COMPUTER JSS2 SECOND TERM QUESTIONS

The history of counting can be traced back to the year _____

• 300BC

• 2021AD

• 500AD

• 100BC

All of the following are early counting tools except:

• Computers

• Calculators

• Abacus

• Pebbles

Fingers and toes, leaves, nuts, cowries and shells are referred to as _____ counting tools

• Old

• New

• Early

• Late

_______ is the first device that was used to help people count

• Slide rule

• Blaise Pascal machine

• Abacus

• None of the above

Slide rule was invented by _______

• Charles Babbage

• Blaise Pascal

• John Napier

• William Oughtred

Slide rule is used for ______ and ______ mathematical functions

• Addition, Division

• Multiplication, Division

• Addition, Subtraction

• Division and Subtraction

Electro-mechanical counting devices are operated both by ____ and ___

• Electronically, Electrically

• Mechanically and Electrically

• Mechanically and Electronically

• All of the above

Napier's Bones was invented by a Scottish mathematician named

• John Bone

• Napier Bone

• George Napier

• John Napier

Who invented the device that first used the 'Punch card'?

• John Bone

• Jacquard Joseph Marie

• Blaise Pascal

• William Oughtred

Who built what became the first computer?

• Charles Babbage

• John Napier

• Philip Emeagwali

• Joseph Marie Jacquard