See how you did on our Google Trivia Quiz, and compare yourself to the average player. What kinds of questions did you get wrong?
1. What Was Sergey Brin’s Startup idea before Google?
Answer: A Fax-in Pizza Delivery Service. Brin stopped pursuing the idea after realizing that pizza restaurants didn’t check their faxes regularly enough for it to be a viable product. Probably a good thing that he moved on to Google, and didn’t follow through on that one.
| 38% got this question right
2. Which mathematical constant did Google secretly reference in their IPO documents?
Answer: They used the mathematical constant “e”. Google sought $2,718,281,828 in their IPO, or e times one billion, to the nearest decimal. (e is 2.718…)
| 26% got this question right
3. What children’s toy did Google use to cheaply construct their first server racks?
Answer: Legos. They’re easily stackable, and cheap enough. Some speculate that they were the inspiration for Google’s colorful logo.
| 80% got this question right
4. What was Google’s original name, back when it was just a research project?
Answer: Backrub – believe it or not – was Google’s original name.
| 49% got this question right
5. What is Google’s official motto?
Answer: “Don’t Be Evil!” Some people believe that Google has shied away from those values in recent years, but the company is far more philanthropic than most companies, and researches important ideas that others cannot.
|63% got this right
6. What animal does Google rent to manage weeds and grass at its headquarters?
Answer: Goats
| 83% got this question right
7. What was Google’s first-ever company snack?
Answer: Jelly Beans. “Jelly Bean” would later serve as the name of an Android OS release.
| 43% got this question right
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8. Which of these is not a real Google product?
Answer: Gearly. Google has a lot of oddly-named research projects, and products. My personal favorite is Project Loon.
| 57% got this question right
9. Which of these is not a real Google Android release?
Answer: Cherry Pie. Android did however have an “Apple Pie” release. No blackberry pie either, as of yet.
| 20% got this question right
10. How much data does Google process per day?
Answer: 20 Petabytes. That’s equivalent to 20 million gigabytes. (A standard smartphone has 16-64 Gigabytes)
| 51% got this question right
11. Google sees on average 5.9 billion searches per…
Answer: 5.9 billion searches per day. That’s a lot of searches!
| 57% got this question right
12. What is Google’s largest acquisition (in terms of cost)?
Answer: Motorola Mobility, at $12.5 billion. Google’s second-largest acquisition, NEST, cost a mere $3.2 billion.
| 57% got this question right
13. Which of these is not a Google attempt at social networking?
Answer: Google Lively.
| 71% got this question right
14. What type of animal is Google’s mascot, Stan?
Answer: He’s a Tyrannosaurus Rex
| 46% got this question right
