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Class 4 Computer Worksheet: History of Computers

Computer lesson 23: History of computers · Set 59 · 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 planned machine of Charles Babbage could be programmed? (a) Napier’s bones (b) Pascaline (c) Analytical Engine (d) abacus
  2. 2.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) Difference Engine (b) slide rule (c) Pascaline (d) supercomputer
  3. 3.True or false: computers of generation 3 first used microprocessors. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.What did computers of generation 3 first use? (a) transistors (b) vacuum tubes (c) integrated circuits (d) microprocessors
  5. 5.⚡ Which generation of computers first used microprocessors?
  6. 6.True or false: computers of generation 3 first used integrated circuits. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🕰️ Is “Pascaline” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  8. 8.⚡ Which generation of computers first used vacuum tubes?
  9. 9.What did computers of generation 4 first use? (a) vacuum tubes (b) integrated circuits (c) microprocessors (d) transistors
  10. 10.🕰️ Is “supercomputer” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) Napier’s bones (b) Difference Engine (c) abacus (d) smartwatch
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) Napier’s bones (b) Pascaline (c) slide rule (d) tablet
  13. 13.True or false: computers of generation 4 first used microprocessors. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🕰️ Is “Difference Engine” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  15. 15.True or false: “slide rule” is a modern computer. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: “tally sticks” is a modern computer. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: “supercomputer” is a modern computer. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🦴 Napier’s bones were used to ___. (a) draw pictures (b) multiply numbers (c) send emails (d) play music
  19. 19.⚙️ Blaise Pascal built an early adding machine. What is it called? (a) Napier’s bones (b) abacus (c) slide rule (d) Pascaline
  20. 20.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) Pascaline (b) Difference Engine (c) tally sticks (d) smartphone
  21. 21.🕰️ Is “tally sticks” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  22. 22.True or false: “tablet” is a modern computer. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) Pascaline (b) Napier’s bones (c) supercomputer (d) Difference Engine
  24. 24.🕰️ Is “Napier’s bones” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  25. 25.True or false: computers of generation 1 first used vacuum tubes. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: “tally sticks” is an old counting tool. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🕰️ Is “abacus” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) desktop computer (b) slide rule (c) Pascaline (d) Difference Engine
  29. 29.True or false: computers of generation 2 first used microprocessors. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.⚡ Which generation of computers first used integrated circuits?
  31. 31.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) laptop (b) tally sticks (c) desktop computer (d) smartwatch
  32. 32.True or false: computers of generation 3 first used transistors. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) laptop (b) smartwatch (c) Napier’s bones (d) desktop computer
  34. 34.True or false: “tablet” is an old counting tool. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) Difference Engine (b) smartphone (c) abacus (d) Pascaline
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) supercomputer (b) laptop (c) desktop computer (d) abacus
  37. 37.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) laptop (b) Pascaline (c) Napier’s bones (d) abacus
  38. 38.True or false: “abacus” is an old counting tool. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) slide rule (b) Difference Engine (c) smartwatch (d) abacus
  40. 40.True or false: computers of generation 2 first used vacuum tubes. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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