PRE COMPUTER AGE TO 19TH CENTURY OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS
1) Which of the following is still useful for adding number?
a) EDSAC.
b) ENIAC.
c) Abacus.
d) UNIVAC.
2) The earliest calculating devices are
a) Abacus.
b) Clock.
c) Difference Engine.
d) None of the above.
3) Who built the first Mechanical Calculator?
a) Joseph Marie Jacquard.
b) John Mauchly.
c) Blaise Pascal.
d) Howard Aiken.
4) When did John Napier develop logarithm?
a) 1416.
b) 1614.
c) 1641.
d) 1804.
5) Who invented Analytical engine?
a) Blaise Pascal.
b) George Bool.
c) Charles Babbage.
d) Dr. Herman Hollerith.
6) Punched cards were first introduced by _
a) Powers.
b) Pascal.
c) Jacquard.
d) Herman Hollerith.
7) The first mechanical calculating machine was made by _
a) William Oughtred.
b) Gottfried Liebnitz.
c) Blaise Pascal.
d) Charles Babbage.
8) Computers built before the first generation of computers were _
a) mechanical.
b) electro-mechanical.
c) electrical.
d) None of the above.
9) Jacquard Loop Marie invented a power loom with automatic card reader in the year _
a) 1801.
b) 1944.
c) 1642.
d) 1823.
10) Punch card machine was developed in _
a) Germany.
b) Nigeria.
c) France.
d) China.