Work in pairs. Take the computing quiz.

1. Sir Timothy Burners-Lee is famously known for creating the World Wide Web. He is also a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology but which subject doesn’t he teach?

a) Engineering b) Telecommunications c) Artificial Intelligence

2. Which film production company did Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer Inc., also work at?

a) Pixar Animation Studios b) DreamWorks Animation c) Universal Studios

3. For which online social network is Baron Allan of Hallam is the Director of European Public Policy?

a) Facebook b) LinkedIn c) Twitter

4. Which hugely successful entrepreneur once said «We don’t have the option of turning away from the future. No one gets to vote on whether technology is going to change our lives»?

a) Mark Zuckerberg

b) Larry Page

c) Bill Gates

5. What was Maurice Vincent Wilkes famous for achieving?

a) First to create a computer which could generate sounds

b) First to create a computer that could display in colour

c) First to create a computer with a stored program

6. Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist, but what was his job during World War II?

a) Soldier in the trenches

b) Repaired parts at the military factory

c) Code-breaking

7. Sir John Fairclough was a computer engineer of IBM’s Raleigh development laboratory in the USA, but what career change did he take in 1986?

a) He became chief scientific advisor to the government Of Margaret Thatcher

b) He became a professor of computer engineering and taught at Cambridge

c) He became Prince Charles’s personal computer technician

8. How did John Simmons become an office pioneer?

a) He was the first person to introduce using computer to operate factory machinery

b) He was responsible for the first computer in the world to run a program for business rather than science

c) He developed the idea of using computer to replace people

9. Grace Hopper was a pioneer of developing computer language, but which term is he often credited for creating?

a) Computer glitch

b) Computer error

c) Computer bug

10. What did John Atanasoff realize, whilst investigation for ways to make simultaneous equations more efficient?

a) A calculator was in fact a computer

b) The difference between analogues and digital

c) That computers should be used in everyday lives in all households and not just for science or business?

2. Check your answers (Answers: 1b, 2a, 3a, 4c, 5c, 6c, 7a, 8b, 9 c, 10c) and find out who is a computer genius and who needs an upgrade.

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