History of Computing

What is this?

• A cheese grater

• An abacus

• A game

• An early camera

What calculating machine did the Ancient Greeks use a lot?

• The Apple II computer

• A Samsung 566

• The old fashioned abacus

• Stones

Who invented the Difference Engine?

• Charles Blubber

• Charles Babbage

• Charles Baggage

• Charles Blagger

What was special about the Stepped Reckoner?

• It could add and subtract, multiply and divide

• It used electricity

• It was made of plastic

• It could only add numbers up

This is a Bombe machine used in WWII, where is it kept?

• In the kitchen

• In Hampton Court Palace

• In the Science Museum

• At Bletchley Park

What was the Colossus Computer used for

• Defrosting frozen chickens

• Decoding German secret messages

• Preparing canapes for a party

• Calculating the time

Which one of these is NOT a Google product

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Grace Hopper gave this name to fixing errors in computer code?

• Stooking

• Blogging

• Fixometrics

• Debugging

Which of these Apple products was first sold in 2017?

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This man invented the Colossus Computer?

• Benny Green

• Timothy Fellows

• Alan Turing

• Tommy Flowers