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History of Computing Quiz

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is this icon of Computing?

a)

Steve Jobs

b)

Charles Babbage

c)

Alan Turing

d)

Grace Hopper

e)

Bill Gates

2.

Who is this icon of Computing?

a)

Steve Jobs

b)

Charles Babbage

c)

Alan Turing

d)

Grace Hopper

e)

Bill Gates

3.

Who is this icon of Computing?

a)

Steve Jobs

b)

Charles Babbage

c)

Alan Turing

d)

Grace Hopper

e)

Bill Gates

4.

Who is this icon of Computing?

a)

Steve Jobs

b)

Charles Babbage

c)

Alan Turing

d)

Grace Hopper

e)

Bill Gates

5.

Who is this icon of Computing?

a)

Steve Jobs

b)

Charles Babbage

c)

Alan Turing

d)

Grace Hopper

e)

Bill Gates

6.

Who invented the first calculator in 1645?

a)

Blaise Pascal

b)

Charles Casio

c)

Sir Clive Sinclair

d)

Sir Alan Sugar

e)

Ben Binatone

7.

Who designed the 'difference engine' in 1822, a blueprint for the first modern programmable computer

a)

Charles Babbage

b)

'Wild Bill' Gates

c)

Steve Jobs

d)

Toby La'Rone

e)

Keifer Sutherland

8.

Often credited with being the first ever computer programmer, Who is this?

a)

Ada Lovelace

b)

Taylor Swift

c)

Margaret Thatcher

d)

Eva Longoria

e)

Carrie-Anne Matthews

9.

What was the name of the top-secret home of the World War Two Codebreakers, who broke the Nazi enigma code?

a)

Bletchley Park

b)

Belper Mills

c)

Buckingham Palace

d)

Castle Manor

e)

Kensington House

10.

How many miles of wiring was needed to create Howard Aitkens 1944 computer, the ASCC 'Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator'?

a)

500 miles

b)

500 metres

c)

5 metres

d)

5 miles

e)

50 kilometres

11.

What was the name of Tommy Flowers' invention - the first electronic, digital, programmable computer?

a)

Colossus

b)

Wolverine

c)

Magneto

d)

Valve

e)

Enigma

12.

What is the name of the number system that uses only two values?

a)

Binary

b)

English

c)

COBOL

d)

Decimal

e)

MS-DOS

13.

How many computers did Howard Aiken estimate would be sufficient to satisfy the computing needs of the entire United States?

a)

6

b)

600

c)

60,000

d)

6,000,000

e)

600,000,000

14.

The term 'debugging' came about when Dr Grace Hopper found what had flown into the computer relay she was using?

a)

Moth

b)

Fly

c)

Bee

d)

Wasp

e)

Mosquito

15.

Which of these was the main problem with using valves in early computing?

a)

Overheating

b)

Limited supply

c)

Dangerous chemicals

d)

Nuclear radiation

e)

Flooding

16.

Which organisation was convinced to use MS-DOS as their computer operating system?

a)

IBM

b)

AOL

c)

Google

d)

Apple

e)

Microsoft

17.

What was the original name for Google?

a)

BackRub

b)

Alphabet

c)

Googol

d)

Yahoo

e)

Ask Jeeves

18.

What is the name of the parent company of Google?

a)

YouTube

b)

Alphabet

c)

Android

d)

Apple

e)

Microsoft

19.

In 1804 this man made a loom machine that could read punched (programmed) cards that would weave in different ways to create different types of fabric

a)

Joseph-Marie Jacquard

b)

John Vincent Atanasoff

c)

Tommy Flowers

d)

Steve Wozniak

e)

Sergey Brin