Name: _______________________________________________________

Date:_____________

Computer 2 - Red

I.

Read the questions and encircle the correct answer.

1. What did the Chinese used in counting and calculating 4, 000 years ago?
a. Abacus
b. Pascaline
c. Calculator
2. Who helped Charles Babbage in creating programs and instructions for the analytical
engine?
a. John Napier
b. Lady Ada Augusta Lovelace
c. Blaise Pascal
3. A Stepped Reckoner is a machine that could add, subtract, multiply and divide. Who is
the German mathematician who created the Stepped Reckoner?
a. Lady Ada Augusta Lovelace
b. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz
c. Charles Babbage
4. The first people used their fingers in counting. What things did they also used to make
their counting easier?
a. computer, laptop and tablet
b. sticks, ropes and stones
c. abacus, pascaline and calculator
5. Who is the father of the Computers?
a. Blaise Pascal
b. John Napier
c. Charles Babbage
6. Napiers Bones is a device made of rods used to multiply and divide. Who is the
Scottish who invented this device?
a. Charles Babbage
b. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz
c. John Napier
7. What is the machine that was invented by Blaise Pascal to help his father compute tax
collections?
a. Abacus
b. Stepped Reckoner
c. Pascaline
8. Who is the American businessman who created the tabulating machine that used
punched cards to record, arrange and store data?
a. James Naismith
b. Herman Hollerith
c. Bill Gates
9. What is the most powerful computer?
a. Palmtop
b. Supercomputers
c. ENIAC
10. What is the huge computer developed to design weapons?
a. Analytical Engine
b. Pascaline
c. ENIAC
11. What is the small personal computer that fits on the users palm?
a. Palmtop
b. Pascaline
c. ENIAC
12. These computers are found in large companies that conduct experiments and
specialized researches. They can serve thousands of peoples and do many job at the
same time. What is this computer?
a. Mainframe Computers
b. Midrange Computers
c. Personal Computers

II.

Match Column A to Column B. Write the letter of your answer on the blank.
_____ 13. Stepped Reckoner

a. Blaise Pascal
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_____ 14. Analytical Engine

b. Herman Hollerith

_____ 15. Pascaline

c. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz

_____ 16. Tabulating Machine

d. John Napier
e. Charles Babbage and
Lady Ada Augusta Lovelace

III.

Arrange the following devices according to their time of invention. Write 1 to 4 in the
blanks.
_____ 17. Tabulating Machine
_____ 18. Analytical Engine
_____ 19. Napiers Bones
_____ 20. Stepped Reckoner

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