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1

What mathematician has given name to a branch of algebra dealing with logic?

George Boole

David A. Huffman

Jack Elton Bresenham

Maurice Karnaugh

44% got this right

2

Which of the following is NOT an algorithms for sorting?

Kruskal sort

Bubble sort

Bucket sort

Quicksort

48% got this right

3

How many different values can a byte take?

256

2

8

Infinite

35% got this right

4

Which of the following is the basis of most modern character-encoding schemes?

ASCII

ANSI

ISO

UTF

59% got this right

5

What Polish-French-American mathematician has given name to this fractal set?

Benoit Mandelbrot

Gaston Julia

Helge von Koch

Wacław Sierpiński

Hard  35% got this right

6
48 random squares

What was the first machine to be programatically controlled by punch-cards?

Loom

Calculator

Lathe

Printing press

Hard  25% got this right

The programmable loom was invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1804.
7

Which of the following is NOT a hash function?

RSA

CRC-32

MD5

SHA-1

36% got this right

8

What was the name of the famous German WW2 encryption machine?

Enigma

Conundrum

Paradox

Riddle

51% got this right

9

For what was British computer science pioneer Turing prosecuted in 1952?

Homosexual acts

High treason

Murder

Petty theft

56% got this right

10

Who is NOT credited for inventing the integrated circuit?

William Shockley

Geoffrey Dummer

Jack Kilby

Robert Noyce

Hard  33% got this right