Q 01/05

Which TV series did Wozniak credit with inspiring him to found Apple?

A) Star Trek

B) Doctor Who

C) Lost in Space

D) The Twilight Zone

Answer · why

A) Star Trek

Star Trek. Wozniak said he might never have had the inspiration to start Apple if he had not driven to its fan conventions in Southern California as a...

Q 02/05

In which California city was Wozniak born in 1950?

A) Sacramento

B) Los Gatos

C) San Jose

D) San Francisco

Answer · why

C) San Jose

San Jose. His father was a Lockheed engineer in the valley, and the city later named a street Woz Way in his son's honour.

Q 03/05

Wozniak once prank-called the Vatican pretending to be which American statesman?

A) Henry Kissinger

B) Richard Nixon

C) Spiro Agnew

D) Nelson Rockefeller

Answer · why

A) Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger. Putting on a heavy accent, Wozniak asked for the Pope and was told he was asleep; the Vatican caught on after checking with the real ...

Q 04/05

What nickname did Wozniak earn in the phone-phreaking community?

A) Berkeley Blue

B) Captain Crunch

C) The Wizard

D) Oak Toebark

Answer · why

A) Berkeley Blue

Berkeley Blue. He took the handle as a UC Berkeley student building blue boxes, and the famous phreaker Captain Crunch came to his dorm room to meet h...

Q 05/05

What got Wozniak into trouble as a freshman at the University of Colorado Boulder?

A) Tapping the dormitory phones

B) Rewiring a lecture hall

C) Launching rooftop rockets

D) Hacking its computer system

Answer · why

D) Hacking its computer system

Hacking its computer system with prank messages got him disciplined in 1969, yet the same university awarded him an honorary doctorate twenty years la...