Turning Tumble Competition Quiz Answer Key: Robot Day Coventry 2024

At our Coventry event on Saturday 19th March 2024, we held a prize draw for people who completed a quiz created by our competition promoter Derrick Willer on the day.

Took part in our competition and want to know how you did? Or just curious? We have the answers to our quiz below!

To find out who this year's winner is, please see this post.

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The correct answers to the questions are highlighted in red.

Robots:

Question	Answer 1	Answer 2	Answer 3	Answer 4
When was the first patent issued for a robot?	1948 to William Grey Walter	In 1938 to Willard V. Pollard	1939 to Konrad Zuse	1928 to Captain William Richards
How long does it take for a signal from Voyager 1 take to get to Earth?	2.2 days	22 Minutes	22 Hours	2.2 hours
Where was the first time robots were written about?	Lucian of Samosata’s Luchiana book	Alan Turing in his thesis	Olimpia singing puppet in The Sandman by Hoffman	Steam Man of the Prairies by Edward S. Ellis
How far away are the Mars Rovers when closest to Earth?	205 million Km	15 million Km	150 million Km	56 million Km
What was the first robot to use early artificial intelligence?	Shakey the Robot	Eric, a human-shaped automaton	Boilerplate robot	Unimate
When was the first robot designed?	1959 at MIT university	1938 by William Pollard	1948 by William Walter	1954 by George Devol
When was the first robot used in industry?	1954 by George Devol	1961 by General Motors	1959 at MIT university	1938 by William Pollard

Computers:

Question	Answer 1	Answer 2	Answer 3	Answer 4
Which was the first computer?	IBM 101	Babbage Computer	Antikythera Mechanism	Bletchley Park Collussus
What is Scratch	A version of the computer programming language C	A high level block based computer programming language	An enhanced version of the Cobol programming language	An enhanced version of the Fortran programming language
Why do we send Earth Time to satellites such as GPS about twice a day?	Because time runs slower near massive objects such as earth and the satellite are a long way from earth’s surface so they run faster	Because all clocks have errors which cause them to run faster or slower	Because your car’s clock is connected through the internet to International Time and has a negligible error	Because the GPS clocks can run faster or slower than other clocks
When was the first working Babbage computer constructed?	1991 at Science Museum London	1939 by Konrad Zeus	1842 by Charles Babbage	2011 at National Computer Museum, Bletchley Park
When was the first computer designed?	1950 by ENIAC	1939 by Alan Turing	1939 by Conrad Zeus	First century AD
Who is credited with being the first computer programmer?	Alan Turing	Konrad Zeus	Ada King, Countess of Lovelace	Kay McNulty and others programming ENIAC
How does the Global Positioning System (GPS) system work in a car?	Using the car’s computer to work out where you are	By triangulation with at least 4 satellites using time differences	By dead reckoning from home using speed and direction	By triangulation with a satellite

How many did you already know? Comment below!

We hope all who attended Robot Day Coventry 2024 you enjoyed taking part in this competition.