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Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
Who created the first mechanical computer?
Steve Wozniak
Charles Babbage
Ada Lovelace
Herman Hollerith
The first electric programmable computer is known as ___.
Colossus
Abacus
Eniac
Turing Machine
A series of 0 and 1 are known as ___.
tertiary
trinary
binary
programming
The first computer programmer is known as ___.
Charles Babbage
Ada Lovelace
Steve Jobs
Alan Turing
The original founders of apple are ___.
Steve Wozniac and Charles Babbage
Steve Jobs and Herman Hollerith
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac
Herman Hollerith and Charles Babbage
A programmable machine can :
perform a number of task
do math faster than a person
read multiple computer languages
display data on a screen
What organization was the first to benefit from Herman Hollerith's machines?
the Union Pacific Railroad
the patent office
the IBM corporation
the U.S. government
If you were one of the first people to operate ENIAC, what information would you likely have computed?
Bombing targets
Planetary movements
Stock prices
Census data
Which of the following word pairs best symbolizes the ones and zeroes in binary code?
sight and sound
yes and no
red and blue
want and need
The first generations of computers contains__.
IBM
microprocessors
vacuum tubes
transistors
How many generations of computers are they?
1
3
0
5
The third generations of computers included ___.
vacuum tubes
integrated circuits
artificial intelligence
microprocessors
Which of these terms best describes the average computer buyer in the 1960s?
small business
large institution
elementary school
amateur hobbyist
The second generation of computers contain ___.
transistors
microprocessors
integrated circuits
artificial intelligence
A counting machine that uses beads that goes up and down is known as a(n) ___.
ENIAC
Abacus
Colossus
Integrated circuits
The name of the first computer video game was ___.
Space Invaders
Super Mario
Spacewar
Super Colossus
Choose the best answer for this image.
microprocessors
integrated circuits
transistors
artificial intelligence
Choose the best answer for this image.
microprocessors
integrated circuits
vacuum tubes
transistors
Choose the best answer for this image.
integrated circuits
microprocessors
transistors
artificial intelligence
Choose the best answer for this image.
vacuum tubes
microprocessors
transistors
integrated circuits
Choose the best answer for this image.
integrated circuit
microprocessor
vacuum tube
transistor
___ was known as the father of computers.
Steve Jobs
Howard Aiken
Charles Babbage
John Vincent Atanasoff
What term was used when a moth flew into a computer and caused an error?
byte
debugging
bugging
terabyte
Who started Microsoft?
Steve Wozniac
Steve Jobs
Warren Buffett
Bill Gates
Before Google was named Google, it was named ___.
AOL
IBM
BackRub
Apple
What does the acronym DOS stands for?
Disk operating system
Do one sentence
Dos operating system
Disk opinion symposium
Who invented the world wide web?
Jack Kilby
Tim Berners- Lee
Ed Roberts
Charles Babbage
The first personal computer was called the ___.
Altair
Colossus
Apple 1
IBM
Where do we get the term "computer" from?
microprocessor
computation
calculation
comps
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) ____.
analytical device
counting device
computer
calculator
