<p>Name: ______Period: ______Date: ______</p><p>Triumph of the Nerds Questions Volume 1: Impressing Their Friends (50 minutes)</p><p>1) What is the name of the person who started Microsoft with Bill Gates?</p><p>2) What are the names of the two founders of Apple Computer?</p><p>3) A set of computer instructions is called a _____.</p><p>4) Grace Hopper invented what computer language?</p><p>5) What "technological breakthrough" allowed computers to become small enough to fit on a desk?</p><p>6) What company invented the microprocessor?</p><p>7) What was the name of the world's first personal computer?</p><p>8) In what year was that computer introduced?</p><p>9) How were data entered into that computer?</p><p>10) Why did Bill Gates quit college?</p><p>11) According to Jim Warren, why was Silicon Valley able to develop technology so quickly in the late 1970s?</p><p>12) What was Steve Wozniak able to do to make the early Apple computers marketable?</p><p>13) According to the "nerds," what did the Apple II computer need to reach "the rest of us?"</p><p>14) What type of software was VisiCalc?</p><p>15) How wealthy did the creators of VisiCalc, Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, ultimately become? Name: ______Period: ______Date: ______</p><p>Triumph of the Nerds Questions Volume 2: Riding the Bear (50 minutes)</p><p>1) Up until the very early 1980s, what type of computers did IBM make?</p><p>2) How did the climate of IBM differ from that of the Silicon Valley companies of the late 1970s?</p><p>3) With regards to the IBM personal computer, what does the term "open architecture" mean?</p><p>4) According to Bob Cringely, what are the "two essential bits of software" that all personal computers require?</p><p>5) What made Bill Gates the richest man in the world?</p><p>6) How did Microsoft go about "creating" an operating system for IBM?</p><p>7) What are CP/M, Q-DOS, and PC-DOS?</p><p>8) How much money did Microsoft pay to purchase Q-DOS from Seattle Computer Products?</p><p>9) How much money did Microsoft ultimately make off of this purchase?</p><p>10) When was the IBM PC introduced to the world?</p><p>11) What was the "killer application" for the IBM PC?</p><p>12) What is reverse engineering, and how is it achieved?</p><p>13) In 1990, Microsoft ended its relationship with IBM with its decision to choose between which two operating systems? Name: ______Period: ______Date: ______</p><p>Triumph of the Nerds Questions Volume 3: Great Artists Steal (50 minutes)</p><p>1) What is a graphical user interface (GUI)?</p><p>2) In the mid 1970s, what company first created the graphical user interface and the mouse?</p><p>3) How rich did this company become off of these developments?</p><p>4) At his trip to Xerox PARC in 1979, what single concept really impressed Steve Jobs?</p><p>5) What company (initially) was Apple's greatest rival in the PC industry?</p><p>6) With what company did Apple collaborate to create software for the new Macintosh computer in the early 1980s?</p><p>7) When was the Apple Macintosh introduced to the world?</p><p>8) What company invented the first laser printer?</p><p>9) What is desktop publishing?</p><p>10) Why did Apple sue Microsoft? Who won?</p><p>11) In what year was Microsoft Windows 3 introduced?</p><p>12) The introduction of Windows 3 had what effect on Macintosh computer sales?</p><p>13) According to Larry Ellison, what will happen to personal computers?</p>