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Computer lesson 23: History of computers · Set 23 · 40 questions
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Remember (From beads to chips): Old counting tools: tally sticks, abacus, Napier’s bones, slide rule, Pascaline, Babbage’s engines. Charles Babbage is called the father of the computer; his Analytical Engine was planned to be programmed. Generations: 1 vacuum tubes, 2 transistors, 3 integrated circuits, 4 microprocessors.

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  1. 1.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) supercomputer (b) abacus (c) smartphone (d) laptop
  2. 2.🕰️ Is “Pascaline” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  3. 3.True or false: “smartwatch” is an old counting tool. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🕰️ Is “tally sticks” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  5. 5.⚡ Which generation of computers first used microprocessors?
  6. 6.True or false: “Napier’s bones” is a modern computer. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) desktop computer (b) smartwatch (c) Napier’s bones (d) supercomputer
  8. 8.🕰️ Is “Difference Engine” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  9. 9.🕰️ Is “desktop computer” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  10. 10.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) smartwatch (b) Difference Engine (c) smartphone (d) desktop computer
  11. 11.⚡ Which generation of computers first used vacuum tubes?
  12. 12.🕰️ Is “smartwatch” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  13. 13.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) tally sticks (b) Difference Engine (c) Pascaline (d) desktop computer
  14. 14.🕰️ Is “smartphone” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  15. 15.🕰️ Is “supercomputer” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  16. 16.What did computers of generation 2 first use? (a) vacuum tubes (b) microprocessors (c) transistors (d) integrated circuits
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) smartwatch (b) smartphone (c) desktop computer (d) abacus
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) Napier’s bones (b) smartwatch (c) abacus (d) tally sticks
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) Difference Engine (b) smartphone (c) Napier’s bones (d) Pascaline
  20. 20.True or false: computers of generation 3 first used vacuum tubes. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.👴 Who is called the father of the computer? (a) Charles Babbage (b) Blaise Pascal (c) John Napier
  22. 22.⚡ Which generation of computers first used integrated circuits?
  23. 23.True or false: “abacus” is an old counting tool. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) tally sticks (b) slide rule (c) Napier’s bones (d) smartwatch
  25. 25.What did computers of generation 3 first use? (a) microprocessors (b) vacuum tubes (c) transistors (d) integrated circuits
  26. 26.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) abacus (b) tally sticks (c) smartphone (d) Difference Engine
  27. 27.What did computers of generation 1 first use? (a) microprocessors (b) vacuum tubes (c) transistors (d) integrated circuits
  28. 28.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) desktop computer (b) slide rule (c) smartphone (d) smartwatch
  29. 29.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) smartphone (b) tablet (c) Pascaline (d) laptop
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) laptop (b) smartwatch (c) tally sticks (d) tablet
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) supercomputer (b) abacus (c) slide rule (d) Difference Engine
  32. 32.True or false: computers of generation 3 first used integrated circuits. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: computers of generation 1 first used vacuum tubes. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.⚡ Which generation of computers first used transistors?
  35. 35.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) Difference Engine (b) tablet (c) Napier’s bones (d) tally sticks
  36. 36.⚙️ Blaise Pascal built an early adding machine. What is it called? (a) slide rule (b) Pascaline (c) abacus (d) Napier’s bones
  37. 37.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) Napier’s bones (b) supercomputer (c) laptop (d) smartwatch
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) abacus (b) tablet (c) Napier’s bones (d) slide rule
  39. 39.🕰️ Is “Napier’s bones” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  40. 40.What did computers of generation 4 first use? (a) integrated circuits (b) vacuum tubes (c) microprocessors (d) transistors

Answer key

  1. abacus
  2. an old counting tool
  3. False
  4. an old counting tool
  5. 4
  6. False
  7. Napier’s bones
  8. an old counting tool
  9. a modern computer
  10. Difference Engine
  11. 1
  12. a modern computer
  13. desktop computer
  14. a modern computer
  15. a modern computer
  16. transistors
  17. abacus
  18. smartwatch
  19. smartphone
  20. False
  21. Charles Babbage
  22. 3
  23. True
  24. smartwatch
  25. integrated circuits
  26. smartphone
  27. vacuum tubes
  28. slide rule
  29. Pascaline
  30. tally sticks
  31. supercomputer
  32. True
  33. True
  34. 2
  35. tablet
  36. Pascaline
  37. Napier’s bones
  38. tablet
  39. an old counting tool
  40. microprocessors

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