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Tech Companies & Founders Quiz

Tech Companies & Founders · Medium

20 questions · Unlimited attempts · Free online practice

Technology companies and their founders have transformed the way people live, work, communicate, and innovate. From personal computers and smartphones to cloud computing, artificia...

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All 20 questions in this Tech Companies & Founders quiz
  1. Which company, founded by Michael Dell, went private in 2013 and then returned to the public market in 2018?

    • A. HP
    • B. Dell Technologies
    • C. Lenovo
    • D. Acer
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Which company owns Facebook?

    • A. Amazon
    • B. Meta
    • C. Apple
    • D. Google
  5. 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
  6. Which enterprise software company was founded by Marc Benioff in 1999 and pioneered the 'Software as a Service' (SaaS) model?

    • A. Salesforce
    • B. Oracle
    • C. SAP
    • D. Workday
  7. In what year was the first iPhone released?

    • A. 2007
    • B. 2005
    • C. 2010
    • D. 2008
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. What is the name of the first Apple computer?

    • A. Apple I
    • B. Newton
    • C. Lisa
    • D. Macintosh
  11. 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
  12. Which French startup, founded in 2023 by former Meta and DeepMind researchers, is often called 'Europe's answer to OpenAI'?

    • A. Anthropic
    • B. Mistral AI
    • C. Perplexity
    • D. Cohere
  13. Which company created the 'Fortnite' game?

    • A. Epic Games
    • B. Electronic Arts
    • C. Valve
    • D. Activision
  14. Which tech company is famous for its 'ThinkPad' laptops?

    • A. Lenovo
    • B. Dell
    • C. HP
    • D. Asus
  15. 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
  16. What is the name of Microsoft's cloud platform?

    • A. iCloud
    • B. Azure
    • C. Google Cloud
    • D. AWS
  17. Which company acquired GitHub in 2018?

    • A. Google
    • B. Amazon
    • C. IBM
    • D. Microsoft
  18. 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
  19. Which search engine was the most popular before Google?

    • A. Altavista
    • B. Bing
    • C. DuckDuckGo
    • D. Yahoo
  20. 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