Q 01/05

What did Google's founders do to bank their first cheque?

A) Graduate

B) Relocate

C) Incorporate

D) Rebrand

Answer · why

C) Incorporate

Incorporate: Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim made the $100,000 cheque out to 'Google Inc.', a company that didn't exist yet, so the pair had to set i...

Q 02/05

Who co-founded Google alongside Larry Page?

A) Steve Wozniak

B) Elon Musk

C) Jeff Bezos

D) Sergey Brin

Answer · why

D) Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin was the student showing Larry Page around campus when they met in 1995, and each later admitted finding the other obnoxious.

Q 03/05

What was Google's search engine called when its founders first built it in 1996?

A) LinkFinder

B) WebCrawler

C) BackRub

D) SearchBot

Answer · why

C) BackRub

BackRub was named for the backlinks it counted to judge how important a page was; Google's own history says it was soon renamed, adding a relieved '(p...

Q 04/05

Google takes its name from 'googol', the number written as a 1 followed by how many zeros?

A) 10

B) 100

C) 1,000

D) 1,000,000

Answer · why

B) 100

100 zeros make a googol, a word said to have been invented by a mathematician's nine-year-old nephew; in 2004 the mathematician's great-niece talked o...

Q 05/05

At which university did Google's founders meet in 1995 and build their first search engine?

A) MIT

B) Harvard

C) UC Berkeley

D) Stanford

Answer · why

D) Stanford

Stanford owned the patent on the ranking method the pair devised there; it licensed it to Google for 1.8 million shares, which it sold for $336 millio...