A Chunk of Apple Trivia Quiz

Answer: True

When he co-founded the company on April 1, 1976 with Jobs and Wozniak, Ronald Wayne initially had a 10% stake in Apple, but sold his stake less than two weeks later for a total of $800.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Answer: Yes

Apple Inc. produced a version for Microsoft Windows in 2007, and continued to do so until it was discontinued in 2012, mostly due to other browsers, such as Firefox and Google Chrome, taking up major Windows PCs.

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.

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.

Answer: False

Although the first models were PowerPC-based, the first to be Intel-based was released on January 10, 2006.