Some questions also by Patrick Delahanty, Matt Neff, Dave Laster, Rob Homuth, and others. This document is (c)1994, 1995, 1996 by Scott J. Kleper. All Rights Reserved. The author is not responsible
for the accuracy of these questions.
How many times was the "1984" commercial aired on NATIONAL TV by Apple?
1
Once
Twice
Twelve times
How did the original Mac team demonstrate their superiority over the Lisa division?
2
They wrote a program for the Mac that emulated a Lisa
They put a pirate flag on top of their building
They broke into the division and crashed all the Lisa's
How did Steve Jobs want to produce the Mac?
2
Through an overseas plant in Singapore
Through a totally automated plant in the US
Through sub-contractors in the US
What was the "1984" commercial modeled after?
1
A book about totalitarianism by George Orwell
Another famous commercial produced by IBM
Apple's planned dominance over Microsoft
Which of the following celebrities was NOT given a free Mac?
3
Andy Warhol
Mick Jagger
Janet Jackson
What was Steve Jobs' position at Apple when the Mac was introduced?
1
Chairman
Chief Executive Officer
President
Which of the following was not an Apple dud?
3
The "Test Drive a Macintosh" program
The PowerBook 100
The original HyperCard program
Which of the following celebrities is NOT a known Mac user?
1
Sylvester Stallone
Harry Anderson
Jerry Seinfeld
On what street does Apple's Research and Development Center reside?
3
Mariani Avenue
Woz Way
Infinite Loop
What is Guy Kawasaki's current title at Apple?
2
Apple Evangelist
Apple Fellow
Apple Hero
What company did Mac evangelist Guy Kawasaki work for after leaving Apple?
3
Xerox PARC
ASCII
ACI US
What type of computer does Jerry Seinfeld have on his desk on "Seinfeld"?
3
A PowerComputing Power 100
An Apple //GS signed by Steve Wozniak
A Macintosh
What Apple commercial appeared during the 1985 super bowl?
1
"Lemmings"
"1985"
The famous Charlie Chaplin commercial
What was the first Apple computer with an ADB port?
1
Apple IIgs
Macintosh Plus
Macintosh II
What does Apple call its new dynamic programming language?
3
AppleObject Environment
Macintosh Programmer's Workshop
Dylan
What is Apple's stock symbol?
1
AAPL
APLE
APPL
What is the name of John Sculley's autobiography?
1
Odyssey
The Father of the Pepsi Generation
Sculley
Why didn't Steve Jobs want the Mac to have a hard drive?
1
He thought the fan would make too much noise
He thought future disk technology would make floppies better
He couldn't find them in time to ship with the original Mac
What did the license plate on Jean-Louis Gasee's car say?
2
MACMAN
OPENMAC
APL-FRANC
Which robot on "Mystery Science Theater 3000" prefers Macintosh?
1
Tom Servo
Crow T. Robot
Cambot
What was the original suggested retail price for Macintosh in the US?
2
$1,995
$2,495
$2,995
How big was the 128k Mac's ROM?
1
64k
128k
512k
What's Steve Job's middle initial?
3
D
M
P
Which Universities were mentioned in the original Press Release as members of the Apple University Consortium?
2
Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and Dartmouth
Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale
Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and Carnegie-Mellon
Where was Apple's highly automated Macintosh factory built?
1
Freemont, California
Austin, Texas
Boca Raton, Florida
How fast did the Fremont plant originally turn out new Macs?
1
About one every 27 seconds
About one every 2.7 minutes
About one every 27 minutes
What was Microsoft's "motif" for the Boston MacWorld '94 release of MS-Office 4.0?
3
A western-style ranch
A small business office
A television infomercial
Steve Jobs is said to be always surrounded by...
2
"An infinite mass of reporters and biographers"
"A reality distortion field"
"The technology of the future at the present"
According to Steve Jobs, what do "real artists" do?
3
Write poetry
Use computers
Ship
What was the initial price of Apple stock?
3
$3
$13
$22
What series of books is a Macintosh programmer's bible?
2
"Macintosh Software Specifications"
"Inside Macintosh"
"Writing Macintosh Software"
What was the name of the group that distributed the Macintosh ROM source?
1
The nuPrometheus League
The Apple Missionaries
The Free ROM Society
Bill Gates is...
2
A founding partner of Taligent, Inc.
A Harvard dropout
The creator of the Altair computer
Bill Gates is...
3
The inventor of DOS
The inventor of the GUI
None of the above
What was Steve Capps' 3D chess game for the 128k Mac called?
3
Chess3D
Array
Alice
The fruit is really spelt "McIntosh." What does Macintosh really mean?
1
A lightweight rubber fabric
Simplicity
It has no real meaning
Who were the authors of Macintalk?
3
Steve Capps and Steve Wozniak
Charles Spezzano and David Bunnell
Mark Barton and Joseph Katz
Where was the 1984 commercial first shown to the public?
1
Twin Falls, Idaho (1983)
Baca Raton, Florida (1984)
Nationally, during the SuperBowl (1984)
How much did it cost Apple to show the "1984" commercial during the SuperBowl?
2
$200,000
$900,000
$2,000,000
Who designed/picked the symbol on the command key?
2
Bruce Horn
Susan Kare
Steve Jobs
What does the command key symbol mean in Sweden and Norway?
1
Signifies campgrounds
Yield to oncoming traffic
Danger
What was the Lisa's version of the Macintosh "trash"?
1
Wastebasket
Recycling Bin
Garbage
What was the original suggested retail price for the Macintosh 512k in the US?
3
$1,295
$2,495
$3,195
During which SuperBowl was the "1984" commercial shown?
1
XVIII
XIX
XX
In what year did AppleLink go online?
1
1985
1986
1987
What size was the built-in monitor on the 128k Macintosh?
2
6 inches
9 inches
12 inches
Which of the following was never an Apple slogan?
3
The Power To Be Your Best
One Person, One Computer
Easy, Fast, and Inexpensive
Which development environment saved the PowerMac according to many analysts?
2
Symantec's Think C++
Metrowerks CodeWarrior
Apple Macintosh Programmer's Workshop C++
What was Think Pascal originally called?
3
Speedy Pascal
Quick Pascal
Lightspeed Pascal
Which type of port is NOT present on the Newton MessagePad 100?
1
AppleDesktopBus
Infrared
PCMCIA
Which three "flavors" does Metrowerks CodeWarrior come in?
3
Level 1, Level 2, Level 3
Lite, Normal, Professional
Bronze, Silver, Gold
Who created PostScript?
2
Aldus
Adobe
Apple
Which Mac guru wrote "The Macintosh Way" to teach people how to run a Mac software company?
1
Guy Kawasaki
Don Crabb
Steve Jobs
What was Steve Jobs' goal for the desktop footprint size of the original Macintosh?
2
A toaster
A sheet of paper
A television
What slogan did Saturday Night Live use in their parody of Apple commercials?
3
The Power to Kick Some Ass
The Power to Do Your Worst
The Power to Crush the Other Kids
How did the Newton interpret "Beat up Martin" in an episode of The Simpsons?
1
Eat up, Martha
Beam up Martin
I like cheese
What size ROM did the Quadra 660AV have?
3
512k
1 MB
2 MB
Where was the "Fetch" file transfer program written?
2
Stanford University
Dartmouth College
Bell Laboratories
Where was the "Bolo" game written?
1
Stanford University
Dartmouth College
Bell Laboratories
At the Macintosh announcement, whose lyrics did Steve Jobs recite?
3
Simon and Garfunkel
Paul McCartney
Bob Dylan
Was George Orwell right?
2
Yes
No
Who's George Orwell?
Who did Steve Jobs let speak for himself/themselves at the Macintosh launch?
2
The Mac Team
The Macintosh
Steve Wozniak
What was Steve Wozniak's music festival called?
1
UNUSON US Festival
AppleStock
AppleFest
What is UNUSON short for?
3
UNderground Users Of Nebraska
UNder US ONly
UNited Us in SONg
What did John Sculley call Macintosh and Lisa together?
2
The Apple family of personal productivity computers
The Apple thirty-two-bit supermicro family
The Apple customer solutions family
In 1984, Apple was the third largest enterprise in Silicon Valley after which two companies?
1
Hewlett-Packard and National Semiconductor
Hewlett-Packard and Intel
Hewlett-Packard and Advanced Microdesigns
Where was SuperBowl XIX (1985) played?
3
Tampa, FL
Los Angeles, CA
Stanford, CA
What was the headline of the mock-up Wall Street Journal that Jobs showed at the 1985 annual meeting?
2
Apple Lemmings Commercial Proves 1984 Wasn't Like 1984
Apple Declares Détente With IBM
Apple Gaining Momentum in Personal Computer Race
What Apple commercial was supposed to illustrate Apple's success with Lisa?
1
"Alone Again"
"A Lisa on Every Desk"
"Super Lisa"
When was Bill Atkinson named an "Apple Fellow"?
1
February, 1983
July, 1984
January, 1985
Which school did Steve Wozniak drop out of?
3
Harvard
Stanford
Berkeley
Who designed the logic board for the LaserWriter?
1
Burrell Smith
David Bunnell
Bruce Horn
What did Macintosh say after introducing itself at the 1984 Stockholder's Meeting?
3
"Please take me home."
"This is my sister Lisa."
"It sure is great to get out of that bag."
In what year was Apple formally incorporated?
2
1975
1977
1980
According to an Apple joke, how powerful is Apple's Cray supercomputer?
3
It can simulate a Pentium without any bugs
It can have twenty-seven finders open at once
It can run an infinite loop in six seconds
What icon replaced the Apple in the Apple menu in early development version of System 8?
1
A pink sneaker
An orange
A basketball
What was the subtitle of John Sculley's book Odyssey?
3
"From Pepsi to Apple"
"Random thoughts of an Apple guru"
"A journey of adventure, ideas, and the future"
How many colors are in the rainbow apple logo? (don't look!)
1
6
7
8
What is the name of the OS developed by General Magic?
2
MagicOS
Magic Cap
Magic Works
What became of the actual General Magic bunny?
1
It joined the team of researchers at Artemis
Its owner left General Magic to return to Apple
There never was an actual bunny
Who became upset over the name of Apple's PDA?
3
AT&T, makers of Newton Communications Assistant software
Newt Gingrich, afraid a computer could never be President
Nabisco, makers of Apple Newton Cookies
Who directed the "1984" commercial?
2
Steven Spielberg
Ridley Scott
Paul Reynolds
According to an early Quadra commercial, what did the Quadra run on?
2
Productivity
Imagination
Pure Energy
What company did Susan Barnes leave Apple to help form?
2
Magic Cap
NeXT
Taligent
Who did "Big Brother" refer to in the "1984" commercial?
2
Microsoft
IBM
Corporate America
Which early Mac system programmer never had his name capitalized?
3
Martin Simpson
E.E. Cummings
Steve Capps
How many volumes were there in the original _Inside_Macintosh_ series?
3
2
4
6
Which of the following WAS a consideration for a Mac name?
2
Mac std
Mac sex
Mac ][bs
According to an Apple commercial, the PowerBook lets you run Macintosh software, lets run Windows software, and lets you run...
2
UNIX Software
Away
Free
According to legend, what two words were combined to form "Taligent?"
1
Talented and Intelligent
Talented and Gentle
Talented and Gents
What annual conference introduces new technologies to developers?
3
Apple Events
Apple Technical Expo
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference
How many high-density floppy disks did Microsoft Office 4.2.1 ship with?
3
6
12
34
Who publishes Apple's "Inside Macintosh" reference books?
2
Apple Press
Addison-Wesley
O'Reilly & Associates
Which Windows 95 feature was NOT derived from Macintosh?
3
Drag-and-drop
Long file names
None of the above
How many people attended MacWorld '96 at Boston?
3
12,000
27,000
58,000
What type of company did Jean-Louis Gassee start after leaving Apple?
1
A combination hardware/software company
A cellular technology company
A West Coast venture capital firm
Which movie did NOT feature at least one Macintosh?
2
Independence Day
Regarding Henry
Jurassic Park
Which movie did NOT feature at least one Macintosh?
3
Mission: Impossible
The Net
Sneakers
How was the Macintosh advertised in a Saturday Night Live parody?
2
"It's a computer.... No, it's a toy!"
"The Power to Crush the other Kids"
"Not affiliated with McDonalds, Inc."
What did the Newton intro commercial ask?
1
"What is Newton?"
"Where do you want to go today?"
"How powerful are your thoughts?"
Which rock band sold out to Microsoft for the Windows 95 launch?
3
The Allman Brothers Band
The Dave Matthews Band
The Rolling Stones
What did Forrest Gump think Apple was in "Forrest Gump"?
1
A fruit company
A toy company
A record company
Which of the following movies had an Apple reference?
1
Forrest Gump
Good Morning, Vietnam
Full Metal Jacket
Which processor did BeOS run on before it was ported to the PowerPC 603?
2
PowerPC 601
AT&T Hobbit
Strong ARM
Which type of processor does the Newton have?
3
CISC
VLIW
RISC
Which of the following is FALSE?
2
Apple licensed the Mac OS to Microsoft for Windows 1.0
Microsoft quietly held a 18.2% stake in Taligent
Taligent began as project "PINK" at Apple
What is the name of Guy Kawasaki's mailing list for Mac lovers?
1
EvangeList
Semper.Fi
MacFreaks
Who was the first to walk out of the original trio that started Apple?
2
Steve Jobs
Ron Wayne
Steve Wozniak
Who created the first, and not widely known, logo for Apple that bombed?
3
Mike Scott
Guy Kawasaki
Ron Wayne
On the Lisa, what was the equivalent of the Mac "Trash" called?
2
Garbage
Wastebasket
Recycle Bin
When did Steve Jobs leave Apple?
3
May 3, 1990
January 1, 1986
September 17, 1985
When was the "1984" commercial _first_ played?
3
During the 1984 SuperBowl
May 21, 1984 in Des Moines, Iowa.
December 15, 1983 in Twin Falls, Idaho.
Where did Guy Kawasaki go to school?
1
Stanford University
Dartmouth College
Berkeley
What did Guy Kawasaki major in as an undergraduate?
3
Instructional Design
Computer Science
Psychology
How did Jobs and Woz get money to develop the Apple I?
