PRELIM

Question 1

First Counting Mechanism

Answer 1

Abacus

Question 2

He designed a Mechanical Calculator

Answer 2

Leonardo Da Vinci

Question 3

Father of the Computer

Answer 3

Charles P. Babbage

Question 4

First Programmer

Answer 4

Lady Ada Agusta Byron Lovelace

Question 5

Who Invented Vacuum Tubes

Answer 5

Lee De Forest

Question 6

Introduced the first programmable computer which solved complex engineering equations called z3.

Answer 6

Konrad Zuse

Question 7

Build UNIVAC I

Answer 7

Mauchly and Eckert

Question 8

in 1958, ______ of Texas instruments manufactured the first integrated circuit.

Answer 8

Jack ST. Clair Kilby

Question 9

Developed BASIC programming language

Answer 9

John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz

Question 10

who developed PASCAL

Answer 10

Blaise Pascal

Question 11

first commercially successful coin-operated video game invented by Atari company

Answer 11

Pong

Question 12

Who approached MITS and promised to deliver a BASIC compiler?

Answer 12

William Gates and Paul Allen

Question 13

Who Designed and build apple I

Answer 13

Steve Wozniak

Question 14

______ magazine chooses the computer instead of a person to be its “Machine of the Year”.

Answer 14

Time

Question 15

in 1982, first digital audio CD discs were made available in the 5 inch size, true or false?

Answer 15

True

Question 16

a type of proprietary software that is initially shared by the owner for trial use at little or no cost.

Answer 16

Shareware

Question 17

Used to create and modify graphical images, Sometimes called illustration software

Answer 17

paint/image editing software