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Class 4 Computer Worksheet: History of Computers

Computer lesson 23: History of computers · Set 81 · 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 is one of the oldest counting tools? (a) the smartphone (b) the calculator (c) the laptop (d) the abacus
  2. 2.🕰️ Is “smartwatch” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  3. 3.⚡ Which generation of computers first used integrated circuits?
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) desktop computer (b) laptop (c) tablet (d) Napier’s bones
  5. 5.⚡ Which generation of computers first used vacuum tubes?
  6. 6.True or false: computers of generation 1 first used integrated circuits. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) smartwatch (b) smartphone (c) laptop (d) abacus
  8. 8.🕰️ Is “Napier’s bones” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  9. 9.What did computers of generation 1 first use? (a) transistors (b) vacuum tubes (c) integrated circuits (d) microprocessors
  10. 10.🕰️ Is “Difference Engine” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) laptop (b) slide rule (c) smartphone (d) desktop computer
  12. 12.🦴 Napier’s bones were used to ___. (a) send emails (b) draw pictures (c) play music (d) multiply numbers
  13. 13.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) Difference Engine (b) tally sticks (c) abacus (d) tablet
  14. 14.True or false: “smartphone” is a modern computer. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) desktop computer (b) tally sticks (c) abacus (d) Napier’s bones
  16. 16.True or false: “Difference Engine” is an old counting tool. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: “abacus” is a modern computer. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.What did computers of generation 2 first use? (a) integrated circuits (b) transistors (c) vacuum tubes (d) microprocessors
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) Difference Engine (b) smartwatch (c) smartphone (d) laptop
  20. 20.⚡ Which generation of computers first used transistors?
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) abacus (b) Napier’s bones (c) tally sticks (d) laptop
  22. 22.🕰️ Is “smartphone” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  23. 23.⚙️ Blaise Pascal built an early adding machine. What is it called? (a) abacus (b) Pascaline (c) Napier’s bones (d) slide rule
  24. 24.⚙️ Which planned machine of Charles Babbage could be programmed? (a) abacus (b) Pascaline (c) Analytical Engine (d) Napier’s bones
  25. 25.True or false: “desktop computer” is a modern computer. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🕰️ Is “Pascaline” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  27. 27.🏢 The first electronic computers were so big that they filled a ___. (a) lunch box (b) whole room (c) pocket (d) pencil box
  28. 28.🕰️ Is “abacus” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tablet (b) supercomputer (c) Pascaline (d) smartphone
  30. 30.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) abacus (b) desktop computer (c) Pascaline (d) tally sticks
  31. 31.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) Pascaline (b) tally sticks (c) smartphone (d) Napier’s bones
  32. 32.🕰️ Is “desktop computer” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  33. 33.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) laptop (b) Napier’s bones (c) smartphone (d) tablet
  34. 34.🕰️ Is “supercomputer” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  35. 35.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) Difference Engine (b) desktop computer (c) smartwatch (d) laptop
  36. 36.What did computers of generation 4 first use? (a) integrated circuits (b) microprocessors (c) vacuum tubes (d) transistors
  37. 37.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) Napier’s bones (b) tally sticks (c) laptop (d) abacus
  38. 38.True or false: “slide rule” is a modern computer. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.⚡ Which generation of computers first used microprocessors?
  40. 40.True or false: computers of generation 2 first used transistors. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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