Quiz: Facts on Bill Gates and Microsoft
1. Microsoft currently employs almost 90,000 people. How many were employed in 1980, the year current CEO Steve Ballmer joined the company?
45
20
30
10
2. At which American university did Bill Gates meet future business partner Steve Ballmer?
Stanford University
Cornell University
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3. How much did Microsoft offer Yahoo! in an unsuccessful bid to buy the Web company earlier this year?
39.5 billion
49 billion
48.5 billion
47.5 billion
4. In what year was Microsoft founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen?
1980
1970
1985
1975
5. In 2006, Microsoft entered into the portable music market that had been dominated by Apple’s iPod. What is the product called?
Zen
Zune
Zap
Zoom
6. In what year did Microsoft launch its first ever Windows operating system?
1983
1984
1985
1986
7. In which American city did Gates and Allen first establish Microsoft?
Albuquerque
Seattle
Las Vegas
San Francisco
8. In what year did the Justice Department file a suit against Microsoft, accusing the company of engaging in anti-competitive market practices?
1994
1995
1996
1997
9. How much has Microsoft Corp.’s stock price dropped since 2000?
50 percent
52 percent
54 percent
56 percent
10. At what age did Bill Gates reach billionaire status?
28
29
30
31
