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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
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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
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Who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs?
- A. Jeff Bezos
- B. Bill Gates
- C. Mark Zuckerberg
- D. Steve Wozniak
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Which company acquired GitHub in 2018?
- A. Google
- B. Amazon
- C. IBM
- D. Microsoft
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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
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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
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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
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Who co-founded Microsoft?
- A. Larry Page
- B. Steve Jobs
- C. Paul Allen
- D. Mark Zuckerberg
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Which company created the 'Fortnite' game?
- A. Epic Games
- B. Electronic Arts
- C. Valve
- D. Activision
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Which tech company is nicknamed 'Big Blue'?
- A. Google
- B. Apple
- C. Microsoft
- D. IBM
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In what year was the first iPhone released?
- A. 2007
- B. 2005
- C. 2010
- D. 2008
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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
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Which search engine was the most popular before Google?
- A. Altavista
- B. Bing
- C. DuckDuckGo
- D. Yahoo
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Which company owns the 'Unity' game engine?
- A. Valve
- B. Ubisoft
- C. Unity Technologies
- D. Epic Games
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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
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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
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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