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HISTORY COMPUTERS : FROM ABACUS TO SMARTPHONES - Adha Singh 7G

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1. The first generation computers developed between ______.

a)

1955-1965

b)

1945-1965

c)

1999-2002

d)

1945-1955

2.

2. Third generation computers used ______.

a)

vaccum tubes

b)

transistors

c)

integrated circuits

d)

miicroprocessors

3.

3. Who created the first video game?

a)

William Higinbotham

b)

Steve Russell

c)

Donald Davies

d)

Ada Lovelace

4.

4. The development of mosaic by _______.

a)

Marco Polo

b)

Marc Andreessen

c)

Charles Babbage

d)

Herman Hollerith

5.

5. Ray Tomlinson worked as an ______.

a)

EDVAC CONTRACTOR

b)

ENIAC CONTRACTOR

c)

UNIVAC CONTRACTOR

d)

ARPANET CONTRACTOR

6.

6. _______ built the first mechanical programmable computer.

a)

Clifford E. Berry

b)

Colossus

c)

Konrad Zuse

d)

Alan Turing

7.

7. Stepped Reckoner made by ______ using flutes.

a)

Leibniz

b)

Pascal

c)

Schickard

d)

Qwerty

8.

8. _______ is one of the most important concepts in computers.

a)

Analytical Engine

b)

Boolean logic

c)

FLOW-MATIC

d)

cryptography

9.

9. ________ released the Linux operating system.

a)

Charles Kline

b)

Bill Duvall

c)

Ericsson

d)

Linus Torvalds

10.

10. Abacus was made in _______.

a)

5th century

b)

3rd century

c)

6th century

d)

8th century

11.

11. Slide rule was used by NASA engineers in the Apollo mission in the __________.

a)

1960s

b)

1970s

c)

1950s

d)

1980s

12.

12. Devices with gears and flutes for calculation: _______.

a)

18th-19th century

b)

16th-17th century

c)

14th-15th century

d)

16th-18th century