Quiz on Early Calculation Machines

The earliest type of calculation machine was called a:

• Abacus

• ENIAC

• Slide Rule

• Napier’s Bones

What is a logarithm?

• A set of instructions

• The power to which a fixed number (the base) must be raised to produce a given number.

• Calculations

• A Counting machine

A manually-operated calculating device used for calculation of products and quotients of numbers were developed by whom?

• Pascaline

• Charles P. Babbage

• Napier’s bones

• Dr. Herman Hollerith

The person is known as the Father of Computers:

• Charles Babbage

• Ada Lovelace

• George Poole

• Alan Turing

The World’s First Computer Programmer is:

• Dr. Herman Hollerith

• Ada Lovelace

• John W. Mauchly

• Presper Eckert Jr.

A mechanical calculator that adds and subtracts two numbers directly and multiply and divide by repetition:

• Pascaline

• Abacus

• Napier’s bones

• Slide Rule

The logic designed to be used later in the design of computer circuitry:

• Modal Logic

• Boolean Logic

• Modus Ponens

• First-order Logic

The person that suggested a binary system should be used for storage rather than a decimal system:

• Ada Lovelace

• Dr. Herman Hollerith

• George Boole

• Lee Dee Forest

A machine designed to perform logical operation that can read and write:

• Vacuum Tube

• Turing Machine

• Harvard Mark I

• ENIAC

What is the name of the first computer designed and sold commercially, specifically, for business data-processing applications?

• UNIVAC I

• IBM System

• Apple Computer

• MacIntosh Computer