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Computing Quiz

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of these is not a measurement of data?
a)
Bit
b)
Kilobyte
c)
Centimetre
d)
Byte
2.

What does the "e" in email stand for?

a)

Expensive

b)

Electronic

c)

Ever so clever

d)

Exemplary

3.

What is the "a" that lets you add a file to an email (eg, picture, sound, document)?

a)

Arrangement

b)

Amusement

c)

Amplification

d)

Attachment

4.

What is the name for an error in coding?

a)

Bug

b)

Bag

c)

Big

d)

Bothersome

5.
How may bits are in a byte?
a)
16x16
b)
1
c)
256
d)
8
6.

It stores all your data.

a)

network drive

b)

hard drive

c)

file manager

7.

Who is this icon of Computing?

a)

Steve Jobs

b)

Charles Babbage

c)

Alan Turing

d)

Grace Hopper

e)

Bill Gates

8.

Who is this icon of Computing?

a)

Steve Jobs

b)

Charles Babbage

c)

Alan Turing

d)

Grace Hopper

e)

Bill Gates

9.

Who is this icon of Computing?

a)

Steve Jobs

b)

Charles Babbage

c)

Alan Turing

d)

Grace Hopper

e)

Bill Gates

10.

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

11.

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

12.

What was the name of Tommy Flowers' invention - the first electronic, digital, programmable computer?

a)

Colossus

b)

Wolverine

c)

Magneto

d)

Valve

e)

Enigma

13.

What is the name of the number system that uses only two values?

a)

Binary

b)

English

c)

COBOL

d)

Decimal

e)

MS-DOS

14.

What is the name of the parent company of Google?

a)

YouTube

b)

Alphabet

c)

Android

d)

Apple

e)

Microsoft

15.

In 1804 this man made a loom machine that could read punched (programmed) cards that would weave in different ways to create different types of fabric

a)

Joseph-Marie Jacquard

b)

John Vincent Atanasoff

c)

Tommy Flowers

d)

Steve Wozniak

e)

Sergey Brin

16.

Google docs is an example for cloud computing

a)

True

b)

False

17.
What was the earliest recognized device for computing?
a)
papyrus tables
b)
the abacus
c)
the astrolabe
d)
the slide rule
18.
Where and when was the abacus invented?
a)
in Egypt around 5000 BCE
b)
in Europe around 250 BCE
c)
in Mesopotamia around 2500 BCE
d)
in Africa around 500 BCE
19.
In the early days, a "computer" was ___
a)
any new tool that aided calculations
b)
a person who did calculations
c)
a series of step reckoners
d)
a device for storing data