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History of the Computer

 1. In what modern day country was the abacus invented, around 2700-2300 BC?

  Italy

  Egypt

  Greece

  Iraq

 2. What was this ancient Greek mechanism found by archaeologists used for?
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  Counting grains of wheat

  Predicting the positions of stars

  Calculating tax returns

  Measuring the temperature

 3. The Islamic Al-Jazari mechanical clock (described in 1206) is thought to be the first re-programmable mechanical computer.

  FALSE

  TRUE

 4. What could this paper device invented by the Franciscan monk Ramon Llull (1232-1315) do?
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  Make gold from lead

  Make logical deductions about God mechanically

  Tell the time

  Calculate distances between places

 5. Who developed a logical calculation framework called the 'calculus ratiocinator'?

  Isaac Newton

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Albert Einstein

  Aristotle

 6. What machine proposed by Charles Babbage (1791-1871) is said to contain all the essential elements of a modern computer?

  EDVAC

  The Analytical Engine

  The Locomotive Engine

  The Colossus

 7. Who first proposed the idea of using digital electronics for computing in 1931?
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  C. E. Wynn-Williams

  Werner Heisenberg

  Charles Babbage

  John Logie Baird

 8. What was the first general purpose electronic computer?

  IBM PC

  MICRO

  MEDICI

  ENIAC

 9. The Intel 4004 was the first commercial microprocessor.
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  FALSE

  TRUE

 10. The Apple Macintosh computer was named after what?

  A type of coat

  The architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh

  A variety of apple

  A brand of chocolates


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