* In 1981, a repairman was killed by a robot at an industrial plant. The robot came up from behind and crushed him to death. In which country did that happen?
Germany
France
USA
Japan
* In the early 1990s, using two supercomputers – a CRAY 2S and a Connection Machine CM-2, researchers have been able to identify a 2000-year old mummified child who died of unknown causes around A.D. 100. What was the age of the child?
12 years old
8 years old
5 years old
3 years old
* Who made this quote famous: One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Alan Turing
Albert Einstein
Elbert Hubbard
John von Neumann
* Computers can handle very large numbers such as a googol: a very large number which is 10 raised to the power of 100. Also, a googolplex is 1 followed by a googol zeros. Interestingly enough, both the words googol and googolplex were invented by the nine-year-old nephew of which mathematician?
Edward Kasner
Helaman Ferguson
Ronald Graham
Lynn Arthur Steen
* The Kyoto Prize is the Japanese version of the Nobel Prize for computer science on top of the Turing Award.The prize includes a certificate, gold medal and prize money of close to US$500,000. Which of the following computer scientists has never won the prize before?
Don Knuth
Marvin Minsky
Maurice Wilkes
John McCarthy
I scored 4 out of 5 correct… *sigh*
Ahhh…I am just a Grass-hoppah compared to you, oh wise one. 😉