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Class 4 Computer Worksheet: History of Computers

Computer lesson 23: History of computers · Set 63 · 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.👴 Who is called the father of the computer? (a) Blaise Pascal (b) Charles Babbage (c) John Napier
  2. 2.🧮 Which is one of the oldest counting tools? (a) the abacus (b) the laptop (c) the smartphone (d) the calculator
  3. 3.🕰️ Is “Difference Engine” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  4. 4.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) smartphone (b) Difference Engine (c) tablet (d) desktop computer
  5. 5.🏢 The first electronic computers were so big that they filled a ___. (a) pencil box (b) lunch box (c) whole room (d) pocket
  6. 6.What did computers of generation 3 first use? (a) transistors (b) vacuum tubes (c) integrated circuits (d) microprocessors
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) abacus (b) tablet (c) Napier’s bones (d) Pascaline
  8. 8.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) slide rule (b) tablet (c) Pascaline (d) tally sticks
  9. 9.🕰️ Is “smartwatch” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  10. 10.🦴 Napier’s bones were used to ___. (a) send emails (b) multiply numbers (c) play music (d) draw pictures
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tablet (b) supercomputer (c) desktop computer (d) Napier’s bones
  12. 12.True or false: computers of generation 2 first used microprocessors. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) tally sticks (b) supercomputer (c) smartphone (d) desktop computer
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) Pascaline (b) Napier’s bones (c) abacus (d) smartwatch
  15. 15.🕰️ Is “Napier’s bones” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  16. 16.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) smartphone (b) tablet (c) Pascaline (d) desktop computer
  17. 17.True or false: “Difference Engine” is a modern computer. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) smartphone (b) abacus (c) Difference Engine (d) Pascaline
  19. 19.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) smartwatch (b) Napier’s bones (c) desktop computer (d) smartphone
  20. 20.True or false: computers of generation 1 first used vacuum tubes. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🕰️ Is “supercomputer” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) desktop computer (b) Napier’s bones (c) Pascaline (d) slide rule
  23. 23.🕰️ Is “abacus” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  24. 24.🕰️ Is “tablet” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  25. 25.True or false: “abacus” is an old counting tool. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.⚡ Which generation of computers first used microprocessors?
  27. 27.⚙️ Blaise Pascal built an early adding machine. What is it called? (a) abacus (b) slide rule (c) Napier’s bones (d) Pascaline
  28. 28.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) Napier’s bones (b) smartphone (c) abacus (d) Pascaline
  29. 29.True or false: computers of generation 1 first used integrated circuits. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.⚡ Which generation of computers first used integrated circuits?
  31. 31.True or false: computers of generation 4 first used microprocessors. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) slide rule (b) Pascaline (c) laptop (d) Difference Engine
  33. 33.🕰️ Is “Pascaline” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  34. 34.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) tally sticks (b) smartwatch (c) abacus (d) Napier’s bones
  35. 35.True or false: “smartphone” is an old counting tool. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.What did computers of generation 4 first use? (a) vacuum tubes (b) transistors (c) integrated circuits (d) microprocessors
  37. 37.🕰️ Is “desktop computer” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) smartwatch (b) abacus (c) tablet (d) supercomputer
  39. 39.⚡ Which generation of computers first used transistors?
  40. 40.True or false: computers of generation 4 first used vacuum tubes. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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