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