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Class 4 Computer Worksheet: History of Computers

Computer lesson 23: History of computers · Set 26 · 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 generation of computers first used microprocessors?
  2. 2.⚡ Which generation of computers first used integrated circuits?
  3. 3.🕰️ Is “smartphone” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  4. 4.⚡ Which generation of computers first used vacuum tubes?
  5. 5.🕰️ Is “Napier’s bones” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  6. 6.⚡ Which generation of computers first used transistors?
  7. 7.True or false: computers of generation 3 first used microprocessors. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🧮 Which is one of the oldest counting tools? (a) the laptop (b) the calculator (c) the abacus (d) the smartphone
  9. 9.🕰️ Is “tally sticks” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) abacus (b) slide rule (c) laptop (d) Napier’s bones
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tally sticks (b) abacus (c) slide rule (d) desktop computer
  12. 12.⚙️ Which planned machine of Charles Babbage could be programmed? (a) Analytical Engine (b) Pascaline (c) Napier’s bones (d) abacus
  13. 13.What did computers of generation 1 first use? (a) integrated circuits (b) transistors (c) vacuum tubes (d) microprocessors
  14. 14.True or false: computers of generation 3 first used transistors. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) slide rule (b) Pascaline (c) tally sticks (d) smartphone
  16. 16.True or false: “smartphone” is an old counting tool. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) Napier’s bones (b) smartwatch (c) desktop computer (d) laptop
  18. 18.🕰️ Is “abacus” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  19. 19.🕰️ Is “tablet” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tablet (b) slide rule (c) Napier’s bones (d) abacus
  21. 21.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) laptop (b) supercomputer (c) smartwatch (d) Pascaline
  22. 22.What did computers of generation 3 first use? (a) transistors (b) microprocessors (c) integrated circuits (d) vacuum tubes
  23. 23.What did computers of generation 2 first use? (a) vacuum tubes (b) integrated circuits (c) microprocessors (d) transistors
  24. 24.🕰️ Is “slide rule” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  25. 25.🕰️ Is “Pascaline” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tablet (b) abacus (c) supercomputer (d) desktop computer
  27. 27.⚙️ Blaise Pascal built an early adding machine. What is it called? (a) Napier’s bones (b) slide rule (c) abacus (d) Pascaline
  28. 28.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) smartwatch (b) laptop (c) tablet (d) Difference Engine
  29. 29.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) supercomputer (b) abacus (c) smartwatch (d) smartphone
  30. 30.What did computers of generation 4 first use? (a) transistors (b) integrated circuits (c) microprocessors (d) vacuum tubes
  31. 31.True or false: computers of generation 2 first used transistors. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) Difference Engine (b) laptop (c) Napier’s bones (d) abacus
  33. 33.True or false: computers of generation 3 first used vacuum tubes. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: computers of generation 1 first used microprocessors. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) Difference Engine (b) Pascaline (c) slide rule (d) supercomputer
  36. 36.True or false: computers of generation 3 first used integrated circuits. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) slide rule (b) tablet (c) abacus (d) tally sticks
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) smartwatch (b) Pascaline (c) tally sticks (d) slide rule
  39. 39.🏢 The first electronic computers were so big that they filled a ___. (a) pencil box (b) whole room (c) lunch box (d) pocket
  40. 40.🕰️ Is “laptop” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool

Answer key

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

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