Q 01/05

Which Renaissance painter's Venus provided the face used on Adobe Illustrator's early packaging and splash screens?

A) Michelangelo

B) Titian

C) Botticelli

D) Raphael

Answer · why

C) Botticelli

Botticelli's The Birth of Venus was licensed from the Bettmann Archive, and her flowing hair was picked to show how well the program could follow smoo...

Q 02/05

Adobe, the company behind Illustrator, takes its name from what feature behind a co-founder's California home?

A) A creek

B) A hill

C) A street

D) A ranch

Answer · why

A) A creek

A creek called Adobe Creek runs through Los Altos, California, behind the house of one of the two men who founded the company in December 1982.

Q 03/05

The smooth curves that make up Illustrator paths are named after which French engineer, who popularized them at Renault?

A) Gaspard Monge

B) Pierre Bézier

C) Paul de Casteljau

D) André Citroën

Answer · why

B) Pierre Bézier

Pierre Bézier began a 42-year career at Renault as a tool setter. The curves that carry his name were in fact first developed in 1959 by Paul de Caste...

Q 04/05

Adobe's 2007 suite gave its apps periodic-table-style icons; Illustrator's white letters sat on which background color?

A) Blue

B) Magenta

C) Green

D) Orange

Answer · why

D) Orange

Orange and yellow had featured in Illustrator's branding as far back as version 4.0, a Windows release of 1992.

Q 05/05

Adobe Illustrator was originally designed for which computer, two years before a Windows version first appeared?

A) Acorn Archimedes

B) Commodore Amiga

C) Apple Macintosh

D) Atari ST

Answer · why

C) Apple Macintosh

Apple Macintosh users had Illustrator from 1987; the first Windows edition, version 2.0, arrived in 1989 and flopped.