Name _____________________________ Date _____________
Blizzard Bag Computers--Mr. Slavin
How effectively can you look up information on the
Internet? You must correctly answer 10 QUESTIONS to get credit for this
assignment!
Perform a Google Search on the names or terms in each
question (or work backwards and search the answers!) below and circle the
letter which best answers the question.
1) Who is credited
with creating the home computer in 1975?
(a) Bill Gates (c) Gary Kildall
(b) Ed Roberts (d) Steve Jobs
2) What was the name
of the first home computer?
(a) Univac (c) Apple I
(b) IBM Personal Computer (d) Altair
8800
3) Who co-founded
Apple Computer?
(a) Steve Jobs and Ed Roberts (c)
Ed Roberts and Steve Jobs
(b) Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (d)
Steve Jobs and Steve Allen
4) Who was Bill
Gates’ partner in creating Microsoft, Inc.?
(a) Stevie Nicks (c) Paul Allen
(b) Steve Allen (d) Stevie Wonder
5) The first
Operating System developed for a PC was called…
(a) CP/M (c) Windows
(b) Lotus 1-2-3 (d) DOS 1.0
6) The first
spreadsheet program used in a PC was
(a) Excel (c) Pricer
(b) Lotus 1-2-3 (d) VisiCalc
7) ____, who worked
for Seattle Computer Products, created the Operating System (PC DOS 1.0) for
IBM’s first PC.
(a) Tim Patterson (c) Gary Kildall
(b) Steve Jobs (d) Jeannie Johnson
8) What was IBM’s
code name for their first PC?
(a) The Floridian Project (c) The
Clone
(b) The Peanut (d) The Apple Killer
9) What was the first
“killer application” used in the IBM PC?
(a) Lotus 1-2-3 (c) OS/2
(b) MITS (d) VisiCalc
(a) derivatives (c) Xeroxes
(b) clones (d) spinoffs
11) Who produced the
first microprocessor chip used in the IBM PC and its similar competitors?
(a) Apple (c) Microsoft
(b) Intel (d) MITS
12) Who made the
first working Graphical User Interface (GUI)?
(a) Google (c) Xerox
(b) Microsoft (d) Apple
13) Pepsi’s _____ was chosen by Steve Jobs to take over
for him at Apple from 1983 to 1993.
(a) Steve Ballmer (c) John Warnock
(b) John Sculley (d) John Appleseed
