Apple at 50 quiz: top sellers, turkeys and turtlenecks

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Steve Jobs at the Apple Computer stand
Steve Jobs at the West Coast Computer Faire, which saw the launch of the Apple II. Photograph: Tom Munnecke/Getty Images

How much do you know about the history of one of the most powerful computing companies on the planet?

In the 50 years since it was founded, Apple has long been seen as one of the most significant technology companies globally. The design and manufacturing decisions taken in Cupertino, California have affected product design across the world, helping usher in an era of ubiquitous touchscreen computing while insisting on exacting user experience design principles. How much do you know about the history of one of the most powerful computing companies on the planet? Test yourself with these 12 questions.

The Guardian’s Apple at 50 quiz

  1. Apple I computer on display at the Smithsonian made in 1977

    What was the retail price of the first Apple product, the Apple I?

    1. $333.33

    2. $666.66

    3. $999.99

    4. $1111.11

  2. What is Apple’s highest stock market valuation?

    1. $1tn

    2. $2tn

    3. $3tn

    4. $4tn

  3. Who directed the famous Apple Superbowl advert 1984?

    1. Ridley Scott

    2. Steven Spielberg

    3. Steven Soderbergh

    4. Kathryn Bigelow

  4. Apple HQ

    What is the nickname for Apple’s circular US headquarters?

    1. The donut

    2. The spaceship

    3. The quoit

    4. The loop

  5. Which of these films was NOT made by Apple?

    1. Killers of the Flower Moon

    2. Napoleon

    3. F1

    4. The Banshees of Innisherin

  6. MessagePad

    What was the name of the MessagePad device Apple released in 1993?

    1. Newton

    2. Einstein

    3. Copernicus

    4. Darwin

  7. Steve Jobs and an iPhone

    How many units of the first iPhone were sold?

    1. 6m

    2. 9m

    3. 16m

    4. 24m

  8. Steve Jobs

    Who designed Steve Jobs’s signature black turtleneck?

    1. Alexander McQueen

    2. Stella McCartney

    3. Issey Miyake

    4. Tom Ford

  9. Apple iPod

    How many songs did Apple estimate the first generation 5GB iPod could store?

    1. 500

    2. 1,000

    3. 2,500

    4. 5,000

  10. Apple released a rather unsuccessful games console called what?

    1. Jupiter

    2. Bramley

    3. Pippin

    4. Discovery

  11. Apple rainbow logo

    Who designed the distinctive Apple logo of the fruit with a bite taken out of it?

    1. Neville Brody

    2. Peter Saville

    3. Paul Rand

    4. Rob Janoff

  12. iTunes music icon

    And finally … which world-famous band was forced to apologise for giving away an album on iTunes?

    1. Rolling Stones

    2. U2

    3. Red Hot Chilli Peppers

    4. Coldplay

Solutions

1:B - Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said he was unaware of the Satanic link and simply liked 'repeating digits' , 2:D - Apple’s stock market capitalisation - the total value of a company’s publicly traded shares - crossed $4tn in October last year, although it has subsequently fallen below that level, 3:A - The British film and sometime ad director made the acclaimed commercial, 4:B - Locals christened Apple’s Cupertino building with the nickname, 5:D - Since getting into film and TV production, Apple has produced a number of critical hits but Martin McDonagh’s Golden Globe-winning film isn’t one of them, 6:A - The range was available for five years before being discontinued, 7:A - The first iPhone, released in June 2007, has since sold another 3bn units, 8:C - The Japanese designer retired the item from his clothing range after Jobs died in 2011, 9:B - Obviously it depended on song length and file sizes, but Apple marketed the machine with the slogan "1,000 songs in your pocket", 10:C - Apple had intended to make the Pippin platform an open standard for gaming and multimedia devices, and the white-colored Bandai Pippin ATMARK machine was the first release, 11:D - The rainbow Apple logo replaced the original, which featured Isaac Newton under a tree discovering gravity, 12:B - Bono said sorry after his band’s album, Songs of Innocence, was added to the library of unsuspecting account holders in 2014 to promote the iPhone 6 release

Scores

  1. 0 and above.

    Congratulations – and happy birthday to Apple!