Q 01/05

Which Friends actor joined Jennifer Aniston in the 30-minute "cyber sitcom" video guide that shipped with Windows 95?

A) David Schwimmer

B) Matthew Perry

C) Matt LeBlanc

D) Paul Rudd

Answer · why

B) Matthew Perry

Matthew Perry's sitcom tour arrived with a genuine hit: Windows 95 shipped one million copies worldwide in just four days.

Q 02/05

What is the name of Windows XP's default wallpaper, a photo of green hills under a blue sky in California?

A) Serenity

B) Meadow

C) Bliss

D) Horizon

Answer · why

C) Bliss

Bliss was shot on film in January 1996 near the Napa–Sonoma county line, on a hill cleared of its vines by a phylloxera infestation years earlier.

Q 03/05

Which ambient musician composed "The Microsoft Sound", the six-second start-up chime of Windows 95, in 1994?

A) Jean-Michel Jarre

B) Mike Oldfield

C) Harold Budd

D) Brian Eno

Answer · why

D) Brian Eno

Brian Eno later admitted on BBC Radio 4 that he composed the Windows chime on a rival machine: "I wrote it on a Mac."

Q 04/05

Which New York landmark was lit up in the four colours of the Windows logo to celebrate the Windows 95 launch?

A) Grand Central Terminal

B) Empire State Building

C) Chrysler Building

D) Brooklyn Bridge

Answer · why

B) Empire State Building

The Empire State Building had company in Canada, where a 100-metre Windows 95 banner was hung down the side of Toronto's CN Tower.

Q 05/05

Which Microsoft operating system of October 2012 was the first public release since 1995 to ship without a Start button?

A) Windows Vista

B) Windows 8

C) Windows 7

D) Windows 8.1

Answer · why

B) Windows 8

Windows 8 treated the desktop as just another app, and the complaints were loud enough that Windows 8.1 put the Start button back a year later.