NATIONALS

MIST 2015
REGIONAL
KNOWLEDGE TEST 3
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers,
Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital
Revolution by Walter Isaacson
Muslim Inter-Scholastic Tournament (MIST)

TEST BOOKLET. DO NOT WRITE ON THIS TEST.

TEST QUESTIONS SHOULD BE ANSWERED ONLY ON THE ANSWER SHEET.
STUDENTS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TAKE THIS TEST OUTSIDE OF THE
TESTING ROOM.
30 QUESTIONS 3 PTS EACH
1 ESSAY QUESTION 10 POINTS

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1. Lady Lovelaces Objection, was the fact that

a) Analytical Engines were to replace human workers
b) Analytical Engines could not originate anything
c) She was the first engineer of analytical machines
d) None of the above
2. This institution is credited with creating the Internet.
a) The Military
b) Private Corporations
c) Universities
d) All of the above
3. This man came up with the idea of breaking data up into standard sized little blocks to
make for easier transfer along a path through networks nodes. He is known as the father of
packet switching.
a) Paul Baran
b) Leonard Kleinrock
c) Klaus Fuchs
d) Donald Davies
4. Ken Kesey, a huge proponent of the counter culture in the 1960s that led to advances in
technological ideas, was a huge investor in drugs and founded a group called the
a) MIT Railroad Club
b) The Merry Pranksters
c) Homebrew Computer Club
d) The Hacker Organization
5. The computer that Bill Gates and the Lakeside Programming Group was given access to
and encouraged to program and play on it until it crashed was a
a) C - Cubed
b) Differential Analyzer
c) Boeing I
d) DEC PDP 10

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6. In order to obtain free time on a company called Information Sciences computer, Gates
and his friends offered to
a) Maintain the computer
b) Write a payroll program
c) Create a schedule for the high school
d) None of the above
7. The invention that was built by Xerox and became the foundation of Jobs success, and
later on was taken by Microsoft was the
a) Graphical User Interface
b) Personal Computer
c) Intel Microprocessor
d) IBM Configuration
8. The man who pushed the boundaries of, two much information, and started the concept
of web logging details from ones life in order to connect with others was
a) Ted Nelson
b) Byron Lovelace
c) Louis Rossetto
d) Justin Hall
9. When he launched the web in 1991, Tim Berners Lee intended it to be used as this kind
of a tool
a) Research Tool
b) Collaboration Tool
c) Editing Tool
d) Innovation Tool
10. The idea for an online encyclopedia by Larry Sanger and Justin Wales led to the creation
of
a) Google
b) Britannica Online
c) Wikipedia
d) B and C
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11. Jerry Yang and David Filo would avoid writing their thesis papers by compiling and ever
expanding directory of websites by hand. This eventually led to the creation of
a) Google
b) Yahoo!
c) Ask.com
d) Bing.com
12. This man is credited with making the precursor to the calculator, about 100 years ahead of
its time.
a) Bob Taylor
b) Captain Luigi Menabrea
c) Charles Babbage
d) De Morgan
13. In 1998, Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented a prototype of a large scale search engine
called
a) Yahoo!
b) Google
c) Ask.com
d) Bing
14. This was the predecessor to the Internet, and was pioneered by Robert Kahn and his
partner Vint Cerf.
a) ALOHAnet
b) ETHERNET
c) ARPANET
d) Altamont
15. What is one of the more commonly accepted narratives of the Internet?
a) It was built to survive a nuclear attack
b) It was built to compete with the launch of Sputnik
c) It was build to encourage collaboration of creativity in the United States
d) None of the Above

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16. Vannevar Bush wrote an essay for the July 1945 issue of the Atlantic titled, As We May
Think. In it, he conjured up the possibility of a
a) Personal machine
b) World wide web
c) Electronic collaboration (chat rooms)
d) A and B
Fill in the Blanks: One blank may include several words.
17. The identity of Lady Lovelaces father, __________, was kept a secret from her by her
mother after she was disgusted by his affairs.
18. In 1976, Bill Gates left ____________University, ________ semesters shy of graduating. He
decided to start his company _________________ instead.
19. When it came time to build the Apple II, Steve Jobs did not spend much time studying
______________ specs. Instead, he headed to the mall and studied the ____________ to
figure out how the next personal computer should be like an ______________.
20. The world wide web had content that was free for users, because it was paid for by
___________________.
Read each statement and determine whether its True (T) or False (F). If False, make the
statement true.
21. In the early 1980s, Microsoft had a wonderful relationship with Apple, which was later on
spoiled when Steve Jobs believed that Bill Gates ripped them off.
22. The Internet and the personal computer were both born in the 1970s and continued to
grow together in an alliance between networking and individual empowerment.
23. Berners Lee came up with the name World Wide Web for his Hyper Text project.
Match the term or name with the correct statement.
Ada Lovelace

Bob Taylor

Bill Gates

Steve Jobs

Vannevar Bush

Grace Hopper

J.C.R. Licklider

Doug Engelbart

Ken Kesey

Alan Kay

Steve Wozniak

Nolan Bushnell

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24. In this partnership, he was the one who came up with the business plans, conducted
demonstrations, and package products so that they were simple and user friendly. He was
told by his partners father, that he didnt deserve anything as he just managed the work
and didnt actually do anything.
25. This man was an engineer, who had taken on as his lifes passion inventing ways that
computers could augment human intelligence. He is also credited with being the inventor
of the first computer mouse.
26. The owner and CEO of Atari, he learned to grow up and handle challenges quickly after
his father died at the age of 15, leaving behind several construction jobs unfinished. He is
credited with coming up with the idea for the video game, Pong.
27. The MIT Professor who in 1931 built the differential analyzer, oversaw the Manhattan
Project during WWII, and wrote a report to the president advocating government funding
of basic research in partnership with universities and industries. It was titled, Science, the
Endless Frontier.
28. He pioneered the two most important concepts underlying the Internet: decentralized
networks that would enable the distribution of information to and from anywhere, and
interfaces that would facilitate human-machine interaction in real time. He was a kind
man, who coined the phrase, man-computer symbiosis.
29.This Texan was inspired by Lickliders vision of linking computers into a network and he
decided that this would be his lifes work. He oversaw the creation of the ARPANET.
30. This woman published, Notes on Babbages Analytical Engine. She was among the
young women present in British Royal Court, and her love for both poetry and math primed
her to see beauty in a computing machine.

ESSAY QUESTION
Choose one. Answer it as completely as possible.
1. The two primary debates and approaches in the early stages of the computer was to
augment human intelligence and to create artificial human intelligence. Describe eac.
2. Microsoft and Apple both originated around the same time. Use the text to argue which
launched a better personal computer, and why one became more successful first.

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