Question: How many new data centers did IBM commit to building?
Answer: 15

Question: Who is the chief executive of IBM?
Answer: Virginia Rometty

Question: What building did Van der Rohe create for IBM?
Answer: 330 North Wabash building in Chicago

Question: The 330 North Wabash building served as what post World War 2?
Answer: center of the company's research division

Question: The 330 North Wabash Building was recognized with what award?
Answer: 1990 Honor Award

Question: IBM has towers in which cities?
Answer: Montreal, Paris, and Atlanta

Question: IBM has worked with architects and designers such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, I.M. Pei, and Van der Rohe, name one  more.
Answer: Eero Saarinen

Question: Who was the CEO in 1914?
Answer: Thomas J. Watson

Question: The Quarter Century Club began in this year.
Answer: 1924

Question: What is the name of IBM's internal magazine?
Answer: Business Machines

Question: In 1925 the first meeting of this group occurred.
Answer: Hundred Percent Club

Question: What is the Hundred Percent Club composed of?
Answer: IBM salesmen who meet their quotas

Question: In what year did IBM begin to provide group life insurance?
Answer: 1934

Question: IBM created a school house in 1933, what was its name?
Answer: IBM Schoolhouse at Endicott

Question: IBM employees created a magazine in 1935, what was its name?
Answer: Think

Question: What program did IBM launch in 1942?
Answer: program to train and employ disabled people

Question: What year did IBM hire its first black salesman?
Answer: 1946

Question: Who published IBM's first equal opportunity policy letter?
Answer: Thomas J. Watson, Jr

Question: In what year was IBM's first equal opportunity policy letter published?
Answer: 1952

Question: In 1961 IBM's nondiscrimination policy was expanded to include what?
Answer: sex, national origin, and age

Question: Starting in 1963 IBM started a program by naming 8 of these.
Answer: IBM Fellows

Question: How many inventors were honored at IBM's first Invention Award Dinner?
Answer: 34

Question: What date did Thomas Watson, Jr. send out a letter about IBM hiring the best people regardless of race, gender, or origin?
Answer: September 21, 1953

Question: IBM publicized its hiring policy to help negotiations in two states where in the U.S.?
Answer: the U.S. South

Question: What kind of workplaces did IBM commit to not building?
Answer: separate-but-equal

Question: IBM expanded their nondiscrimination policy in 1984 to include what?
Answer: sexual orientation

Question: In what year did IBM add sexual orientation to their nondiscrimination policy?
Answer: 1984

Question: IBM began supporting this in 1998.
Answer: Linux

Question: 300 Linux kernel developers work here.
Answer: the IBM Linux Technology Center

Question: IBM created the software framework known as?
Answer: Eclipse

Question: What is a notable legal case involving open source and IBM?
Answer: SCO v. IBM

Question: What does RDBMS refer to?
Answer: relational database management system

Question: IBM runs what website for software developers?
Answer: DeveloperWorks

Question: In 2007 what happened to developerWorks?
Answer: was inducted into the Jolt Hall of Fame

Question: DeveloperWorks has content about open industry standard technologies like Java and SOA, what is one other industry standard technology it has resources for?
Answer: Linux

Question: IBM products such as WebSphere and Rational are covered on DeveloperWorks, what other three IBM products are covered?
Answer: Lotus, Tivoli and Information Management

Question: The Jolt Hall of Fame inducted DeveloperWorks in what year?
Answer: 2007

Question: What kind of processor was in the Xbox 360?
Answer: PowerPC tri-core processor

Question: How quickly did IBM take to create the Xbox 360 processor?
Answer: less than 24 months

Question: Playstation 3 featured which microprocessor?
Answer: Cell BE microprocessor

Question: Who helped IBM develop the Playstation 3 microprocessor?
Answer: Toshiba, and Sony

Question: What year did the Nintendo Wii U, partly developed by IBM, debut?
Answer: 2012

Question: What will Open Client Offering run on?
Answer: Linux, Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS X

Question: What is an alternative to the Office document format from Microsoft?
Answer: Open Document Format software

Question: What percentage of its desktop PCs does IBM plan to install Open Client on to?
Answer: 5%

Question: Which platforms did IBM begin offering the IBM Client for Smart Work on?
Answer: Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Question: What web browser does the Open Document Format have compatibility with?
Answer: Mozilla Firefox

Question: What is the name of the IBM project that redirected $1 billion each year to increase energy efficiency?
Answer: Project Big Green

Question: Secure Blue was launched in what year?
Answer: 2006

Question: What type of hardware is Secure Blue?
Answer: encryption hardware

Question: Who was the IBM ceo in November 2008?
Answer: Sam Palmisano

Question: What framework did IBM announce on March 1, 2011?
Answer: Smarter Computing framework

Question: What is the name of the program that IBM uses to search for new start-up companies to solve world problems?
Answer: SmartCamp

Question: How many SmartCamp events does IBM hold worldwide?
Answer: 17

Question: Who has IBM partnered with to allow retail shoppers to easily donate money?
Answer: Pennies

Question: Charities of which nation benefit from the IBM partnership with Pennies?
Answer: UK

Question: What company is known for the electronic charity box?
Answer: Pennies

Question: What location is the birthplace of IBM?
Answer: Endicott

Question: How many gallons of liquid cleaning agent leaked from an IBM facility in 1979?
Answer: 4,100 gallons

Question: How long did IBM use liquid cleaning agents for circuit board manufacturing?
Answer: more than two decades

Question: Starting in 1980 how many gallons of chemicals did IBM pump into the air?
Answer: 78,000 gallons

Question: IBM was identified by what department as a major source of pollution?
Answer: Department of Environmental Conservation

Question: What is economic liberalism sometimes also referred to?
Answer: New Right

Question: Does the Liberal Party of Australia consider itself socialist or anti-socialist?
Answer: anti-socialist

Question: Who was the Liberal Party of Australia's longest-serving leader?
Answer: Robert Menzies

Question: Who founded Australia's liberal party?
Answer: Robert Menzies

Question: Whom are referred to as "The forgoten people?"
Answer: the middle class

Question: In what year were the Australian Democrats founded?
Answer: 1977

Question: Which former liberal founded the Australian Democrats in 1977?
Answer: Don Chipp

Question: Did Mezies and Malcom Fraser raise, mainain, or lower tariff levels?
Answer: generally maintain

Question: Which group is currently known as the "National Party"?
Answer: the Country Party

Question: What is the "New Right"?
Answer: a conservative liberal group who advocated market deregulation, privatisation of public utilities, reductions in the size of government programs and tax cuts

Question: Were utilities publically or privately owned in Menzie's economy?
Answer: publicly

Question: Which group was predecessor to the Liberals?
Answer: United Australia Party (UAP)

Question: From where did the ideology of the Liberals stem?
Answer: anti-Labor groupings in the first Commonwealth parliaments

Question: What did the Commonwealth Liberal Party merge to form?
Answer: Nationalist Party of Australia

Question: In what year was the Nationalist Party of Australia formed?
Answer: 1917

Question: What economic event influenced the 1931 Election?
Answer: the Great Depression

Question: How many consecutive elections did the Lyons Government win?
Answer: three

Question: What event caused Robert Menzies to become Prime Minister?
Answer: Lyons' death in 1939