Computer Bowl 1994 -- Answers

Round 1

Toss-up Questions

1. Philippe Kahn
2. Donald Knuth
3. Bottom or front edge

Bonus Round-East Coast
Programmers and Programming Languages

a . Waterloo
b. Ada, Pascal, Euler, alt Euclid
c. Maximum of 5 letters in names

Toss-up Questions

4 .Alaska
5 . OpenVision Technologies

Bonus Round-West Coast
IBM

a. Manufactured the most PCs
Answer expected: Most US patents issued
b. 4th quarter 1992
c. Sifting through nylons

Round 2
Toss-up Questions

1. Journey to the Center of the Earth
2. $4.6 Billion
3 .121-Always except base 2

4 . Volkswriter

Bonus Round-East Coast
Computers in Print

a . Infoworld
b. Vannevar Bush
c . Cray

Toss-up Questions

5 . Gog - 1954; Desk Set - 1957; Billion Dollar Brain - 1967
6 . PDP-6

Bonus Round-West Coast
Computers in the Movies

a . The Terminal Man
b . Weird Science
c. The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

Toss-up Questions

7 . Electronic Recording Machine Accounting

Round 3

Toss-up Questions

1. Tron and The Day the Earth Stood Still
2. Put a virus in his client's computer

Bonus Round-East Coast
On Line Services

a . Rupert Murdoch-Delphi
b . president@whitehouse.gov
c . Network information retrieval tools used on the Internet

Toss-up Questions

3.1946
4. Three
5. First Ethernet connector
6. Variable speed

Bonus Round-West Coast
Software

a. Proshare
b. Adobe Systems
c. Buddha

Toss-up Questions

7. Zenith
8. Stan' s mother in-law Elizabeth, Olivet

Round 4

Toss - up Questions

l. Nine
2.1969

Bonus Round-East Coast
Computer Industry Personalities

a. Ahle
b. Jaron Lanier
c. Pink Floyd

Toss-up Questions

3.1978
4. The SAGE
5. File Transfer Protocol

Bonus Round-West Coast
Computer Games

a. Service Games
b. Three figures $250 each
c. Mephisto and Anatoly Karpov

Toss-up Questions

6. CDC 160
7. 19th Century Mechanical Calculator
8. MIT
9 . Richard Frank

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