Questions and CORRECT Answers
Multimedia is... - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Everything you can see or hear, a combination
of moving and still pictures, sound, music, and words, especially in computers or
entertainment
Most Internet Users - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔China
Least Internet Users - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Oceana/Australia
1969 - Network Technology introduced... - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Arpanet, Advance
Research Projects Agency Network, 1st packet switching network and the predecessor to the
Internet
1993 the 1st... - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔graphical browser is born (allowing us to see web
pages containing images, called Mosaic by Marc Andeerssen, Erin Brina, and Tim Clark)
1998... - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Google Search Engine is founded by Larry Page and
Sergey Brin
When was the 1st motion picture ever recorded? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔between 1880
and 1890
What was the first full length movie with synchronized dialogue? - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔The Jazz Singer (1927)
First full length movie to use colour? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The Wizard of Oz
What was the name of the predecessor to the Internet? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Arpanet
(1962-1969)
,Who invented the World Wide Web? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Tim Berners-Lee
What was the very first graphical browser for the World Wide Web - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔Mosaic
What was the 1st band to ever give a concert over the Internet - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔the Rolling Stones
What was the 1st full length feature film that was entirely computer generated? - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Toy Story
What application revolutionized the music industry in 1999? - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔Napster
When did digital cameras become affordable to the public? - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔1996
Kerning - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔the space between adjacent characters
Tracking - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔adjusting the distance between all the letters
Leading - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔the vertical space between lines of text
Serif - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔tails
Sans Serif - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔without tails (good for headings)
Pixel (px) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔measurement for text and images for the web
monitor, the smallest component of an image or picture
Point (pt) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a linear unit measuring size of text in a word
processing doc, are a print unit of measurement
, (ex. 72 pt = 1 inch, 1 pt = 1/72 inch)
#00FF00 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Pastel Green
#0000FF - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Light Blue
#000000 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Black
#FFFFFF - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔White
Western Purple is... - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔#660099
Name the 4 things to watch for when doing any design - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔contrast,
repetition, alignment, proximity
Name 5 components that make up multimedia - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔text, images,
sound, video, animation
What measurement would you use for text in creating a Word doc - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔Points (pt)
Name 3 relevant events in the history of multimedia - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Mosaic,
Rolling Stones Broadcast, Napster
What type of font is this - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Serif (courier new)
Computers "speak"... - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Binary (digits 0 and 1)
Digitization is... - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔process of translating a piece of information
(text, image, sound, etc) into binary bits (binary digit)