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Tech Companies & Founders Quiz

Tech Companies & Founders · Medium

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The technology industry is dominated by a handful of companies whose products and platforms are used by billions of people daily. Companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, M...

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All 20 questions in this Tech Companies & Founders quiz
  1. Which company, founded by Jack Dorsey, changed its name to 'Block' in 2021 to reflect its focus on blockchain and Bitcoin?

    • A. Twitter
    • B. Square
    • C. PayPal
    • D. Coinbase
  2. Who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs?

    • A. Jeff Bezos
    • B. Bill Gates
    • C. Mark Zuckerberg
    • D. Steve Wozniak
  3. Which company acquired GitHub in 2018?

    • A. Google
    • B. Amazon
    • C. IBM
    • D. Microsoft
  4. Which semiconductor company is currently led by CEO Lisa Su, who is credited with saving the firm from near-bankruptcy and making it a major rival to Intel?

    • A. NVIDIA
    • B. AMD
    • C. Qualcomm
    • D. Broadcom
  5. What is the name of the venture capital firm founded by Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, and others, often referred to as the 'PayPal Mafia'?

    • A. Sequoia Capital
    • B. Andreessen Horowitz
    • C. Founders Fund
    • D. Benchmark
  6. Which tech founder was the driving force behind the creation of the 'Linux' kernel, which now powers the majority of the world's servers?

    • A. Richard Stallman
    • B. Linus Torvalds
    • C. Steve Wozniak
    • D. Ken Thompson
  7. Who co-founded Microsoft?

    • A. Larry Page
    • B. Steve Jobs
    • C. Paul Allen
    • D. Mark Zuckerberg
  8. In early 2024, which tech giant officially entered the 'spatial computing' market with the release of the Vision Pro headset?

    • A. Meta
    • B. Google
    • C. Microsoft
    • D. Apple
  9. Who are the two brothers who founded the payment processing giant 'Stripe,' which is now one of the world's most valuable private startups?

    • A. The Winklevoss Brothers
    • B. Patrick and John Collison
    • C. The Wright Brothers
    • D. The Koch Brothers
  10. Who is the current CEO of YouTube who took over from Susan Wojcicki in 2023?

    • A. Neal Mohan
    • B. Sundar Pichai
    • C. Steve Chen
    • D. Jawed Karim
  11. Who is the current CEO of Intel who returned to the company in 2021 to lead its 'IDM 2.0' manufacturing turnaround strategy?

    • A. Pat Gelsinger
    • B. Brian Krzanich
    • C. Bob Swan
    • D. Gordon Moore
  12. Which company created the 'Fortnite' game?

    • A. Epic Games
    • B. Electronic Arts
    • C. Valve
    • D. Activision
  13. Which tech company is nicknamed 'Big Blue'?

    • A. Google
    • B. Apple
    • C. Microsoft
    • D. IBM
  14. In what year was the first iPhone released?

    • A. 2007
    • B. 2005
    • C. 2010
    • D. 2008
  15. Which Israeli tech company is a global leader in autonomous driving technology and was acquired by Intel for $15.3 billion in 2017?

    • A. Waze
    • B. Mobileye
    • C. Check Point
    • D. SolarEdge
  16. Which search engine was the most popular before Google?

    • A. Altavista
    • B. Bing
    • C. DuckDuckGo
    • D. Yahoo
  17. Which company owns the 'Unity' game engine?

    • A. Valve
    • B. Ubisoft
    • C. Unity Technologies
    • D. Epic Games
  18. Who is the current CEO of Meta's 'Instagram' and was previously a key figure in the development of the Facebook News Feed?

    • A. Kevin Systrom
    • B. Adam Mosseri
    • C. Sheryl Sandberg
    • D. Chris Cox
  19. Which 2024 merger saw a massive $69 billion deal completed between Microsoft and a major video game publisher after a long legal battle?

    • A. Ubisoft
    • B. Activision Blizzard
    • C. Electronic Arts (EA)
    • D. Take-Two Interactive
  20. Which company, founded by Steve Jobs during his time away from Apple, created the operating system that would eventually become the base for macOS?

    • A. Pixar
    • B. NeXT
    • C. BeOS
    • D. Xerox