Apple Inc. - A Brief History Trivia Quiz

Answer: It showed Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree

Apple Computers Company was founded in 1976 but the company was incorporated in 1977. The three founders were Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. The logo used between 1976 and 1977 was hand-drawn by Wayne. The border of the logo had the words 'Newton - A Mind Forever Voyaging through Strange Seas of Thought - alone' inscribed in capital letters.

The logo was replaced by the rainbow apple logo designed by Rob Janoff in 1977.

Answer: Steve Wozniak

Apple I was sold as an assembled circuit board, or a motherboard. Basic textual-video clips were present along with the Central Processing Unit and the Random Access Memory. Other features like the monitor, or a keyboard could be bought and added to the device by the user later.

It is said that Steve Wozniak got the inspiration behind it after his first meeting at the Homebrew Computer Club. The device was initially sold for $666.66, when it was first launched in 1976.

Answer: Floppy disk

Disk II was a five and a quarter inch floppy disk drive. It was designed by Steve Wozniak to be used with the Apple II personal computer, which was introduced in 1977. Early models of Apple II used cassette tapes to store data. Disk II was introduced to replace the cassette storage. Apple II used character cell-based color graphics and open architecture. One of its key features was VisiCalc, a spreadsheet program.

Answer: Lisa

Steve Jobs and Jeff Raskin were inspired by the Xerox Alto. Apple started working on the Apple Lisa. However, Steve Jobs eventually left working under that project and started working on the Macintosh with Jeff Raskin. Apple Lisa released earlier, and was priced close to ten thousand dollars.

It had a 5 MB hard drive, and a Motorola 68000 processor. However, Apple Lisa had certain unique features like memory protection.

Answer: NeXT

The clash between Sculley and Jobs occurred due to Sculley's attempt to curb down on Job's experimentation in new markets. Initially, NeXT manufactured workstations for the higher education and business markets. Even Steve Wozniak left Apple in 1985 to pursue other ventures. Later on, Apple bought back NeXT in 1997, and Jobs had returned to Apple.

Answer: Wild animals

The versions of macOS from 10.0 to 10.8 were called 'Cheetah', 'Puma', 'Jaguar', 'Panther', 'Tiger', 'Leopard', 'Snow Leopard', 'Lion' and 'Mountain Lion'. The newer versions of macOS from 10.9 to 10.13 were called 'Mavericks', 'Yosemite', 'El Capitan', 'Sierra' and 'High Sierra'. These were named after landmarks in California. macOS was previously called OS X.

Answer: iPhone 3G

There was no iPhone 2. The second generation iPhone was called the iPhone 3G. It was manufactured by Foxconn Technology Group, also called the Hon Hai Precision Industry. The iPhone 3G had new features such as Global Positioning System (GPS), and 3G data.

After iPhone 3G, newer versions of iPhone were mostly named after numbers, with the exception of the iPhone SE (Special Edition), released in 2016.

Answer: Safari

Opera was developed by Opera software. Mosaic was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Netscape Navigator was developed by Netscape Communications Corp. Cyberdog was another web browser that was developed by Apple earlier. Mobile versions of Safari were introduced after launch of iOS based devices such as the iPhone.

Answer: Tim Cook

Before being the Chief Executive Officer, Tim Cook was the Chief Operating Officer of Apple Inc. He had also served as the Executive Vice President for worldwide sales and operations. Amelio, Sculley and Spindler were also CEOs of Apple Inc. when Jobs was not involved with the company.

Answer: Shazam

Shazam Entertainment Limited was founded in 1999 by Chris Barton, Philip Inghelbrecht, Avery Wang, and Dhiraj Mukherjee. Shazam has a database of over eleven million songs, in which the acoustic fingerprint of the song played is matched. This acoustic fingerprint is prepared based on a spectrogram, which graphs frequency over time. On identifying the song, Shazam returns the name of the song, the artist, the name of the album and other details back to the user. Apple bought Shazam for 400 million dollars.