPod
Nano, and iPod Shuffle however are all different versions of Apple iPods.

Of the 32,687 people who have answered this quiz question 15,862 have answered it correctly
and 16,825 have answered it incorrectly. Based off these results this question has been given a
difficulty level of hard.
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1. Bill Gates
2. Bill Jobs
3. Steve Palmer
4. Steve Wozniak

Correct! Steve Wozniak is responsible for developing the Apple I. With the help of Steve Jobs,
Wozniak helped form the Apple computer company we know today.

Of the 53,725 people who have answered this quiz question 22,666 have answered it correctly
and 31,059 have answered it incorrectly. Based off these results this question has been given a
difficulty level of hard.

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1. JPEG
2. GIF
3. TMP
4. BMP

Each of the listed file types are valid file extensions; however, the file extension TMP is not an
image file. TMP, or temp files, are temporary Windows files used to store temporary data or be
used as a backup for files that are being used.

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1. Google
2. Zeal
3. Amazon
4. Hotbot

The correct answer for this month's quiz is number three. Although Amazon is a real site, it is
not a search engine.

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2. 2
3. 4
4. 8

The correct answer for this month's quiz is number four. There are eight bits in a byte.

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1. Dell
2. Microsoft
3. Conner
4. Seagate

The correct answer for this month's quiz is number four. Although Conner has manufactured
hard disk drives in the past from the above list, Seagate is the only company still manufacturing
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1. Firewall
2. VLAN
3. Good Password
4. Updated software

The correct answer for this month's quiz is a VLAN. A firewall, good password and updated
software are all good steps in keeping your computers secure.

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1. Lisp
2. See
3. Java
4. Perl

The correct answer for this month's quiz is number two. Not to be confused with C, see is not a
programming language. See Lisp, Java, and Perl for additional information about each of these
programming languages.

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1. Core
2. Switch
3. Hub
4. Router
The correct answer for this month's quiz is number 1. Core is not a network device. Find the
definition for any of the above terms by clicking on any of the following links: Core, Hub,
Router or Switch.



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1. On the hard drive

2. On a diskette
3. On a USB drive
4. On a flash memory chip

orrect! The Basic Input/Output System or BIOS is stored on a flash memory chip found on the
computer motherboard.

Of the 16,109 people who have answered this quiz question 8,208 have answered it correctly and
7,901 have answered it incorrectly. Based off these results this question has been given a
difficulty level of medium.



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1. Rainbow apple
2. Rainbow apple with a bite
3. Red apple
4. Sir Isaac Newton under an apple tree

Correct! The original Apple computer company logo had Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an
apple tree that was later replaced by a rainbow colored apple with a bite out of it in 1976.

Of the 46,728 people who have answered this quiz question 14,621 have answered it correctly
and 32,107 have answered it incorrectly. Based off these results this question has been given a
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1. AT
2. Mouse
3. PS/2
4. USB

orrect! This port is known as the PS/2 port and as can be seen in the picture is used on many
computers for the mouse and keyboard.

Of the 41,663 people who have answered this quiz question 25,114 have answered it correctly
and 16,549 have answered it incorrectly. Based off these results this question has been given a
difficulty level of medium.

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1. 2000
2. 2001
3. 2002
4. 2003

The correct answer for this month's quiz is number two. Microsoft Windows XP was released on
October 25, 2001. Additional history on Microsoft Windows can also be found on our Windows
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1. CPU
2. Fatherboard
3. Main system
4. System board

The correct answer for this month's quiz is number four. A system board is another name for a
computer motherboard. See our motherboard dictionary definition for additional information
about this term as well as other common names for it.