) (01/19/90)
I only received two sets of answers so I'll not worry about scoring them
here's the questions again with the answers.
Copyright (C) 1989 by the Apple II RoundTable of GEnie.
All rights reserved.
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About Apple II Trivia
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On December 12, 1989, the A2 RoundTable held its first-ever Apple II Trivia
game. The game operator for the session was Andy Finkenstadt, the originator
of online CB games on GEnie.
In Apple II Trivia, a question is asked by the Game Operator. Players then
have thirty seconds in which to /SEND their answer to the Game Operator.
Because /SEND is used, your answer does not appear in public, and thus,
everyone can answer simultaneously. The Game Operator decides the correctness
of your answer. Those who get the answer correct will have their success
broadcast in public to all players; those who don't receive a /SEND telling
them of their errors. Players can guess only once for each question.
Points are awarded based on the number of responses and the number of correct
answers. For example, if ten people responded to a question, each would
"contribute" one point to that question's point value. (This doesn't mean that
they actually lose a point, just that their response adds one to the point
value.) A question's point value is divided equally among those who correctly
answered the question. So if five people out of ten got the right answer, each
would receive two points. There is no penalty for incorrect answers.
Questions:
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1. What HyperCard-like program for the Apple II was actually released before
HyperCard?
2. What software publisher's name is intended to reflect "clarity and
distinctiveness"?
3. Who designed the 65816 microprocessor?
4. What did Steve Jobs sell to help fund Apple when it first started?
5. What was the first company to produce an accelerator card for the Apple
II?
6. Of the Apple 3.5 and the UniDisk 3.5, which is the "smart" drive?
7. What does the C in 65C02 and 65C816 stand for?
8. What was the original name of Roger Wagner's software company?
9. In what year was the Disk II drive introduced?
10. What magazine did Gary Little, creator of Binary II and author of Point To
Point, edit briefly?
11. Who designed the filecard interface used by Appleworks?
12. What kind of Apple IIe is incapable of displaying double-hires graphics,
even with 128K?
13. What company originally developed the user interface used by the Macintosh
and IIgs?
14. What Dan Gorlin game for the Apple II was made into a video arcade game?
15. What Apple II computer was designed by Frogdesign, the West German firm
also responsible for the look of the Sony Walkman? (Note: "design" here
means the look of the computer, not the electronics.)
16. What was Robert Lissner's first name, as displayed on the startup screens
of early versions of AppleWorks?
17. What natural ocurrence rudely interrupted Apple's IIc introduction party?
18. During what sporting event in January, 1984 did Apple first run its
now-famous "1984" ad?
19. In what year was AppleWorks introduced?
20. Who wrote Integer BASIC, the first BASIC available for the Apple II?
21. What pinball wizard wrote the paint program included with the AppleMouse
II?
22. What joystick manufacturer, formerly Hayes, changed its name to avoid
confusion with the modem company of the same name?
23. What company did John Sculley, CEO of Apple, work for before Apple?
24. What was Apple's internal code name for the Apple II Memory Expansion
Card?
25. What company developed the PostScript page description language built into
most Apple (and other companies') laser printers?
26. What is the formatted data capacity (in kilobytes) of a standard Apple
5.25" floppy (with no operating system)?
27. What is the maximum size (in megabytes) of a disk device under ProDOS?
28. What DOS 3.3 utility was originally called FISHEAD?
29. What is the standard format for CD-ROMs called?
30. What clone manufacturer did Apple successfully stop from selling Apple II+
clones?
31. At what trade show was the Apple II introduced?
32. How much did the original Apple I computer cost?
33. What company was bought by Claris to acquire the program that eventually
became AppleWorks GS?
34. What magazine is published by MindCraft Publishing?
35. How fast was the processor in the Apple III?
36. What computer ran SOS, the Sophisticated Operating System and forerunner
of ProDOS?
37. What program is the AppleWorks data base based upon?
38. Which third-party clock does ProDOS support?
39. How many sectors did a DOS 3.2 disk have on each track?
40. What was the first spreadsheet program and what computer did it run on?
41. What Apple II model appeared briefly in the film 2010: Odyssey Two?
42. What is the traditional name of the Beagle Bros beagle?
43. What magazine offered a free subscription to each and every Apple owner?
44. What IIgs arcade game is advertised as being faster than the Mac version?
45. How many bytes are there in a "K"?
46. What Apple Fellow invented the concept of a notebook-sized computer called
the Dynabook?
47. What company marketed the first CP/M card for the Apple II?
48. What was the first popular internal modem for the Apple II?
49. What color was the original technical reference manual for the Apple II?
50. What Apple vice-president got in a tiff at Applefest with Bill Mensch?
Answers:
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These will be posted in a seperate message next week
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Answers:
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1. TutorTech 26. 140K
2. Claris 27. 32 Megabytes
3. Bill Mensch 28. FID
4. His Volkswagen Microbus 29. High Sierra
5. Saturn Systems 30. Franklin
6. The UniDisk 3.5 31. The West Coast Computer Faire
7. CMOS 32. $666.66
8. Southwestern Data Systems 33. StyleWare
9. 1979 34. Nibble
10. A+ 35. 2 Megahertz
11. Bruce Tognazzini 36. The Apple III
12. Revision A 37. QuickFile
13. Xerox 38. ThunderClock
14. Choplifter 39. 13 sectors
15. Apple IIc 40. Visicalc; the Apple II
16. Rupert 41. Apple IIc
17. An earthquake 42. Sophie
18. The Super Bowl 43. Softalk
19. 1983 44. Crystal Quest
20. Steve Wozniak 45. 1024
21. Bill Budge 46. Alan Kay
22. CH Products 47. Microsoft
23. Pepsico 48. Hayes MicroModem
24. Slinky 49. Red
25. Adobe 50. Jean-Louis Gassee