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50 free Steve Wozniak trivia questions with answers — science & nature quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Steve Wozniak is the engineer half of Apple's founding story: the HP calculator designer who built the Apple I alone to impress the Homebrew Computer Club, designed the Apple II with its colour graphics and eight expansion slots, and then spent the rest of his life doing whatever seemed fun, from rock festivals and teaching fifth-graders to Segway polo and Dancing with the Stars. These 50 questions cover the Cream Soda computer and the University of Colorado expulsion, Berkeley Blue and the blue boxes sold for $150 each, the Breakout bonus Jobs kept quiet about, the Zaltair hoax, the five times HP turned down the Apple I, the calculator and the Volkswagen van, Paul Terrell's order of 50 machines, the $666.66 price, the argument over expansion slots, the Disk II, the 1981 Beechcraft crash and the amnesia that Apple II games cured, the diploma issued to Rocky Raccoon Clark, Unuson and the US Festivals, the CORE universal remote, Wheels of Zeus, Fusion-io, Woz U, Privateer Space, the Hoover Medal, Woz Way, and his portrayals by Joey Slotnick, Josh Gad and Seth Rogen. The easy tier asks which company he co-founded; the expert tier wants his Masonic lodge and the name of the fictional BASIC in the Zaltair brochure. Every answer is cited to a page we checked and comes with a short explanation. Play it solo or print it for a tech-history quiz night.
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Q 01Which company did Steve Wozniak co-found in 1976?
Apple
It was originally called Apple Computer and he started it with Steve Jobs.
Q 02In which California city was Wozniak born in 1950?
San Jose
His father was an engineer for the Lockheed Corporation.
Q 03From which Cupertino school did Wozniak graduate in 1968?
Homestead
Steve Jobs later attended the same school, and Bill Fernandez introduced the two.
Q 04What nickname did Wozniak earn in the phone-phreaking community?
Berkeley Blue
It came from his blue box design in the early 1970s.
Q 05Why was Wozniak expelled from the University of Colorado Boulder?
Hacking its computer system
He later funded a Woz Lab there and received an honorary doctorate from the university in 1989.
Q 06What did Wozniak and a friend name the computer they built in 1971?
Cream Soda
It used 20 TTL chips and punch cards; a reporter stepped on the power cable and blew it up.
Q 07For which company was Wozniak designing calculators before Apple?
Hewlett-Packard
He met Steve Jobs when Jobs worked there for a summer.
Q 08Who introduced Wozniak to Steve Jobs?
Bill Fernandez
Fernandez went on to become Apple's first full-time employee.
Q 09Which 1971 Esquire article inspired Wozniak's phone-phreaking devices?
Secrets of the Little Blue Box
It ran in the October 1971 issue of Esquire.
Q 10How much did Jobs sell each of Wozniak's blue boxes for?
$150
Jobs later said that without the blue boxes there would not have been an Apple.
Q 11Which Atari arcade game's circuit board did Wozniak help Jobs slim down in 1973?
Breakout
He cut 50 chips by using RAM to represent the bricks.
Q 12How much was the Atari bonus that Jobs told Wozniak was only $700?
$5,000
Wozniak got $350 and only learned the truth ten years later.
Q 13Which hobbyist group did Wozniak design the Apple I to impress?
Homebrew Computer Club
Its video capability drew a crowd when unveiled to the Palo Alto group.
Q 14Which real computer did Wozniak's hoax Zaltair parody?
Q 21What was the retail price of the Apple I?
$666.66
Wozniak said he just liked repeating digits and had no idea about the number of the beast.
Q 22Which $25 CPU did the Apple I use?
MOS 6502
The board had 256 bytes of ROM and 4K or 8K of RAM; about 200 units were built.
Q 23Roughly how many Apple I computers were produced?
200
Buyers had to supply their own case, power supply, keyboard and display.
Q 24The Apple II was the first personal computer able to display what?
Altair 8800
The fake brochure even carried a shipping label for MITS, the Altair's maker.
Q 15What was the fictional programming language in the Zaltair brochure called?
BAZIC
It promised you could define your own language, a feature called perZonality.
Q 16How many times did HP turn down Wozniak's Apple I design?
Five
Jobs then persuaded him to start a business selling bare circuit boards.
Q 17What did Wozniak sell to raise money for the first batch of Apple I boards?
His HP scientific calculator
Jobs sold his Volkswagen van.
Q 18Who was the short-lived third co-founder of Apple Computer in April 1976?
Ronald Wayne
He served as administrative supervisor before dropping out.
Q 19Where had Jobs just been when he suggested the company name?
An apple orchard in Oregon
He told Wozniak about his time there shortly before they picked the name.
Q 20Who ordered 50 Apple I computers for his Byte Shop?
Paul Terrell
He insisted on fully assembled machines at $500 each.
Colour graphics
Wozniak put colour into NTSC with a one-dollar chip and still says he does not know how PAL colour works.
Q 25How many expansion slots did Wozniak insist the Apple II should have?
Eight
Jobs wanted two; Wozniak told him to go get himself another computer.
Q 26At which event was the Apple II introduced in April 1977?
West Coast Computer Faire
Wozniak's first article about it ran in Byte magazine that May.
Q 27What did Wozniak's 1978 Disk II replace as Apple II storage?
Cassette tape
The floppy drive was designed specifically for the Apple II.
Q 28Which 1980 machine did Wozniak say had 100 percent hardware failures?
Apple III
He blamed its design by the marketing department rather than engineers.
Q 29With whom did Wozniak shape the early Macintosh concept from 1979 to 1981?
Jef Raskin
Jobs took over the project after Wozniak's plane crash.
Q 30What aircraft was Wozniak piloting when he crashed in February 1981?
A Beechcraft Bonanza
He was not qualified to fly it; the NTSB cited premature liftoff and pilot inexperience.