Information Technology - EVENTS AND PEOPLE

To pass the Turing Test, a computer program must be able to _____ like a human. a) talk b) sit c) walk d) think

Time magazine’s ‘person of the year’ in 1982 was _____. a) Bill Gates b) Pong c) the PC d) Ada Lovelace

Tom Hadfield made a lot of money from Soccernet while he was _____. a) at university b) in hospital c) at school d) on holiday

The first computer program was written by _____. a) Ada Lovelace b) Charles Babbage c) Lord Byron d) Bill Gates

The first _____ was built in 1774. a) telex machine b) abacus c) telephone d) telegraph machine

When Lily Allen put her songs on _____, a lot of people listened to them. a) MySpace b) Wikipedia c) Amazon d) Schoolsnet

People can use ‘Aim’ software to _____. a) send messages instantly b) listen to music c) play games d) do difficult calculations

The first computer virus was called _____. a) Jerusalem b) Brain c) I love you d) Enigma

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started the _____ Computer Company. a) Apple b) IBM c) Atari d) MFI

The Bill and _____ Gates Foundation helps poor people around the world. a) Sara b) Ada c) Melinda d) Maria

The inventor, _____, built the Z1 in 1938 and wrote programs for it. a) Charles Babbage b) Alan Turing c) Ada Lovelace d) Konrad Zuse

In the 1970s, _____ invented a computer called the Altair 8800 which people put together at home. a) Alan Turing b) John Gillatt c) Bill Gates d) Ed Roberts

Kyle Macdonald started trading on the Internet with a _____. a) pen b) house c) paperclip d) song

Bill Gates and Paul Allen started a company called _____. a ) Apple b) IBM c) Microsoft d) Atari

In 1979, a _____ was named ADA. a) programming language b) computer c) prize for writing software d) robot

In the 1970s, Nolan Bushnell tried to make money from the game _____. a) Pong b) Manhunt c ) Star Trek d) Spacewar

_____ helped to build a machine which could understand the Enigma code. a) Bill Gates b) Alan Turing c) Ada Lovelace d) Ed Roberts

_____ invented the Web in the early 1990s. a) Alan Turing b) Tim Berners-Lee c) Bill Gates d) Pierre Omidyar

The British teenager Alex Tew started the ‘_____ Dollar Homepage’. a) Hundred b) Million c) Billion d) Thousand

Gary Kasparov played chess against Deep Blue and _____. a) Deep Thinker b) Deep Junior c) New Blue d) Colossus