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Class 4 Computer Worksheet: History of Computers

Computer lesson 23: History of computers · Set 76 · 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 a modern computer? (a) tally sticks (b) slide rule (c) Difference Engine (d) supercomputer
  2. 2.True or false: computers of generation 4 first used microprocessors. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.⚙️ Blaise Pascal built an early adding machine. What is it called? (a) Napier’s bones (b) Pascaline (c) slide rule (d) abacus
  4. 4.What did computers of generation 1 first use? (a) integrated circuits (b) microprocessors (c) transistors (d) vacuum tubes
  5. 5.🕰️ Is “tally sticks” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  6. 6.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) tally sticks (b) Pascaline (c) slide rule (d) smartwatch
  7. 7.🕰️ Is “slide rule” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) abacus (b) tally sticks (c) Pascaline (d) smartwatch
  9. 9.🕰️ Is “Napier’s bones” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) slide rule (b) Napier’s bones (c) abacus (d) laptop
  11. 11.🕰️ Is “tablet” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) Difference Engine (b) tablet (c) smartphone (d) desktop computer
  13. 13.⚡ Which generation of computers first used microprocessors?
  14. 14.🧮 Which is one of the oldest counting tools? (a) the laptop (b) the smartphone (c) the calculator (d) the abacus
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) slide rule (b) tally sticks (c) Difference Engine (d) tablet
  16. 16.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) abacus (b) desktop computer (c) laptop (d) tablet
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) laptop (b) tablet (c) smartwatch (d) tally sticks
  18. 18.⚡ Which generation of computers first used integrated circuits?
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) slide rule (b) supercomputer (c) tally sticks (d) Difference Engine
  20. 20.What did computers of generation 3 first use? (a) transistors (b) vacuum tubes (c) microprocessors (d) integrated circuits
  21. 21.🦴 Napier’s bones were used to ___. (a) send emails (b) multiply numbers (c) draw pictures (d) play music
  22. 22.True or false: “Difference Engine” is a modern computer. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: “slide rule” is an old counting tool. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.⚡ Which generation of computers first used vacuum tubes?
  25. 25.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) laptop (b) smartphone (c) smartwatch (d) Napier’s bones
  26. 26.True or false: “Pascaline” is a modern computer. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) smartphone (b) smartwatch (c) desktop computer (d) tally sticks
  28. 28.True or false: computers of generation 2 first used integrated circuits. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.⚙️ Which planned machine of Charles Babbage could be programmed? (a) Analytical Engine (b) Pascaline (c) Napier’s bones (d) abacus
  30. 30.🕰️ Is “Difference Engine” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  31. 31.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) smartphone (b) Napier’s bones (c) Difference Engine (d) abacus
  32. 32.👴 Who is called the father of the computer? (a) Blaise Pascal (b) John Napier (c) Charles Babbage
  33. 33.True or false: computers of generation 3 first used vacuum tubes. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: “laptop” is a modern computer. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🕰️ Is “Pascaline” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  36. 36.🕰️ Is “laptop” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  37. 37.True or false: computers of generation 4 first used vacuum tubes. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: computers of generation 4 first used transistors. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) slide rule (b) abacus (c) desktop computer (d) Difference Engine
  40. 40.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) Difference Engine (b) abacus (c) Pascaline (d) tablet

Answer key

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

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