WorksheetsTechnical Quiz-Round 1
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
What was the primary technology used in first-generation computers?
Transistors
Integrated Circuits
Microprocessors
Vacuum Tubes
Which of these is considered the first electronic general-purpose computer?
UNIVAC I
Colossus
ENIAC
Atanasoff-Berry Computer
The abacus is considered one of the earliest calculating tools. Which ancient civilization is it most associated with?
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
Ancient China
Ancient Egypt
Charles Babbage is credited with conceiving the first automatic digital computer. What was it called?
The Difference Engine
The Analytical Engine
The Pascaline
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer
Which company introduced the first commercially successful personal computer, the Altair 8800?
Apple
IBM
MITS
Commodore
Who is known for his law, which states that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles about every two years?
Gordon Moore
Robert Noyce
Andy Grove
Jack Kilby
What was the first commercially successful video game?
Space Invaders
Pong
Pac-Man
Donkey Kong
The invention of the _____ was a major breakthrough that led to second-generation computers.
Vacuum Tube
Transistor
Microprocessor
Hard Drive
Which company developed the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004?
AMD
Intel
IBM
Motorola
What was the first graphical web browser that gained widespread popularity?
Netscape Navigator
Internet Explorer
Mosaic
Opera
The concept of using punched cards to control machines was first used in the:
Jacquard Loom
Difference Engine
ENIAC
Pascaline
Which operating system was dominant in the 1980s for IBM PC compatible computers?
Windows 3.1
macOS
MS-DOS
Unix
ARPANET, the forerunner of the modern internet, was developed by which organization?
NASA
Microsoft
The United States Department of Defense
CERN
Which generation of computers is characterized by the use of microprocessors?
First Generation
Second Generation
Third Generation
Fourth Generation
What was the first high-level programming language?
COBOL
FORTRAN
BASIC
C
Which of the following is an output device?
Keyboard
Mouse
Scanner
Monitor
What does 'CPU' stand for?
Central Processing Unit
Computer Processing Unit
Central Program Unit
Computer Program Unit
Which device is used to input audio into a computer?
Speaker
Microphone
Webcam
Printer
Which of these is a type of non-volatile memory?
RAM
Cache
Solid-State Drive (SSD)
DRAM
What is the main circuit board in a computer that connects all other components?
Sound Card
Graphics Card
Motherboard
Power Supply
Which port is commonly used to connect a printer to a computer, though it is being replaced by USB?
HDMI
Ethernet
Parallel Port
VGA
A device used to connect to the internet over a telephone line is called a:
Router
Modem
Switch
Hub
Which input device works by sensing the user's finger movement on a surface?
Scanner
Light Pen
Touchpad
Joystick
What does 'RAM' stand for?
Read-Only Memory
Random Access Memory
Real-time Access Memory
Rapid Application Memory
Which device creates a physical copy of a digital document?
Scanner
Monitor
Printer
Projector
Which of the following provides temporary, fast-access storage for the CPU?
Hard Drive
ROM
Cache Memory
Flash Drive
What is the standard keyboard layout for English-speaking countries?
QWERTY
DVORAK
AZERTY
COLEMAK
Which device is used to read machine-readable codes in the form of patterns of bars?
OMR
Barcode Reader
MICR
QR Scanner
A Solid-State Drive (SSD) stores data using:
Magnetic platters
Laser-read discs
Flash memory
Magnetic tape
Which of the following is primarily a pointing device?
Keyboard
Mouse
Microphone
Speaker
Who co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen?
Steve Jobs
Bill Gates
Larry Ellison
Michael Dell
Who is the co-founder and former CEO of Apple Inc.?
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
Steve Wozniak
Tim Cook
Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the co-founders of which company?
Microsoft
Apple
Amazon
Who is the founder of Amazon?
Jeff Bezos
Elon Musk
Mark Zuckerberg
Jack Ma
Who is considered the 'father of the World Wide Web'?
Vint Cerf
Tim Berners-Lee
Robert Kahn
Marc Andreessen
Who is credited with being the first computer programmer for her work on the Analytical Engine?
Grace Hopper
Ada Lovelace
Hedy Lamarr
Katherine Johnson
Who is the creator of the Linux operating system kernel?
Richard Stallman
Linus Torvalds
Steve Jobs
Bill Gates
Who is the co-founder and CEO of Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook)?
Eduardo Saverin
Mark Zuckerberg
Dustin Moskovitz
Chris Hughes
Which pioneering computer scientist developed the first compiler and was instrumental in the creation of COBOL?
Ada Lovelace
Grace Hopper
Frances Allen
Karen Spärck Jones
Who is the founder of Oracle Corporation?
Larry Ellison
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
Michael Dell
Who is the founder of Dell Technologies?
Michael Dell
Tim Cook
Jensen Huang
Satya Nadella
Who is a British mathematician and computer scientist famous for the 'Turing Test'?
John von Neumann
Alan Turing
Claude Shannon
Charles Babbage
Who is the current CEO of Microsoft (as of 2024)?
Bill Gates
Steve Ballmer
Satya Nadella
Paul Allen
Who is the founder and CEO of NVIDIA, a company famous for its GPUs?
Lisa Su
Jensen Huang
Tim Cook
Andy Jassy
Who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs and is known for engineering the Apple I and Apple II computers?
Ronald Wayne
Steve Wozniak
Mike Markkula
Jony Ive
Who is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX?
Jeff Bezos
Elon Musk
Tim Cook
Sundar Pichai
Who is credited with inventing the computer mouse?
Steve Jobs
Bill Gates
Douglas Engelbart
Alan Kay
John McCarthy is known for coining which widely used term in computer science?
'Software'
'Bug'
'Artificial Intelligence'
'Open Source'
Who is the current CEO of Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc. (as of 2024)?
Larry Page
Sergey Brin
Sundar Pichai
Eric Schmidt
Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn are known as the 'fathers of the...'
World Wide Web
Internet
Microprocessor
