Question: The collapse of the Angevin Empire contributed to the growth in power of what dynasty?
Answer: Capetian

Question: Where did Eleanor leave to?
Answer: Poitiers

Question: John was taught by who?
Answer: Ranulph Glanville

Question: John was assigned what whilst he was at Fontevrault?
Answer: magister

Question: John spent the conflict traveling alongside who?
Answer: his father

Question: When did Henry II appropriate the estates of the late Earl of Cornwall?
Answer: 1175

Question: Who dismissed William FitzAldelm as the Lord of Ireland?
Answer: Henry

Question: Who took over as joint justiciar with Puiset after Mandeville died?
Answer: Longchamp

Question: Who convinced Richard to allow John to join into England?
Answer: Eleanor

Question: When did Richard become king?
Answer: September 1189

Question: Warfare in Normandy was shaped by what?
Answer: defensive potential of castles

Question: What were mercenary forces called?
Answer: Brabançons

Question: What castle was built at a strategic point?
Answer: Château Gaillard

Question: Who accompanied John?
Answer: William de Roches

Question: Why was Philip forced to withdraw in the east?
Answer: southern flank weakening

Question: Who was caught by surprised?
Answer: Arthur

Question: What did John inherit in England?
Answer: sophisticated system of administration

Question: Who dealt with income and expenditure?
Answer: the Treasury and the Exchequer

Question: John followed in the tradition of who?
Answer: Henry I and Henry II

Question: John's royal household was based around what?
Answer: several groups of followers

Question: Who were the curia regis?
Answer: senior officials and agents of the king

Question: The mercenary leaders became infamous in England for what?
Answer: their uncivilised behaviour

Question: Historians suspected that John was at best what?
Answer: impious

Question: Who was later declared a saint?
Answer: Hugh of Lincoln

Question: Many records showed what?
Answer: John's offerings to the poor

Question: What did John do during the truce of 1206-1208?
Answer: focused on building up his financial and military resources

Question: By 1212, John had successfully concluded alliances  with who?
Answer: Otto IV

Question: John launched his new fleet to attach the French where?
Answer: the harbour of Damme

Question: Who did John want to be appointed Archbishop of Canterbury?
Answer: John de Gray

Question: Who did Innocent disavow?
Answer: Reginald and John de Gray

Question: Who did John force to change their support to John de Gray?
Answer: Canterbury chapter

Question: Where did many of the disaffected barons come from?
Answer: north of England

Question: Who was appointed justiciar?
Answer: Peter des Roches

Question: What was the final straw that precipitated the baronial uprising during John's final years as king?
Answer: The failure of John's French military campaign

Question: When did John meet the rebel leaders at Runnymede?
Answer: 15 June 1215

Question: A council of how many barons was created to monitor John's future adherence to the charter?
Answer: twenty-five

Question: The peace agreement was renamed what?
Answer: Magna Carta

Question: When did Prince Louis int to land in the south of England?
Answer: May 1216

Question: Why did John hesitate to attack Louis?
Answer: due to the risks of open battle

Question: When did the rebels regain the south-east of England?
Answer: end of the summer

Question: When was Isabel released from imprisonment?
Answer: 1214

Question: Who did Joan marry to become queen consort?
Answer: Alexander II of Scotland

Question: How many legitimate children did John have?
Answer: five

Question: Who was John's eldest son?
Answer: Henry III

Question: What biographers argue that John was an unsuccessful monarch?
Answer: Ralph Turner and Lewis Warren

Question: Modern historians have been over lenient towards what?
Answer: John's numerous faults

Question: John Gillingham considers John what?
Answer: a less effective general

Question: What hindered the competetive ability of Apple when it was introduced?
Answer: expensive

Question: Where did Macintosh initially find success in the market?
Answer: education and desktop publishing

Question: Which platform, when improved in the 1990's, took market share from Macintosh?
Answer: Wintel

Question: What type of advantage did Intel's Pentium over Macintosh systems in the 1990's?
Answer: performance

Question: Who became the top PC manufacturer in 1994, leaving Apple in 3rd place?
Answer: Compaq

Question: How much RAM did the first Maciuntosh board have?
Answer: 64 kilobytes (kB)

Question: Whose idea was it to run Apple Lisa's graphical programs on the Macintosh?
Answer: Bud Tribble, a member of the Mac team

Question: What did Tribble first incorporate into the Mac?
Answer: Lisa's Motorola 68000 microprocessor

Question: Which design feature did Smith eventually use to make production of a newly designed board more cost-efficient?
Answer: fewer RAM chips than the Lisa

Question: What feature was missing from the final Mac design produced by Smith?
Answer: memory slots

Question: How much did Apple spend to advertise in a special post-election issue of Newsweek?
Answer: $2.5 million

Question: What was the name of the big promotion Apple ran in the special edition of Newsweek?
Answer: "Test Drive a Macintosh"

Question: What did Apple allow potential buyers to take home and try for 24 hours?
Answer: a Macintosh

Question: How were many computers returned during the Test Drive a Macintosh promotion that made them unsellable?
Answer: a bad condition

Question: Who was the CEO of Apple during the Test Drive a Macintosh promotion?
Answer: John Sculley

Question: What was the longest-lived Macintosh in Apple's history while it was in production?
Answer: The Mac Plus

Question: How long did the Mac Plus remain in production, unchanged?
Answer: just over four years and ten months

Question: In 1986, what did Apple introduce to allow developers to create software for Macintosh on Macintosh?
Answer: Macintosh Programmer's Workshop

Question: What did Apple's HyerCard and MultiFinder add to the Macintosh?
Answer: cooperative multitasking

Question: After their unveiling in 1987, what did Apple begin bundling with every Macintosh?
Answer: HyperCard and MultiFinder

Question: What Macintosh first included an on-board MMU?
Answer: the Macintosh IIx

Question: What was the first Mac to be "32-bit clean"?
Answer: the Macintosh IIci

Question: What was the starting price of the Macintosh llfx when it was unveiled?
Answer: US$9,900

Question: How many Apple II CPUS's did the new Macintosh llfx include?
Answer: two

Question: How fast was the processor on the new Macintosh llfx?
Answer: 40 MHz

Question: Which Mac is known for improving the handling of color graphics?
Answer: Mac OS, System 7

Question: Who did Apple pay expensive consulting fees to before doing in-house work?
Answer: Frogdesign

Question: What was established for bringing Apple's design work in-house?
Answer: the Apple Industrial Design Group

Question: Who was responsible for crafting a new look for all Apple products?
Answer: Apple Industrial Design Group

Question: How did the Mac System 7 improve multitasking?
Answer: co-operative multitasking

Question: Who returned to Apple in 1997?
Answer: Steve Jobs

Question: What did Steve Jobs order the OS version 7.7 to be branded as?
Answer: Mac OS 8

Question: What did the branding of the Mac OS 8 effectively end?
Answer: the clone line

Question: What effect did Mac's decision to brand the Mac OS8 have on companies such as Motorola?
Answer: significant financial losses

Question: How much money did Umax lose when it exited the low-end Mac clone market?
Answer: USD$36 million

Question: What did dated architecture on the Mac OS line make necessary?
Answer: replacement

Question: What programming language was the Mac OS initially developed in?
Answer: Pascal