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Computer lesson 23: History of computers · Set 67 · 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) Charles Babbage (b) John Napier (c) Blaise Pascal
  2. 2.⚡ Which generation of computers first used vacuum tubes?
  3. 3.What did computers of generation 1 first use? (a) microprocessors (b) transistors (c) integrated circuits (d) vacuum tubes
  4. 4.True or false: “abacus” is a modern computer. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🕰️ Is “smartphone” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  6. 6.⚙️ Blaise Pascal built an early adding machine. What is it called? (a) abacus (b) slide rule (c) Napier’s bones (d) Pascaline
  7. 7.True or false: “Napier’s bones” is an old counting tool. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🕰️ Is “Difference Engine” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  9. 9.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) slide rule (b) desktop computer (c) laptop (d) tablet
  10. 10.🕰️ Is “abacus” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  11. 11.⚡ Which generation of computers first used transistors?
  12. 12.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) laptop (b) Napier’s bones (c) slide rule (d) abacus
  13. 13.⚡ Which generation of computers first used microprocessors?
  14. 14.True or false: computers of generation 3 first used transistors. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🏢 The first electronic computers were so big that they filled a ___. (a) pencil box (b) pocket (c) lunch box (d) whole room
  16. 16.🕰️ Is “laptop” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  17. 17.What did computers of generation 2 first use? (a) transistors (b) microprocessors (c) vacuum tubes (d) integrated circuits
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) desktop computer (b) supercomputer (c) laptop (d) Napier’s bones
  19. 19.🕰️ Is “slide rule” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  20. 20.🦴 Napier’s bones were used to ___. (a) play music (b) draw pictures (c) send emails (d) multiply numbers
  21. 21.True or false: computers of generation 1 first used integrated circuits. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) supercomputer (b) tablet (c) smartwatch (d) tally sticks
  23. 23.🧮 Which is one of the oldest counting tools? (a) the laptop (b) the smartphone (c) the calculator (d) the abacus
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) abacus (b) slide rule (c) smartwatch (d) Napier’s bones
  25. 25.What did computers of generation 3 first use? (a) microprocessors (b) integrated circuits (c) transistors (d) vacuum tubes
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) abacus (b) Pascaline (c) tablet (d) Napier’s bones
  27. 27.True or false: “laptop” is an old counting tool. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) desktop computer (b) tally sticks (c) Difference Engine (d) Napier’s bones
  29. 29.True or false: “tablet” is an old counting tool. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) Difference Engine (b) smartphone (c) Pascaline (d) Napier’s bones
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) smartwatch (b) smartphone (c) desktop computer (d) tally sticks
  32. 32.True or false: computers of generation 3 first used integrated circuits. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: “Napier’s bones” is a modern computer. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) smartphone (b) Difference Engine (c) Pascaline (d) Napier’s bones
  35. 35.True or false: “smartwatch” is a modern computer. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) Pascaline (b) Napier’s bones (c) tablet (d) abacus
  37. 37.🕰️ Is “tablet” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  38. 38.True or false: computers of generation 1 first used vacuum tubes. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: “tally sticks” is an old counting tool. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🕰️ Is “Pascaline” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer

Answer key

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

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