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Class 4 Computer Worksheet: History of Computers

Computer lesson 23: History of computers · Set 94 · 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) laptop (b) smartwatch (c) Napier’s bones (d) tablet
  2. 2.What did computers of generation 3 first use? (a) integrated circuits (b) vacuum tubes (c) transistors (d) microprocessors
  3. 3.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) Difference Engine (b) supercomputer (c) desktop computer (d) tablet
  4. 4.True or false: computers of generation 3 first used integrated circuits. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) laptop (b) desktop computer (c) Difference Engine (d) smartphone
  6. 6.🕰️ Is “smartwatch” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) laptop (b) Napier’s bones (c) tally sticks (d) abacus
  8. 8.True or false: “slide rule” is an old counting tool. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.What did computers of generation 2 first use? (a) vacuum tubes (b) microprocessors (c) transistors (d) integrated circuits
  10. 10.True or false: computers of generation 2 first used vacuum tubes. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: “laptop” is a modern computer. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) slide rule (b) Napier’s bones (c) abacus (d) smartphone
  13. 13.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) laptop (b) smartwatch (c) abacus (d) tablet
  14. 14.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) supercomputer (b) tablet (c) tally sticks (d) smartwatch
  15. 15.🕰️ Is “Pascaline” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  16. 16.🕰️ Is “Napier’s bones” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  17. 17.🕰️ Is “supercomputer” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  18. 18.True or false: “Pascaline” is a modern computer. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) slide rule (b) desktop computer (c) abacus (d) Difference Engine
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tablet (b) tally sticks (c) laptop (d) smartwatch
  21. 21.True or false: “Napier’s bones” is an old counting tool. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.⚙️ Blaise Pascal built an early adding machine. What is it called? (a) Pascaline (b) abacus (c) slide rule (d) Napier’s bones
  23. 23.⚡ Which generation of computers first used transistors?
  24. 24.⚡ Which generation of computers first used integrated circuits?
  25. 25.🕰️ Is “tablet” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  26. 26.👴 Who is called the father of the computer? (a) John Napier (b) Charles Babbage (c) Blaise Pascal
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) smartphone (b) tablet (c) Pascaline (d) supercomputer
  28. 28.🕰️ Is “smartphone” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  29. 29.True or false: “supercomputer” is a modern computer. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) smartphone (b) abacus (c) smartwatch (d) tablet
  31. 31.🕰️ Is “laptop” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  32. 32.True or false: computers of generation 4 first used microprocessors. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🕰️ Is “abacus” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  34. 34.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) abacus (b) slide rule (c) tally sticks (d) desktop computer
  35. 35.True or false: computers of generation 2 first used transistors. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: computers of generation 1 first used transistors. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🦴 Napier’s bones were used to ___. (a) send emails (b) draw pictures (c) multiply numbers (d) play music
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) Difference Engine (b) Napier’s bones (c) tablet (d) Pascaline
  39. 39.True or false: “slide rule” is a modern computer. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: computers of generation 1 first used vacuum tubes. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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