Q 01/05

Which language did Berners-Lee create for writing web pages?

A) JavaScript

B) HTML

C) Python

D) PHP

Answer · why

B) HTML

HTML was one of three pieces he specified for the first Web, along with web addresses and the HTTP protocol, all running on top of an Internet he did ...

Q 02/05

Berners-Lee invented the Web at CERN, a research laboratory near which Swiss city?

A) Zurich

B) Geneva

C) Basel

D) Lausanne

Answer · why

B) Geneva

Geneva's laboratory first took to the Web for something mundane: its first popular use there was looking up numbers in the staff telephone directory.

Q 03/05

In 2014 Berners-Lee called for a Web bill of rights, likening it to which historic document?

A) Declaration of Independence

B) Rights of Man

C) Magna Carta

D) Habeas Corpus Act

Answer · why

C) Magna Carta

Magna Carta was his shorthand for a global charter protecting an open, neutral Web; he made the call 25 years to the day after writing his first propo...

Q 04/05

How did Berners-Lee's manager Mike Sendall describe the Web proposal?

A) "Bold, but premature"

B) "Odd, but promising"

C) "Dense, but important"

D) "Vague, but exciting"

Answer · why

D) "Vague, but exciting"

"Vague, but exciting" is what Sendall wrote on the proposal, which never used the words World Wide Web: at that stage the only name its author had for...

Q 05/05

Berners-Lee was born in 1955 in which city?

A) Birmingham

B) Manchester

C) Oxford

D) London

Answer · why

D) London

London was where his parents had settled after meeting among the programmers of a pioneering computer; he grew up in the south-west of the city and sa...