Consider QWERTY
15 Questions I 5 Attempts I Created By slaten 442 days agoThis quiz is on the history of the QWERTY keyboard based on the article from http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html.
Question Excerpt From Consider QWERTY
| Q.1) | The first typerwriter was a finley-honed instrument that worked with precision. |
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| Q.2) | When Sholes built his first model in 1868, the key were arranged alphabetically in two rows. |
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| Q.3) | The QWERTY keyboard is also called the "Universal" keyboard. |
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| Q.4) | A problem with the first typerwriter was that if two typebars were near each other they would tend to clash into each other when typed in succession. |
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| Q.5) | By designing the QWERTY keyboard, typebar clashes were eliminated completely. |
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| Q.6) | The first typewriters typed only capital letters. |
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| Q.7) | The Dvorak keyboard has proved to be superior to QWERTY. |
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| Q.8) | Many of the studies used to test the effectiveness of Dvorak were flawed. |
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| Q.9) | The new Remington No. 2 offered both upper and lower case by adding the familiar shift key. |
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| Q.10) | To help solve the issue of clashing typebars, Sholes used a study of letter-pair frequency prepared by Amos Densmore. |
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| Q.11) | QWERTY keyboard reduced those annoying clashes of the typebars and resulted in slower typing speed. |
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| Q.12) | Dvorak's home row uses all five vowels and the five most common consonants. |
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| Q.13) | Everyone wants to take the time and trouble to learn a new keyboard. |
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| Q.14) | A U.S. General Services Administration study of 1953 found that it really didn't matter what keyboard you use. |
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| Q.15) | The QWERTY keyboard was the work of inventor C L. Sholes from Milwaukee in the 1860's. |
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