Who is often called the first computer programmer?
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Grace Hopper
2
Ada Lovelace
3
Katherine Johnson
4
Hedy Lamarr
Ada Lovelace wrote notes on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine in the 1840s.
Question 2 / 10
Alexander Graham Bell is credited with inventing what?
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Radio
2
Telephone
3
Telegraph
4
Television
Bell received the first U.S. telephone patent in 1876.
Question 3 / 10
Who co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs?
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Bill Gates
2
Steve Wozniak
3
Paul Allen
4
Tim Berners-Lee
Wozniak designed the Apple I and Apple II computers.
Question 4 / 10
Thomas Edison is closely associated with which lighting technology?
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LED bulb
2
Practical incandescent bulb
3
Neon tube
4
Laser
Edison improved durable filaments and commercial electrical systems.
Question 5 / 10
Who invented the World Wide Web?
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Vint Cerf
2
Tim Berners-Lee
3
Linus Torvalds
4
Marc Andreessen
Berners-Lee proposed HTTP, HTML, and URLs while at CERN in 1989.
Question 6 / 10
Nikola Tesla is best known for work on which type of current?
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Direct current only
2
Alternating current
3
Static electricity
4
Solar voltaics
Tesla's AC systems enabled long-distance power transmission.
Question 7 / 10
The Wright brothers achieved the first powered flight in which state?
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Ohio
2
North Carolina
3
California
4
New York
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina hosted the 1903 Flyer flights.
Question 8 / 10
Marie Curie won Nobel Prizes for work on what?
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Radioactivity
2
Penicillin
3
DNA structure
4
Quantum optics
Curie remains the only person awarded Nobel prizes in two sciences.
Question 9 / 10
Who developed the polio vaccine widely used in the 1950s–60s?
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Jonas Salk
2
Edward Jenner
3
Louis Pasteur
4
Robert Koch
Salk's inactivated-virus vaccine was announced effective in 1955.
Question 10 / 10
Linux kernel was created by whom?
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Richard Stallman
2
Linus Torvalds
3
Dennis Ritchie
4
Ken Thompson
Torvalds released Linux 0.01 in 1991; GNU tools completed the OS stack.
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