wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

History Of Computers

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is regarded as the father of modern computer science in the 20th Century?

a)

Charles Babbage

b)

Alan Turing

c)

Ada Lovelace

d)

Clifford E. Berry

2.

What was invented by Charles Babbage?

(a)  

3.

What was the first high level language called which, later developed into COBOL?

a)

Boolean Algebra

b)

Java

c)

FORTRAN

d)

FLOW-MATIC

4.

A secret British computer designed to break the German wartime codes during World War-II

a)

Harvard Mark-I

b)

The Hollerith Machine

c)

Colossus

d)

ENIAC

5.

Identify the machine.

a)

Jacquard

Loom

b)

Harvard Mark-I

c)

UNIVAC

d)

Microprocessor

6.

What was the first smartphone released in 1993 where customers could use the touchscreens to select phone numbers?

(a)  

7.

Devices like phones, household appliances that contain very small computers that perform limited functions specific to that device

(a)  

8.

Statement 1: Mainframe is a powerful version of a server capable of handling huge applications and data processing.

Statement 2: Third Generation computers developed in 1960s were made up of vacuum tubes.

a)

Both statement 1 and statement 2 are correct.

b)

Statement 1 is correct and Statement 2 is incorrect .

c)

Statement 1 is incorrect

and

Statement 2 is correct.

d)

Both statement 1 and statement 2 are incorrect.

9.

Which is the first web browser released in 1994?

(a)  

10.

Which operating system is shown here?

(a)  

11.

Which was the first video game developed in 1958?

(a)  

12.

The fifth generation computers developed in 1980s used _______ and ________.

a)

Artificial Intelligence

(AI)

b)

Vacuum

Tubes

c)

Microprocessor

d)

Punched Cards

13.

Simple mechanical devices developed in 17th Century to assist in tedious and repetitive calculations.

a)

Napier's Bones

b)

Slide Rule

c)

Pascaline

d)

Stepped

Reckoner

14.

Developed in 6th Century identify this device used to aid calculations.

(a)  

15.

Who is credited with inventing E-Mail in 1971?

a)

Bon Kahn

b)

Vinton Gray Cerf

c)

Ray Tomlinson

d)

Charley Kline