 - 1. On what date was Tim Berners-Lee born?
A) 6 August 1991
B) 20 December 1990
C) 8 June 1955
D) 12 March 1989
- 2. In which city was Tim Berners-Lee born?
A) London
B) Bournemouth
C) Geneva
D) Birmingham
- 3. What is Tim Berners-Lee best known for inventing?
A) The transistor
B) The personal computer
C) The World Wide Web
D) The smartphone
- 4. Which academic institution employs Berners-Lee as a professorial research fellow?
A) University of Southampton
B) CERN
C) University of Oxford
D) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 5. At which institution is Berners-Lee a professor emeritus?
A) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B) Emanuel School
C) University of Oxford
D) The Queen's College
- 6. On what date did Berners-Lee propose his information management system?
A) 12 March 1989
B) 8 June 1955
C) 6 August 1991
D) 20 December 1990
- 7. What is the name of the organization founded by Berners-Lee to oversee the continued development of the Web?
A) World Wide Web Foundation
B) World Wide Web Consortium
C) Open Data Institute
D) Ford Foundation
- 8. Who co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation with Berners-Lee?
A) Mary Lee Berners-Lee
B) Rosemary Leith
C) Mike Sendall
D) Robert Cailliau
- 9. In what year was Berners-Lee elected Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences?
A) 2009
B) 2016
C) 2004
D) 2011
- 10. Which award did Berners-Lee receive in 2016 for inventing the World Wide Web?
A) Fields Medal
B) Nobel Prize
C) Pulitzer Prize
D) Turing Award
- 11. Who knighted Berners-Lee in 2004 for his pioneering work?
A) King Charles III
B) The President
C) Queen Elizabeth II
D) Prime Minister
- 12. What are the names of Berners-Lee's mathematician and computer scientist parents?
A) Mary Lee and Conway Berners-Lee
B) Jane and John Poole
C) Rosemary and Mike Leith
D) Elizabeth and Philip Mount
- 13. Which commercial computer did Berners-Lee's parents work on?
A) UNIVAC I
B) ENIAC
C) Altair 8800
D) Ferranti Mark 1
- 14. What was Berners-Lee's childhood hobby involving trains?
A) Designing railroads
B) Trainspotting
C) Conducting trains
D) Building steam engines
- 15. From which college and university did Berners-Lee graduate with a first in physics in 1976?
A) Emanuel School
B) The Queen's College, Oxford
C) University of Southampton
D) MIT
- 16. What object did Berners-Lee use to build a computer while at Oxford?
A) A telephone switchboard
B) An old television set
C) A model railway
D) A radio receiver
- 17. What was the name of the telecommunications company in Poole where Berners-Lee first worked after graduation?
A) Plessey
B) Image Computer Systems
C) Curl Corp
D) D. G. Nash
- 18. What prototype system did Berners-Lee build during his 1980 contract at CERN to demonstrate hypertext?
A) MeWe
B) WorldWideWeb
C) CERN httpd
D) ENQUIRE
- 19. Which manager at CERN called Berners-Lee's web proposals 'vague, but exciting'?
A) Conway Berners-Lee
B) Rosemary Leith
C) Mike Sendall
D) Robert Cailliau
- 20. Who independently proposed a hypertext system at CERN and became Berners-Lee's partner?
A) John Poole
B) Robert Cailliau
C) Mike Berners-Lee
D) Mike Sendall
- 21. What was the name of the first web browser and editor created by Berners-Lee?
A) ENQUIRE
B) CERN httpd
C) WorldWideWeb
D) Netscape
- 22. On which operating system did the first web browser run?
A) Linux
B) Windows
C) NeXTSTEP
D) macOS
- 23. What was the name of the first Web server created by Berners-Lee?
A) WorldWideWeb
B) IIS
C) Apache
D) CERN httpd
- 24. On what date did Berners-Lee publish the very first website?
A) 6 August 1991
B) 8 June 1955
C) 20 December 1990
D) 12 March 1989
- 25. On what date did Berners-Lee first post a public invitation for collaboration on Usenet?
A) 30 October 2009
B) 6 August 1991
C) 12 March 1989
D) 20 December 1990
- 26. In what year did Berners-Lee found the W3C at MIT?
A) 2004
B) 2009
C) 1994
D) 1989
- 27. What financial condition did Berners-Lee place on his idea for the Web when making it available?
A) Required a one-time patent fee
B) Required royalty payments for commercial use
C) No patent and no royalties due
D) Required a subscription fee
- 28. In what year did Berners-Lee accept a chair in computer science at the University of Southampton?
A) 1994
B) 2004
C) 2021
D) 2011
- 29. Which part of a web address did Berners-Lee admit in 2009 was 'unnecessary'?
A) The initial pair of slashes (//)
B) The http prefix
C) The www subdomain
D) The dot notation
- 30. Since what year has Berners-Lee been an advisory board member of the Proton Foundation?
A) 2016
B) 2021
C) 2004
D) 2011
- 31. Who created data.gov.uk alongside Berners-Lee by 2010?
A) Brian Schatz
B) Nigel Shadbolt
C) Michael F. Doyle
D) Roger Wicker
- 32. What computer did Berners-Lee work with during the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony?
A) Apple Macintosh
B) Commodore 64
C) Vintage NeXT Computer
D) IBM Personal Computer
- 33. What phrase did Berners-Lee tweet during the 2012 Olympics, which also became a 2025 book title?
A) Connectivity with no strings attached
B) Information should be free
C) This is for everyone
D) The web is open
- 34. In what year was the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) launched?
A) 2016
B) 2013
C) 2010
D) 2012
- 35. What percentage of people in the developing world were online in 2013 according to the text?
A) 50%
B) 5%
C) 31%
D) 80%
- 36. What is the UN Broadband Commission's worldwide target for Internet access prices as a percentage of monthly income?
A) 10%
B) 1%
C) 31%
D) 5%
E) 15%
- 37. In what year did Berners-Lee join the Department of Computer Science at Oxford University?
A) 2013
B) 2016
C) 2010
D) 2018
- 38. What position did Berners-Lee take in March 2017 regarding the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) proposal?
A) He refused to comment on it
B) He supported the EME proposal
C) He remained completely neutral
D) He opposed it alongside the EFF
- 39. When did the EME specification become a formal W3C recommendation?
A) September 2017
B) November 2019
C) July 2017
D) March 2017
- 40. What is the name of Berners-Lee's open-source startup announced on 30 September 2018 to fuel a commercial ecosystem around the Solid project?
A) A4AI
B) WWWF
C) Inrupt
D) State.com
- 41. Where was the Contract for the Web campaign launched in November 2019?
A) Internet Governance Forum in Berlin
B) 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony
C) US Federal Communications Commission
D) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 42. How many principles does the Contract for the Web campaign ask governments, companies, and citizens to commit to?
A) Nine principles
B) Five principles
C) Three principles
D) Twelve principles
- 43. Which company is NOT mentioned as part of the coalition of public and private organisations leading the A4AI?
A) Facebook
B) Microsoft
C) Apple
D) Google
- 44. What joint project with the Qatar Computing Research Institute is Berners-Lee leading to radically change how Web applications work?
A) Contract for the Web
B) Inrupt
C) Solid
D) data.gov.uk
- 45. Which organization raised a formal appeal against the EME specification that ultimately did not succeed?
A) Federal Communications Commission
B) Electronic Frontier Foundation
C) UN Broadband Commission
D) Qatar Computing Research Institute
- 46. Which college is Berners-Lee a fellow of at Oxford University?
A) Trinity College
B) Balliol College
C) Magdalene College
D) Christ Church
- 47. What did Berners-Lee describe as 'a kind of human network right'?
A) Digital rights management
B) Open data culture
C) Net neutrality
D) Data ownership
- 48. How many living members are restricted to be in the Order of Merit?
A) 50
B) 12
C) 24
D) 100
- 49. Who has the personal purview to bestow membership of the Order of Merit?
A) Queen Elizabeth II's eldest son
B) The Archbishop of Canterbury
C) The Prime Minister
D) The Sovereign
- 50. In what year was Berners-Lee elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)?
A) 2004
B) 2007
C) 2012
D) 2001
- 51. Which American society elected Berners-Lee as a member in 2004?
A) American Philosophical Society
B) National Academy of Engineering
C) World Health Organization
D) Royal Society
- 52. Which artist selected Berners-Lee to appear on a new version of the Sgt. Pepper's album cover in 2012?
A) Queen Elizabeth II
B) Sir Peter Blake
C) Stephen Witt
D) Stephen Fry
- 53. What milestone was celebrated by the Sgt. Pepper album cover update in 2012?
A) Sir Peter Blake's 80th birthday
B) Berners-Lee's knighthood
C) The founding of CERN
D) The invention of the World Wide Web
- 54. How many times has Berners-Lee been married?
A) One
B) Three
C) Two
D) Four
- 55. Who was Berners-Lee's first wife, married in 1976?
A) Jane Northcote
B) Rosemary Leith
C) Don Northcote
D) Nancy Carlson
- 56. Who was the father of Jane Northcote?
A) Stephen Witt
B) Don Northcote
C) Sir Peter Blake
D) Stephen Fry
- 57. In what year did Berners-Lee and Jane Northcote move to work at CERN on a six-month contract?
A) 1976
B) 1980
C) 2011
D) 1990
- 58. What is the nationality of Berners-Lee's second wife, Nancy Carlson?
A) Canadian
B) British
C) American
D) Swiss
- 59. How many children did Berners-Lee and Nancy Carlson have?
A) One
B) Two
C) Four
D) Three
- 60. In what year did Berners-Lee and Nancy Carlson divorce?
A) 2021
B) 2014
C) 1990
D) 2011
- 61. What is Rosemary Leith's nationality?
A) Canadian
B) British
C) American
D) Swiss
- 62. In what economic sector do Berners-Lee and Rosemary Leith collaborate to support venture capital?
A) Pharmaceuticals
B) Music and audiobooks
C) Banking and internet protocols
D) Artificial intelligence
- 63. How was Berners-Lee raised religiously?
A) Atheist
B) Unitarian Universalist
C) Anglican
D) Catholic
- 64. What religious affiliation did Berners-Lee adopt after becoming a parent?
A) Atheism only
B) Anglican
C) Unitarian Universalist
D) Presbyterian
- 65. Which auction house auctioned the web's source code as an NFT?
A) Sotheby's
B) Christie's
C) Phillips
D) Bonhams
- 66. In what year was Berners-Lee's memoir 'This Is for Everyone' published?
A) 2012
B) 2025
C) 2021
D) 2017
- 67. Who was the ghostwriter for Berners-Lee's memoir?
A) Stephen Witt
B) Stephen Fry
C) Don Northcote
D) Sir Peter Blake
- 68. Who recorded the audiobook version of Berners-Lee's memoir?
A) Sir Peter Blake
B) Queen Elizabeth II
C) Stephen Witt
D) Stephen Fry
- 69. On which BBC Radio 4 show was Berners-Lee a guest in November 2025?
A) Manchester Mark 1 Review
B) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts
C) World Wide Web Hour
D) Desert Island Discs
- 70. Which Ian & Sylvia song did Berners-Lee choose on Desert Island Discs?
A) End of the Line
B) Four Strong Winds
C) Manchester Mark 1
D) Brothers in Arms
- 71. What luxury item did Berners-Lee choose on Desert Island Discs?
A) An NFT
B) An acoustic guitar
C) A chromatic harmonica
D) A computer
- 72. What does Berners-Lee view as probably the best single example of what he wanted the World Wide Web to be?
A) Google
B) The Internet Archive
C) Wikipedia
D) Twitter
- 73. What term does Berners-Lee use to describe a group of people being creative, which made Wikipedia work?
A) Networking
B) Intercreativity
C) Collaboration
D) Crowdsourcing
- 74. What economic policy is Berners-Lee an advocate for?
A) The gold standard
B) Cryptocurrency deregulation
C) A flat tax system
D) A universal basic income
- 75. What is the ISBN of the book 'Weaving the Web'?
A) 41238513
B) 978-0374612467
C) 1478325766
D) 0062515861
- 76. What is the ISBN of the book 'This is for Everyone'?
A) 0062515862
B) 41238513
C) 978-0374612467
D) 0062515861
- 77. Who is the publisher of 'Weaving the Web'?
A) Farrar, Straus and Giroux
B) HarperBusiness
C) New York Publishing
D) San Francisco Press
- 78. What city is associated with the first hardcover edition of 'Weaving the Web'?
A) London
B) Boston
C) San Francisco
D) New York
- 79. What city is associated with the first hardcover edition of 'This is for Everyone'?
A) San Francisco
B) Washington D.C.
C) Chicago
D) New York
- 80. What is the OCLC number for 'Weaving the Web'?
A) 1478325766
B) 97803746
C) 006251586
D) 41238513
- 81. What is the OCLC number for 'This is for Everyone'?
A) 006251586
B) 41238513
C) 97803746
D) 1478325766
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