CYBER JEOPARDY

By: Theodore Maselko

JEOPARDYTerminology Points of

EntryProtection Fiction 5th Column

100 100 100 100 100½

200 200 200 200 200½

300 300 300 300 300½400 400 400 400 400½500 500 500 500 500½

Terminology 100

A type of e-mail message used to advertise for products or services, normally sent in large

numbers.

Terminology 100

Answer:

What is Spam?

Terminology 200

A program designed to copy itself indefinitely within a computer’s

memory, occasionally has a virus payload.

Terminology 200

Answer:

What is a Worm?

Terminology 300

A program that not only does its advertised functions, but also adds viruses, worm, or backdoors to a

system.

Terminology 300

Answer:

What is a…

TROJAN HORSE

Terminology 400

The generic name for a program designed to harm or infiltrate a computer’s operating system.

Examples are viruses, worms, trojan horses.

Terminology 400

Answer:

What is Malware?

Terminology 500

The program with which hackers or system administrators can examine packets send to and from a certain computer or computers in a given

network.

Terminology 500

Answer:

What is a packet sniffer?

Points of Entry 100

A type of data highway leading into or out of a computer. Every computer has over 65,000 of these. It is not illegal for

an outsider to scan these.

Points of Entry 100

Answer:

What is a port?

Points of Entry 200

Pieces of data send out by a computer when it is connected to the internet.

Thousands may be send in one connection, hundreds of thousands

over the course of a day. They contain all the information the user sends to or

receives from a website.

Points of Entry 200

Answer:

What are packets?

Points of Entry 300

A port opened for the purpose of connecting back into a system without bypassing the security again. Set up by various types of malware, unbeknownst

to the user.

Points of Entry 300

Answer:

What is a backdoor?

Points of Entry 400

The method by which hackers or ill-meaning parties obtain access to a

system through tricking someone who has information allowing access into

releasing the information to them.

Points of Entry 400

Answer:

What is social engineering?

Points of Entry 500

The worst possible program to use for email. Has more holes than a broken

sieve.

Points of Entry 500

Answer:

What is Microsoft Outlook?

Protection 100

A program provided by Microsoft on Windows OSes, acts as a simple

computer integrity protection system, is off by default.

Protection 100

Answer:

What is Windows Firewall?

Protection 200

A program designed to block packets sent by other computers, unless those

packets fit certain criteria set by the program’s user.

Protection 200

Answer:

What is a Firewall?

Protection 300

Mark it as junk, and delete it without opening it.

Protection 300

Answer:

What do you do with spam?

Protection 400

A program for connecting to the internet provided by Windows. Like Outlook, has so many vulnerabilities you can’t see where one lets off and the other

begins.

Protection 400

Answer:

What is Internet Explorer?

Protection 500

The device that attaches to the modem and distributes internet packets

amongst the computers connected to it. Comes with software to manually

block ports.

Protection 500

Answer:

What is a router?

Fiction 100

The name of the supercomputer in 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke.

Fiction 100

Answer:

What is HAL?

HELLO

Fiction 200

The type of computer brains invented by Isaac Asimov for his novels and short

stories.

Fiction 200

Answer:

What is a Positronic brain?

Fiction 300

The words forming the the acronym HAL from the story 2001: A Space Odyssey,

by Arthur C. Clarke, stand for?

Fiction 300

Answer:

What is a Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer? (what a

mouthful)

Fiction 400

The author of Around the World in 80 Days.

Fiction 400

Answer:

Who is Jules Verne?

Fiction 500

The person who is credited with inventing the word “robotics”.

Fiction 500

Answer:

Who is Isaac Asimov?

5th Column 100 ½

The sum of all the points in the Cyber Jeopardy game.

5th Column 100 ½

Answer:

What is 7,502 ½?

5th Column 200 ½

3.14159265358979

5th Column 200 ½

Answer:

What is Pi?

5th Column 300 ½

The square root of 625.

5th Column 300 ½

Answer:

What is 25?

5th Column 400 ½

The last four letters in the pattern

ROYBGIVROYGBIVROYBGIVROYGBIVROY_ _ _ _.

5th Column 400 ½

Answer:

What is BGIV?

5th Column 500 ½

NOTE: Do NOT look at your keyboard!

The letters midway between “W” and “Y”, “G” and “L”, “~” and “@”.

5th Column 500 ½

Answer:

What is “GJ!”?