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History Of Computers Challenge Worksheet

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History of Computers Challenge

Directions: Read each sentence. Then circle the letter next to the answer that

completes the sentence.

1. The _______, an early calculating machine, is considered a forerunner of the

computer.

a. abacus

b. amphora

c. caduceus

2. The fundamentals of computer programming were developed by _________ .

a. Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace in the 1830s

b. Howard Aiken in the 1940s

c. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates in the 1970s

3. ENIAC, built in 1946, required ________ square feet of floor space.

a. 18

b. 180

c. 1,800

4. Rear Admiral Grace Hopper is credited with inventing _________ .

a. the computer mouse

b. the compiler

c. machine code

5. Packet switching, the technology behind the Internet, was developed in 1962 by

Leonard Kleinrock, a _____________ .

a. lieutenant in the U.S. Army

b. Bell Labs engineer

c. graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

6. In 1952, CBS used UNIVAC to predict the outcome of _________ .

a. the World Series

b. the Super Bowl

c. the presidential election

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