//questions_tech1.js = Javascript File containing questions (category tech1) function GenerateRandomQuestion(){ QuestionNumber = (QuestionSet*5)+Math.floor(Math.random()*5)+1; switch(QuestionNumber){ case 1: CorrectAnswer = 1; RandomQuestion = "What does the acronym HTML stand for?"; Choice1Text = "Hyper Text Markup Language"; Choice2Text = "Horizontal Text Machine Learning"; Choice3Text = "High Tech Machine Language"; break; case 2: CorrectAnswer = 2; RandomQuestion = "How many bits are in a byte?"; Choice1Text = "two"; Choice2Text = "eight"; Choice3Text = "sixty-four"; break; case 3: CorrectAnswer = 3; RandomQuestion = "Which of the following is Javascript?"; Choice1Text = "a more advanced version of Java"; Choice2Text = "a server side language"; Choice3Text = "a client side language"; break; case 4: CorrectAnswer = 1; RandomQuestion = "Which of the following companies reported the largest amount of revenue in 2007?"; Choice1Text = "IBM"; Choice2Text = "Google"; Choice3Text = "Apple"; break; case 5: CorrectAnswer = 2; RandomQuestion = "Which of the following companies had most popular search engine in 2008?"; Choice1Text = "Yahoo"; Choice2Text = "Google"; Choice3Text = "neither"; break; case 6: CorrectAnswer = 3; RandomQuestion = "What is Microsoft Visual Foxpro?"; Choice1Text = "a new version of the Windows operating system slated for 2015"; Choice2Text = "a verticle market software application designed for companies running fox hunts"; Choice3Text = "a database programming language/environment"; break; case 7: CorrectAnswer = 1; RandomQuestion = "Which of the following would be a typical amount of random access memory for a personal computer circa 2008?"; Choice1Text = "two gigabytes"; Choice2Text = "640k"; Choice3Text = "eight terabytes"; break; case 8: CorrectAnswer = 2; RandomQuestion = "What is Everquest?"; Choice1Text = "a version of the Linux operating sytem"; Choice2Text = "a massively multiplayer online role-playing game"; Choice3Text = "a high-end sound digital sound card"; break; case 9: CorrectAnswer = 3; RandomQuestion = "What type of printer was the Citizen MSP-10?"; Choice1Text = "laser"; Choice2Text = "thermal"; Choice3Text = "dot matrix"; break; case 10: CorrectAnswer = 1; RandomQuestion = "Which does the acronym DOS stand for"; Choice1Text = "Disk Operating System"; Choice2Text = "Dynamic Organic Statistics"; Choice3Text = "Denver Operating System"; break; case 11: CorrectAnswer = 2; RandomQuestion = "What is the name of the person generally considered to be the author of the Linux operating system?"; Choice1Text = "Linus Tortelli"; Choice2Text = "Linus Torvalds"; Choice3Text = "Leonard Nimoy"; break; case 12: CorrectAnswer = 3; RandomQuestion = "Which of the following is considered to be the lowest level language?"; Choice1Text = "Fortran"; Choice2Text = "BASIC"; Choice3Text = "assembly language"; break; case 13: CorrectAnswer = 1; RandomQuestion = "What do the letters in the acronym RGB stand for?"; Choice1Text = "Red Green Blue"; Choice2Text = "Really Good Bitrate"; Choice3Text = "Redmond Giant Behemoth"; break; case 14: CorrectAnswer = 2; RandomQuestion = "What information would a measurement of 'baud rate' typically convey"; Choice1Text = "how quickly a screen refreshes"; Choice2Text = "how fast a modem is"; Choice3Text = "the speed of a computers random access memory"; break; case 15: CorrectAnswer = 3; RandomQuestion = "What was the Commodore-64?"; Choice1Text = "a specialized graphics chip for the Apple Macintosh line of computers"; Choice2Text = "a spreadsheet"; Choice3Text = "an early personal computer"; break; case 16: CorrectAnswer = 1; RandomQuestion = "Which two individuals founded Microsoft Corporation?"; Choice1Text = "Bill Gates and Paul Allen"; Choice2Text = "Bill Gates and Steve Jobs"; Choice3Text = "Dave Thompson and Steven Lee"; break; case 17: CorrectAnswer = 2; RandomQuestion = "What does the acronym DSL stand for?"; Choice1Text = "Dynamic Standard Language"; Choice2Text = "Digital Subscriber Line"; Choice3Text = "Dynamic Software Library"; break; case 18: CorrectAnswer = 3; RandomQuestion = "What is a 'bit'"; Choice1Text = "a small robot"; Choice2Text = "a library component of a programming language"; Choice3Text = "a binary digit"; break; case 19: CorrectAnswer = 1; RandomQuestion = "What does the acronym RAM represent?"; Choice1Text = "Random Access Memory"; Choice2Text = "Ruth Ann Microsoft"; Choice3Text = "Random Asynchronous Multitasking"; break; case 20: CorrectAnswer = 2; RandomQuestion = "What do the letter in IBM stand for?"; Choice1Text = "International Bidirectional Machines"; Choice2Text = "International Business Machines"; Choice3Text = "Internal Bidirectional Mutations"; break; case 21: CorrectAnswer = 3; RandomQuestion = "What was the Osborne 1?"; Choice1Text = "a research effort to develop faster processors"; Choice2Text = "the first dot matrix printer"; Choice3Text = "an early portable computer"; break; case 22: CorrectAnswer = 1; RandomQuestion = "Adam Osborne is known for which of the following?"; Choice1Text = "being the founder of Osborne Computers"; Choice2Text = "helping to found Microsoft Corporation (along with Bill Gates)"; Choice3Text = "inventing the integrated circuit"; break; case 23: CorrectAnswer = 2; RandomQuestion = "Lotus 123 was a popular"; Choice1Text = "word processing program"; Choice2Text = "spreadsheet"; Choice3Text = "database"; break; case 24: CorrectAnswer = 3; RandomQuestion = "The statement 'GOSUB 2000' would most likely be found in variants of which of the following languages?"; Choice1Text = "C++"; Choice2Text = "Javascript"; Choice3Text = "BASIC"; break; case 25: CorrectAnswer = 1; RandomQuestion = "Which of the following movies deals with technology turning on humans?"; Choice1Text = "2001: A Space Odyssey"; Choice2Text = "The Terminator"; Choice3Text = "both of them"; break; case 26: CorrectAnswer = 2; RandomQuestion = "What do the letters in the acronym COBOL stand for?"; Choice1Text = "Computer Optimal Backup Optimizing Lan"; Choice2Text = "COmmon Business Oriented Language"; Choice3Text = "Computational Output Bayesian Object Library"; break; case 27: CorrectAnswer = 3; RandomQuestion = "When does recursion happen?"; Choice1Text = "when a program unexpectedly malfunctions"; Choice2Text = "when source code reverts to a previous state"; Choice3Text = "when a function calls itself"; break; case 28: CorrectAnswer = 1; RandomQuestion = "What are SDF, CVS, and DBF?"; Choice1Text = "data formats"; Choice2Text = "LAN configurations"; Choice3Text = "internet protocols"; break; case 29: CorrectAnswer = 2; RandomQuestion = "SQL is an acronym which stands for what?"; Choice1Text = "Subtractive Quanta Language"; Choice2Text = "Structured Query Language"; Choice3Text = "Standard Query Library"; break; case 30: CorrectAnswer = 3; RandomQuestion = "Mice, keyboards, and scanners are all what?"; Choice1Text = "things that Steve Jobs invented"; Choice2Text = "items that contain RAM"; Choice3Text = "input devices"; break; case 31: CorrectAnswer = 1; RandomQuestion = "Steve Jobs middle name is?"; Choice1Text = "Paul"; Choice2Text = "Harvey"; Choice3Text = "Apple"; break; case 32: CorrectAnswer = 2; RandomQuestion = "Which of the following was NOT a Spreadsheet?"; Choice1Text = "Lotus 123"; Choice2Text = "DBase III"; Choice3Text = "Microsoft Multiplan"; break; case 33: CorrectAnswer = 3; RandomQuestion = "What processor was Intel Corporation's successor to the 486?"; Choice1Text = "the Agate processor"; Choice2Text = "the 586 processor"; Choice3Text = "the Pentium Processor"; break; case 34: CorrectAnswer = 1; RandomQuestion = "ROM is known as what?"; Choice1Text = "an acronym standing for Read Only Memory"; Choice2Text = "an early operating system used in Apple computers"; Choice3Text = "a protocol for compressing digital signals"; break; case 35: CorrectAnswer = 2; RandomQuestion = "Ultima was what"; Choice1Text = "an early code name that Microsoft used for Windows ME"; Choice2Text = "an early computer role-playing games"; Choice3Text = "a spreadsheet that came out prior to Lotus 123"; break; case 36: CorrectAnswer = 3; RandomQuestion = "LISP is best known as what?"; Choice1Text = "a government database used by the U.S Department of Homeland Security"; Choice2Text = "a type of computer error that occurs when a program gets caught in a perpetual loop"; Choice3Text = "a computer programming language"; break; case 37: CorrectAnswer = 1; RandomQuestion = "In 2008, what storage device typically held the most information?"; Choice1Text = "a Flash drive"; Choice2Text = "a 3.5 inch diskette"; Choice3Text = "a recordable CD-ROM"; break; case 38: CorrectAnswer = 2; RandomQuestion = "Which of the following computers incorporated a SID chip for sound?"; Choice1Text = "the IBM PC-XT"; Choice2Text = "the Commodore-64"; Choice3Text = "neither of them"; break; case 39: CorrectAnswer = 3; RandomQuestion = "Which of the following computers did Commodore come out with after the C-64?"; Choice1Text = "The Pentium"; Choice2Text = "The Crystal"; Choice3Text = "The Amiga"; break; case 40: CorrectAnswer = 1; RandomQuestion = "In MSDOS what is a batch file?"; Choice1Text = "a text file that contains instructions to run a sequence of commands"; Choice2Text = "a type of data file"; Choice3Text = "a remote storage file that protects against catastrophic loss of data"; break; case 41: CorrectAnswer = 2; RandomQuestion = "Which of the following holds the most data?"; Choice1Text = "a 3.5 inch diskette"; Choice2Text = "a DVD"; Choice3Text = "a CD"; break; case 42: CorrectAnswer = 3; RandomQuestion = "What do the letters CD stand for?"; Choice1Text = "Certified Domain"; Choice2Text = "Computer Disc"; Choice3Text = "Compact Disc"; break; case 43: CorrectAnswer = 1; RandomQuestion = "What was PFS Write?"; Choice1Text = "an early word processing program"; Choice2Text = "a standard for lasers to write data"; Choice3Text = "an early email program"; break; case 44: CorrectAnswer = 2; RandomQuestion = "Norton is the last name of an early software pioneer. What is his first name?"; Choice1Text = "Bill"; Choice2Text = "Peter"; Choice3Text = "Nathan"; break; case 45: CorrectAnswer = 3; RandomQuestion = "What does the acronym CDMA stand for?"; Choice1Text = "Computer Disc Microsoft Authorized"; Choice2Text = "Compact Disc Multiple Array."; Choice3Text = "Code Division Multiple Access"; break; case 46: CorrectAnswer = 1; RandomQuestion = "What does the acronym GNU stand for?"; Choice1Text = "Gnu's Not Unix"; Choice2Text = "Gigabyte Nominial Universe"; Choice3Text = "George North Unix"; break; case 47: CorrectAnswer = 2; RandomQuestion = "What is GIMP?"; Choice1Text = "a high end math coprocessor"; Choice2Text = "an open source graphics program"; Choice3Text = "an operating system"; break; case 48: CorrectAnswer = 3; RandomQuestion = "Who played the character Neo in the 1999 sci-fi movie The Matrix?"; Choice1Text = "Lawrence Fishburne"; Choice2Text = "Trinity Jones"; Choice3Text = "Keanu Reeves"; break; case 49: CorrectAnswer = 1; RandomQuestion = "For what is the word laser an acronym?"; Choice1Text = "Light Amplification thru Stimulated Emission of Radiation"; Choice2Text = "Light Amplification thru Synchronous Emission of Radiation"; Choice3Text = "Laslow's Amplification of Synchronous Electron Rays"; break; case 50: CorrectAnswer = 2; RandomQuestion = "What is Python?"; Choice1Text = "an operating system"; Choice2Text = "an open source language"; Choice3Text = "both"; break; default: CorrectAnswer = 2; RandomQuestion = "What is Python?"; Choice1Text = "an operating system"; Choice2Text = "an open source language"; Choice3Text = "both"; } }