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Early Calculating devices and Computer Generations Grade 4

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Early People used ______ for counting.

a)

Fingers

b)

Stones

c)

Pebbles

d)

All of the above

2.

_____________ is the first calculating device.

a)

Fingers

b)

Abacus

c)

Pascaline

d)

Step Reckoner

3.

Identify the device

a)

Abacus

b)

Tabulating Machine

c)

Pascaline

d)

Step Reckoner

4.

Pascaline was invented in ______ by _________.

a)

1642, Blaise Pascal

b)

1672, Blaise Pascal

c)

1642, Gottfried Wilhelm

d)

1642, Charles Babbage

5.

_______ is the first calculator that can perform all arithmetic operations.

a)

Pascaline

b)

Step Reckoner

c)

Difference Engince

d)

None

6.

_______ is the first computer programmer.

a)

Blaise Pascal

b)

Wilhelm

c)

Lady Ada Lovelace

d)

None

7.

Herman Hollerith invented _____________ in _______.

a)

Difference Engine, 1890

b)

Tabulating Machine, 1990

c)

Tabulating Machine, 1890

d)

None

8.

IBM stands for ______________

a)

International Business Machine

b)

Indian Business Machine

c)

International Machine

d)

None

9.

Identify the machine

a)

Step Reckoner

b)

Analytical Engine

c)

Hollerith's Tabulating Machine

d)

None

10.

Leibniz Step Reckoner was invented in _______

a)

1642

b)

1672

c)

1822

d)

1890

11.

Instructions given to Babbage's analytical engine were in the form of _________.

a)

Numbers

b)

Alphabets

c)

0's and 1's

d)

None

12.

_________ is the first mechanical calculator

a)

Abacus

b)

Step Reckoner

c)

Pascaline

d)

None

13.

_______ is the first Mechanical Calculator

a)

Abacus

b)

Pascaline

c)

Step Reckoner

d)

Analytical Engine

14.

MARK - I was invented by __________

a)

John Mauchly

b)

Prof Howard Aikens

c)

Presper Eckertles

d)

Charles Babbage

15.

_________ is the first Electronic Computer.

a)

ENIAC

b)

UNIVAS

c)

MARK I

d)

NONE

16.

First generation computers ___________

a)

IC

b)

Transistors

c)

Vaccum Tubes

d)

Microprocessor

17.

________ is the used in the third generation computers

a)

IC

b)

Transistors

c)

Vaccum Tubes

d)

Microprocessor

18.

The first version of GUI OS was released in the year (a)  

19.

The first desktop PC was released by (a)  

20.

_______ were used to store data in second generation computers.

a)

Hard Disk

b)

Magnetic Tapes

c)

Magnetic Drums

d)

Pen Drive