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Worksheetsmargaret hamilton
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 7mins
What happened in July 1969?
Margaret Hamilton was born.
The first man landed on the moon.
John Kennedy became president.
Margaret Hamilton invented a new kind of software.
Why did the emergency alarm light up during the Apollo mission?
The engine failed.
Margaret's calculations were not correct.
The computer was overloaded.
The astronauts aborted the landing.
Put these words in the correct order:
in-flight
software
pioneering
(a)
TRUE or FALSE: Margaret was always very curious.
TRUE
FALSE
Where did Margaret see her first computer?
When she was a child at school.
When she was a student at MIT.
When she was an engineer at NASA.
What is another word in English for data, or information?
(a)
What does 'unreliable' mean?
You can't depend on it.
You can't connect it.
You can depend on it.
You can connect it.
What expression did Margaret Hamilton invent to describe her job?
(a)
Her system was asynchronous, which means more important jobs interrupt _________ jobs.
not important
less important
least important
too important
How many bugs were in Margaret's software?
0
1
10
100
