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Bill Gates

 1. What is Bill Gates' full name?
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  William Gattenberg

  William Henry Gates III

  Bill PC Gates

  Wilhelm Friedrich Gates

 2. Bill Gates learnt to code at school.

  FALSE

  TRUE

 3. What was the first programme he ever wrote?

  A maze game

  A crossword puzzle

  A word processor

  A noughts and crosses (or tic-tac-toe) game

 4. What was his score out of 1600 in the U.S. Scholastic Aptitute Tests?

  1590

  1460

  1120

  1510

 5. What subject (major) did Bill Gates enrole to study at Harvard before he left to start Microsoft?
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  Computer science

  Law

  Maths

  Economics

 6. At Harvard, Gates developed an algorithm for some previously unsolved computer science problems using:

  Ice cream indexing

  Waffle weaving

  Truffle tiering

  Pancake sorting

 7. During the first five years of Microsoft what did he claim to do?
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  Make a million dollars each day

  Spend more on publicity than software development

  Invent the desktop computer

  Check every line of code written by his team

 8. What did IBM ask Bill Gates to do in 1980?

  Help debug the IBM PC

  Sell Microsoft to IBM

  Develop a word processor

  Write an operating system for the IBM PC

 9. Microsoft rescued Apple from the brink of bankruptcy by investing $150 million in Steve Job's company in 1997.
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  TRUE

  FALSE

 10. Bill Gates has donated over $41 billion to charity.

  FALSE

  TRUE


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