MCQ questions and answers on the history of computers:
1. Who is considered to be the “Father of Computer”?
A) Charles Babbage
B) Alan Turing
C) John von Neumann
D) Tim Berners-Lee
Answer: A) Charles Babbage
2. What was the name of the first electronic computer?
A) Colossus
B) ENIAC
C) UNIVAC
D) IBM 701
Answer: B) ENIAC
3. What year was the first computer mouse invented?
A) 1958
B) 1963
C) 1972
D) 1981
Answer: A) 1958
4. Who is known as the “Mother of Programming”?
A) Ada Lovelace
B) Grace Hopper
C) Katherine Johnson
D) Mary Jackson
Answer: A) Ada Lovelace
5. What was the name of the first personal computer?
A) Altair 8800
B) Apple I
C) IBM PC
D) Commodore PET
Answer: A) Altair 8800
6. Who invented the World Wide Web?
A) Bill Gates
B) Tim Berners-Lee
C) Steve Jobs
D) Mark Zuckerberg
Answer: B) Tim Berners-Lee
7. What was the name of the first computer to use transistors instead of vacuum tubes?
A) UNIVAC
B) IBM 1401
C) DEC PDP-1
D) IBM 7090
Answer: B) IBM 1401
8. Who was the first computer programmer?
A) Ada Lovelace
B) Grace Hopper
C) Charles Babbage
D) Alan Turing
Answer: A) Ada Lovelace
9. What was the name of the first computer game?
A) Pong
B) Spacewar!
C) Tetris
D) Donkey Kong
Answer: B) Spacewar!
10. What year was the first computer virus discovered?
A) 1983
B) 1986
C) 1991
D) 1995
Answer: A) 1983
11. Who invented the first microprocessor?
A) Ted Hoff
B) Robert Noyce
C) Gordon Moore
D) Marcian Hoff
Answer: D) Marcian Hoff
12. What year was the first commercially successful personal computer introduced?
A) 1971
B) 1975
C) 1981
D) 1985
Answer: B) 1975
13. What was the name of the first computer to use a graphical user interface?
A) Xerox Alto
B) Apple Lisa
C) Macintosh
D) Windows
Answer: A) Xerox Alto
14. Who founded Apple Computer?
A) Bill Gates and Paul Allen
B) Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
C) Larry Page and Sergey Brin
D) Mark Zuckerberg
Answer: B) Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
15. What was the name of the first laptop computer?
A) IBM ThinkPad
B) Toshiba T1100
C) Compaq Portable
D) Macintosh Portable
Answer: B) Toshiba T1100
16. Who is credited with the invention of the first email system?
A) Ray Tomlinson
B) Vint Cerf
C) Bob Kahn
D) Tim Berners-Lee
Answer: A) Ray Tomlinson
17. What was the name of the first computer company to go public?
A) Apple
B) IBM
C) Microsoft
Answer: B) IBM
18. What was the name of the first supercomputer?
A) Cray-1
B) CDC 6600
C) IBM System/360 Model 91
D) Seymour Cray
Answer: B) CDC 6600
19. Whoined the term “artificial intelligence”?
A) John McCarthy
B) Alan Turing
C) Marvin Minsky
D) Claude Shannon
Answer: A) John McCarthy
20. What was the name of the first computer to beat a human at chess?
A) Deep Blue
B) IBM Watson
C) AlphaGo
D) HAL 9000
Answer: A) Deep Blue
21. Who invented the first computer printer?
A) Charles Babbage
B) Alan Turing
C) Chester Carlson
D) Douglas Engelbart
Answer: C) Chester Carlson
22. What was the name of the first search engine?
A) Google
B) Yahoo
C) AltaVista
D) Excite
Answer: C) AltaVista
23. Who is known as the “father of the Internet”?
A) Tim Berners-Lee
B) Vint Cerf
C) Robert Kahn
D) Larry Roberts
Answer: B) Vint Cerf
24. What was the name of the first computer programming language?
A) FORTRAN
B) COBOL
C) BASIC
D) Lisp
Answer: A) FORTRAN
25. Who invented the first computer modem?
A) Vint Cerf
B) Robert Kahn
C) Dennis Hayes
D) Tim Berners-Lee
Answer: C) Dennis Hayes
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