Q 01/05

Pressing the Shift key five times in a row turns on which Windows accessibility feature?

A) Sticky Keys

B) Filter Keys

C) Toggle Keys

D) Mouse Keys

Answer · why

A) Sticky Keys

Sticky Keys lets you press the parts of a shortcut one at a time instead of holding them together, which helps people who cannot press two keys at onc...

Q 02/05

The Ctrl+Alt+Delete reboot shortcut was written in 1981 by an engineer at which computer company?

A) Compaq

B) IBM

C) Apple

D) Intel

Answer · why

B) IBM

IBM engineer David Bradley wrote the reset code in a matter of minutes while building the original PC. He meant it only for developers, not for the pu...

Q 03/05

Which Windows shortcut pastes text, using a letter that sits beside the cut and copy keys?

A) Ctrl+P

B) Ctrl+B

C) Ctrl+V

D) Ctrl+N

Answer · why

C) Ctrl+V

Ctrl+V keeps paste next to cut and copy: X, C and V sit side by side at the left end of the keyboard's bottom row, all under one hand.

Q 04/05

Which Microsoft figure said in 2013 that using Ctrl+Alt+Delete to log in to Windows was a mistake?

A) Bill Gates

B) Steve Ballmer

C) Paul Allen

D) Satya Nadella

Answer · why

A) Bill Gates

Bill Gates said he had wanted a single dedicated button, but the keyboard's designers would not add one, so users were left holding three keys at once...

Q 05/05

Pressing the Windows key and the period key together opens which pop-up tool in Windows 10 and 11?

A) Clipboard history

B) Voice typing

C) Widgets board

D) Emoji panel

Answer · why

D) Emoji panel

The emoji panel appears wherever you are typing, so there is no need to copy symbols from a web page. The Windows key plus the semicolon opens it too.