Question: What decade did Dell switch to PSUs and boards that had differently wired connectors?
Answer: 1990s

Question: With what kind of parts were consumers able to upgrade their Dell systems with?
Answer: Dell-compatible parts

Question: What year did Dell revert its power connectors to industry standard ones?
Answer: 2003

Question: What part of their motherboards does Dell not reveal the specifications of?
Answer: pin-outs

Question: When did Michael Dell found his company?
Answer: 1984

Question: How much did Dell receive as capital from his family?
Answer: $1,000

Question: What school did Dell go to and later drop out of while he ran his business?
Answer: University of Texas at Austin

Question: What year did Dell design its own computer?
Answer: 1985

Question: How much did Dell profit in its first year?
Answer: $73 million

Question: What did Dell enjoy from 1997 to 2004?
Answer: steady growth

Question: What company did Dell overtake as the largest PC manufacturer?
Answer: Compaq

Question: How much were Dell profiting in 2002?
Answer: $35 billion

Question: What company did Compaq merge with in 2002?
Answer: Hewlett Packard

Question: What company was the fastest growing in the early 2000s?
Answer: Dell

Question: What did Dell rely on that gave it a reputation?
Answer: supply chain efficiencies

Question: What did Dell maintain lower spending on than its competitors?
Answer: R&D

Question: What was Dell's organizational structure considered?
Answer: horizontal

Question: Dell lagged behind Hewlett Packard and Oracle in delivering what kind of solutions?
Answer: IT solutions

Question: What was the name of Dell's change campaign?
Answer: Dell 2.0

Question: Who relinquished his position as CEO to take a seat on the board?
Answer: Michael Dell

Question: Michael Dell removed employee bonuses from what year with his new incentive?
Answer: 2006

Question: Who replaced Jim Schneider as Dell CFO?
Answer: Donald Carty

Question: How much of Dell's revenue was its PC division?
Answer: half

Question: Who was Dell's main business rival?
Answer: Hewlett Packard

Question: How much did Dell spend on acquiring different divisions?
Answer: $13 billion

Question: What happened to Dell's revenue and share price in the post-PC market?
Answer: declines

Question: What city is Dell's New Hampshire facility in?
Answer: Nashua

Question: What city is Dell's Tennessee facility in?
Answer: Nashville

Question: What city is Dell's Minnesota facility in?
Answer: Eden Prairie

Question: What city is Dell's Florida facility in?
Answer: Miami

Question: What city is Dell's Texas facility in?
Answer: Austin

Question: What year was Dell's Tennessee facility opened?
Answer: 1999

Question: What state was the Dell plant that received $280 million in incentives in?
Answer: North Carolina

Question: What continent did a lot of work from Dell's plants get transferred to?
Answer: Asia

Question: What subsidiary of Dell remains operating in Florida?
Answer: Alienware

Question: What emissions did Dell strive to reduce?
Answer: greenhouse gas

Question: By 2015, how much did Dell slate to reduce its emissions?
Answer: 40%

Question: What year did Dell rank 2nd for product greenness?
Answer: 2011

Question: What organization scores electronics manufacturers based on how environmentally friendly their products are? 
Answer: Greenpeace

Question: What year did Dell come under fire from the Taiwanese Consumer Protection Commission?
Answer: 2009

Question: What percent lower was Dell selling its notebooks in Taiwan?
Answer: 70%

Question: What did dell sell for $19 in Taiwan?
Answer: 19" LCD

Question: How much did Taiwan fine Dell for its practices?
Answer: NT$1 million

Question: Innovations in what kind of management is Dell known for?
Answer: supply chain

Question: What sales model did Dell follow?
Answer: direct-sales

Question: For the majority of Dell's existence, what were they a vendor of?
Answer: hardware

Question: What company did Dell acquire in 2009?
Answer: Perot Systems

Question: What market did Dell begin to compete in in 2009?
Answer: IT services

Question: What year did Dell plan to sell PCs at retailers?
Answer: 1993

Question: What was one retailer that were going to sell Dell PCs?
Answer: Wal-Mart

Question: Who convinced Michael Dell to not use retailers to sell PCs?
Answer: Kevin Rollins

Question: What position at Dell did Kevin Rollins eventually attain?
Answer: CEO

Question: What year did Michael Dell bring in Lee Walker to the company?
Answer: 1986

Question: What did Lee Walker recruit members to Dell for?
Answer: board of directors

Question: What year did Walker retire?
Answer: 1990

Question: What was Morton Meyerson's position at his former company?
Answer: CEO

Question: What country's PC market was Dell reliant on?
Answer: U.S

Question: What percentage of Dell's profits were desktop PCs being sold to commercial and corporate buyers?
Answer: 32 percent

Question: What year were Dell's PC profits shrinking?
Answer: 2006

Question: What operating system was slated to be the next system upgrade for corporate clients?
Answer: Microsoft's Windows Vista

Question: Which division of Dell were unsuccessful in developing mobile devices?
Answer: mobility

Question: The release of what electronic had a negative impact on Dell?
Answer: iPad

Question: What Dell product was a commercial failure?
Answer: Streak

Question: What line of high end electronics did Dell create that failed to compete with Apple products?
Answer: XPS

Question: What year did Dell see its first decline in holiday sales?
Answer: 2012

Question: What did Dell have a poor reputation for?
Answer: customer service

Question: Where did Dell move its call centers?
Answer: offshore

Question: Which Dell employee was moved from head of manufacturing to head of customer service?
Answer: Dick Hunter

Question: How much had Dell spent by 2006 on improving customer service?
Answer: $100 million

Question: What year did the Blackstone Group express interest in acquiring Dell?
Answer: 2013

Question: What was the first private equity firm to decide not to submit a bid for Dell?
Answer: KKR & Co

Question: What company did analysts feel would need to find an exit strategy to profit from acquiring Dell?
Answer: Silver Lake

Question: How much was the potential enterprise value of Dell?
Answer: $25bn

Question: What year did Dell close its largest Canadian call center?
Answer: 2008

Question: How many employees lost jobs when Dell closed their call center?
Answer: 1100

Question: How many workers did Dell plan to have at their Ottawa call center?
Answer: 3,000

Question: What percentage of its workforce did Dell terminate in from 2007 to 2008?
Answer: 10%

Question: What type of computing is the combined effort of EMC and Dell slated to address?
Answer: private cloud computing

Question: What organization commented on the deal between EMC and Dell?
Answer: FBR Capital Markets

Question: How much did VMware stock fall after the merger announcement?
Answer: 10%

Question: What was the original valuation of the merger?
Answer: $67bn

Question: What was the value of Dell's buyout deal?
Answer: $24.4 billion

Question: What year did Dell announce its buyout deal?
Answer: 2013

Question: What was the value of the loan that Dell received from Microsoft?
Answer: $2 billion

Question: What was the value of the second largest technology buyout?
Answer: $17.5 billion

Question: How much space did Dell lease in Texas?
Answer: 80,000 square feet

Question: How many senior executives were slated to work in the building Dell leased?
Answer: 100

Question: What year did Dell announce its plans to sublease its building?
Answer: 2002

Question: Where did Dell move its headquarters back to in 2003?
Answer: Round Rock

Question: What was the total amount of space that Dell leased in Las Cimas 1 and 2?
Answer: 312,000 square feet

Question: What Texas city was Dell's headquarters previously in?
Answer: Austin