Question: What are the top-selling form factors of the Mac platform today?
Answer: MacBooks

Question: What is the name of the most inexpensive Mac offered?
Answer: Mac Mini

Question: What did Apple consolidate in 1998?
Answer: its multiple consumer-level desktop models

Question: What all-in-one product was created in 1998 through Apple's consolidations?
Answer: iMac G3

Question: What did the iMac G3 do to the Mac reputation?
Answer: revitalized the brand

Question: When was Mac's Xserve server discontinued?
Answer: 2011

Question: What took the place of Mac's Xserve server?
Answer: Mac Mini and Mac Pro

Question: Why did Raskin leave the Apple team in 1981?
Answer: over a personality conflict with Jobs

Question: According to Andy Hertzfeld, whose idea is the final Mac design closer to?
Answer: Jobs

Question: What did Steve Jobs offer Xerox to visit and see their latest technology?
Answer: Apple stock options

Question: Whose technology influenced the user interfaces of the Lisa and Macintosh?
Answer: Xerox PARC

Question: What caused Steve Jobs to resign from Apple in 1985?
Answer: an internal power struggle

Question: What did Jobs state that he expected Macintosh to become?
Answer: the third industry standard

Question: How many applications were widely available during Macintosh's introduction?
Answer: Only about ten

Question: How many companies did Apple promise were develping products for the new computer?
Answer: 79

Question: How many Macintoshes had Apple sold after one year?
Answer: 280,000

Question: How many databases did Apple have available the first year?
Answer: two

Question: Whose technology did Apple take advantage of when introducing the Macintosh II?
Answer: Motorola

Question: What powered the Macintosh II?
Answer: a 16 MHz Motorola 68020 processor

Question: How much did the Macintosh II sell for?
Answer: $5500

Question: What marked the start of a new direction for Macintosh?
Answer: The Macintosh II

Question: What was the Macintosh II's new modular design similar to?
Answer: the IBM PC

Question: When Microsfot Windows 3.0 was released, what was it commonly said to not be as good as?
Answer: Macintosh

Question: Who was Microsoft Windows 3.0 commonly said to be good enough for?
Answer: the average user

Question: What was responsible for the drop in Apple's margins in 1989?
Answer: a component shortage

Question: Who made the decision in 1989 to cut prices on Mac computers?
Answer: Apple USA head Allan Loren

Question: What was Microsoft Windows 3.0's performance comparable to?
Answer: Macintosh platform

Question: What did Intel unsuccessfully try to push Apple to migrate to?
Answer: Intel chips

Question: Which platform did Apple choose to use?
Answer: Motorola 68040

Question: Who first rolled out Pentium processors in 1993?
Answer: Intel

Question: How far behind was Macintosh set back compared to the new IBM compatibles?
Answer: a generation

Question: When did Apple abandon Motorola CPU's?
Answer: 1994

Question: What color was Apples new iMac, which was introduced in 1998?
Answer: Bondi blue

Question: What did the iMac replace most of Apple's standard connections with?
Answer: two USB ports

Question: What did the iMac replace the floppy disk drive with?
Answer: a CD-ROM drive

Question: What did the iMac need to use in order to write CDs or other media?
Answer: external third-party hardware

Question: How many iMac units sold in the first 139 days?
Answer: 800,000

Question: When did Apple discontinue the use of PowerPC microprocessors?
Answer: 2006

Question: Who announced the capability to run Windows XP on an Intel-based Mac in 2006?
Answer: a group of hackers

Question: How did hackers release their software for running Windows on Macs?
Answer: for download on their website

Question: When did Apple announce software that would allow Windows XP to be run on Intel-based Macs?
Answer: April 5, 2006

Question: What is the name of the software that Apple introduced for running Windows XP?
Answer: Boot Camp

Question: Who was initially reluctant to embrace mice with multiple buttons and scroll wheels?
Answer: Apple

Question: What was the name of the 1st multiple button mouse introduced by Apple?
Answer: Mighty Mouse

Question: How many buttons did the Mighty Mouse have?
Answer: four

Question: What did Apple introduce to take the place of a physical scroll wheel in 2009?
Answer: multi-touch gesture recognition

Question: What Apple mouse 1st used multi-touch gesture recognition?
Answer: Magic Mouse

Question: What type of software began to emerge following the release of Intel-based Macs?
Answer: third-party platform virtualization

Question: At what speed do programs such as VirtualBox allow Microsoft Windows to run on Macs?
Answer: at near native speed

Question: What is possible to run by using Boot camp, even though it is not condoned by Apple?
Answer: the Linux operating system

Question: What do Macs lack that makes them unable to run many legacy PC operating systems?
Answer: the A20 gate

Question: What has been the best-selling ultra-portable over Windows Ultrabooks in the U.S.?
Answer: MacBook Air

Question: What earned the title as best all-around subnotebook/ultraportable?
Answer: MacBook Air

Question: What did the Air receive before other PC manufacturers?
Answer: Intel's latest CPUs

Question: Through 7/1/13, what percentage of all Ultrabook sales in the U.S. were MacBook Airs?
Answer: 56

Question: When was the competetive pricing of MacBooks especially effective?
Answer: when rivals charged more for seemingly equivalent Ultrabooks

Question: What is another term for anti-aircraft warfare?
Answer: counter-air defence

Question: NATO defines anti-aircraft warfare as measures to reduce what?
Answer: the effectiveness of hostile air action

Question: Barrage balloons are an example of what type of weapons system?
Answer: passive measures

Question: What is the primary effort been for most countries when it comes to anti-aircraft warfare?
Answer: homeland defence

Question: What does NATO ascribe naval air defence as?
Answer: anti-aircraft warfare

Question: What is the Russian term for air defence?
Answer: Protivovozdushnaya oborona

Question: What are the AA systems called in Russian?
Answer: zenitnye

Question: How is the Russian term for air defence abbreviated?
Answer: PVO

Question: What is air defence called in French?
Answer: DCA

Question: What is the generic term for an airplane or rocket in French?
Answer: aéronef

Question: When were sensors initially developed?
Answer: during the First World War

Question: Radar was supplemented by what in the 1980s?
Answer: optronics

Question: What country created an integrated system for ADGB?
Answer: Britain

Question: What did the integrated system for ADGB link?
Answer: the ground-based air defence of the army's AA Command

Question: What agency stated that the arrangements were an air defence ground environment?
Answer: NATO

Question: Which country had the most severe case?
Answer: Soviet Union

Question: This separate service  was known as what in the Soviet Union?
Answer: Voyska PVO

Question: What two systems did Voyska PVO have?
Answer: fighter aircraft and ground-based systems

Question: What year did the PVO Strany become independent?
Answer: 1954

Question: What was the arm that was the Air Defence of the Ground Forces?
Answer: PVO SV

Question: When did Serbian troops notice enemy aircraft approaching Kragujevac? 
Answer: 30 September 1915

Question: How many bombs did the three aircraft drop on the city?
Answer: 45

Question: Which private shot down one aircraft with a cannon?
Answer: Radoje Ljutovac

Question: What happened to the pilots that were in the aircraft shot down?
Answer: both pilots died

Question: Which war was the cannon used in prior to this event?
Answer: First Balkan War in 1912

Question: What was the problem with AA gunnery?
Answer: successfully aiming a shell to burst close to its target's future position