Software and Programming Trivia

1. How many heading tags are in HTML?

From Quiz HTML Fundamentals

Answer: 6

The 6 heading tags decrease in each subsequent heading tag. H1 is the biggest of them all, H2 is smaller than H1, H3 is smaller than H2, and so on.

From Quiz The Softer Side

Answer: Productivity software

Adobe Photoshop, Apple Garage Band and Microsoft Powerpoint are all examples of this kind of software, widely available in the 2010s.

From Quiz Coding on the Back of a Turtle

Answer: Move and rotate commands

The Logo turtle is controlled like you would control a small, simple robot (which is exactly what it was in the 1960s implementations). You can tell it to move forward or backwards, rotate right or left and raise or lower its pen (triggering whether the movement will draw a line or not).

From Quiz Strange Loops

Answer: A piece of code containing a group of statements that is written once but can be executed multiple times

Loops are a key constituent of control flow in a computer program. They make writing programs less time consuming as the programmer does not have to write out the same code multiple times. All high level programming languages (such as C, Java, Python etc) have ways of writing loops.

From Quiz How Much Do You Know About Email?

Answer: Simple Mail Transport Protocol

SMTP, or Simple Mail Transport Protocol, is the standard used to communicate with remote servers via email. The protocol was first defined in 1982. While others exist, SMTP has become the accepted standard to provide global communication.

From Quiz HTML

Answer: Inside of angled brackets

HTML tags always need to be in angled brackets - the "less than" and "greater than" signs. For this reason, you cannot easily use these two in their mathematical meaning in HTML; the browser might erroneously interpret them as tags.

From Quiz Hello, world!

Answer: Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace was born in London in 1815 and was never close to her father, Lord Byron. Her mother and grandmother were dedicated to giving her a full education which included mathematics. As an adult, she worked with mathematician Charles Babbage and wrote her own method for how a machine would calculate a sequence of natural numbers. She was also a bit of a gambler and tried, without much success, to calculate wins at the racetrack.

From Quiz C++ Trivia

Answer: A floating point data type

A floating point data type can hold decimal numbers. It can also represent numbers in scientific notation or E notation (E being shorthand for 'times 10 to the power of').

From Quiz Hear It First

Answer: Moving Picture Experts Group

The International Organization for Standardization (IOS) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) formed a working group in 1988 called the Moving Picture Experts Group. From this group, standards were adopted that led to MPEG files for video and audio reproductions on electronic media. First to be introduced was MPEG-1 in 1993, which was followed by MPEG-2 in 1995. MPEG-3 was never released on its own but combined with MPEG-2 because its standards were covered by MPEG-2 and unnecessary as a standalone. MPEG-4 was released in 1998.

From Quiz Google Earth is Spying On Me!

Answer: CIA

Keyhole, Inc. was founded in 2001 and was originally funded by Sony, NVIDIA, and In-Q-Tel, the venture capital front company for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Keyhole's premiere application was called EarthViewer. In 2004, the company was bought by Google and became the foundation for Google Earth. Keyhole was named after the KH reconnaissance satellites, the original military spy satellites operated by the CIA from 1959 to 1972.

From Quiz GIMP - The Other Image Editing Software

Answer: GNU Image Manipulation Program

GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program.

From Quiz A Quiz in 3D...The Art of Computer Animation

Answer: Modeling

Believe it or not, the process is most often called "modeling." Basically it involves taking four point polygons within the software and combining them and moving points to shape the intended object. It is a fun, but time consuming process, as the only shapes within the program to use aside from polygons are basic objects such as circles, cylinders and cubes called primitives. I don't know where the name came from, but it is funny to think that I tell people I model professionally from time to time.

From Quiz Sorting

Answer: Smaller elements 'bubble' to the top

The idea behind the bubble sort is to pass through the list of elements to be sorted a number of times. In each pass, you examine two adjacent elements at a time. If the one closer to the beginning of the list is larger, you swap the two, allowing the smaller element to 'bubble' towards the top, as if it were lighter. So, sorting the sequence "3 1 4 2" would go like this (the - marks the pair of elements about to be compared): Start: 3-1 4 2 1: 1 3-4 2 2: 1 3 4-2 3: 1-3 2 4 4: 1 3-2 4 5: 1 2 3-4 6: 1-2 3 4 7: 1 2-3 4 8: 1 2 3-4 The computer doesn't know that the list is sorted before doing the last pass (steps 6-8), so it cannot skip them. Bubble sort is one of the slower sorting methods, taking approximately n * n steps to sort a list with n elements in it.

From Quiz Think like a computer! Pure Binary!

Answer: 00000000, carry flag set

The carry flag is like a ninth bit for many operations. So with adding 10110110 and 1001010 resulting in 100000000, the eight zeroes are placed in the destination register, and ninth bit, 1, is placed in the carry flag, setting it. A flag is simply a bit which is set when 1 and clear when 0.

From Quiz PHP Functions

Answer: A full numeric representation of this year, 4 digits (like 2007)

The date function accepts dozens of parameters allowing you great flexibility in formatting a date.

From Quiz Beginning C Programming

Answer: Kernighan & Ritchie

Kernighan & Ritchie published the industry standard manual in 1978. It is still published and used today and is a staple in a serious C programmer's library.

From Quiz SQL Commands and Database Concepts

Answer: SELECT

In most applications, SELECT is the most commonly used SQL command.

From Quiz PHP Basic Concepts

Answer: < ? php

PHP only parses code within its delimiters. Anything outside its delimiters is sent directly to the output and not parsed by PHP.

From Quiz Basic Perl Knowledge

Answer: It does not stand for anything

Larry Wall made up the name "Perl" as a single word, not an acronym. Folklore and revisionist history have created expansions like the options listed. For this reason, Perl is *never* to be written in all caps. It is known as a "retronym" or "backronym"

From Quiz Oh Say Can You C++, Version 1.0

Answer: A set of instructions that a computer follows in order to complete a task.

I hope that you got this one right. A computer cannot think. It simply follows the step-by-step instructions provided by the program and then halts to await further orders. The overall design of a program is guided by an algorithm, which is the plan that is used by the programmer to break down and solve a given problem.

From Quiz How to Pack a Date in COBOL

Answer: Pic X(8)

The data definition in COBOL tells the system how many bytes of storage is required and the format of a field. Each "X" in a Pic is 1 byte of storage of an alphanumeric item. A number in parenthesis is a repetition factor.

From Quiz Number Bases

Answer: 0-7

There are always the same number of digits as the base name implies. Since we always use zero, the highest digit is one less than the base name.

From Quiz Introduction to Cobol

Answer: COmmon Business Oriented Language

The language is the Common Business Oriented Language and was developed for ease of doing financial reporting.

From Quiz Java Programming

Answer: Answer is 3

This code will print out whatever the variable "mesg" and the variable "sum" is. In the case mesg is "Answer is" and sum is 1+" = 3 therefore the sum value is "3". The computer will display "Answer is 3"

From Quiz Microsoft Word 2000 for Windows - Part 2

Answer: Print Preview

This feature will allow you to see what your document will look like before you print it.

From Quiz QBasic

Answer: quick

QBasic means "Quick Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code".

From Quiz Python Programming Language

Answer: Guido van Rossum

The Python programming language was created by Guido Van Rossum in 1991.

From Quiz Crystal Reports

Answer: .rpt

Crystal Reports 8.5 allows you to deliver reports from any ODBC compliant data source, publish it to the Web in a variety of formats and integrate it with applications.

From Quiz Computer Viruses

Answer: Cohen

1983 Fred Cohen, while working on his dissertation, formally defines a computer virus as 'a computer program that can affect other computer programs by modifying them in such a way as to include a (possibly evolved)copy of itself.'

From Quiz Java

Answer: Sun Microsystems

It was released in 1995 and created by James Gosling.

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