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  The Life and Times of Apple's Steve Jobs   great trivia quiz  
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One of the leaders of the digital revolution died in 2011. Here is a quiz about Steve Jobs and some of his milestones and inventions.
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  Apple Inc. - A Brief History    
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Since its inception, the technology company Apple Inc. has been responsible for many revolutionary changes in the fields of both hardware and software. How much do you know about it?
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  One Green Apple Up On Top    
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Apple Inc. was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in California in 1977. Since then it has become a leader in the electronics industry and leader in environmental design. This quiz looks into many of Apple Inc.'s green practices.
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  A Chunk of Apple    
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A deep look into the history of Apple Incorporated.
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A clash with the then CEO John Sculley made Steve Jobs quit Apple and form a new company. What was this new company called?

From Quiz "Apple Inc. - A Brief History"





Apple Inc Trivia Questions

1. The first logo used by Apple Inc. from 1976 to 1977 was markedly different from the logos introduced after 1977. What were the features of this logo?

From Quiz
Apple Inc. - A Brief History

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.

2. Where was Steve Jobs born?

From Quiz The Life and Times of Apple's Steve Jobs

Answer: San Francisco, California

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs was born in San Francisco, California on February 24, 1955 to unwed parents. He was put up for adoption shortly after birth and was raised in Los Altos, California (which would become part of "Silicon Valley"), by Paul and Clara Jobs.

3. The first product of Apple was Apple I, a desktop computer released in 1976. Who designed and hand-built this product?

From Quiz Apple Inc. - A Brief History

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.

4. The Apple Macintosh's spelling was originally going to be what?

From Quiz A Chunk of Apple

Answer: McIntosh

The Apple Macintosh was released on January 24, 1984 by Steve Jobs himself. The Macintosh project was launched by Jef Raskin, an early Apple employee, in 1979. He initially wanted to call it "McIntosh" because it was his favorite apple. However, Apple ended up changing the spelling due to a company, McIntosh Laboratory, already using it.

5. From which college did Steve Jobs graduate?

From Quiz The Life and Times of Apple's Steve Jobs

Answer: He never graduated from college

Steve Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, for one semester. Unwilling to take required courses he dropped out and for a year and a half audited courses that interested him. He had little training in computer science or engineering.

6. 'Disk II' was a secondary storage device manufactured by Apple to be used along with the Apple II computer. What kind of device was Disk II?

From Quiz Apple Inc. - A Brief History

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.

7. Apple's original logo featured who?

From Quiz A Chunk of Apple

Answer: Sir Isaac Newton

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak used a logo featuring Sir Isaac Newton under an apple tree, symbolizing the Apple Computer name, and its simplicity. They, in fact, changed the logo to an apple with a chunk taken out. Apple has stated that the chunk was so it wasn't confused with a cherry, when printed in smaller forms.

8. On what day of the year was Apple Computer founded?

From Quiz The Life and Times of Apple's Steve Jobs

Answer: April Fool's Day

Apple was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. While the Apple mythology has grown to indicate that the April Fool's date was chosen to thumb their noses at authority, it just happened to be the day the Apple I computer was first delivered to a retailer, so the three decided they had a real company. Apple was incorporated in 1977. The first Apple logo was designed by Ronald Wayne, featuring Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree (he was reading a book). Rob Janoff designed the rainbow-colored Apple logo in 1977. There are many conflicting stories on why the name "Apple" was chosen but Steve Wozniak has said it was Jobs' idea.

9. In 1983, Apple released the first ever personal computer with a Graphical User Interface to be sold to the public. However, it was not commercially successful. What was the name of this computer?

From Quiz Apple Inc. - A Brief History

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.

10. Steve Jobs had worked on another computer in 1982, two years prior to the release of the Apple Macintosh. What was it called?

From Quiz A Chunk of Apple

Answer: Apple Lisa

On January 19, 1983, the Apple Lisa was released to the public at a price of $9,995. The name, according to Apple, is an acronym for Local Integrated System Architecture. Some think it had to do with Steve Jobs's daughter, named Lisa. All in all, the Apple Lisa was a commercial failure because of its price and software limitations.

11. A clash with the then CEO John Sculley made Steve Jobs quit Apple and form a new company. What was this new company called?

From Quiz Apple Inc. - A Brief History

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.

12. Apple had a feud with Microsoft shortly after the Macintosh's release. Why was this?

From Quiz A Chunk of Apple

Answer: Its software similarities of Macintosh and Windows

Shortly after the release of the Macintosh, Microsoft Windows was released in 1985. Apple struck a chord at Microsoft, in the famous case "Apple Computer, Inc. vs. Microsoft Corporation", claiming that the Windows operating system had mooched off the Macintosh. In the end, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that Apple had no use for patent protection, and that any company such as Microsoft or Linux, can produce GUI-based software.

13. Who was the original project leader for the Macintosh computer?

From Quiz The Life and Times of Apple's Steve Jobs

Answer: Jef Raskin

Jef Raskin was recruited by Jobs and Wozniak in 1977 to write the BASIC programming manual for the Apple II computer. He officially joined Apple in 1978. He worked on what was to become the Macintosh until 1981 when Jobs took over the project. Raskin left Apple in 1982 to work on his own projects. Jobs was known for his temper and Raskin later said of him: "He would have made an excellent king of France."

14. Since 2001, Apple has developed and marketed macOS, a series of graphical operating systems for Macintosh computers. After what were the first nine macOS software programs named?

From Quiz Apple Inc. - A Brief History

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.

15. Apple hired John Sculley, to be CEO of Apple Computer. What was he the head of before Apple?

From Quiz A Chunk of Apple

Answer: PepsiCo

Apple had hired Sculley to be CEO of Apple Computer in 1983, a year after he left the position of PepsiCo, Inc., which he first started as vice president in 1970, and became president of PepsiCo in 1977. He ended up resigning from Apple in 1993.

16. What company originated features that were incorporated into the Macintosh computer?

From Quiz The Life and Times of Apple's Steve Jobs

Answer: Xerox

Xerox, the copier company, had a research center in Palo Alto, California (PARC). Among their inventions was the experimental Alto computer, which used a mouse, a graphical user interface featuring icons on a "desktop" and networking capability. The project was stalled because no one at Xerox really knew what to do with the computer. In 1979, Steve Jobs and other Apple employees, in exchange for the right to buy $1,000,000 of Apple's pre-IPO (Initial Public Offering) stock, were allowed three days in the PARC facility to learn all they could and then use what they learned as they chose.

17. The first ever iPhone, released in 2007, was simply named the iPhone. What was the second generation iPhone curiously named?

From Quiz Apple Inc. - A Brief History

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.

18. Why did Steve Jobs leave Apple Computer in 1985?

From Quiz The Life and Times of Apple's Steve Jobs

Answer: He was forced out by the board of directors

While the Macintosh computer was heralded as brilliant in its debut in 1984 (over 400,000 were sold in the first year) sales eventually slowed because of limited software availability until Apple formed a partnership with Adobe Systems, which introduced the laser printer and PageMaker desktop publishing software. As sales decreased, the relationship between Jobs and then-CEO John Sculley became strained. Apple's board of directors sided with Sculley and Jobs was relieved of all decision-making responsibility. He resigned in September, 1985. Jobs was, in fact, featured in a commercial for the Nissan 280ZX.

19. This web browser was released by Apple, and the icon of this software featured a red compass on a blue background. Name this web browser.

From Quiz Apple Inc. - A Brief History

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.

20. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak unveiled the Apple I at what technology facility?

From Quiz A Chunk of Apple

Answer: Homebrew Computer Club

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak had unveiled the Apple I computer at the Homebrew Computer Club in July 1976. One man, Paul Terrell, was so fascinated, that he ordered for Apple Computer to make 50 units of what he thought were full computers, and would pay $500 for each unit. Terrell said he wasn't interested in just selling circuit boards, so he wanted the machines fully assembled. Jobs actually called another company, Cramer Electronics, to obtain the components he needed to build the Apple I computers.

21. After leaving Apple Computer in 1985, what business did Steve Jobs start?

From Quiz The Life and Times of Apple's Steve Jobs

Answer: NeXT Computer

Jobs founded NeXT as a company to make high-powered computer work stations, primarily to be used by academics. Because of the high prices of the workstations ($6,500 to $9,999 US) NeXT did not sell enough to be profitable and the company turned to software development, introducing NeXTSTEP, an advanced operating software that used the UNIX programming language for its underpinnings. NeXTSTEP would eventually become the basis for the Mac OS X operating system. Here's some further trivia for you: Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, did so on a NeXT workstation.

22. Steve Jobs died in 2011. Who succeeded him as the Chief Executive Officer of Apple?

From Quiz Apple Inc. - A Brief History

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.

23. Apple changed its corporate name from "Apple Computer, Inc" to "Apple Inc." in what year?

From Quiz A Chunk of Apple

Answer: 2007

According to Steve Jobs, the reason they dropped the "computer" part of the company name was that, since the company released hand-held products such as the IPod, and the IPhone, Jobs thought that people would be confused with the "computer" in the name.

24. What was Steve Jobs' purpose in buying, in 1986, what would become Pixar Animation Studios?

From Quiz The Life and Times of Apple's Steve Jobs

Answer: To sell high-end graphics computers

Jobs bought George Lucas' (Star Wars) "The Graphics Group" in 1986. The computer the group was developing was aimed at scientific markets (medicine, geophysics and meteorology). After Jobs bought the division (for $10 million) and changed the name to Pixar, the computers were released. They were extremely expensive and didn't sell in large numbers. To bring in some money, Pixar formed a deal with the Walt Disney Company to produce computer-animated films. In 1995 Pixar released "Toy Story", a highly successful movie. Among further releases were "A Bug's LIfe", "Cars" and "Finding Nemo". Disney bought Pixar from Jobs in in 2006 for $7.4 billion of stock.

25. In December 2017, Apple bought this app development company whose app by the same name can be used to identify music, movies or advertising based on a short sample played using the microphone. Name this company.

From Quiz Apple Inc. - A Brief History

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.

26. When did Steve Jobs return to Apple Computer?

From Quiz The Life and Times of Apple's Steve Jobs

Answer: 1996

Then-Apple CEO, Gil Amelio, bought NeXT in 1996, hoping to use it as the basis for a new Macintosh operating system (which did happen). Steve Jobs came along, originally as an advisor to Amelio. In July, 1997 Jobs orchestrated Amelio's removal and reshaped the company to his own liking. With a talented management team, notably design chief, Jonathan Ive, the company designed the iMacs, iPods, iPhones and iPads we have today, in turn making Apple one of the most valuable companies in the world.

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