Q 01/05

In what year did RuneScape first go live as a public beta?

A) 2001

B) 2003

C) 2004

D) 2006

Answer · why

A) 2001

2001 saw the public beta go live on 4 January, and by December that year the Gower brothers had set up a company to run the business side of the game.

Q 02/05

The earliest RuneScape servers ran out of the Gower family home in which English city?

A) Leeds

B) Nottingham

C) Southampton

D) Bristol

Answer · why

B) Nottingham

Nottingham. Andrew Gower ran the whole game from a bedroom in his parents' house there for most of its first year, until a company was formed to run t...

Q 03/05

What is the name of the fantasy world in which RuneScape is set?

A) Azeroth

B) Gielinor

C) Tamriel

D) Sanctuary

Answer · why

B) Gielinor

Gielinor. Paul Gower gave the world its medieval-fantasy theme, drawing on the tabletop games he and his brother Andrew had grown up playing.

Q 04/05

Which businessman joined Andrew and Paul Gower as the third founder of Jagex and served as its first CEO?

A) Mark Gerhard

B) Geoffrey Iddison

C) Rod Cousens

D) Constant Tedder

Answer · why

D) Constant Tedder

Constant Tedder was later replaced as CEO by a former European CEO of PayPal, and all three founders left the board of directors in December 2010.

Q 05/05

Andrew Gower's earlier game, the direct predecessor of RuneScape, was called what?

A) DungeonScape

B) DeviousMUD

C) MageQuest

D) RuneWorld

Answer · why

B) DeviousMUD

DeviousMUD. Gower began it as a student in 1998 and, by his own count, started again from scratch three or four times before a version finally launche...