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Charles Babbage

 1. Charles Babbage was known as the:
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  "Organ playing programmer"

  "Old Father time"

  "Father of the computer"

  "Father of facebook"

 2. In what year was Charles Babbage born?

  1651

  1901

  1791

  1971

 3. Which university did Charles Babbage attend?

  Cambridge

  York

  Princeton

  He didn't go to university

 4. In 1816, Charles Babbage became a fellow of which important organisation?
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  The Football Association

  The Automobile Association

  The Royal Society

  The Knights of Malta

 5. Babbage became Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University but because of disagreements over what the students should learn, he never gave any lectures.

  False

  True

 6. Babbage designed this machine called the Difference Engine (pictured) in the 1820s. What was it?
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  A calculator

  An early type of television

  A railway locomotive

  A machine to predict the weather

 7. After inventing the Difference Engine, Babbage worked on a new idea called the Analytical Engine. This had many of the features of modern computers. It was never built in his lifetime but if it had, it would have been the first machine to:

  Use punch cards to input data

  Be Turing Complete

  Be connected to the internet

  Play computer games

 8. Charles Babbage also wrote about his Christian beliefs, drawing on his work on computing. In which book did he write the following excerpt?
It is more consistent with the attributes of the deity to look upon miracles not as 
deviations from the laws assigned by the Almighty for the government of matter and 
of mind; but as the exact fulfilment of much more extensive laws than those we 
suppose to exist.
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  The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise

  The Opinions of Mr Charles Babbage Esq

  The Proceedings of the Royal Society

  The Dictionary of Natural Theology

 9. What type of peripheral device did Charles Babbage also invent?

  A mouse

  A screen

  A printer

  A scanner

 10. Half of Charles Babbage's brain is on display in the Science Museum in London.

  False

  True