Did Apple Rip Off Xerox, and Other Questions?

Question: How big a pencil-neck trivia geek are you?

Answer a series of forehead-slapping anecdotal factoids. It's up to you to weigh each fact in each anecdotal factoid. They're tricky. One might seem like total B.S. until it's revealed to be strangely and disturbingly "True." Another anecdotal factoid might seem to contain all solid and verifiable facts until it's revealed to be yet one more big fat garden variety "Bald-Faced Lie." And here's the trickiest part: an anecdotal factoid might even be "Half-True"; in other words, a mishmosh of truths and bald-faced lies, where you don't know where one ends and the other begins, much like the usual slop served by Madison Avenue, Washington D.C., and the Internet in its entirety.

Category: "This Apple has no worm" trivia quiz

Decide for yourself, and mark "T" for "Truth", "F" for "Bald-Faced Lie" or "TF" for "Half-Truth" in the blank slot next to each factoid.

The answers will be revealed on the next page.

1) __ In 1976, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne co-founded Apple Computer. A few months later, partner Ronald Wayne sold out his shares in the company for $800 and became a lost name in Silicon Valley history.

2) __ In 1979, when Steve Jobs visited Xerox Parc, Xerox's research facility, he saw the Xerox Alto, the first personal computer to have a graphical user interface and a mouse. Unfortunately for Xerox, they didn't think that a personal computer would be a viable commercial product at the time. Jobs told his partner Woz about the Alto and they incorporated the innovations into the Lisa, the first Apple product with a mouse and a graphical user interface. While the Lisa was a market flop, its unique design evolved into the Macintosh.

3) __ In 1985, Steve Jobs left Apple after he was stripped of his powers during a corporate dispute. He then sold all but one share of his company stock.

4) __ In 1975, Steve Wozniak dropped out of UC Berkeley engineering school to co-found Apple Computers. In the eighties, he returned to Berkeley to complete his engineering degree, receiving a B.S. under the name Rocky Raccoon Clark.