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Apple Inc. - A Brief History Trivia Quiz

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?

A multiple-choice quiz by angikar. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
angikar

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
391,865

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

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? Hint

It consisted of the word 'Apple' written in serif font

It showed an apple fruit without a bite taken out of it

It showed Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree

It showed three apple trees beside each other

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Question 2 of 10

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

Steve Jobs

Mike Markkula

Ronald Wayne

Steve Wozniak

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Question 3 of 10

3. '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? Hint

Vinyl disk

Floppy disk

Hard disk

Optical disk

4. 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? Hint

Lisa

Linda

Mary

Alice

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Question 5 of 10

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

X-Vision

Future

Technique

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Question 6 of 10

6. 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? Hint

Food items

Chemical elements

Flowers

Wild animals

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Question 7 of 10

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

iPhone 3G

iPhone New

iPhone 1.1

iPhone Alpha

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Question 8 of 10

8. 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. Hint

Opera

Netscape Navigator

Mosaic

Safari

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Question 9 of 10

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

Gil Amelio

Tim Cook

John Sculley

Michael Spindler

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Question 10 of 10

10. 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. Hint

Dolphin

Shazam

Napster

Untappd

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

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?

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

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.

3. '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?

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.

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

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.

6. 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?

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.

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

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.

8. 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.

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.

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

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.

Source: Author angikar

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