Q 01/05

Which two University of Virginia roommates founded Reddit in June 2005?

A) Yishan Wong and Erik Martin

B) Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian

C) Aaron Swartz and Christopher Slowe

D) Paul Graham and Sam Altman

Answer · why

B) Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian

They were joined by Aaron Swartz that November when his company Infogami merged with the site.

Q 02/05

Which startup incubator accepted Reddit's founders into its very first class?

A) Y Combinator

B) Techstars

C) Andreessen Horowitz

D) 500 Startups

Answer · why

A) Y Combinator

They had pitched Paul Graham a text-message food-ordering app called My Mobile Menu, which flopped, before he suggested 'the front page of the Interne...

Q 03/05

In which programming language did Steve Huffman originally code Reddit?

A) PHP 5

B) Ruby on Rails

C) Common Lisp

D) Java Servlets

Answer · why

C) Common Lisp

Aaron Swartz later helped rewrite it in Python using his web.py framework, to the annoyance of the Lisp community.

Q 04/05

How did Reddit's founders make the site look busier in its first weeks?

A) They ran ads on Slashdot

B) They copied posts from Digg

C) They paid friends to post all day

D) They created hundreds of fake user accounts

Answer · why

D) They created hundreds of fake user accounts

They were embarrassed by how empty the site looked, so they posted under invented names.

Q 05/05

What was the name of Aaron Swartz's company that merged with Reddit in 2005-06?

A) Hipmunk

B) Alien Blue

C) Infogami

D) Not A Bug

Answer · why

C) Infogami

The merged parent was called Not A Bug; Swartz was fired in January 2007 after blogging about the corporate atmosphere.