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Bill Gates

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

  Bill PC Gates

  Wilhelm Friedrich Gates

  William Henry Gates III

 2. Bill Gates learnt to code at school.

  TRUE

  FALSE

 3. What was the first programme he ever wrote?

  A maze game

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

  A word processor

  A crossword puzzle

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

  1120

  1510

  1460

  1590

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

  Economics

  Computer science

  Maths

 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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  Spend more on publicity than software development

  Check every line of code written by his team

  Make a million dollars each day

  Invent the desktop computer

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

  Develop a word processor

  Sell Microsoft to IBM

  Write an operating system for the IBM PC

  Help debug 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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