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Founders, companies and the businesses they built. A 31-question quiz on the entrepreneurs behind Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Meta and Alibaba.

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  1. In which year was Apple founded?
    Answer: 1976
  2. Who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975?
    Answer: Paul Allen
  3. In which year did Jeff Bezos found Amazon?
    Answer: 1994
  4. What did Amazon originally sell when it started?
    Answer: Books
  5. In which year did Mark Zuckerberg launch Facebook?
    Answer: 2004
  6. At which university was Facebook founded?
    Answer: Harvard University
  7. In which year was Google founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin?
    Answer: 1998
  8. What was Jack Ma's profession before he founded Alibaba?
    Answer: English teacher
  9. Warren Buffett is known by which nickname?
    Answer: The Oracle of Omaha
  10. What was Richard Branson's first business venture?
    Answer: A student magazine
  11. Besides Steve Jobs, who were Apple's other two co-founders?
    Answer: Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne
  12. In which year was Microsoft founded?
    Answer: 1975
  13. In which year did Elon Musk found SpaceX?
    Answer: 2002
  14. In which year did Sundar Pichai become CEO of Google?
    Answer: 2015
  15. In which year did Satya Nadella become CEO of Microsoft?
    Answer: 2014
  16. In which year was Alibaba founded?
    Answer: 1999
  17. In which year did Henry Ford launch the Model T?
    Answer: 1908
  18. In which year did Walt Disney found his animation studio with his brother Roy?
    Answer: 1923
  19. In which year did Sam Walton open the first Walmart store?
    Answer: 1962
  20. In which year did Ingvar Kamprad found IKEA?
    Answer: 1943
  21. What was Google's search engine originally called before it became Google?
    Answer: BackRub
  22. In which year did Steve Jobs buy the animation studio that became Pixar?
    Answer: 1986
  23. In which year did Jeff Bezos found the space company Blue Origin?
    Answer: 2000
  24. In which year did Facebook's parent company rename itself Meta?
    Answer: 2021
  25. In which year did Henry Ford introduce the moving assembly line?
    Answer: 1913
  26. What was Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature film, released in 1937?
    Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  27. In which year did Ray Kroc join McDonald's as its franchise agent?
    Answer: 1954
  28. In which year did Michael Dell found his computer company from his university dorm room?
    Answer: 1984
  29. In which year did Larry Ellison co-found the company that became Oracle?
    Answer: 1977
  30. In which year was Chanel No. 5 perfume launched?
    Answer: 1921
  31. In which year did Amancio Ortega co-found the first Zara store?
    Answer: 1975

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