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Quiz for the week of August 30, 2011

1. It took Magellan’s expedition three years to circumnavigate the globe. The space shuttle makes an orbit in about 90 minutes. Calculate the factor of improvement. 2. Ellery Clark of the United States won the long jump in the 1896 Olympiad in Athens, Greece with a jump of 20 feet 9 3/4 inches. The current world record is held by Mike Powell of the United States, who jumped a distance of 8.95 meters. What is the factor of improvement? Be sure to convert between feet and meters. 3.Ray Harroun won the first Indianapolis 500 in 1911 with a speed of 74.59 miles per hour. The 2004 race was won by Buddy Rice with a speed of 138.518 mph. What is the factor of improvement? 4. In 2005, Yelena Isinbayeva set the world pole vault record at 5.01 meters. William Hoyt set the record in 1896 with a vault of 3.30 meters. What is the factor of improvement that she made over the men’s record of 1896? What is the percentage increase? 5. Using online research, find an online glossary of computing terms. Look up the following terms in at least two sources, and state in your own words what they mean. a. USB memory b. TFT display c. window 6. Research on the History of the Internet using timeline..