COMPUTER GENERAL QUIZ QUESTIONS

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• COBOL is acronym for:

Common Business Oriented Language

• BASIC is acronym for:

Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

• KB, MB, GB, is respectively:

Kilo Bites Mega Bites Giga Bites

• A set of 8 bits is called:

Bite

• A set of 4 bit is called:

Nibble

• HDD and FDD are respectively:

Hard Disk Drive, Floppy Disk Drive

• Winchester drive is also called:

Hard disk Drive

• The center processing unit of a computer consist 3 units namely:

Arithmetic Logic Unit, Control Unit, Memory Unit

• A program written using binary codes is called:

Machine language

• The computer which has incorporated the characters of analog and digital computers is:

Hybrid computers

• The medium is used by input dives light pen for graphical input is:

CRT screen

• SMPS stands for:

Switch Mode Power Supply

• UPS stands for:

Uninterrupted Power Supply

• The translator program that translates each line of the source program as it run is called:

Interpreter
• The pictorial representation of the procedure proposed to solve a problem by a program:
Flow chart

• ANCII stands for:

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

• ANSI stands for:

American National Standard Institute

• EBCDIC is the acronym for:

Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

• ERP packages are:

Enterprise Resource Planning Package

• Example for ERP packages:

SAP, BAN etc..

• Write office automation package of Microsoft:

Ms Office

• The time gap during the failure of a computer system is also called

Down Time

• What is meant by ‘system analyst’?

A person who examine and defines actives, flow and problems to be solved and system and procedures to determine hoe best the necessary operation can accomplished

• Fetch means:

To retrieve data or instructions from storage

• UNIX was developed by:
Bell laboratory s

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WORLD HISTORY THE MID LEVEL PERIOD

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• Name of the civilization that become most advanced in the middle age:

Arab

• When did the barbarian conquer Rome?

A.D 455

• Where did the feudalism first originate?

Europe

• The language of learning the middle ages:

Latin

• The Frist University is started at:

Paris

• Which subject is called the queen of science in the middle ages?

Theology

• What was the source of power in feudal society?

Land

• In the mid-level times there were three different kinds of guilds-craftsmen and religious were two what was third?

Merchants

• The Dark Age is supposed to have ended in:

AD 1453

• What marked end of ancient age and beginning of modern age?

The destruction of Roman Empire

• The city remained a Christian center of civilization:

Constantinople

• Constantinople was captured by the:

Turks

• In feudalism, the persons who held the land was called:

Vassal

• Who formed the base of feudal society?

The serfs

• The growth of christen organization was one of the most significant development of the:

The Middle age

• Who conducted a crusade against luxury and idleness of monks?

St.Bernard

• Who gave a set of rules for government of monastic order?

St Basil

• What are the best specimens of architecture in the middle ages?

The Churches

• The year which Prophet Muhammad died:

AD 632

• Who expanded Muslim dominion to Syria, Egypt Mesopotamia and Persia?

Umar

• Who was the first caliph?

Abu-Bakr

• Kufa is in modern:

Iraq
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World History Quiz Questions - Ancient Period

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• The father of the history:

Herodotus

• In which year Alexander invaded India

In 326 B.C

• The period of unrecorded history is known as:

 Pre Historic Age

• Which Indian king put up tough residence and fights against Alexander?

Porus of Panjab

• The thing Neanderthal man accidentally discovered:

Fire

• The superior type of human being compared top the Neanderthal:

The Co-Magnon

• The greatest king of Mesopotamia who gave his subject a code of laws:

Hammurabi

• The ancient people who invented the writing of Cuneiform:

The Sumerians

• What was the king of ancient Egypt?

 The Pharaoh

• The preserved dead body of the ancient Egyptians is called:

Mummies

• The greatest pyramid:

Khufu

• The great temple of ancient Egyptians which was dedicated to the Sun God:

The temple of Abu Simbel

• The ancient Egyptians script which means”Scared Writing “:

Hieroglyphic

• Which was the major Chinese states exit in third centuries BC?

Chin, Chu, Ehi

• The Chinese ruler who built the Great Wall of China:

Shih-Hwang-Ti

• The dynasty which ruled china for nearly 400 years?

Han

• A religious leader and philosopher who lived in china about 500 BC

Confucius

• The ancient people who invented Seismograph

The Chinese

• The most powerful leader in Persia in the 6^th century B.C:

Cyrus

• The founder of the religion, Zoroastrianism:

Zoroaster

• The god of Parsees was called:

Ahura Mazda

• The most famous Greek poet:

Homer

• The important Epics of the Greeks:

Iliad and odyssey

• What were the most important city states in ancient Greece?

Athens and Sparta

• What is meant by oligarchy?

The rule by a few rich men

• The most famous ruler of the ancient Athens:

Pericles

• The great Greek women who sang on the beauty of love and nature:

Sappho

• The great lyric poet who wrote poem to honors the victorious Greek athletes?

Pindar

• The founder of tragedy drams:

Aeschylus

• The greatest of Greek tragedians:

Sophocles’

• The most famous philosophers of ancient Greece:

Socrates, Plato and Aristotle 

• The most famous student of Socrates:

Plato

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