80 Bill Gates Trivia Questions with Answers
80 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What is the title of the 2019 Netflix documentary series about Bill Gates?
Answer
Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates
What is the name of Bill Gates’s annual publication with the Gates Foundation?
Answer
Gates Annual Letter
Which U.S. award did Bill Gates receive from President Barack Obama in 2016?
Answer
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Which honor did Queen Elizabeth II give Bill Gates in 2005?
Answer
Honorary knighthood
How many children do Bill and Melinda Gates have?
Answer
Three
Which U.S. university did Bill Gates leave without graduating in 1975?
Answer
Harvard University
What was the name of Bill Gates’s 2021 book about addressing climate change?
Answer
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
What was the name of Microsoft’s first commercial product for the Altair 8800?
Answer
Altair BASIC
What was the title of Bill Gates’s 1976 letter criticizing unauthorized software copying?
Answer
An Open Letter to Hobbyists
What was the name of the book Bill Gates published in 1999 about the digital economy?
Answer
Business @ the Speed of Thought
In what city was Bill Gates arrested in 1977 after traffic violations?
Answer
Albuquerque
What advisory role did Bill Gates take at Microsoft after leaving his full-time work in 2008?
Answer
Technology advisor
Which Seattle school connected Bill Gates and Paul Allen before they founded Microsoft?
Answer
Lakeside School
Which medal did Bill Gates and Microsoft receive from the U.S. government in 1992?
Answer
National Medal of Technology
What is the first name of Bill Gates’s eldest daughter?
Answer
Jennifer
What position did Bill Gates hold at Microsoft from 2000 to 2008 while Steve Ballmer was CEO?
Answer
Chief software architect
What was the title of Bill Gates’s 2023 book about preventing future pandemics?
Answer
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Which 1998 legal case challenged Microsoft’s business practices while Bill Gates was its chief executive?
Answer
United States v. Microsoft Corp.
Which 1999 book did Bill Gates co-write about technology transforming business?
Answer
Business @ the Speed of Thought
Which nuclear-energy company did Bill Gates co-found in 2006?
Answer
TerraPower
What is Bill Gates’s full name, including his generational suffix?
Answer
William Henry Gates III
Who was Bill Gates’s first wife?
Answer
Melinda French
What was the name of the 1975 magazine that inspired Bill Gates and Paul Allen to contact MITS?
Answer
Popular Electronics