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Class 4 Computer Worksheet: History of Computers

Computer lesson 23: History of computers · Set 51 · 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 a modern computer? (a) Pascaline (b) tally sticks (c) tablet (d) Napier’s bones
  2. 2.True or false: computers of generation 3 first used integrated circuits. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: “desktop computer” is a modern computer. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.👴 Who is called the father of the computer? (a) Charles Babbage (b) John Napier (c) Blaise Pascal
  5. 5.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) Difference Engine (b) desktop computer (c) Pascaline (d) tally sticks
  6. 6.What did computers of generation 3 first use? (a) microprocessors (b) integrated circuits (c) vacuum tubes (d) transistors
  7. 7.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) smartphone (b) tablet (c) slide rule (d) supercomputer
  8. 8.🦴 Napier’s bones were used to ___. (a) play music (b) multiply numbers (c) draw pictures (d) send emails
  9. 9.True or false: computers of generation 4 first used transistors. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🕰️ Is “abacus” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  11. 11.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) slide rule (b) laptop (c) tally sticks (d) abacus
  12. 12.⚡ Which generation of computers first used transistors?
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tablet (b) laptop (c) Difference Engine (d) desktop computer
  14. 14.True or false: “tablet” is an old counting tool. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: computers of generation 4 first used integrated circuits. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.⚡ Which generation of computers first used integrated circuits?
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) Pascaline (b) abacus (c) Napier’s bones (d) laptop
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tally sticks (b) slide rule (c) desktop computer (d) Napier’s bones
  19. 19.🕰️ Is “Napier’s bones” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  20. 20.⚡ Which generation of computers first used vacuum tubes?
  21. 21.True or false: computers of generation 4 first used microprocessors. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) smartphone (b) laptop (c) Difference Engine (d) tablet
  23. 23.True or false: computers of generation 2 first used transistors. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.⚙️ Blaise Pascal built an early adding machine. What is it called? (a) Pascaline (b) slide rule (c) abacus (d) Napier’s bones
  25. 25.🏢 The first electronic computers were so big that they filled a ___. (a) lunch box (b) pencil box (c) whole room (d) pocket
  26. 26.True or false: “smartwatch” is an old counting tool. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) desktop computer (b) tablet (c) supercomputer (d) Pascaline
  28. 28.🕰️ Is “tally sticks” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  29. 29.🕰️ Is “smartwatch” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  30. 30.What did computers of generation 2 first use? (a) microprocessors (b) vacuum tubes (c) transistors (d) integrated circuits
  31. 31.What did computers of generation 4 first use? (a) microprocessors (b) integrated circuits (c) transistors (d) vacuum tubes
  32. 32.🕰️ Is “desktop computer” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  33. 33.True or false: computers of generation 3 first used vacuum tubes. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: “smartwatch” is a modern computer. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tally sticks (b) smartwatch (c) slide rule (d) Napier’s bones
  36. 36.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) laptop (b) smartphone (c) Napier’s bones (d) desktop computer
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) smartphone (b) slide rule (c) tally sticks (d) Pascaline
  38. 38.🧮 Which is one of the oldest counting tools? (a) the calculator (b) the laptop (c) the abacus (d) the smartphone
  39. 39.⚡ Which generation of computers first used microprocessors?
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) smartwatch (b) smartphone (c) desktop computer (d) abacus

Answer key

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

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