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IBM Fun Facts

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

IBM was founded in _______ over 100 years ago

a)

San Francisco

b)

Houston

c)

New York

d)

Los Angeles

2.

Inventor Herman Hollerith started IBM as the ‘Tabulating Machine Company’ in:

a)

1896

b)

1911

c)

1896

d)

1912

3.

____ IBM employees won the Nobel Peace Prize.

a)

10

b)

5

c)

3

d)

2

4.

In this 1996 this computer defeated the famous chess world champion, Garry Kasparov

a)

Deep Blue

b)

Big Blue

c)

Watson

d)

Blue

5.

Name of the IBM employee that developed the magnetic stripe technology

a)

Jerry Smith

b)

Joe Robbins

c)

Jerome Power

d)

Jerome Svigals

6.

In the early part of----- “Watson” the IBM computer easily defeated two human “Jeopardy” game show champions and once again, proved the prowess of artificial intelligence.

a)

2013

b)

2015

c)

2011

d)

2009

7.

The current day logo was created in 1972 by a graphic designer named -----and is meant to represent the innovation and expertise of the company.

a)

David Rand

b)

Jerome Powers

c)

Paul Rand

d)

Jerome Svigals

8.

The company’s slogan “Think” was created in ------ by Thomas. J Watson

a)

1911

b)

1914

c)

1915

d)

1918

9.

The company is also popularly known as ------ and the origin of this nickname is still a mystery. Many believe that it’s the logo color and its global order that are the reason for it.

a)

"Great blue"

b)

"Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company"

c)

"CTR"

d)

“Big Blue”

10.

Name of the IBM invention: the world’s smallest computer, specifically for blockchain. (size of a grain of salt)

a)

Raspberry pi

b)

Michigan Micro Mote

c)

Cripto-anchor

d)

Compute Stick

11.

IBM's ------ has helped launch more than 500 new businesses in areas of green energy, health care and transportation.

a)

ThinkCamp

b)

SmartCamp

c)

IBM hackaton

d)

Edge

12.

257 IBMers have been named IBM Fellows in the history of the program and have collectively generated -----patents.

a)

7,700

b)

12,500

c)

7,000

d)

3250

13.

Experts believe that the phone --------- was the first real smartphone.

a)

SPC

b)

Raspberry

c)

Bellsouth

d)

TCH

14.

IBM computers helped American astronauts landing on the moon in what years?

a)

1967- 1972

b)

1968 -1971

c)

1966- 1972

d)

1969 – 1971

15.

Smallest film in the world:

The movie tells the story of a boy and a wayward atom who meet and become friends. It depicts a boy playing with an atom that takes various forms.

a)

Boy and His Atom

b)

The boy and IBM

c)

The playing atom

d)

The smart atom

16.

IBM has seen substantial growth in the number of senior women executives globally from 185 in 1997 to more than -------today

a)

1200

b)

1500

c)

1000

d)

2500

17.

Year when IBM invents FORTRAN, a computer coding language that would form the basis for most other modern coding languages.

a)

1957

b)

1953

c)

1952

d)

1955

18.

Year when IBM invents its RAMAC line of products. These are the first machines to use magnetic data storage in the form of a series of spinning magnetic discs. This architecture would become the dominant model for data storage until the 2010s.

a)

1957

b)

1956

c)

1959

d)

1960