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Computer lesson 23: History of computers · Set 75 · 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) Pascaline (b) Analytical Engine (c) abacus (d) Napier’s bones
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) supercomputer (b) smartphone (c) tally sticks (d) desktop computer
  3. 3.What did computers of generation 1 first use? (a) integrated circuits (b) vacuum tubes (c) transistors (d) microprocessors
  4. 4.⚡ Which generation of computers first used vacuum tubes?
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) Napier’s bones (b) smartwatch (c) supercomputer (d) desktop computer
  6. 6.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) Napier’s bones (b) slide rule (c) smartwatch (d) abacus
  7. 7.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) tablet (b) Difference Engine (c) abacus (d) Pascaline
  8. 8.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) tablet (b) laptop (c) desktop computer (d) Napier’s bones
  9. 9.🏢 The first electronic computers were so big that they filled a ___. (a) pocket (b) whole room (c) lunch box (d) pencil box
  10. 10.🕰️ Is “laptop” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  11. 11.True or false: “slide rule” is an old counting tool. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) laptop (b) smartwatch (c) smartphone (d) Pascaline
  13. 13.True or false: computers of generation 1 first used transistors. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) Napier’s bones (b) laptop (c) Difference Engine (d) Pascaline
  15. 15.⚡ Which generation of computers first used transistors?
  16. 16.⚙️ Blaise Pascal built an early adding machine. What is it called? (a) slide rule (b) abacus (c) Napier’s bones (d) Pascaline
  17. 17.True or false: computers of generation 2 first used microprocessors. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.👴 Who is called the father of the computer? (a) John Napier (b) Blaise Pascal (c) Charles Babbage
  19. 19.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) Difference Engine (b) desktop computer (c) slide rule (d) Napier’s bones
  20. 20.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) tablet (b) slide rule (c) smartphone (d) smartwatch
  21. 21.🕰️ Is “smartwatch” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) Difference Engine (b) supercomputer (c) laptop (d) tablet
  23. 23.🕰️ Is “desktop computer” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) smartphone (b) tablet (c) Pascaline (d) laptop
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) slide rule (b) desktop computer (c) smartphone (d) tablet
  26. 26.True or false: computers of generation 4 first used transistors. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: computers of generation 1 first used vacuum tubes. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.What did computers of generation 3 first use? (a) vacuum tubes (b) integrated circuits (c) microprocessors (d) transistors
  29. 29.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) Difference Engine (b) tablet (c) supercomputer (d) smartphone
  30. 30.⚡ Which generation of computers first used microprocessors?
  31. 31.True or false: computers of generation 4 first used integrated circuits. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🦴 Napier’s bones were used to ___. (a) draw pictures (b) send emails (c) play music (d) multiply numbers
  33. 33.🕰️ Is “slide rule” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tablet (b) desktop computer (c) abacus (d) smartwatch
  35. 35.What did computers of generation 2 first use? (a) transistors (b) microprocessors (c) integrated circuits (d) vacuum tubes
  36. 36.🕰️ Is “abacus” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  37. 37.True or false: “supercomputer” is a modern computer. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: “slide rule” is a modern computer. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) Pascaline (b) smartwatch (c) Difference Engine (d) abacus
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tablet (b) Difference Engine (c) slide rule (d) tally sticks

Answer key

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

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