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1. Who co-founded the Apple Corporation with Steve Wozniak in 1976?
 
Steve Jabs
Steve Jibs
Steve Jobs
Sreve Jubs
 
 
2. What do the initials stand for in the name of the US television network PBS?
 
Pennsylvania Broadcasting Service
Pentagon Broadcasting Service
Philadelphia Broadcasting Service
Public Broadcasting Service

It's a non-profit corporation founded in 1969
 
 
3. In September 1961 Border Television began transmitting from where?
 
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Carlisle
Galashiels
Melrose
 
 
4. In 1792 the French inventor Claude Chappe built the world's first practical semaphore system between Paris and which other city?
 
Nancy
Nantes
Lille
Lyon
 
 
5. In which US state are the headquarters of the Microsoft Corporation?
 
California
Oregon
Texas
Washington

They're in the city of Redmond. Nintendo is also based there
 
 
6. When ITV began broadcasting in 1955, what was the first product to be advertised?
 
Chocolate
Petrol
Toothpaste
Washing powder

It was a tube of Gibbs SR in a block of ice
 
 
7. Which comedian made the UK's first mobile phone call on I January 1985?
 
Ken Dodd
Les Dawson
Norman Wisdom
Ernie Wise
 
 
8. Which piece of computer hardware was invented by Douglas Engelbart in the USA in 1964?
 
The floppy disk
The hard disk
The modem
The mouse

He called it an 'X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System'
 
 
9. What stopped BBC from broadcasting on its intended launch date of 20 April 1964?
 
A flood
A libel action
A power cut
A strike
 
 
10. Which offshore radio station began broadcasting on Easter Sunday 1965?
 
Radio Carol
Radio Caroline
Radio Carolyn
Radio Columbine
 
 
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