Q 01/05

Bill Gates quit which university in 1975 to start Microsoft with his school friend Paul Allen?

A) Stanford

B) Harvard

C) Princeton

D) Columbia

Answer · why

B) Harvard

Harvard gave Bill Gates an honorary doctorate in 2007, 32 years after he walked away without a degree. While there he met Steve Ballmer, who later ran...

Q 02/05

Bill Clinton played which instrument on The Arsenio Hall Show while running for president in 1992?

A) Trumpet

B) French horn

C) Saxophone

D) Trombone

Answer · why

C) Saxophone

Saxophone was his instrument from school, where he won first chair in the state band's section. The late-night appearance is often credited with build...

Q 03/05

Before he became TV's Science Guy, Bill Nye worked as a mechanical engineer for which company in Seattle?

A) Boeing

B) Microsoft

C) Lockheed

D) Raytheon

Answer · why

A) Boeing

Boeing used a part he invented, a hydraulic resonance suppressor tube fitted to its jumbo jets. He moonlighted as a comedian and quit in 1986 to write...

Q 04/05

Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman made a new running shoe sole by molding rubber in which kitchen appliance?

A) Toaster oven

B) Pressure cooker

C) Sandwich press

D) Waffle iron

Answer · why

D) Waffle iron

Waffle iron ruined, shoe business made: Bowerman wrecked his wife's Belgian one around 1970 while testing the idea. The light, grippy tread led to Nik...

Q 05/05

In Groundhog Day, Bill Murray's weatherman relives the same February day in which Pennsylvania town?

A) Gettysburg

B) State College

C) Punxsutawney

D) Scranton

Answer · why

C) Punxsutawney

Punxsutawney barely appears on screen, because the film was shot almost entirely in Woodstock, Illinois. Murray's character, Phil, shares a first name...