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WorksheetsIBM Fun Facts
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
IBM was founded in _______ over 100 years ago
San Francisco
Houston
New York
Los Angeles
Inventor Herman Hollerith started IBM as the ‘Tabulating Machine Company’ in:
1896
1911
1896
1912
____ IBM employees won the Nobel Peace Prize.
10
5
3
2
In this 1996 this computer defeated the famous chess world champion, Garry Kasparov
Deep Blue
Big Blue
Watson
Blue
Name of the IBM employee that developed the magnetic stripe technology
Jerry Smith
Joe Robbins
Jerome Power
Jerome Svigals
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.
2013
2015
2011
2009
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.
David Rand
Jerome Powers
Paul Rand
Jerome Svigals
The company’s slogan “Think” was created in ------ by Thomas. J Watson
1911
1914
1915
1918
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.
"Great blue"
"Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company"
"CTR"
“Big Blue”
Name of the IBM invention: the world’s smallest computer, specifically for blockchain. (size of a grain of salt)
Raspberry pi
Michigan Micro Mote
Cripto-anchor
Compute Stick
IBM's ------ has helped launch more than 500 new businesses in areas of green energy, health care and transportation.
ThinkCamp
SmartCamp
IBM hackaton
Edge
257 IBMers have been named IBM Fellows in the history of the program and have collectively generated -----patents.
7,700
12,500
7,000
3250
Experts believe that the phone --------- was the first real smartphone.
SPC
Raspberry
Bellsouth
TCH
IBM computers helped American astronauts landing on the moon in what years?
1967- 1972
1968 -1971
1966- 1972
1969 – 1971
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.
Boy and His Atom
The boy and IBM
The playing atom
The smart atom
IBM has seen substantial growth in the number of senior women executives globally from 185 in 1997 to more than -------today
1200
1500
1000
2500
Year when IBM invents FORTRAN, a computer coding language that would form the basis for most other modern coding languages.
1957
1953
1952
1955
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.
1957
1956
1959
1960
