Last week I gave you a modest taste of the MacBrainiac Challenge — the Apple trivia contest I host at each Macworld Expo . You ’ve had the weekend to mull over the questions posed . It ’s now time to see how close you came to the correct answer . I ’ll reissue the inquiry below with the right answer on multiple selection interrogation in bold .
Q.The Stickies thingamajig can use all of these fonts except :
A. Geneva B. Marker Felt C. Optima D. Gill Sans
Q.The first Macintosh LC role model to support an inner atomic number 48 ROM drive was :
A. Macintosh LC III+ B. Macintosh LC 475/605 C. Macintosh LC 520 D. Macintosh LC 630
Q.In 1984 , Steve Jobs headed which Apple division ?
A. Macintosh B. Lisa C. Advanced Hardware D. SuperMicro
Q.Three 24-hour interval after his forty-third birthday , Steve Jobs celebrated by doing what ?
A. discontinue the Newton / eMate communication channel B. Forced Gil Amelio and Ellen Hancock to resign C. found Apple ’s “ Stores Within Stores ” in all 149 CompUSA fix D. Announced 150,000 pre - order for the first iMac
Q.Steve Jobs refers to what when he enjoin “ One of the two or three most important things he has done in his lifespan . ”
A. travel to India B. Fathered children C. espouse a semi - vegetarian lifestyle D. take LSD
Q.In its 1981 causa with Apple Corps , Apple Computer settle its hallmark infringement suit for :
A. $ 80,000 B. $ 265,000 C. $ 3.5 million D. $ 1 in addition to agreeing to take every copy ofTwo Virginsoff Apple Corps ’ hands .
Q.Apple ’s current instrument panel of directors does not include a somebody affiliated with which company :
A. J. Crew B. Harwinton Capital C. Gap D. Disney
Q.Cambridge Silicon Radio invent what sort of ingredient found in some new Macs ?
A. WiFi B. SATA C. Bluetooth D. Optical audio interface
Q.The filing cabinet extension for a Burn Folder is :
A. .brn B. .fbp C. .flbn D. .fpbf
Q.Whose signature did not appear on a define - version iPod ?
A. Tony Hawk B. Alicia Keyes C. Beck D. Madonna
Now here are the result to the two - point question , where there are no multiple selection to pick from . The answer follow the original doubtfulness .
Q.(From Rob Griffiths ) In Terminal , how many key presses does it take to lean every Unix programme the system have sex about ? And what are those key press ?
serve : Neither squad had a clew to the correct answer . Rob suggest that the right answer was three key presses — Tab , Tab , Y. After the competition Dan Frakes advise that the right answer was actually four key presses — Tab , Tab , Y , and then Y again .
Q.Which Apple app program enables speech input by default when launch ?
Answer : Chess
Q.What is the significance of the words “ A male child once lived in ” ?
Answer : These are the first watchword in the TextEdit RTF image .
Q.Images of the North American continent can be found in the image of two received Mac software within the Utilities brochure . Name those app .
Answer : Directory Access and NetInfo Manager
Mac OS X supports a language devise in the 19th century by a Polish ophthalmologist , a language invented in the twentieth century for a sci - fi moving-picture show , and a language that formed in the 10th century on a Pacific island chain .
After U.S. English , make these your second , third , and fourth orientation respectively for your Mac ’s program menus , dialogue , and separate .
reply : The three nomenclature are Esperanto , Klingon , and Hawaiian and can be located by opening the International system preference , select the Language lozenge , and then clicking the Edit List button . Esperanto is easy enough to happen but Klingon and Hawaiian are n’t as Klingon is spelled in the Klingon linguistic process ( it ’s thetlhlngan Holentry ) and Hawaiian is besides present in its native spelling . ( You ’ll find it just belowHrvatski . )
The final stunt , largely created by digital photo guru , Ben Long , was combative as each team presented a solution that failed to live up to my expectations of an “ electronic greeting . ”
With your computer you will place me an electronic greeting .
However …
resolve : Each squad had a MacBook Pro with electrify Ethernet admission and Bluetooth . My PowerBook had the same solidification up , but I incapacitate the Ethernet port and Bluetooth . There was no web access into my computer . So a file sharing solution was out , as was anything to do with Bonjour — though the teams were n’t certain this was the case .
I ’d hop that the teams would quickly move to iChat , and they did . I left them a midget cue that they were on the correct track by create a single sidekick on each machine — me . So , they could see that I survive on their Macs but , because I was offline , they had no way to reach me .
Those who knew about iChat ’s SMS capability would then seek a solution there . Some member of each team have my real cell phone bit so to keep them from entering that numeral ( and also keep the interview from find out it on the screenland projections ) , I incur a temporary number through Cingular . That routine was n’t in my pal contact selective information within iChat .
It was , however , list in a vCard within Address Book ( along with a lot of phony striking names ) . Once the developers located that entrance in Address Book ( via Spotlight ) , it was n’t long before they figured the resolution out .
toughened material ? You bet . At least half - a - dozen question were answered incorrectly or not at all . And , unlike with some previous challenge , the consultation , when asked for the right answer , did little better than the experts on stagecoach .