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Class 4 Computer Worksheet: History of Computers

Computer lesson 23: History of computers · Set 53 · 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) tablet (b) supercomputer (c) Difference Engine (d) laptop
  2. 2.🕰️ Is “desktop computer” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) Pascaline (b) slide rule (c) abacus (d) supercomputer
  4. 4.⚡ Which generation of computers first used microprocessors?
  5. 5.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) smartphone (b) slide rule (c) laptop (d) tablet
  6. 6.🕰️ Is “Difference Engine” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  7. 7.What did computers of generation 4 first use? (a) vacuum tubes (b) integrated circuits (c) microprocessors (d) transistors
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) laptop (b) Napier’s bones (c) smartphone (d) tablet
  9. 9.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) laptop (b) desktop computer (c) Napier’s bones (d) smartwatch
  10. 10.True or false: “tablet” is an old counting tool. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: “Napier’s bones” is an old counting tool. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🕰️ Is “smartphone” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  13. 13.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) abacus (b) Difference Engine (c) supercomputer (d) Pascaline
  14. 14.🕰️ Is “Napier’s bones” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) supercomputer (b) laptop (c) Pascaline (d) tablet
  16. 16.True or false: computers of generation 1 first used vacuum tubes. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) supercomputer (b) smartwatch (c) laptop (d) Difference Engine
  18. 18.🕰️ Is “tally sticks” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  19. 19.True or false: “desktop computer” is a modern computer. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🏢 The first electronic computers were so big that they filled a ___. (a) whole room (b) lunch box (c) pencil box (d) pocket
  21. 21.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) tally sticks (b) tablet (c) desktop computer (d) smartphone
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) supercomputer (b) tablet (c) tally sticks (d) smartphone
  23. 23.🕰️ Is “slide rule” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  24. 24.True or false: “slide rule” is a modern computer. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: “abacus” is a modern computer. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.⚡ Which generation of computers first used integrated circuits?
  27. 27.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) tally sticks (b) Pascaline (c) Napier’s bones (d) laptop
  28. 28.True or false: “Pascaline” is a modern computer. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🕰️ Is “laptop” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tablet (b) slide rule (c) tally sticks (d) abacus
  31. 31.True or false: “laptop” is an old counting tool. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: “abacus” is an old counting tool. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.⚡ Which generation of computers first used transistors?
  34. 34.🕰️ Is “abacus” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  35. 35.True or false: computers of generation 4 first used vacuum tubes. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: “Difference Engine” is an old counting tool. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) Napier’s bones (b) Difference Engine (c) abacus (d) smartphone
  38. 38.What did computers of generation 2 first use? (a) integrated circuits (b) transistors (c) microprocessors (d) vacuum tubes
  39. 39.True or false: computers of generation 2 first used microprocessors. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) Napier’s bones (b) abacus (c) Pascaline (d) smartphone

Answer key

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

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