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Class 4 Computer Worksheet: History of Computers

Computer lesson 23: History of computers · Set 90 · 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 microprocessors?
  2. 2.True or false: computers of generation 2 first used transistors. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.What did computers of generation 1 first use? (a) vacuum tubes (b) transistors (c) microprocessors (d) integrated circuits
  4. 4.🕰️ Is “desktop computer” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) desktop computer (b) laptop (c) Difference Engine (d) smartphone
  6. 6.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) laptop (b) abacus (c) tablet (d) desktop computer
  7. 7.True or false: “Napier’s bones” is a modern computer. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.What did computers of generation 4 first use? (a) integrated circuits (b) microprocessors (c) transistors (d) vacuum tubes
  9. 9.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) slide rule (b) Difference Engine (c) Pascaline (d) smartwatch
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tally sticks (b) smartphone (c) slide rule (d) Difference Engine
  11. 11.🕰️ Is “Pascaline” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  12. 12.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) Napier’s bones (b) Pascaline (c) desktop computer (d) tally sticks
  13. 13.🦴 Napier’s bones were used to ___. (a) draw pictures (b) send emails (c) multiply numbers (d) play music
  14. 14.⚡ Which generation of computers first used vacuum tubes?
  15. 15.🧮 Which is one of the oldest counting tools? (a) the abacus (b) the calculator (c) the smartphone (d) the laptop
  16. 16.⚡ Which generation of computers first used transistors?
  17. 17.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) Difference Engine (b) Napier’s bones (c) abacus (d) smartphone
  18. 18.🕰️ Is “laptop” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  19. 19.True or false: computers of generation 3 first used integrated circuits. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.What did computers of generation 3 first use? (a) vacuum tubes (b) transistors (c) integrated circuits (d) microprocessors
  21. 21.True or false: “laptop” is a modern computer. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🕰️ Is “Difference Engine” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  23. 23.True or false: “abacus” is an old counting tool. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: “slide rule” is an old counting tool. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) slide rule (b) Napier’s bones (c) Pascaline (d) laptop
  26. 26.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) smartwatch (b) laptop (c) tally sticks (d) desktop computer
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) smartphone (b) laptop (c) tally sticks (d) smartwatch
  28. 28.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) laptop (b) Difference Engine (c) abacus (d) slide rule
  29. 29.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) laptop (b) smartphone (c) smartwatch (d) Napier’s bones
  30. 30.True or false: computers of generation 3 first used vacuum tubes. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) desktop computer (b) Difference Engine (c) smartphone (d) supercomputer
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) desktop computer (b) laptop (c) abacus (d) smartphone
  33. 33.⚡ Which generation of computers first used integrated circuits?
  34. 34.What did computers of generation 2 first use? (a) transistors (b) vacuum tubes (c) microprocessors (d) integrated circuits
  35. 35.🕰️ Is “tally sticks” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  36. 36.🕰️ Is “supercomputer” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  37. 37.True or false: “Difference Engine” is a modern computer. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tally sticks (b) Difference Engine (c) Pascaline (d) supercomputer
  39. 39.🕰️ Is “abacus” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  40. 40.🏢 The first electronic computers were so big that they filled a ___. (a) pencil box (b) lunch box (c) whole room (d) pocket

Answer key

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

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