John Weston rolling deck (info + trivia)

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When did Bill Gates retire from day-to-day activities at Microsoft?
May 1, 2007
Jan 27, 2008
April 1, 2008
June 27, 2008

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In both WarGames and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Matthew Broderick’s on-screen mother has the same profession. What is it?
Teacher
Secretary
Engineer
Real Estate Agent

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What is the most popular command in Microsoft Office?
“Paste” in Microsoft Word
“Copy” in Microsoft Excel
“Delete” in Microsoft Outlook
“Open” in Microsoft Word

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Which first-trilogy Star Wars actor initially refused to sign a three-picture deal?
Carrie Fisher
Mark Hamill
Harrison Ford
Alec Guinness
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What does FORTRAN stand for?
FORmula TRANslator
FORmula TRANsfer
FORtune TRANsistor
FORmer TRANslator

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Who invented root beer?
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How many episodes of Monty Python’s Flying Circus were recorded?
25
32
40
45

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How many Windows Live ID authentications are made each day?
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over 55 million
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“VLB” – one of the early video cards standards – is an acronym for what?
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Vesuvius Logic Board
Vera Louise Brown
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The "O" in this early Microsoft logo had a nickname. What was it?
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Now 15 years old, how many Hotmail users are there?
over 150 million
over 300 million
over 450 million
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In what year was COBOL invented?
1959
1960
1961
1962

What was the first CodePlex.com project?
SteelForge
Avalon
Altair
IronPython

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What did Xerox establish in 1970?
The Xerox 3600 Duplicator
The industry’s first automatic document feeder
The first-generation laser printer
The Palo Alto Research Center
The Palo Alto Research Center (known as Xerox PARC) to perform basic computing and electronic research.

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What was the first human-made object to land on the moon?
The Lunar capsule
The Luna 2
Moonscape II
MoonCap 4

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What was AOL originally known as?
American Organizational Logic
Quantum Computer Services
Digital Computing Inc.
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When did GPS first become available for commercial and civilian use?
1960
1967
1975
1984
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Who invented the first computer mouse?
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James Gosling
Herbert Simon
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What was the first movie to use extensive 3D computer-generated special effects?
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The Last Starfighter
Tron
Star Wars
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What is the name of Superman’s biological father?
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What did Dennis Ritchie do in 1972?
Created hybrid circuits for IBM
Invented the C programming language at Bell Labs
Developed the Commodore PET
Invented the hot-pluggable hard disk for Atari

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What was JavaScript originally known as?
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When was the first floppy disk introduced?
1969
1971
1973
1975
The 8” floppy was introduced in 1971 and could hold 1 MB – more than most early 5 ¼” and 3 ½” disks introduced later.

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In the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was the only spacesuit left unused?
The blue one
The red one
The black one
None of the above

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When was the first home VCR introduced?
1974
1975
1976
1977
The Sony Betamax

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How many members are in the Xbox Live community?
over 10 million
over 15 million
over 20 million
over 25 million
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In the original WarGames film script, who was the role of Professor Falken written for?
Christopher Walken
John Voight
John Lennon
None of the above

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In what year did Visual C++ 3.0 ship?
1995
1997
1998
None of the above
There was no Visual C++ 3.0 – Visual C++ 2.0 shipped with MFC 3.0

When was Bing, Microsoft’s Decision Engine, first unveiled?
May 15, 2009
May 28, 2009
June 3, 2009
June 28, 2009
Steve Ballmer unveiled Bing on May 28, 2009 at the All Things Digital Conference. Bing went live on June 3, 2009

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On average, a new Xbox Live account is created every:
5 seconds
10 seconds
30 seconds
minute

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Sometimes heralded by Don Box as the first component technology, what does “TSR” stand for?
Tactical Studies Rule
Technology Software Restricted
Terminate and Stay Resident
Total Shareholder Return

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What first began in Pittsburgh, PA in 1920?
Construction of the Link River Dam
The National Football League
Construction of Carnegie Mellon University
Radio Broadcasting

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What does POST stand for?
Positive-Overwrite Sendup-Task
Power-On Self-Test
Performance-Option Standard-Testing
Pre-Optimized Setup-Test

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In what year did Microsoft open its first international office in Japan?
1977
1978
1980
1982

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When did Microsoft announce the end of Clippy?
April 11, 2001
May 15, 2001
June 5, 2001
April 1, 2001

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In 1993, Microsoft pitched Windows as a potential GUI for what computer?
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Atari ST
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By 1983, approximately how many computers were in use in the United States?
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more than 10 million

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Which Star Wars movie was filmed entirely in the studio?
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Attack of the Clones
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Which Microsoft exec dressed in drag and posed on a Harley to motivate employees?
Ray Ozzie
Rick Rashid
Brian Valentine
Eric Rudder

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“Chicago” was the codename for what?
Windows 95
Internet Explorer
Windows CE 1.0
Windows XP

On September 29, 1983, Microsoft introduced what product?
Xenix
Windows 1.0
Word for MS-DOS 1.0
Excel 1.0

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How many Bing queries are made each month?
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over 100 million
over 2 billion
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What was Microsoft’s second language product?
FORTRAN-80
COBOL
BASIC
ASCII

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When was the first Pentium CPU introduced?
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How many 1.44mb 3.5” floppies did VB3 Pro come on?
One
Two
Three
Four
None of the Above
Four disks sealed in plastic, but only three were required to install Visual Basic.

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What movie included a touch interface inspired by MS Surface talks?
Fight Club
Minority Report
I, Robot
Mission: Impossible
Steven Spielberg heard about early Surface prototypes.

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What city was home to Microsoft just before Bellevue?
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Santa Fe
Phoenix
Albuquerque

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How many versions of DOS did Microsoft release?
10
19
17
15

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Who wears Microsoft badge #00001?
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Bill Gates
Marc McDonald
Paul Allen
Marc McDonald was the company’s first employee

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Since the launch of the new Xbox Live Experience, how many times have members changed their avatars’ clothes?
Nearly 50 million
Nearly 100 million
Nearly 150 million
Nearly 250 million

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What was the original code name for Windows 3.1?
Janus
Jupiter
Starlight
Apollo

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What was the first backwards-compatible Intel processor?
The 80286 was a 16-bit processor introduced on February 1, 1982 and first used in the IBM PC/AT in 1984.
The 8086
The 80386
The 8088
The 80286

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When did Commodore computers file for Bankruptcy?
1990
1992
1994
1995
April 29, 1994, despite having the best-selling computer of all time, Commodore closed its doors.

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What was the retail price for Windows 1.0?
$89
$100
$129.99
$150

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What is the image name for the Windows Task Manager application?
wtm.exe
tkmanager.exe
taskmgr.exe
wtm.png

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On which date was War of the Worlds first broadcast, causing widespread panic?
October 30, 1938
October 31, 1939
October 30, 1940
October 31, 1941

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