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WorksheetsHistory of Computing
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is this?
A cheese grater
An abacus
A game
An early camera
Who invented the Difference Engine?
Charles Blubber
Charles Babbage
Charles Baggage
Charles Blagger
What was special about the Stepped Reckoner?
It could add and subtract, multiply and divide
It used electricity
It was made of plastic
It could only add numbers up
This is a Bombe machine used in WWII, where is it kept?
In the kitchen
In Hampton Court Palace
In the Science Museum
At Bletchley Park
The first electronic computing machine was invented by _________ to compile data for the 1890 United States census.
Francis Holberton
Ada Byron
Herman Hollerith
Grace Hopper
Many early computers were big enough to fill a whole room and weighed thousands of pounds.
TRUE
FALSE
Part of the reason computers were so big was that they relied on large ________ to relay information through the system.
microchips
triode vacuum tubes
transitors
computers
The transistor replaced the __________?
Analytical Engine
Microchip
Vacuum Tube
Solid State Memory
An algorithm is:
One packet of data sent from one part of the computer to another
A series of fixed steps used to complete a specific process
The way punch cards were punched
The core processor for the first personal computer
How many generations of computer history are there?
3
4
5
6
In 1890, Herman Hollerith founded this company:
Texas Instruments
AT&T
IBM
ASUS
Identify this computer component:
Transistor
Integrated Circuit (IC)
Microprocessor
Vacuum Tube
Which company invented the first microprocessor in 1971?
Microsoft
Apple
Intel
Texas Instruments
Who is this icon of Computing?
Steve Jobs
Charles Babbage
Alan Turing
Grace Hopper
Bill Gates
Who is this icon of Computing?
Steve Jobs
Charles Babbage
Alan Turing
Grace Hopper
Bill Gates
Who is this icon of Computing?
Steve Jobs
Charles Babbage
Alan Turing
Grace Hopper
Bill Gates
Often credited with being the first ever computer programmer, Who is this?
Ada Lovelace
Taylor Swift
Margaret Thatcher
Eva Longoria
Carrie-Anne Matthews
What was the name of the top-secret home of the World War Two Codebreakers, who broke the Nazi enigma code?
Bletchley Park
Belper Mills
Buckingham Palace
Castle Manor
Kensington House
Grace Hopper found a moth stuck in a relay responsible for a malfunction, and removed it, calling it _______.
Operating
Cleaning
Hacking
Debugging
Name the person.
Alan Turing
Al-Khwarizmi
Ada Lovelace
Charles Babbage
