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Quiz on Google

20 questions · August 5, 2026

Google began as a research project at Stanford University and has grown into one of the world's most influential technology companies, reshaping how we search for information and interact with the digital world. From its iconic homepage to its expanding ecosystem of products and services, Google's impact spans search, email, maps, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Whether you're curious about the company's origins, its pivotal innovations, or its role in modern technology, this quiz invites you to test what you know about the search giant that has become woven into our daily lives.

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Question 1

Easy

Which web browser is made by Google?

Source: Chrome launched in 2008 and became the world's most-used browser within a few years.

Question 2

Easy

What is the name of Google's mobile operating system?

Source: Google bought Android in 2005 for about $50 million, one of tech's best-ever deals.

Question 3

Easy

What is Google's free email service called?

Source: Gmail launched on April 1, 2004, and many people first thought it was an April Fools' joke.

Question 4

Easy

Which video-sharing platform is owned by Google?

Source: Google bought YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion, a price critics then called insane.

Question 5

Easy

Which mapping and navigation app, launched in 2005, is known for its Street View feature?

Source: Google Maps launched in 2005 and now guides over a billion people every month.

Question 6

Easy

Which cloud-based word processor lets multiple users edit a document simultaneously in the browser?

Source: Google Docs grew from Writely, a startup Google acquired in 2006.

Question 7

Easy

In what year was Google founded?

Source: Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in 1998, the year Windows 98 also launched.

Question 8

Easy

Google's main business comes mostly from which activity?

Source: Ads bring in roughly 80% of Google's revenue, even though search itself is free.

Question 9

Easy

Where is Google's headquarters located?

Source: The Googleplex sits in Mountain View, California, in Silicon Valley.

Question 10

Easy

What is the parent company that owns Google today?

Source: Alphabet was created in 2015 so Google's many side bets could run as separate companies.

Question 11

Medium

The name 'Google' is a play on which mathematical term?

Source: A googol is 1 followed by 100 zeros; the misspelling 'Google' stuck after a typo.

Question 12

Medium

Google's '20% time' policy let engineers spend that time on what?

Source: Google's '20% time' let engineers chase side projects—Gmail and AdSense both grew from it.

Question 13

Medium

Which Google project develops self-driving cars?

Source: Waymo began inside Google in 2009 before becoming its own Alphabet company.

Question 14

Medium

Which voice assistant works with Nest smart-home devices and Android phones?

Source: Google Assistant launched in 2016, succeeding the older 'Google Now' service.

Question 15

Medium

Google Translate switched to which AI method in 2016 for big quality gains?

Source: Google's 2016 switch to neural machine translation sharply cut its error rate.

Question 16

Medium

What was Google originally called when it was a research project?

Source: It was named BackRub because it analyzed the web's 'back links' to rank pages.

Question 17

Medium

Which color does NOT appear in the Google logo?

Source: The Google logo uses only blue, red, yellow, and green—purple never appears.

Question 18

Hard

What is the codename system Google uses for Android versions?

Source: From Cupcake to Pie, Android versions were named after sweets until numbering took over.

Question 19

Hard

What was Google's first company headquarters?

Source: Google started in a Menlo Park garage rented from Susan Wojcicki, later YouTube's CEO.

Question 20

Hard

Which programming language did Google create for systems work?

Source: Go, released in 2009, was designed at Google partly to speed up slow build times.

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