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Computer History

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who created the first mechanical computer?

a)

Steve Wozniak

b)

Charles Babbage

c)

Ada Lovelace

d)

Herman Hollerith

2.

The first electric programmable computer is known as ___.

a)

Colossus

b)

Abacus

c)

Eniac

d)

Turing Machine

3.

A series of 0 and 1 are known as ___.

a)

tertiary

b)

trinary

c)

binary

d)

programming

4.

The first computer programmer is known as ___.

a)

Charles Babbage

b)

Ada Lovelace

c)

Steve Jobs

d)

Alan Turing

5.

The original founders of apple are ___.

a)

Steve Wozniac and Charles Babbage

b)

Steve Jobs and Herman Hollerith

c)

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac

d)

Herman Hollerith and Charles Babbage

6.

A programmable machine can :

a)

perform a number of task

b)

do math faster than a person

c)

read multiple computer languages

d)

display data on a screen

7.

What organization was the first to benefit from Herman Hollerith's machines?

a)

the Union Pacific Railroad

b)

the patent office

c)

the IBM corporation

d)

the U.S. government

8.

If you were one of the first people to operate ENIAC, what information would you likely have computed?

a)

Bombing targets

b)

Planetary movements

c)

Stock prices

d)

Census data

9.

Which of the following word pairs best symbolizes the ones and zeroes in binary code?

a)

sight and sound

b)

yes and no

c)

red and blue

d)

want and need

10.

The first generations of computers contains__.

a)

IBM

b)

microprocessors

c)

vacuum tubes

d)

transistors

11.

How many generations of computers are they?

a)

1

b)

3

c)

0

d)

5

12.

The third generations of computers included ___.

a)

vacuum tubes

b)

integrated circuits

c)

artificial intelligence

d)

microprocessors

13.

Which of these terms best describes the average computer buyer in the 1960s?

a)

small business

b)

large institution

c)

elementary school

d)

amateur hobbyist

14.

The second generation of computers contain ___.

a)

transistors

b)

microprocessors

c)

integrated circuits

d)

artificial intelligence

15.

A counting machine that uses beads that goes up and down is known as a(n) ___.

a)

ENIAC

b)

Abacus

c)

Colossus

d)

Integrated circuits

16.

The name of the first computer video game was ___.

a)

Space Invaders

b)

Super Mario

c)

Spacewar

d)

Super Colossus

17.

Choose the best answer for this image.

a)

microprocessors

b)

integrated circuits

c)

transistors

d)

artificial intelligence

18.

Choose the best answer for this image.

a)

microprocessors

b)

integrated circuits

c)

vacuum tubes

d)

transistors

19.

Choose the best answer for this image.

a)

integrated circuits

b)

microprocessors

c)

transistors

d)

artificial intelligence

20.

Choose the best answer for this image.

a)

vacuum tubes

b)

microprocessors

c)

transistors

d)

integrated circuits

21.

Choose the best answer for this image.

a)

integrated circuit

b)

microprocessor

c)

vacuum tube

d)

transistor

22.

___ was known as the father of computers.

a)

Steve Jobs

b)

Howard Aiken

c)

Charles Babbage

d)

John Vincent Atanasoff

23.

What term was used when a moth flew into a computer and caused an error?

a)

byte

b)

debugging

c)

bugging

d)

terabyte

24.

Who started Microsoft?

a)

Steve Wozniac

b)

Steve Jobs

c)

Warren Buffett

d)

Bill Gates

25.

Before Google was named Google, it was named ___.

a)

AOL

b)

IBM

c)

BackRub

d)

Apple

26.

What does the acronym DOS stands for?

a)

Disk operating system

b)

Do one sentence

c)

Dos operating system

d)

Disk opinion symposium

27.

Who invented the world wide web?

a)

Jack Kilby

b)

Tim Berners- Lee

c)

Ed Roberts

d)

Charles Babbage

28.

The first personal computer was called the ___.

a)

Altair

b)

Colossus

c)

Apple 1

d)

IBM

29.

Where do we get the term "computer" from?

a)

microprocessor

b)

computation

c)

calculation

d)

comps

30.

An electronic device for storing and processing data, typically in binary form, according to instructions given to it in a variable program is known as a(n) ____.

a)

analytical device

b)

counting device

c)

computer

d)

calculator