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Ada Lovelace

 1. Ada Lovelace was the daughter of Lord Byron. Byron was a famous ___________ .
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  Composer

  Politician

  Poet

  Scientist

 2. Ada and her mother were abandoned by Byron when Ada was a baby. She never saw him again.

  FALSE

  TRUE

 3. When Ada was just twelve years old, she devised a machine to:

  Swim under water

  Travel on rails

  Fly

  Time travel

 4. Who was her mentor?
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  Alan Turing

  Joseph Fourier

  Charles Babbage

  Blaise Pascal

 5. Ada Lovelace was the first person to propose that computers could be used for more than calculating numbers.

  TRUE

  FALSE

 6. She wrote algorithms for which conceptual computer?
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  The Analytical Engine

  UNIVAC

  The Quantum Engine

  Harvard Mark I

 7. It is thought she worked on a programme with Babbage to ________ .

  Predict tides

  Predict card games

  Predict horse races

  Predict the weather

 8. Which famous author read to her on her deathbed?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Charles Dickens

  Victor Hugo

  George Elliot

 9. Ada Lovelace died aged just 36. Who did she ask to be buried next to?

  Charles Babbage

  Mary Somerville

  Augustus De Morgan

  Her father (Lord Byron)

 10. The United States Department of Defence named a computer language 'Ada' after Ada Lovelace.
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  False

  True


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