Question 1
EasyWhich company did Steve Jobs co-found in 1976?
- Microsoft
- Apple (Correct answer)
- IBM
- Atari
Source: Apple was founded on April 1, 1976, by Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne.
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▶ Play today's quizWhich company did Steve Jobs co-found in 1976?
Source: Apple was founded on April 1, 1976, by Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne.
What item of clothing became Steve Jobs' signature look?
Source: His black turtlenecks were made by designer Issey Miyake, who reportedly made him hundreds of them.
Which revolutionary phone did Apple launch in 2007?
Source: Jobs unveiled the first iPhone in January 2007, calling it a phone, an iPod, and an internet device in one.
Which tablet did Apple introduce in 2010?
Source: The iPad sold over 300,000 units on its first day and created the modern tablet market.
Which animation studio did Steve Jobs own before Disney bought it?
Source: Jobs bought Pixar from Lucasfilm in 1986 and became Disney's largest shareholder when Disney acquired it in 2006.
What portable music player did Apple release in 2001?
Source: The iPod promised '1,000 songs in your pocket' and reshaped how the world listened to music.
In which US state did Steve Jobs build Apple in his garage?
Source: The garage in Los Altos, California, became a symbol of Silicon Valley startup mythology.
What word did Jobs famously repeat to describe great design?
Source: Jobs believed 'simplicity is the ultimate sophistication,' a line borrowed from Leonardo da Vinci.
What was the name of Apple's first big hit computer in 1984?
Source: The Macintosh was launched with the famous '1984' Super Bowl ad directed by Ridley Scott.
Which company did Steve Jobs found after leaving Apple in 1985?
Source: NeXT's software later became the foundation of Mac OS X, the very system that revived Apple.
Which famous commencement speech did Jobs give in 2005?
Source: His Stanford speech ended with 'Stay hungry, stay foolish,' a phrase he took from the Whole Earth Catalog.
Who co-founded Apple alongside Jobs and built the first computers?
Source: Wozniak was the engineering genius; Jobs was the visionary who saw how to sell it.
Which Pixar film, Jobs' studio's first feature, premiered in 1995?
Source: Toy Story was the first entirely computer-animated feature film in history.
Which country did Jobs visit seeking spiritual enlightenment in his youth?
Source: He traveled through India in 1974 and returned a practicing Buddhist with a shaved head.
Which Apple feature did Jobs say was shaped by a class he dropped in on at college?
Source: A dropped-in calligraphy class at Reed College inspired the Mac's beautiful proportional fonts.
What fruit-based diet was Jobs known for following at times?
Source: His fruitarian phase reportedly inspired the name 'Apple,' which he found 'fun and not intimidating.'
What title did Jobs hold at Apple from 1997 until 2011?
Source: He returned as 'interim CEO,' jokingly called 'iCEO,' before dropping the interim tag.
What was the codename slogan of Apple's 1997 comeback ad campaign?
Source: 'Think Different' honored rebels like Einstein and Gandhi, relaunching Apple's brand identity.
What kind of car did Jobs drive without license plates?
Source: He exploited a California rule giving six months to register, leasing a new plate-free Mercedes repeatedly.
Which board member famously ousted Jobs from Apple in 1985?
Source: Jobs had recruited Sculley from Pepsi by asking if he wanted to 'change the world' or 'sell sugar water.'