Bill Gates trivia
Bill Gates Mini Quiz
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Question 1
Tech pioneer Bill Gates famously dropped out of Harvard University to co-found what software giant?
Gates and Paul Allen originally formed a venture called Traf-O-Data to analyze traffic tapes before successfully launching Microsoft in 1975.
Question 2
Bill Gates secured Microsoft's early success by licensing an operating system to what hardware giant?
Microsoft did not actually own the software they licensed to IBM; they bought the rights to 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products for fifty thousand dollars.
Question 3
Microsoft founder Bill Gates later admitted that requiring users to press what keyboard shortcut was a mistake?
The shortcut was originally designed by David Bradley at IBM to restart the computer without clearing memory, intended only for internal testing.
Question 4
Microsoft boss Bill Gates famously smiled for a 1977 police mugshot after committing what minor offense?
Gates was arrested in Albuquerque for driving without a license and speeding, and the silhouette of this mugshot was later used as an icon in Outlook 2010.