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Class 4 Computer Worksheet: History of Computers

Computer lesson 23: History of computers · Set 82 · 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 generation of computers first used transistors?
  2. 2.What did computers of generation 4 first use? (a) transistors (b) microprocessors (c) integrated circuits (d) vacuum tubes
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) Napier’s bones (b) tablet (c) supercomputer (d) laptop
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) Difference Engine (b) tablet (c) desktop computer (d) laptop
  5. 5.⚡ Which generation of computers first used integrated circuits?
  6. 6.What did computers of generation 1 first use? (a) transistors (b) microprocessors (c) integrated circuits (d) vacuum tubes
  7. 7.What did computers of generation 2 first use? (a) vacuum tubes (b) microprocessors (c) transistors (d) integrated circuits
  8. 8.🕰️ Is “laptop” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  9. 9.🕰️ Is “Difference Engine” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  10. 10.True or false: “Difference Engine” is a modern computer. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) tablet (b) tally sticks (c) abacus (d) Difference Engine
  12. 12.True or false: “laptop” is an old counting tool. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) abacus (b) Napier’s bones (c) Pascaline (d) desktop computer
  14. 14.What did computers of generation 3 first use? (a) microprocessors (b) transistors (c) integrated circuits (d) vacuum tubes
  15. 15.👴 Who is called the father of the computer? (a) John Napier (b) Blaise Pascal (c) Charles Babbage
  16. 16.True or false: computers of generation 2 first used transistors. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.⚙️ Blaise Pascal built an early adding machine. What is it called? (a) slide rule (b) Pascaline (c) abacus (d) Napier’s bones
  18. 18.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) desktop computer (b) abacus (c) smartphone (d) tablet
  19. 19.True or false: “smartwatch” is an old counting tool. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: computers of generation 1 first used integrated circuits. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) tablet (b) laptop (c) desktop computer (d) Napier’s bones
  22. 22.True or false: computers of generation 3 first used integrated circuits. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: “tablet” is a modern computer. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) Napier’s bones (b) laptop (c) slide rule (d) abacus
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) laptop (b) smartwatch (c) tally sticks (d) desktop computer
  26. 26.🕰️ Is “slide rule” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  27. 27.🕰️ Is “tally sticks” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  28. 28.⚙️ Which planned machine of Charles Babbage could be programmed? (a) abacus (b) Pascaline (c) Analytical Engine (d) Napier’s bones
  29. 29.True or false: “abacus” is a modern computer. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: computers of generation 1 first used vacuum tubes. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) abacus (b) supercomputer (c) Napier’s bones (d) slide rule
  32. 32.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) tablet (b) supercomputer (c) tally sticks (d) laptop
  33. 33.🦴 Napier’s bones were used to ___. (a) play music (b) send emails (c) multiply numbers (d) draw pictures
  34. 34.🕰️ Is “smartwatch” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  35. 35.⚡ Which generation of computers first used vacuum tubes?
  36. 36.🕰️ Is “Napier’s bones” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  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) desktop computer (b) Pascaline (c) supercomputer (d) laptop
  39. 39.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) slide rule (b) smartphone (c) smartwatch (d) tablet
  40. 40.🕰️ Is “supercomputer” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool

Answer key

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

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