WorksheetsHistory of Computing Quiz
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
Who is this icon of Computing?
Steve Jobs
Charles Babbage
Alan Turing
Grace Hopper
Bill Gates
Who is this icon of Computing?
Steve Jobs
Charles Babbage
Alan Turing
Grace Hopper
Bill Gates
Who is this icon of Computing?
Steve Jobs
Charles Babbage
Alan Turing
Grace Hopper
Bill Gates
Who is this icon of Computing?
Steve Jobs
Charles Babbage
Alan Turing
Grace Hopper
Bill Gates
Who is this icon of Computing?
Steve Jobs
Charles Babbage
Alan Turing
Grace Hopper
Bill Gates
Who invented the first calculator in 1645?
Blaise Pascal
Charles Casio
Sir Clive Sinclair
Sir Alan Sugar
Ben Binatone
Who designed the 'difference engine' in 1822, a blueprint for the first modern programmable computer
Charles Babbage
'Wild Bill' Gates
Steve Jobs
Toby La'Rone
Keifer Sutherland
Often credited with being the first ever computer programmer, Who is this?
Ada Lovelace
Taylor Swift
Margaret Thatcher
Eva Longoria
Carrie-Anne Matthews
What was the name of the top-secret home of the World War Two Codebreakers, who broke the Nazi enigma code?
Bletchley Park
Belper Mills
Buckingham Palace
Castle Manor
Kensington House
How many miles of wiring was needed to create Howard Aitkens 1944 computer, the ASCC 'Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator'?
500 miles
500 metres
5 metres
5 miles
50 kilometres
What was the name of Tommy Flowers' invention - the first electronic, digital, programmable computer?
Colossus
Wolverine
Magneto
Valve
Enigma
What is the name of the number system that uses only two values?
Binary
English
COBOL
Decimal
MS-DOS
How many computers did Howard Aiken estimate would be sufficient to satisfy the computing needs of the entire United States?
6
600
60,000
6,000,000
600,000,000
The term 'debugging' came about when Dr Grace Hopper found what had flown into the computer relay she was using?
Moth
Fly
Bee
Wasp
Mosquito
Which of these was the main problem with using valves in early computing?
Overheating
Limited supply
Dangerous chemicals
Nuclear radiation
Flooding
Which organisation was convinced to use MS-DOS as their computer operating system?
IBM
AOL
Apple
Microsoft
What was the original name for Google?
BackRub
Alphabet
Googol
Yahoo
Ask Jeeves
What is the name of the parent company of Google?
YouTube
Alphabet
Android
Apple
Microsoft
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
Joseph-Marie Jacquard
John Vincent Atanasoff
Tommy Flowers
Steve Wozniak
Sergey Brin
