AcDec Social Science Quiz

Alan Turning and his team developed electromechanical machines to assist in decrypting messages intercepted from the Germans during

• World War I

• World War II

• the Cold War

• the Korean War

• The Gulf War

The EDVAC was an acronym for

• Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer

• Electronic Data Variable Automatic Computer

• Electronic Discrete Visual Authentic Computer

• Electric Discrete Viral Authentic Computer

• Electric Data View Automatic Computer

Usenet helped to create modern social networking through a technology called _____.

• Instant Messaging

• SocialSpace

• FORTRAN

• MySpace

• Newsgroups

Which year did the U.S. government break up the monopoly AT&T?

• 1966

• 1971

• 1979

• 1984

• 1990

The United States census was first performed in 1790 and collected every

• six months

• year

• two years

• five years

• ten years

The first store-program computer was called

• EDVAC

• Manchester Bay

• EDSAC

• UNIVAC

• ENIAC

In 1964, two professors at Dartmouth created a more user-friendly software system, since _____ was deemed unsuitable for beginners.

• FORTRAN

• BASIC

• SAGE

• CTSS

• SABRE

Ted Nelson was inspired by the 1945 essay, We May Think, in his discovery of which of the following?

• Netscape

• Java

• Mosaic

• Bitcoin

• Xanadu

All of the following are examples of early office automation devices EXCEPT

• typewriters

• adding machines

• cash registers

• filing cabinets

• lightbulbs

After leaving the University of Pennsylvania in March 1946, Eckert and Mauchly started their own company named

• Remington Road

• IBM

• UNIVAC

• EMCC

• NCR