BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Quiz: Are you a digital citizen?

Home

Explore the BBC

BBC NEWS CHANNEL

News services
Your news when you want it

News Front Page

World

England

Northern Ireland

Scotland

Wales

Business

Politics

Health

Education

Science & Environment

Technology

Entertainment

Arts & Culture

Also in the news

-----------------

Video and Audio

-----------------

Have Your Say

Magazine

In Pictures

Country Profiles

Special Reports

RELATED BBC SITES

Last Updated: Friday, 22 July, 2005, 06:33 GMT 07:33 UK

E-mail this to a friend

Printable version

Quiz: Are you a digital citizen?

By Darren Waters
BBC News entertainment reporter

All this week the BBC News website is speaking to people whose creativity has been transformed in the digital age.

From blogging to podcasting, millions of ordinary people are becoming writers, journalists, broadcasters and film-makers thanks to increasingly affordable and accessible tools

But are you a digital citizen? Take our quiz to find out.

Question 1

How many songs have been sold by the iTunes music store to date?


	A: 500 million


	B: 250 million


	C: 150 million


	D: 100 million

Question 2

What is a moblog?


	A: 1. A type of MP3 player popular in South Korea


	B: 2. A weblog written on the go from a portable device


	C: 3. A spontaneous gathering organised over the internet


	D: 4. A record of online transactions made with a bank

Question 3

Who designed Apple�s famous series of recent Macintosh computers?


	A: Richard Rogers


	B: Frank Lloyd Wright


	C: Jonathan Ive


	D: Christopher Wren

Question 4

Which BBC comedy series can you watch online before it is shown on television?


	A: The Mighty Boosh


	B: The Smoking Room


	C: Extras


	D: My Hero

Question 5

What is a podcast?


	A: A piece of audio that is downloaded from the net and can be put on an MP3 player


	B: An attachment for MP3 players which lets people broadcast their music via radio


	C: A digital camera with built-in MP3 player


	D: An MP3 player with built in digital camera

Question 6

Who created the online file-sharing system Napster?


	A: Steve Jobs


	B: Jay Berman


	C: Adam Curry


	D: Shawn Fanning

Question 7

What does DRM stand for?


	A: Digital Relay Mechanism


	B: Dongle Reflex Maintenance


	C: Digital Rights Management


	D: Dynamic Reference Map

Question 8

What is the name of Sony's handheld console that can play games, music and let you watch movies?


	A: PSP


	B: PCP


	C: PTP


	D: PFP

Question 9

Tivo and Sky+ are examples - but what is a DVR?


	A: A digital voice recorder


	B: A digital vector reference


	C: A digital video recorder


	D: A digital value restraint

Question 10

What percentage of internet users in the UK are now using broadband?


	A: 75.2%


	B: 50.7%


	C: 46.5%


	D: 33.7%

Press the button and see how you have done

E-mail this to a friend

Printable version

DIGITAL CITIZENS

The film-maker
The man who made a $20,000 Star Wars film in his cellar

In pictures: Star Wars fan film

The DIY sitcom makers

The podcaster
Re-writing the rules of radio

Pick of the podcasts

The blogger
The woman whose blog lost her a job

Pick of the blogs

In pictures: The Photobloggers

The DIY DJs
Play your own tunes to the dancefloor

'My night as a DJ'

The activist
The writer fighting for people's rights in the digital age

Digital Citizens: Your creativity

Quiz: Are you a digital citizen?

HAVE YOUR SAY

Are you a digital citizen?

PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

BBC Copyright Notice
MMIX