Computer History Quiz

Who is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer in the 19th century?

• Charles Babbage

• Nikola Tesla

• Thomas Edison

• Leonardo da Vinci

What was the name of the first electronic general-purpose computer, developed during World War II?

• Commodore 64

• IBM 5100

• ENIAC

• Macintosh

In which year was the first computer mouse invented?

• 1950

• 1964

• 1975

• 1980

What was the name of the first high-level programming language, developed in the 1950s?

• Python

• C++

• Java

• Fortran

Who is known as the 'father of the computer' for his work on the Analytical Engine in the 1830s?

• Nikola Tesla

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Charles Babbage

• Thomas Edison

What was the name of the first commercially successful personal computer, released in 1977?

• Apple II

• IBM ThinkPad

• Dell Inspiron

• Microsoft Windows

In which year was the World Wide Web invented?

• 2005

• 1989

• 1995

• 1976

What was the name of the first computer virus, created in the early 1970s?

• Wormy

• Creeper

• Trojan

• Bugzilla

Who developed the first graphical user interface for computers in the 1970s?

• Xerox PARC

• Microsoft

• Apple

• IBM

What was the name of the first computer to use transistors instead of vacuum tubes, introduced in 1956?

• Microsoft Windows

• Commodore 64

• IBM 1401

• Apple Macintosh