70 free Apple trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
65 free apple trivia questions with answers. This page covers both apples. Half of it is trivia about apples the fruit: where the wild ancestor still grows, which country grows half the world's crop, how Honeycrisp, Fuji, Granny Smith and Red Delicious got their names, why bobbing for apples works, the Norse goddess who kept the gods young, the Swiss marksman, the Welsh proverb, and what Johnny Appleseed's orchards were really for. The other half is Apple Inc.: Jobs and Wozniak, the 1984 ad, iMac, iPod, iPhone, the logo, Tim Cook and the strangest corners of the company's history. Questions run from easy warm-ups to genuinely hard, and every answer has been checked against a reference source, shown under each question once you answer. Play the whole set, or lift a fruit round for a harvest festival, classroom or pub quiz.
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Q 01Apple Computer was founded on April 1 of which year?
1976
The partnership was signed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and a third partner who bailed out within two weeks; it was incorporated the following January.
Q 02Which co-founder sold his stake in the newborn company back to Jobs and Wozniak for $800?
Ronald Wayne
He filed his withdrawal twelve days after drafting the partnership papers, worried that as the only partner with real assets he was exposed to Apple's debts.
Q 03What was the sale price of the Apple I when it went on sale in July 1976?
$666.66
The machine was sold as a bare circuit board; a local retailer's order for 50 fully assembled units is what got production started.
Q 04Which retailer's order for 50 computers allowed the Apple I to go into production?
The Byte Shop
Paul Terrell placed the order after seeing the prototype demonstrated at the Homebrew Computer Club, and insisted on fully assembled boards rather than kits.
Q 05Which company, Steve Wozniak's pre-Apple employer, turned down his computer design five times?
Hewlett-Packard
He resigned from that job in 1977 to work at Apple full time, the same year the Apple II shipped.
Q 06Which pioneering 1979 spreadsheet made businesses buy the Apple II just to run it?
VisiCalc
It was the first spreadsheet application of any kind, and it turned a hobbyist machine into an office tool.
Q 07Apple's first logo, drawn by its short-lived third co-founder, showed which scientist under a tree?
Isaac Newton
The elaborate hand-drawn frame with a ribbon banner lasted barely a year before the bitten-apple mark replaced it.
Q 08Who designed the rainbow-striped bitten apple logo that Apple used until 1999?
Rob Janoff
He worked for Apple's marketing consultant Regis McKenna, and both he and Apple deny the persistent claim that the bite honours Alan Turing.
Q 09At which company's Palo Alto lab did Jobs see the graphical interface that shaped the Lisa and Mac in 1979?
Xerox
The price of admission was letting the visitor buy $1 million of Apple stock before the IPO, a trade that looks lopsided in hindsight.
Q 10Apple went public on the Nasdaq on December 12, 1980 at what price per share?
$22
The offering raised over $100 million, more than any IPO since Ford in 1956, and made instant millionaires of dozens of employees.
Q 11Jobs later admitted the Apple Lisa was really named after whom?
His daughter
The $9,995 machine sold only about 10,000 units, but its mouse-driven interface set up the Macintosh a year later.
Q 12The Macintosh was named after the favourite apple variety of which Apple employee?
Jef Raskin
The McIntosh cultivar's spelling was tweaked, and "Macintosh" stayed the computer's official name until 1999.
Q 13Who directed Apple's "1984" commercial that introduced the Macintosh during the Super Bowl?
Ridley Scott
He had released Blade Runner about eighteen months earlier, and the spot was shot in England for a reported $370,000.
Q 21The first iMac shipped in 1998 in a translucent shade named after a beach in which city?
Sydney
The blue-green tint was named for the water off Bondi Beach; the machine also dropped the floppy drive in favour of USB and CD-ROM.
Q 22What name did Jobs prefer for the iMac before the ad agency talked him out of it?
MacMan
Creative director Ken Segall pitched "iMac" twice; the internal name had come from marketing executive Phil Schiller.
Q 23Apple pitched the original iPod in 2001 with the promise of how many songs "in your pocket"?
1,000
The 5 GB player was developed in under a year, and Fortune called it "Apple's 21st-Century Walkman".
Q 14In the "1984" ad, the running heroine hurls what at the giant screen showing Big Brother?
A sledgehammer
She was played by English athlete Anya Major, and the ad's one national US airing was during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII.
Q 15The original Macintosh went on sale on January 24, 1984 at what price?
$2,495
Sales hit 70,000 units by early May, but the machine's failure to dent the IBM PC by 1985 weakened Jobs' position inside the company.
Q 16Which company was John Sculley running when Jobs asked if he wanted to keep selling 'sugared water'?
Pepsi-Cola
Two years later Sculley won the power struggle and Jobs left, taking five senior employees with him to start a new computer company.
Q 17After leaving Apple in 1985, Jobs founded which computer company that Apple later bought?
NeXT
The purchase, in late 1996, also gave Apple the operating system foundations that became Mac OS X and the WebObjects server behind its online store.
Q 18Jobs paid $10 million in 1986 for which company's computer graphics division, later Pixar?
Lucasfilm
Half the money went to the seller for technology rights and half became working capital; the studio's Toy Story arrived nine years later.
Q 19Which CEO was ousted by Apple's board in July 1997, clearing the way for Jobs to become interim CEO?
Gil Amelio
Jobs then found a loophole to kill the Mac OS licensing program and announced a $150 million investment from Microsoft at that summer's Macworld Expo.
Q 20Which actor narrated the television version of Apple's "Think different" commercial?
Richard Dreyfuss
Hanks was considered, but the eventual narrator was an Apple fan and took the job; the spot won the 1998 Emmy for Best Commercial.
Q 24Copywriter Vinnie Chieco proposed the name iPod after a prototype reminded him of which film?
2001: A Space Odyssey
The white prototype recalled the line "Open the pod bay doors, Hal" and the spaceship's small EVA pods.
Q 25iTunes began life as which Mac MP3 player, which Apple bought in 2000 and renamed?
SoundJam MP
The developers moved to Apple, simplified the interface, added CD burning and stripped out its skins.
Q 26How many tracks did the iTunes Music Store offer when it opened on April 28, 2003?
200,000
A Windows version of iTunes followed that October, turning the store into the default music shop for the iPod.
Q 27Where did Steve Jobs unveil the first iPhone on January 9, 2007?
Macworld Expo in San Francisco
The same keynote announced that Apple Computer, Inc. was dropping "Computer" from its name.
Q 28Which company already owned the iPhone trademark when Apple announced its phone in 2007?
Cisco
Its Linksys subsidiary had rebranded a line of VoIP phones under the name in 2006; the settlement let both companies keep using it.
Q 29What was the internal codename of the effort that produced the first iPhone?
Project Purple
The work began in 2005 in secret collaboration with Cingular Wireless, which is now part of AT&T.
Q 30How many applications were available when the App Store opened on July 10, 2008?
About 500
Apple's standard 30 percent cut of sales has since drawn antitrust scrutiny, and in 2020 it dropped to 15 percent for small developers.