History of Computing Quiz
History of Computing Quiz
Test your knowledge on the fascinating history of communication and computation with our comprehensive quiz! Dive into the evolution of ideas, inventions, and key figures who shaped the world of technology.
Whether you're a history buff or just curious about how we got to where we are today, this quiz will challenge and enlighten you!
- 32 Engaging Questions
- Multiple Choice Format
- Learn as You Play
First humans communicated only through speaking and simple drawings known as?
Petroleum
Pictoglyphs
Petroglyphs
Nitroleum
What is the first written language and the first real information system called?
Cuniform
Cruelieform
Cuneiform
Croteform
When did the Egyptians wrote on the papyrus plant?
2500 AD
2600 BC
2600 AD
2500 BC
In what year the Greeks began to fold sheets of papyrus vertically into leaves and bind them together?
1000 BC
600 BC
800 BC
900 BC
In what country created a nine-digit numbering system?
India
China
Egypt
Serbia
In what year the concept of zero was developed?
875 BC
875 AD
876 AD
876 BC
What is the name of the first calculator?
Calculator
Abacus
In what place did the abacus invented?
Babylonia
India
China
Egypt
Who invented a movable type of printing process in 1450?
Wilhelm Shickard
Blaise Pascal
John Napier
Johann Gutenberg
In what year did John Napier introduces logarithms?
1617
1641
1614
1671
What does a Arabian Lattice do?
Allow users to multiply and divide to be reduced to addition and subtraction
A mechanical calculator machine
A slide rule
Mutliply and Divide large numbers and find square and cube roots
Who invented the Slide Rule?
Blaise Pascal
William Oughtred
Alexander Graham Bell
Gottfried Leibniz
(blank) that could multiply 5 digit and 12 digit numbers yielding up to 16 digit numbers invented by Gottfried Leibniz.
Arithmometer
Slide Rule
Punch Card
Stepped Reckoner
When did Joseph Marie Jacquard developed a automatic loom that was controlled by punch card?
1801
1802
1803
1804
A device that performed the same type of computations as Leibniz stepped Reckoner but was more reliable
Arithmetic
Arithmometer
Arithometer
Arithmetical
What are Charles babbage's first two inventions in history of Computers?
Slide Rule and Punch Card
Arithmometer and Pascaline
Stepped Reckoner and Arithmometer
The Difference Engine and Analytical Engine
Which of these statements are wrong about punch card
Invented by Charles babbage
Punch Cards are the first think machines
Same type of computations as Leibniz stepped Reckoner
Is a piece of stiff paper that contains digital information
What is the name of the first electric battery
Electromagnetic Battery
Spectrum Battery
Mechanical Battery
Voltaic Battery
Is a machine for transmitting and receiving messages over long distances
Telegram
Telephone
Telegraph
Cellphone
Who developed the first working telephone in 1876?
George Boole
Guglielmo Marconi
Alexander Graham Bell
Dorr Felt
Who Discovered that electrical waves travels through space?
Alexander Graham Bell
George Boole
Dorr Felt
Guglielmo Marconi
In 1852 George Boole Develops ____
Binary Algebra
Analytical Engine
Telephone
Punch Cards
In what century when binary computers are developed?
17th
18th
19th
20th
It is a key driven adding and subtracting calculator
Comptometer
Computer
Compost
Comping
Which of these statements are wrong in Tabulating Machine
Pehr and Edvard Scheutz created Tabulating Machine
Containing a built in printer
Capable of processing 15 digit numbers
Printing out Results
Who is the first person to successfully use punched cards?
Dorr Felt
Charles Babbage
George Boole
Herman Hollerith
When did Lee See Forest develop the Vacuum Tubes?
1904
1905
1906
1907
What is the first programmable computer called?
Z1
Z2
Z3
Z4
What did Howard Aiken built?
Z3
Vacuum Tubes
Circuits
Mark 1
What is the first all electronic computer called?
Z3
Vacuum Tubes
Mark 1
ABC
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