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Computer lesson 23: History of computers · Set 86 · 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 the odd one out? (a) tally sticks (b) supercomputer (c) smartwatch (d) tablet
  2. 2.What did computers of generation 2 first use? (a) transistors (b) microprocessors (c) integrated circuits (d) vacuum tubes
  3. 3.🕰️ Is “Pascaline” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  4. 4.🕰️ Is “Difference Engine” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  5. 5.🏢 The first electronic computers were so big that they filled a ___. (a) pencil box (b) lunch box (c) whole room (d) pocket
  6. 6.True or false: computers of generation 1 first used transistors. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) tally sticks (b) Difference Engine (c) desktop computer (d) abacus
  8. 8.⚙️ Blaise Pascal built an early adding machine. What is it called? (a) slide rule (b) Pascaline (c) Napier’s bones (d) abacus
  9. 9.⚡ Which generation of computers first used integrated circuits?
  10. 10.What did computers of generation 3 first use? (a) vacuum tubes (b) microprocessors (c) integrated circuits (d) transistors
  11. 11.🧮 Which is one of the oldest counting tools? (a) the calculator (b) the smartphone (c) the laptop (d) the abacus
  12. 12.⚡ Which generation of computers first used vacuum tubes?
  13. 13.🕰️ Is “desktop computer” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  14. 14.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) tally sticks (b) abacus (c) Pascaline (d) smartwatch
  15. 15.👴 Who is called the father of the computer? (a) John Napier (b) Blaise Pascal (c) Charles Babbage
  16. 16.🕰️ Is “supercomputer” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  17. 17.🕰️ Is “abacus” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) abacus (b) Difference Engine (c) desktop computer (d) Napier’s bones
  19. 19.🕰️ Is “smartphone” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) slide rule (b) smartwatch (c) desktop computer (d) laptop
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) supercomputer (b) Pascaline (c) Napier’s bones (d) Difference Engine
  22. 22.⚡ Which generation of computers first used microprocessors?
  23. 23.True or false: computers of generation 2 first used transistors. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) slide rule (b) tablet (c) Pascaline (d) Napier’s bones
  25. 25.⚡ Which generation of computers first used transistors?
  26. 26.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) laptop (b) smartwatch (c) slide rule (d) supercomputer
  27. 27.True or false: computers of generation 4 first used microprocessors. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.What did computers of generation 4 first use? (a) transistors (b) microprocessors (c) vacuum tubes (d) integrated circuits
  29. 29.True or false: computers of generation 3 first used integrated circuits. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) Napier’s bones (b) tally sticks (c) abacus (d) smartphone
  31. 31.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) tablet (b) Napier’s bones (c) smartphone (d) smartwatch
  32. 32.⚙️ Which planned machine of Charles Babbage could be programmed? (a) Napier’s bones (b) Analytical Engine (c) abacus (d) Pascaline
  33. 33.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) Pascaline (b) Difference Engine (c) tally sticks (d) laptop
  34. 34.True or false: computers of generation 3 first used microprocessors. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: computers of generation 4 first used transistors. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: computers of generation 1 first used vacuum tubes. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: “slide rule” is a modern computer. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) supercomputer (b) laptop (c) tablet (d) Pascaline
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) laptop (b) Napier’s bones (c) Difference Engine (d) Pascaline
  40. 40.🕰️ Is “smartwatch” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer

Answer key

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

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