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The answers to our Mac celebs quiz

Well, we're impressed! You all did very well with our Mac Celebrity quiz. Here are the official answers:
  1. Steve Wozniak, Co-founder of Apple, designer of Apple and Apple ||
  2. Guy Kawasaki, Macintosh evangelist
  3. Gil Amelio, one-time CEO of Apple. Let's just move on to #4, shall we?
  4. Jonathan Ive, designer of the iMac and iPod
  5. Al Gore, member of Apple's board (he also worked as Vice President of the United States for a while)
  6. There are two possible answers for #6. We'll accept Ellen Feiss, beloved switcher; also Ellen Hancock, former Apple CTO
  7. Jean-Louis Gassée, former Apple executive who wanted Apple to adopt his BeOS, and not Steve's NeXT.
  8. Bill Atkinson, creator of the great HyperCard
  9. Jef Raskin, Macintosh designer
  10. Rupert Lissner, creator of AppleWorks (That one was tricky)
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Ian Betteridge

There's two possible answers for number 5 as well. The second is Al Eisenstat, former senior VP at Apple in the 1980's and early 90's.

June 28 2006 at 7:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
James Welborn

Number 1 could also be Steve Capps of Finder fame. The only one I didn't guess was Rupert.

June 28 2006 at 5:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Electric Sheep

What???

Jeff Goldblum did some TV comercial voiceovers.

Jef Raskin created the Macintosh itself.

Anyone who didn't automatically get "Jef Raskin" right should be flogged until the bleed 6-colors...

June 28 2006 at 2:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kevin

steve spielberg
guy richie
gillian anderson
jonathan frakes
al jolson
ellen degeneres
jean-louis dreyfuss
bill gates
jef goldblum
rupert murdoch, aka robert paulson

June 28 2006 at 2:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Edward

Would you have accepted Jeff Goldblum? He might have been even more recognisable for most Apple fans, sans the spelling error.

June 28 2006 at 2:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kevin

steve spielberg
guy richie
gillian anderson
jonathan frakes
al jolson
ellen degeneres
jean-louis dreyfuss
bill gates
jef goldblum
rupert murdoch, aka robert paulson

June 28 2006 at 2:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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