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 Web Development Trivia Part 2!

We will divide the class into 2 teams of 6 or 7 each. You should use Google, the class website, and talk to each other. Each question will have a time limit to find the answer. I will judge the responses and award points!

1. What is a web host?
2. How do you register a domain name?
3. Name an HTML tag that does not have an opening and closing tag; it’s just one, self-contained tag.
4. What is graphic design?
5. What is the name of my dog?
6. What is malware?
7. True or false: it’s a good idea to use the same password for multiple sites and accounts
8. True or false: Mac computers do not need anti-virus programs installed
9. What is the purpose of an anti-virus program and name 2 of the most popular ones
10. What is 2 factor authentication?
11. What are some of the bad things that can happen if your computer becomes infected with malware or a virus?
12. True or false: all public Wi-Fi is safe and secure to use
13. True or false: JavaScript is named for its relationship to Java
14. What is parallax?
15. True or false: JavaScript frameworks and libraries are the same
16. What is the importance of the $ symbol used in jQuery?
17. What is responsive design?
18. How is a mobile app different than a website?
19. What software application do you use to create Android apps?
20. What software application do you use to create Apple apps?
21. True or false: iPhones are more likely than Android phones to become infected with malware
22. True or false: it’s easier to get an app in the Google Play store than the Apple App Store
23. True or false: more people have iPhones than Android phones
24. What came first, Android phones or iPhones?
25. Name 3 differences between Android app development and iPhone app development
26. Name 3 companies that make Android phones
27. What is the name of the company that produces products for Apple?
28. What is the difference between a native app and hybrid app?
29. What is Kotlin?
30. What is the last day of school for seniors?
31. When is graduation?
32. What year did I graduate from Medford High School?
33. Where did I go to college?
34. What percentage of the world’s over 7 billion people are internet users?
35. Name the seniors in this class
36. Your turn- create a web design-related question for the other team
37. What does a cascading style sheet do?
38. What are the CSS box model properties?
39. What is the purpose of media queries?
40. Name one of the most commonly used content management systems for websites
41. What is Skeleton?
42. What launched first, YouTube or Vimeo?
43. What is the difference between CSS and HTML?
44. What was May’s Harvest of the Month?
45. Name a popular website that works better as an app on a mobile device
46. Name the 4 different opening and closing HTML tags we start every webpage with
47. What is the name of the design firm that visited us in April and who were the speakers?
48. What CSS background image property and value did we use to help create a parallax scrolling effect (it looked like our content moved on top of the background while the image stayed in place)
49. What is a CDN?
50. When we added jQuery to our projects did we download the files and link them or did we use a CDN?
51. What 2 steps do you have to take to add a Google Font to your webpage?
52. What is Font Awesome?
53. Where do you put the script tag for Font Awesome?
54. Name one of the stock image websites we often use
55. What is the site we often use to edit images?
56. What is the name of the School Nutritionist who makes us things for Harvest of the Month?
57. What is the difference between the internet and the World Wide Web?
58. What is a search engine?
59. True or false: a semi-colon is used at the end of lines of code with both CSS and JavaScript
60. True or false: you can use the same code for CSS comments to comment out lines of JavaScript code