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1. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google's founders, created their search engine while students at what University?
MIT
Yale
Cornell
Stanford
2. The name "Google" is a variant spelling of what?
(Nikolai) Gogol, a 19th century Russian writer
the word "giggle" (the original name, but nixed as "too cutesy")
a googol, the number 10 raised to the hundredth power
the word "gargoyle" (the original name, but nixed as "too scary")
3. Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in a friend's garage in what year?
1989
1992
1998
2001
4. When Google first became public, it offered 14,142,135 shares directly, the number being a reference to what?
the number of minutes the Google search engine had been available
the fractional digits of pi (3.14142135...)
the number of times Google users had Googled the term "Google"
the square root of two (1.4142135...)
5. 2006, Google acquired what popular online video service for $1.65 billion?
iFilm
YouTube
NetFlix
I-C-U-P
6. What Google application has the government of many countries worried about potential security risks?
google Earth, a mapping program that includes satellite images
the Google search engine's language translation tools
gcrypt, Google's free codebreaking service
gspy, Google's phone call monitoring service
7. Google, which has a long history of playing April Fool's Day jokes, announced in 2000 its fictional "MentalPlex" service, which supposedly provided what?
mental exercises to stave off senility
a search engine that reads its user's minds
a beverage that increases intelligence
an online dating service that matches clients by I.Q.
8. The Google corporation, which has always pledged a "no-evil" approach to business, has maintained a tradition of "twenty percent time," which means what?
salaried employees who work late get an extra 20% overtime
employees are assumed to spend 20% of the day goofing off
company clocks are set to run 20% fast, so the day goes by more quickly
employees are encouraged to spend 20% of their time on projects that interest them
9. What are Larry Page and Sergey Brin's estimated net worth?
$1.6 billion
$6.1 billion
$10.6 billion
$16.6 billion
10. What made Google's patented PageRank technology different from other search engines available at the time it came into being?
it was twice as fast
it ranked pages by popularity, instead of by content
it ranked pages by connectedness to other pages
nothing, it was just marketed better
11. What is the NASDAQ symbol for Google?
GOOG
GOGL
GGLE
GOGO
12. In what year was the verb "to google" added to the Oxford English Dictionary?
1999
2001
2006
It hasn't been added -- that's only an urban legend.

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