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History of Computing

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is this?

a)

A cheese grater

b)

An abacus

c)

A game

d)

An early camera

2.

What calculating machine did the Ancient Greeks use a lot?

a)

The Apple II computer

b)

A Samsung 566

c)

The old fashioned abacus

d)

Stones

3.

Who invented the Difference Engine?

a)

Charles Blubber

b)

Charles Babbage

c)

Charles Baggage

d)

Charles Blagger

4.

What was special about the Stepped Reckoner?

a)

It could add and subtract, multiply and divide

b)

It used electricity

c)

It was made of plastic

d)

It could only add numbers up

5.

This is a Bombe machine used in WWII, where is it kept?

a)

In the kitchen

b)

In Hampton Court Palace

c)

In the Science Museum

d)

At Bletchley Park

6.

What was the Colossus Computer used for

a)

Defrosting frozen chickens

b)

Decoding German secret messages

c)

Preparing canapes for a party

d)

Calculating the time

7.

Which one of these is NOT a Google product

a)
b)
c)
d)
8.

Grace Hopper gave this name to fixing errors in computer code?

a)

Stooking

b)

Blogging

c)

Fixometrics

d)

Debugging

9.

Which of these Apple products was first sold in 2017?

a)
b)
c)
d)
10.

This man invented the Colossus Computer?

a)

Benny Green

b)

Timothy Fellows

c)

Alan Turing

d)

Tommy Flowers

11.

What Company did this man set up?

a)
b)
c)
d)
12.

What did computers use before Integrated Circuits were invented by Jack Kilby?

a)

Valve Technology

b)

Nano Technology

c)

Solar Power

d)

Relays

13.

Which one of these is not a Computer?

a)
b)
c)
d)
14.

Alan Turing changed History in WW II, how?

a)

He invented the modern printer

b)

He invented the machine which cracked Russian secret code

c)

He invented Radar

d)

He invented the machine which cracked German secret code

15.

Searching and Sorting was the main invention of which company?

a)
b)
c)
d)