Question: In computer terms, when a computer is switching rapidly between running each program in turn, is called what?
Answer: multitasking

Question: A method of multitasking that takes a "slice" of time in turn is called what?
Answer: "time-sharing"

Question: A signal that stops a compute executing instructions is called what?
Answer: an interrupt,

Question: Multitasking would seemingly cause a computer to run in what fashion?
Answer: more slowly,

Question: What do a lot of programs spend time waiting for?
Answer: input/output devices

Question: Multiprocessor and multi-core computers have multiples of what?
Answer: CPUs

Question: How many CPUs do supercomputers typically possess?
Answer: thousands

Question: What is the name of a computer that has many CPUs and much more powerful?
Answer: Supercomputers

Question: What system of the U.S. military's was the first large-scale system to coordinate information between several locations?
Answer: SAGE system

Question: When were computers first used to coordinate information between many locations?
Answer: the 1950s

Question: Who funded the linking of computers around the US in the 1970s?
Answer: ARPA

Question: ARPA is now known as what?
Answer: DARPA)

Question: The network spread to be known as what today?
Answer: the Internet.

Question: The ability to store and execute lists of instructions are called what?
Answer: programs

Question: The mathematical statement of computers versatility is known as what?
Answer: The Church–Turing thesis

Question: All devices that can process information can qualify being called what?
Answer: a computer

Question: Vacuum tubes in early computers were replaced by what?
Answer: transistors

Question: Transistors are typically made up of what today?
Answer: photolithographed semiconductors

Question: A computer that is made using pool balls is known as what?
Answer: billiard ball computer)

Question: What type of computer can break encryption algorithms quickly?
Answer: quantum computers

Question: By what method do quantum computers solve encryption algorithms quickly?
Answer: quantum factoring

Question: Computer programs that can learn are studied in what field?
Answer: artificial intelligence

Question: Parts of a computer that are real objects are collectively known as what?
Answer: hardware

Question: Parts of a computer that are not material objects are collectively known as what?
Answer: Software

Question: Software stored in hardware that cannot be changed easily is called what?
Answer: firmware

Question: What type of "ware" is a BIOS ROM in a PC?
Answer: software

Question: A BIOS chip is located where in a computer?
Answer: the motherboard

Question: What type of software is stored in a BIOS chip?
Answer: BIOS set up

Question: Processing data from input and output devices is typically done by what?
Answer: CPU

Question: Where is the data from input devices sent to after being processed?
Answer: output devices

Question: Do some countries have negative feelings towards the word "black"?
Answer: communities and countries, "black" is also perceived as a derogatory,

Question: What is "black people" a term for?
Answer: racial classification or of ethnicity

Question: Do all regions perceive that term "black people" the same?
Answer: the meaning of the expression varies widely both between and within societies

Question: Do some cultures not use the term "Black people"?
Answer: , "black" is also perceived as a derogatory, outdated, reductive or otherwise unrepresentative label,

Question: Can the term "black people" have different meanings?
Answer: the meaning of the expression varies widely both between and within societies, and depends significantly on context.

Question: Do all societies use the term "black" the same?
Answer: Different societies apply differing criteria regarding who is classified as "black"

Question: What factors can affect the classification of "blackness"?
Answer: societal variables

Question: Are mixed race people classified as black?
Answer: mixed-race people are generally not classified as "black."

Question: How is the term "black" defined in the United States?
Answer: it is instead a socially based racial classification related to being African American, with a family history associated with institutionalized slavery.

Question: How did European Colonists use the term "Black"?
Answer: European colonists applied the term "black" or it was used by populations with different histories and ethnic origin.

Question: What made up Mauretania?
Answer: Morocco, western Algeria, and the Spanish cities Ceuta and Melilla

Question: Who conquered parts of Mauretania?
Answer: The Romans

Question: During what period did Mauretania exist? 
Answer: the classical period.

Question: Where were the people of the region noted? 
Answer: in Classical literature

Question: What is Mauri in English? 
Answer: Moors

Question: Where was the Arab Slave Trade?
Answer: North Africa

Question: When were the Arab Invasions?
Answer: the 7th century

Question: Where were numerous dark-skinned communities? 
Answer: North Africa

Question: When did these communities begin?
Answer: some dating from prehistoric communities.

Question: Who are they descendants of?
Answer: Trans-Saharan trade in peoples

Question: When did Moroccan Sultan Moulay Ismail live?
Answer: (1672–1727)

Question: How many black slaves did he own?
Answer: 150,000

Question: What did he call his slave army?
Answer: Black Guard

Question: What did the Black Guard do?
Answer: coerced the country into submission.

Question: When did the Black Guard exist?
Answer: In the 18th century

Question: Why would a black-looking Arab consider himself white?
Answer: because they have some distant white ancestry.

Question: Where does Dr. Carlos Moore work?
Answer: Brazil's University of the State of Bahia

Question: How do Afro-multiracials identify in the 21st century?
Answer: in ways that resemble multi-racials

Question: Who was the Egyptian President?
Answer: Anwar Sadat

Question: What ethnicity was his mother?
Answer: Nubian Sudanese

Question: What ethnicity was his father?
Answer: Egyptian

Question: What color did he refer to himself as?
Answer: reddish

Question: Who was enslaved more often?
Answer: black women

Question: What did the Qur'an permit?
Answer: sexual relations between a male master and his female slave

Question: What were female slaves used for?
Answer: domestic service and agriculture

Question: What is the term for a pregnant slave?
Answer: umm walad

Question: What does umm walad mean?
Answer: "mother of a child"

Question: Who was the ruler in Morocco?
Answer: Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur

Question: When did Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur rule?
Answer: from 1578 to 1608

Question: What ethnicity was his mother?
Answer: Fulani

Question: What Arabic term is still used for black people?
Answer: (Arabic: عبد‎,) (meaning "slave")

Question: Who still had the term "slave" used in reference to them?
Answer: sub-Saharan peoples

Question: When did the Arab apartheid intensify? 
Answer: early 1991

Question: Who felt persecuted due to the apartheid?
Answer: non-Arabs of the Zaghawa tribe

Question: Where did these people live?
Answer: Sudan

Question: Who controlled the government?
Answer: Sudanese Arabs

Question: What was the government being accused of?
Answer: deftly manipulat(ing) Arab solidarity" to carry out policies of apartheid and ethnic cleansing.

Question: Who accused the Arab government of practicing acts of racism?
Answer: George Ayittey

Question: Who executed the apartheid?
Answer: the Arab government

Question: Who was excluded?
Answer: blacks

Question: Where were they?
Answer: Sudan

Question: What is George Ayittey's profession? 
Answer: economist

Question: Who was the Canadian Minister of Justice?
Answer: Irwin Cotler

Question: How did Alan Dershozitz describe the Sudan?
Answer: an example of a government that "actually deserve(s)" the appellation "apartheid."