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Computing History

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who invented the Difference Engine?

a)

Charles Blubber

b)

Charles Babbage

c)

Charles Baggage

d)

Charles Blagger

2.

What Company did this man set up?

a)
b)
c)
d)
3.

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

4.

Who is this icon of Computing?

a)

Steve Jobs

b)

Charles Babbage

c)

Alan Turing

d)

Grace Hopper

e)

Bill Gates

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Graphic User Interface (GUI) made computers more user-friendly because:

a)

they became faster.

b)

they became smaller.

c)

they used icons instead of commands.

d)

they used a mouse.

9.

Who was the inventor of the first Apple computer?

a)

Bill Gates

b)

Steve Wozniak

c)

Steve Jobs

d)

Sergey Brin

10.
Which English polymath is often considered the "father of computing"?
a)
Bertrand Russell
b)
Gottfried Leibniz
c)
Sir Isaac Newton
d)
Charles Babbage
11.
Herman Hollerith's “electro-mechanical” tabulating machine was used during the census of ___
a)
1860
b)
1890
c)
1960
d)
1990
12.
Hollerith’s machine stored data on a series of ___
a)
magnetic tapes
b)
punched cards
c)
hard drives
d)
floppy disks
13.
Hollerith’s machine was much faster than manual tabulations, and the Census was completed in just ___
a)
two and a half months
b)
seven years
c)
two and a half years
d)
seven years
14.
To meet demand for his tabulating machines, Hollerith founded ___
a)
Dell Computer Company
b)
Compaq Computers
c)
The Tabulating Machine Company
d)
The U.S. Census Bureau
15.
In 1924, several machine companies merged to become IBM, The ___ Corporation
a)
 Industrial Business Machines
b)
International Business Machines
c)
Industrial Babbage Machines
d)
International Babbage Machines
16.
Ada Lovelace is considered the world's first what?
a)
computer language
b)
computer programmer
programmer
c)
smart lady
d)
mathematician
mathematician
17.
This important invention began the development of the second generation computers, which no longer required vacuum tubes, and were much more efficient and less expensive.
a)
CPU
b)
Transistor
c)
Silicon chip
d)
Integrated circuit
18.
What company did Paul Allen and Bill Gates start
a)
Microsoft
b)
Windows
c)
Apple
d)
Minecraft
19.
What company did Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniack start?
a)
Apple
b)
Orange
c)
Microsoft
d)
Dell
20.

What industry did Amazon start in?

a)

Smart Assistants

b)

Books

c)

Grocery

d)

Electronic books

21.

Date of the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite, called Sputnik, launched by the Soviet Union.

a)

October 12, 1938

b)

November 30, 1952

c)

March 29, 1983

d)

October 4th, 1957

22.

Which private company manufactures and uses the Falcon Heavy rocket?

a)

NASA

b)

Concorde

c)

SpaceX

d)

None of the above

23.

Which is the only country to have manned missions to the Moon?

a)

China

b)

Russia

c)

United States of America

d)

Canada

24.
What was ARPANET
a)
The first computer
b)
A way of calculating things
c)
The first packet switching network
d)
The first artificial intelligence
25.
Who founded Google?
a)
William Thompson & Mike Womack
b)
Larry Byrd & Walter Seargent
c)
Sergey Brin & Larry Page
d)
Paige Lawson & Brin Laray
26.
When was Google founded?
a)
1868
b)
1962
c)
1998
d)
2004
27.
A website that allows you to search the internet is a ________________ ________________.
a)
Search Engine
b)
Web Browser
c)
Internet Provider
d)
Site Finder
28.

What does GUI stand for?

a)

Genuine Umpire Impressions

b)

Graphical User Interface

c)

Graphic Up Industry

29.

The term OS is short for?

a)

Apple

b)

Operating Software

c)

Operating System

d)

Overload System

30.
Which of the following is the process of starting or restarting a computer or mobile device?
a)
Booting
b)
Lauching 
c)
Loading
d)
Keying
31.
What did Steve Jobs see at Xerox Park that inspired him to create the Macintosh?
a)
Copiers being used to make identical copies of paper
b)
Graphical User Interface with a mouse interaction
c)
Keyboard & Monitor Connected to a computer
d)
A demonstration of the IBM Personal Computer
32.
Where did Gates get the idea to make Windows?
a)
Took the idea from Apple
b)
Took the idea from IBM
c)
Took the idea from Xerox
d)
Took the idea from the Altair 8800
33.
______ invented the cell phone.
a)
Martin Short
b)
Martin Cooper
c)
Martin Lawrence
d)
Martin Luther King
34.
What year was the cell phone created?
a)
1980
b)
1984
c)
1994
d)
2004
35.
Who is the CEO of Space X, a private space company? 
a)
Elon Musk
b)
Bill Gates
36.
What is the Space X Falcon Heavy Rocket?
a)
space shuttle
b)
World's most powerful rocket
37.
The German code making machine was called ____.
a)
Enigma
b)
Barbarossa
c)
Radar
d)
Luftwaffa
38.
What machine was used during WWII to encrypt and decrypt German messages?
a)
Enigma
b)
Atbash
c)
Secret
d)
Puzzler
39.

Who is the founder of Facebook?

a)

Tim Cook

b)

Ryan Holmes

c)

John Legere

d)

Mark Zuckerberg

40.

When did Facebook go live?

a)

January 4, 2003

b)

February 4 2004

c)

March 4, 2005

d)

April 4, 2006

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