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Technology Innovations

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When the Altair 8800 was made available, this future founder of Microsoft wrote a basic program that allowed the user to interact with the computer more easily.

a)

Steve Jobs

b)

Alan Turing

c)

Bill Gates

d)

Tim Berners-Lee

2.

In 1971, the first internet, connected research facilities and military bases across the United States so that they could share files. It was called:

a)

Phone lines

b)

The Interweb

c)

Skynet

d)

Arpanet

3.

Still alive today, this man invented a way to organize and link web pages together with a system of rules called hypertext transfer protocol (http) in 1989.

a)

Tim Berners Lee

b)

Steve Jobs

c)

Mark Zuckerberg

d)

Bill Gates

4.

The three groups that had access to computers after World War II were...

a)

corporations, schools, and the miltary

b)

the military, corporations, and government

c)

research facilities, homes

d)

the military, government, and corpses

5.

In 1642 a math genius developed this machine, which used a complex system of gears that made addition or subtraction of limitless numbers possible.

a)

Abacus

b)

Calculator

c)

Pascaline

d)

Napier's Bones

6.

He designed the very first video game console allowed you to make your television interactive. You could play games like ping pong by controlling a simple square that moved across the screen with a joystick.

a)

Bill Gates

b)

Steve Wozniak

c)

Charles Babbage

d)

Ralph Baer

7.

This device, the earliest computer, allowed for counting, addition and subtraction using a base 10 system. Users slid beads with assigned values up and down on rods.

a)

Napier's Bones

b)

Pascaline

c)

Calculator

d)

Abacus

8.

This smart phone, developed in 2007, did away with buttons and allowed users to interact with applications using only their finger as an input device.

a)

iPhone

b)

Nokia

c)

Simon

d)

Samsung

9.

During World War II, he developed a complex computer that could break the Enigma code. His ideas brought us into the Digital Age.

a)

Steve Jobs

b)

Bill Gates

c)

Ralph Baer

d)

Alan Turing

10.

Any device that receives data (input), processes data, stores data, and produces a result (output).

a)

abacus

b)

analytical engine

c)

computer

d)

technology

11.

digital

a)

an improvement of an existing technology

b)

number system that is base 2, using only bits 0 and 1, representing on/off or yes/no. This code is how computers record, store, and process data.

c)

any computational device that uses electricity to transmit data using binary language

d)

a number system developed by Robert Napier

12.

a set of instructions given to the processor in a computer.

a)

program

b)

application

c)

computer

d)

file

13.

the protocol (rules) and language that allows all users to develop, publish, and access web pages on the internet.

a)

application

b)

browser

c)

search engine

d)

World Wide Web

14.

Technology

a)

any computer, like a smart phone, desktop, or laptop

b)

the application of what we know from science in order to innovate the world we live in.

c)

basically, anything that people ever made

d)

the study of computers and how they work

15.

Internet

a)

WWW, or the world wide web. It was invented by TIm Berners Lee in 1994.

b)

a series of tubes through which we send information to one another

c)

a program for searching for and accessing information

d)

a global communication network that allows computers to connect to each other and share data with cables and wireless connections (wifi)

16.

A number system that is base 2, using only bits 0 and 1, representing on/off or yes/no. This code is how computers record, store, and process data

a)

metric

b)

decimal

c)

polynomial

d)

binary

17.

Data

a)

Information, whether written, numerical, audio, or visual

b)

Another word for a file

c)

An improvement of an existing technology.

d)

a series of numbers that computers use to communicate

18.

Application

a)

devices like a monitor, speakers, or headphones that can be used to experience output from a computer

b)

the use of skills or resources in order to accomplish a task; also a program designed for users to accomplish a specific task, like word processing, image creation, or sound mixing.

c)

a technique used by technologists to program a computer, or a form you fill out in order to get a job

d)

an icon that you press on your phone screen that opens up a program

19.

This person wrote the first computer program, and saw the potential for computers, stating that one day, they might be programmed to produce images and sound.

a)

Amber Lovas

b)

Ada Lovelace

c)

Katherine Johnson

d)

Leia Lovelace

20.

An improvement of an existing technology.

a)

version

b)

innovation

c)

model

d)

prototype