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Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 8mins
COBOL is a very old computer language. It is not even taught in schools any longer and for many years. Still, in 2017, it is used in how many % of the banking system?
9%
17%
32%
47%
My first computer had how much memory?
1 KB
128 KB
8 MB
16 MB
At the world record of typing speed (held during 50 minutes), how long will it take to type the user manual of E95?
25 days and 3 hours
13 hours
5 days and 2 hours
13 days and 1 hour
What is speed of the transaltantic cable, between US and France, funded by Google, which will should go live in 2020?
640 Gigabits per second
3.2 Terabits per second
5.1 Terabits per second
250 Terabits per second
Abacus: where did it origin from?
China
Japan
France
South America
ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose digital computer was in operation between 1945 and 1955. Why was it put out of action?
Bugs created short-circuits
It was using too much electricity
Struck by lightning
It never really worked
What type of computer was affected by the first computer virus?
Apple II
IBM PC
Sun Microsystems Ultra 10
Newton
What is the most successful Arcade game of all time?
Pac Man
Space Invaders
Street Fighter II
Asteroid
What has been the most popular search request on Google in 2019, globally
World cup
other, ....
India vs South Africa
Notre Dame
The Difference Engine, by Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Was the first mechanical computer to be designed
Never worked during his lifetime due to fight with main engineer
Never worked during his lifetime due to being too early for its area
Was the support for the first algorithm
What is the world speed record for SMS typing. Hint: the text to write is
"The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human."
18.19 s
40.05 s
55.12 s
Nobody ever wrote that sentence
The Digesting Duck automaton by Jacques de Vaucanson was created in 1739
was able to digest food
was able to flap its wings
contained hundreds of parts
was able of quacking
The fastest Supercomputer
is in Japan
is doing one billion billion (10^18) floating point operations per second
is powered by Intel CPUs
costed more than 1 billion $
