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Fun Facts
100
This Microsoft program lets you type up your SLS assignments, and corrects your spelling and grammatical errors when you're done.
What is Microsoft Word
100
When and where was Bill Gates born?
What is 1955, and Seattle, WA
100
In 1985, a new generation of operating systems was released by Gates and Microsoft. It's still around today. What's it called?
What is Windows
100
Microsoft owns the MP3 player called ___________
What is Zune
100
Gates is married to whom? And how many kids do they have together?
What is Melinda Gates, 3
200
With this online service, you can play video games with your friends and random people for free.
What is Xbox Live
200
Bill Gates social status as a child was
What is upper middle class
200
Name 1 of the 2 scholarships mentioned earlier that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sponsors
What are the Gates Cambridge Scholarships, or the Gates Millenium Scholars
200
The CEO of Microsoft is
What is Steve Balmer
200
As of 2011, Bill Gates fortune was worth how much?
What is 59 billion dollars
300
This Windows program specializes in the creation of data spreadsheets and flow charts.
What is Microsoft Excel
300
His first computer experience on a computer was when he made a program where you could play the computer in a game of
What is TicTacToe
300
A new addition to this program made it easier for people to view the internet in their own language
What is Mozilla
300
Gates left his company, Microsoft, that he built from the ground up in order to pursue a higher calling at which charity?
What is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
300
Gates earns about how much money every second?
What is 250 dollars
400
This program helped begin the information age. You can access it with WiFi and visit your favorite websites.
What is Internet Explorer
400
In 1970 Bill Gates met Paul Allen at his high school. They made a computer program that monitored traffic patterns called
What is Traf-O-Data
400
What percent of his money does Bill Gates plan on giving up to charity?
What is 95%
400
The father of modern technology as we know it, Bill Gates, left Microsoft in what year?
What is 2006
400
In what year did Bill Gates drop out of Harvard?
What is 1975
500
This newer web browser claims to be more effective than its predecessor, Internet Explorer.
What is Mozilla Firefox
500
Bill Gates and Paul Allen partnered up to form a computer software company called
What is Microsoft
500
First manufactured by Microsoft in 2001, this console has been used by millions of people worldwide and is most known for preventing student success.
What is Xbox... if the team says "Xbox 360," which wasn't made until 2005, they're totally wrong!
500
Gates and Allen sold their software to what company first for use?
What is IBM
500
Bill Gates used this as bragging rights for years, even after it was irrelevant. His SAT score of
What is 1590 out of 1600
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