Evolution of Computing Quiz

Who is considered the father of the computer?

• Blaise Pascal

• Charles Babbage

• Alan Turing

• Konrad Zuse

What was the first mechanical adding machine called?

• The Abacus

• The Pascaline

• The Difference Engine

• The Analytical Engine

Who is known as the world's first programmer?

• John von Neumann

• Ada Lovelace

• Herman Hollerith

• Grace Hopper

What was the first fully programmable digital computer?

• The ABC

• The Colossus

• The Z4

• The ENIAC

Who proposed the concept of a universal machine capable of computing anything that is computable?

• Charles Babbage

• Alan Turing

• Gottfried Leibniz

• John von Neumann

What was the first successful electromechanical machine called?

• The Analytical Engine

• The Census Tabulator

• The Mark 1

• The ENIAC

Who invented the first silicon transistor?

• Bell Labs

• John Atanasoff

• Jack Kilby

• Gordon Moore

What was the first programming language introduced in 1949?

• Cobol

• BASIC

• Assembly

• Fortran

Who is credited with coining the term 'debugging'?

• John von Neumann

• Alan Turing

• Grace Hopper

• Ada Lovelace

What was the first stored-program computer?

• The ENIAC

• The EDVAC

• The Mark 1

• The Z4