Section 1
What did Charles Babbage name the Difference Engine's successor?
a. Analytical Engine
b. Transformative Engine
c. Systematic Engine
d. Investigative Engine
e. Scientific Engine
a. Analytical Engine
A _____ _____ is a metal tube with a thin column of liquid (typically mercury) inside.
a. electric current
b. vacuum tubes
c. delay line
d. integrated circut
e. microchip
c. delay line
What is electronic mail known as today?
Email.
What is the shorthand for internet Macintosh?
iMac
What does IBM stand for?
International Business Machines
A ________ ______ is a device similar in appearance to a common lightbulb; it can modulate or amplify electric current, and it has two states: on or off.
vacuum tube
What was the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)'s first computer called?
a. PDP-1
b. DEC-101
c. SAGE
d. PDP-8
e. This corporation did not produce computers.
a. PDP-1
What company acquired Android in 2005?
a. Microsoft
b. Google
c. Apple
d. Samsung
e. Nokia
b. Google
Who was Ada Lovelace's father?
a. A merchant named Henry Bernoulli
b. An entrepreneur named Lord Charles
c. A poet named Lord Byron
d. A farmer names Oliver Banker
e. Ada Lovelace's father is unknown
c. A poet named Lord Byron
The first two "von Neumann architectcure" computers were bulit in what country?
England
What year was the first verison of VisiCalc released in?
a. 1899
b. 1925
c. 1943
d. 1979
e. 2001
d. 1979
Who was the inventor of bitcoin?
a. Satoshi Nakamoto
b. Steve Jobs
c. Jone Ive
d. Ted Nelson
e. Linus Torvalds
a. Satoshi Nakamoto
In 1936, Howard Aiken was a graduate student in physics at _________ University.
a. Cornell
b. Indiana
c. Berkley
d. Princeton
e. Harvard
e. Harvard
Dr. Herman Goldstine had been teaching mathematics at the University of ________ before being drafted into the army in 1942.
a. Vermont
b. California at Los Angeles
c. Michigan
d. Pennsylvania
e. Illinois
c. Michigan
During the 1950's, IBM used the the experience it gained with the SAGE system to develop an interactive reservations system for what airline?
American Airlines
What does "https" refer to?
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
What year did inventor Christopher Latham Sholes design and patent the first practical typewriter?
a. 1899
b. 1799
c. 1820
d. 1832
e. 1869
e. 1869
Six women were selected to work as the original programmers of the ENIAC. Their names were Frances Bilas Spence, Jean Bartik, Ruch Lichterman Teitelbaum,Kathleen McNulty, Elizabeth Snyder Holberton, and _____________.
Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer
What was the operating system the DEC created for the PDP-11 called?
RSTS-11
Who coined the term "hypertext" in the mid-1960s?
Ted Nelson