80 Bill Gates Trivia Questions with Answers
80 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which company did Microsoft acquire the rights to for the operating system that became MS-DOS?
Answer
Seattle Computer Products
What was the name of Bill Gates’s private foundation before it merged with the Gates Learning Foundation in 2000?
Answer
William H. Gates Foundation
What was the name of the Seattle school where Bill Gates first gained access to a computer?
Answer
Lakeside School
Who played Bill Gates in the 1999 television film Pirates of Silicon Valley?
Answer
Anthony Michael Hall
What position did Bill Gates hold at Microsoft when Satya Nadella became CEO in 2014?
Answer
Technology adviser
Which award did Bill Gates receive from Queen Elizabeth II in 2005 for his contributions to enterprise and philanthropy?
Answer
Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Which climate-focused organization did Bill Gates launch in 2015 to support clean-energy innovation?
Answer
Breakthrough Energy
Which Leonardo da Vinci manuscript did Bill Gates buy at auction in 1994?
Answer
Codex Leicester
What was the title of Bill Gates’s 1976 message defending software copyright for hobbyist computer users?
Answer
An Open Letter to Hobbyists
What is the title of Bill Gates’s 2021 book about reducing greenhouse-gas emissions?
Answer
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
Which book about future technology did Bill Gates publish in 1995?
Answer
The Road Ahead
Which billionaire joined Bill Gates in launching the Giving Pledge in 2010?
Answer
Warren Buffett
What is the name of the charitable organization founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates?
Answer
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Which Microsoft operating system launched in 1995 with the Start menu?
Answer
Windows 95
At which university did Bill Gates enroll before leaving to build Microsoft?
Answer
Harvard University
Who was Bill Gates’s co-founder at Microsoft?
Answer
Paul Allen
What company did Bill Gates co-found with Paul Allen in 1975?
Answer
Microsoft
In what year was Bill Gates born?
Answer
1955