Unit 5
CS History
[29.1] Who designed the Analytical Engine?
a) Alan Turing
b) Charles Babbage
c) John von Neumann
d) Tim Berners-Lee
[29.2] What was the purpose of the first program written for the Analytical Engine?
a) Calculating Bernoulli numbers
b) Sorting numbers
c) Playing chess
d) Solving equations
[29.3] The Church-Turing Thesis is associated with which concept?
a) Binary arithmetic
b) Cloud computing
c) Turing Machine
d) Neural networks
[29.4] What major technological development made physical computers possible?
a) Printing press
b) Electronic circuitry
c) Mechanical gears
d) Steam engines
[29.5] Which historical event accelerated the development of programmable computers?
a) Industrial Revolution
b) Cold War
c) World War I
d) World War II
[29.6] What was the ENIAC known for?
a) First personal computer
b) First laptop
c) First general programmable computer
d) First internet server
[29.7] What is the von Neumann architecture primarily known for?
a) Hardware miniaturization
b) Artificial intelligence
c) Networking protocols
d) Software architecture design
[29.8] What did the invention of the compiler improve?
a) Ease of programming
b) Memory size
c) Internet connectivity
d) Hardware speed
[29.9] Which of the following contributed to making computers smaller and cheaper?
a) Transistors
b) Mechanical switches
c) Punch cards
d) Vacuum tubes
e) Integrated circuits
[29.10] What event introduced many concepts used in modern personal computing?
a) Launch of ARPANET
b) Release of Windows 95
c) First smartphone launch
d) The Mother of All Demos
[29.11] What was ARPANET originally?
a) A social media platform
b) A university network
c) A commercial internet provider
d) A government project
[29.12] Which technologies helped make the internet widely accessible?
a) Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
b) USB and HDMI
c) TCP/IP and HTML
d) DNS and FTP
[29.13] True / False questions.
a) The Analytical Engine was built and fully functional in the 19th century.
b) The first program was written to run on a modern computer.
c) A Turing Machine can compute anything a digital computer can compute.
d) Electronic circuitry enabled the development of physical computers.
e) The ENIAC was a mechanical computer.
f) The von Neumann architecture is still influential in modern computing.
g) Compilers made programming more difficult.
h) The invention of the microprocessor helped reduce the size of computers.
i) The internet has remained mostly unchanged since its creation.
j) The ARPANET served as the foundation for the modern internet as it transitioned
from military use to public and commercial sectors.