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History of the Computer

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

It is an Electronic machine that accepts information (DATA). processes it according to specific instructions, and provides the results as new Information

a)

Computer

b)

Compute

c)

Computing Device

d)

Computing Machine

2.

It was an ancient memory aid device to record and document numbers, quantities, or even messages

a)

tally sheet

b)

tally sticks

c)

tally board

d)

tally paper

3.

The first manual computing device.

a)

Abacus

b)

Stepped Reckoner

c)

Counting Clock

d)

Stones and Pebbles

4.

Abacus was originated from __________________.

a)

China

b)

Babylonia

c)

Asia

d)

Japan

5.

A calculating machine invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz.

a)

Pascaline

b)

Stepped Reckoner

c)

Calculating Clock

d)

Arithmometer

6.

He was known as the " Father of the Modern Computer".

a)

Wilhelm Shickard

b)

Blaise Pascal

c)

Charles Babbage

d)

Charles Xavier

7.

The world's first computer programmer.

a)

Grace Hopper

b)

Lady Ada Byron

c)

Charles Babbage

d)

Bill Gates

8.

The invention of Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar.

a)

Anemometer

b)

Arithmometer

c)

Stepped Reckoner

d)

Analytical Engine

9.

The computing device that was powered by steam.

a)

Analytical Engine

b)

Calculating Clock

c)

Difference Engine

d)

Arithmometer

10.

An electronic device used to process and store data.

a)

Calculator

b)

Computer

c)

Jacquard Loom

d)

Abacus

11.

It is considered as the first printing calculator invented by Per Georg Scheutz

a)

Scheutzian Calculation Engine

b)

Scheutzian Calculator Engine

c)

Scheutzian Calculato

d)

Scheutzian Calculation

12.

It is the first electro-mechanical computer and it is also know as IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC)

a)

Mark Harvard 1

b)

Mark Harvard 2

c)

Harvard Mark 1

d)

Harvard Mark 2

13.

It is the first programmable computer created by Konrad Zuse in Germany from 1936 to 1938

a)

Zuse 1

b)

Zuse 2

c)

Z1

d)

Z2

14.

It was the first electronic digital computing device invented by Professor John and his student Clifford

a)

ABC

b)

ABCD

c)

AB

d)

AC

15.

It was the first electronic general purpose computer, completed last 1946 by John Presper Eckert and John Mauchly

a)

ENIAC

b)

UNIVAC 1

c)

EDVAC

d)

Osborne 1

16.

It was the first commercial computer

a)

ENIAC

b)

UNIVAC 1

c)

EDVAC

d)

Osborne 1

17.

It was the first stored program computer

a)

ENIAC

b)

UNIVAC 1

c)

EDVAC

d)

Osborne 1

18.

It was the first portable computer

a)

ENIAC

b)

UNIVAC 1

c)

EDVAC

d)

Osborne 1

19.

First Generation

(a)  

20.

Second Generation

(a)  

21.

Third Generation

(a)  

22.

Fourth Generation

(a)  

23.

Fifth Generation

(a)