ELECTIVE 3

QUIZ BEE
Part 1
 Directions:
Multiple choice. Choose the right
answer in each question, write your
answer on ¼ sheet of paper. Erasure
means Wrong. 2 points each.
 1. Who commissioned the research
project that led to the creation of
ARPANET?
a) Stanford Research Institute
b) University of California, Los Angeles
c) Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
d) Honeywell
Answer: c) Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
2. When was ARPANET declared
operational?
a) 1960s
b) 1970s
c) 1980s
d) 1990s
Answer: b) 1970s
 3. When was the Transmission Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) first put
into operation?
a) 1970
b) 1975
c) 1977
d) 1980
Answer: c) 1977
 4. Where was the first message on
ARPANET communicated between?
a) University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Stanford Research Institute
(SRI)
b) Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) and Stanford
Research Institute (SRI)
c) University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Honeywell
d) Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) and University of
California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Answer: a) University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Stanford Research
Institute (SRI)
5. What was the name of the first
ARPANET host?
a) UCLA
b) SRI
c) Honeywell DDP-516
d) DARPA
Answer: c) Honeywell DDP-516
6. What did TCP/IP replace as the underlying
packet-switching technology of ARPANET in
1983?
a) NCP
b) DNS
c) UCLA
d) SRI
Answer: a) NCP
 7. What is an example of a
human-readable domain name?
a) www.example.com
b) 192.168.1.1
c) Transmission Control Protocol
d) Domain Name System
Answer: a) www.example.com
 8. When was the World Wide
Web invented?
a) 1981
b) 1990
c) 2000
d) 2010
Answer: b) 1990
 9. What are the three fundamental
technologies that led to the creation of
the web?
a) HTML, URI/URL, and HTTP
b) TCP, IP, and DNS
c) NCP, ARPANET, and NSFNET
d) UCLA, SRI, and DARPA
Answer: a) HTML, URI/URL, and HTTP
 10. Who discovered
electromagnetic waves?
a) Tim Berners-Lee
b) Heinrich Hertz
c) Stephen J. Lukasik
d) Sir Isaac Newton
Answer: b) Heinrich Hertz