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Class 4 Computer Worksheet: History of Computers

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

Answer key

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

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