Bloopers and Quotes Quiz

1

Which politician knew – about 20 years ago –
not sure how to move a computer mouse?

A: Jan-Peter Balkenende
B: Wim Kok
C: Hans Wiegel

2

Whose quote is this:
“The computer was born to solve problems
that did not exist before.”

A: Bill Gates
B: Steve Jobs
C: Sir Clive Sinclair

3

In 2012 with the iOS 6 update, Apple
– with the necessary consequences – one’s own
map platform to use.
Which mapping platform did Apple use?
– successful – earlier?

A: TomTom
B: Garmin
C: Google

5

In which comedy series does the always
No-saying computer plays an important role?

A: Monty Python’s Flying Circus
B: The Young Ones
C: Little Britain

Whose quote is this:
“Computer viruses are an urban legend.”

A: John McAfee
B: Peter Norton
C: Linus Torvalds

7

We are also familiar with the year 2000 problem
as the Millennium Bug or the Y2K Problem.
In which year do we expect such a problem?
again?

A: 2028
B: 2038
C: 2048

Whose quote is this:
“In two years, spam will be solved.”

A: Mark Zuckerberg
B: Bill Gates
C: Larry Page

During the presentation of the then
not even such a new plug & play mechanism anymore
the operating system crashed.
Which operating system

A: From 1924 to 1946
B: From 1930 to 1952
C: From 1936 to 1958

Whose quote is it: “I consider the brain as
a computer that stops working when the
parts of it fail. There is no heaven
or afterlife for broken computers; that’s a
fairy tale for people who are afraid of the dark.”

A: Niels Bohr
B: Albert Einstein
C: Stephen Hawking

11

What is the most common computer error?

A: The Runtime Error
B: The Syntax Error
C: The Resource Error

Whose quote is this:
“The virus problem is temporary
and will be resolved in two years.”

A: John McAfee
B: Peter Norton
C: Marc Rutte

13

What’s the biggest computer mistake you can make?

A: Install all Windows updates blindly
B: Do not use a virus scanner
C: Not backing up your personal data

14

Whose quote is this:
“The Internet? We’re not interested in it.”

A: Bill Gates
B: Larry Ellison
C: Elon Musk

Which widely advertised social network is
it never happened right from the start?

A: iTunes Ping
B: Google+
C: Microsoft Viva Engage

Whose quote is this:
“Microsoft is not bad, they make
just really crappy operating systems.”

A: Steve Wozniak
B: Jack Tramiel
C: Linus Torvalds

Which of the three below
Windows versions proved to be the best
to be the worst?

A: Windows XP
B: Windows Vista
C: Windows 7

Whose quote is this:
“A good programmer is someone
who always looks both ways first
before crossing a one-way street.”

A: Alan Turing
B: Doug Linder
C: Guido van Rossum