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Bill Gates

 1. What is Bill Gates' full name?
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  Bill PC Gates

  William Gattenberg

  Wilhelm Friedrich Gates

  William Henry Gates III

 2. Bill Gates learnt to code at school.

  FALSE

  TRUE

 3. What was the first programme he ever wrote?

  A word processor

  A crossword puzzle

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

  A maze game

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

  1460

  1120

  1510

  1590

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

  Economics

  Law

  Maths

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

  Waffle weaving

  Ice cream indexing

  Pancake sorting

  Truffle tiering

 7. During the first five years of Microsoft what did he claim to do?
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  Spend more on publicity than software development

  Check every line of code written by his team

  Invent the desktop computer

  Make a million dollars each day

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

  Sell Microsoft to IBM

  Develop a word processor

  Help debug the IBM PC

  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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  FALSE

  TRUE

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

  FALSE

  TRUE


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