Tech Companies & Founders Quiz
Who founded Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft, and how the giants of tech began.
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About the Tech Companies & Founders Quiz
Many of the world’s most valuable companies started in garages and dorm rooms. This quiz covers the founders, origin stories, names and famous products of the biggest technology companies.
This quiz has 20 questions, served in rounds of 10 with a fresh mix and shuffled answers every time you play. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
Sample Tech Companies & Founders Questions & Answers
Q1. Who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975?
✅ Answer: Paul Allen
💡 Gates and Allen were childhood friends from Seattle.
Q2. Which two Stanford students founded Google in 1998?
✅ Answer: Larry Page and Sergey Brin
💡 Google grew out of a research project called BackRub.
Q3. Amazon started out selling only which product?
✅ Answer: Books
💡 Jeff Bezos launched Amazon as an online bookstore from his garage in 1995.
Q4. In which year was Apple founded?
✅ Answer: 1976
💡 Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne founded Apple on 1 April 1976.
Q5. Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook in 2004 while a student at which university?
✅ Answer: Harvard
💡 It was first called “TheFacebook” and was only open to Harvard students.