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Ada Lovelace Quiz

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Ada Lovelace was the only legitimate daughter of what famous poet?
Ada Lovelace Quiz
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Lord Byron
Alexander Pope

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What country was Ada Lovelace from?
Ireland
Great Britain
France
Italy

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What was the birth name of Ada Lovelace?
Lyn Ada Colechurch
Mary Elizabeth Ada Wingard
Augusta Ada Byron
Eloise Ada Douglas

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Lovelace's mother tutored her heavily in what area of study in the hopes she would not end up a poet like her father?
Physics
Biology
Mathematics
Military tactics

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Lovelace's father Lord Byron mentioned her specifically in which of his many poems?
"Breath of Dawn"
"A Pearl Mine Own"
"Sanctuary Dear"
"Last Leaving England"

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Lovelace is perhaps most famous for her collaboration working with what legendary eccentric English inventor on his early computers?
Charles Babbage
Anthony Downey
Kaleb Surmin
Patrick Feldman

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Lovelace assisted Babbage in conceptualizing what legendary computer device which they were never able to complete?
The Analytical Engine
The Formulaic Engine
The Solution Engine
The Equating Engine

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In 1835, Ada Lovelace married what man who only a few years afterward would be named Earl of Lovelace?
William King
Andrew Dallas
Micah Robertson
Wendell Thorne

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After her husband became Earl of Lovelace, Ada gained what title of nobility which changed her last name?
The Duchess of Lovelace
The Countess of Lovelace
The Viscountess of Lovelace
The Baroness of Lovelace

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In 1843, Lovelace's writings and translations on the early computer of Italian engineers contained what many consider the first theoretical computer program. What was the name of this collection of notes and translations?
Notes
Ideas
Extreme Hypotheticals
Suggestions for Revision

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One major contribution of Lovelace's writing was her idea of how true artificial intelligence would be impossible since it would always be based on human orders. What famous writer on artificial intelligence who devised a namesake "test" to determine the feasibility of artificial intelligence challenged her notes publicly to pursue artificial intelligence as a concept?
Colin Olson
Isaiah Prinz Jr.
Wesley Ford
Alan Turing

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What writer of Great Expectations and David Copperfield was a friend of Lovelace's who even read to her on her deathbed?
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Oscar Wilde
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alexander Pope
Charles Dickens

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At her own request, Lovelace was buried in Nottignhamshire beside whom?
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Charles Babbage
Her deceased son
Her mother
Her father

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