NEW
Font size
WorksheetsComputer
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 21mins
What is this?
This is a computer.
This is a keyboard
This is a monitor
This is a CPU
Who is Mark Zuckerberg
an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist who co-founded Facebook
a British technology entrepreneur and philanthropist who co-founded Facebook
an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded Facebook
a computer hacker
Who founded Google?
Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg
Larry Page
Sergey Brin and Elon Mask
What is Jeff Bezos famous for?
Tesla Motors
Amazon
Amazonia
Who helped in develop the Argus programming language?
Barbara Liskov
Barbara Lippett
John Argus
Argus Liskov
The principal founder of the Microsoft Corporation is:
Steve Jobs
Bill Gates
Larry Page
Clint Bezos
Apple Inc is a multinational technology company founded by:
Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne
Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne and Larry Page
Ronald Wayne, Larry Page and Bill Gates
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs
Computers are great machines for:
repetitive tasks
impossible tasks
small tasks
practical tasks
One of the dangers of using a computer is using it too much for way too long without moving or thinking for myself.
True
False
The 20-20-20 rule aims to help prevent and relieve digital eye strain.
True
False
Ada Lovelace is best known for:
her work on the Analytical Machine and for publishing the first algorithm
her work on the first digital computer
her work on developing Twitter
her work on developing Mathematics for programming
The basis of the first digital computer were developed thanks to huge contributions from:
John Von Neumann
Ada Lovelace
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
The von Neumann architecture is a computer architecture based on a 1945 description by the mathematician and physicist John von Neumann
True
False
Alan Turing was a British computer scientist who was highly influential in the development of:
formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine
linear programming
the mainframe computer
computer ergonomics
The Turing Machine, developed by Alan Turing can be considered as a model of the general purpose computer as we know it today.
True
False
Who is the English cryptanalyst best known for her work as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World War
Joan Clarke
Ada Lovelace
Amy Turner
Grace Hooper
Joan Clarke had an important role in a project that decrypted Nazi Germany's secret communications. Which project was this?
Enigma Project
Nazi Project
Encrypto Project
Bit coin Project
Tommy Flowers was an English engineer who worked with the British Post Office
True
False
Tommy Flowers designed and built Colossus, which was:
the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages
the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve complex mathematical equations
the world's first printer
the world's first electronic pager
Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy admiral. She was also a:
pioneer of computer programming
computer hardware scientist
co-developer of the first computer
pioneer of solar engineering
A computer is a digital machine, good at:
following a set of mathematical equations
following a set of instructions called an algorithm
following clever programs
following a list of encrypted data
