CCS QUIZ BEE - Computer Wiki Quiz

Who is considered the 'father of the computer'?

• Charles Babbage

• Alan Turing

• John von Neumann

• Tommy Flowers

Which was the world's first stored-program computer?

• Manchester Baby

• ENIAC

• Colossus

• Ferranti Mark 1

What was the first electronic digital programmable computer used to break German ciphers during World War II?

• Manchester Baby

• Ferranti Mark 1

• Colossus

• ENIAC

Who developed the first working transistor in 1947?

• John Bardeen

• Julius Edgar Lilienfeld

• William Shockley

• Walter Brattain

Which computer was the first commercially available general-purpose computer?

• Ferranti Mark 1

• ENIAC

• Manchester Baby

• Colossus

Who invented the metal–oxide–silicon field-effect transistor (MOSFET) at Bell Labs in 1959?

• Dawon Kahng

• Mohamed M. Atalla

• Robert Noyce

• Jack Kilby

What was the first truly compact transistor that could be miniaturized and mass-produced for a wide range of uses?

• MOSFET

• Microprocessor

• Bipolar junction transistors

• Integrated circuits

Which invention led to the microcomputer revolution and became the driving force behind the computer revolution?

• MOSFET

• Integrated circuits

• Magnetic-core memory

• Bipolar junction transistors

What is the fundamental building block of digital electronics?

• Integrated circuits

• MOSFET

• Microprocessor

• Bipolar junction transistors

Which type of computer memory was the computer memory of choice in the 1960s before being replaced by semiconductor memory?

• ROM

• Cache memory

• Magnetic-core memory

• RAM