Speccy/Sinclair Trivia
I'd like to make a trivia game with Sinclair and speccy related trivia questions, but hey, that's a lot of work. And a lot of you guys know a lot more than I do. So here's a thread you can post trivia questions and answers, and I'll just mine it later. Okay? =)
Format: Q: question, A: four answers, with the first one being the correct one.
Q: Sinclair Research Ltd got its titular name from?
A: Clive Sinclair, Anita Sinclair, Jeffrey Sinclair, Augustus Sinclair
Format: Q: question, A: four answers, with the first one being the correct one.
Q: Sinclair Research Ltd got its titular name from?
A: Clive Sinclair, Anita Sinclair, Jeffrey Sinclair, Augustus Sinclair
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A: Timex, Casio, Lorus, Rolex.
Q: One of the most popular third-party joystick interfaces for the Spectrum was named after a town in which English county?
A: Bedfordshire,Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire.
Q: The original ZX81 BASIC interpreter contained a bug resulting in the square root of 0.25 being calculated as what number?
A: 1.3591409, -0.5, 3.14541450, 0.499999999
Q: The Horizons introductory cassette provided with the Spectrum, included a game based on which gambling activity?
A: Craps,Roulette, One Armed-Bandit, Black Jack
Q: In 1982, Sinclair Research moved to new headquarters in Willis Road, Cambridge. What had the building most recently been used for prior to the move?
A: mineral water bottling plant, university halls of residence, legal and paralegal offices, telephone exchange.
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What year was the zx spectrum released?
1982
1980
1984
1979
Sinclair Research Ltd got its titular name from?
Clive Sinclair
Anita Sinclair
Jeffrey Sinclair
Augustus Sinclair
Which company, often associated with watch manufacturing, formed a joint venture with Sinclair to produce computers for the North American market?
Timex
Casio
Lorus
Rolex
One of the most popular third-party joystick interfaces for the Spectrum was named after a town in which English county?
Bedfordshire
Buckinghamshire
Hampshire
Hertfordshire
The original ZX81 BASIC interpreter contained a bug resulting in the square root of 0.25 being calculated as what number?
1.3591409
-0.5
3.14541450
0.499999999
The Horizons introductory cassette provided with the Spectrum, included a game based on which gambling activity?
Craps
Roulette
One Armed-Bandit
Black Jack
In 1982, Sinclair Research moved to new headquarters in Willis Road, Cambridge. What had the building most recently been used for prior to the move?
Mineral water bottling plant
University halls of residence
Legal and paralegal offices
Telephone exchange
The Spectrum's Zilog Z80 CPU runs at which speed?
3.5MHz
1.0MHz
4.0MHz
2.0MHz
What is the primary reason often quoted why the 128k spectrum was made?
Spanish tax
Competition pressure
Advance in tech
Star wars
The Z in ZX Spectrum comes from the Zilog Z80, but what does the X stand for?
The mystery component
Extraordinary
Nothing, just sounds cool
Extensible
Ultimate's first game, Jetpac, was released just a year after Spectrum's release. How many units did it sell?
300 000
30 000
3 000
300
Which of the following is NOT part of Ultimate's "Sabreman" series?
Head Over Heels
Sabre Wulf
Underwurlde
Knight Lore
Ultimate's Knight Lore release was famously postponed because of?
To sell Sabre Wulf
Too many bugs
Lawsuit
Programmer died
What was the profession of the protagonist in Jet Set Willy?
Miner
Lawyer
Butler
Janitor
Jet Set Willy had several ground breaking features. Which of these is NOT one of them?
Original soundtrack
Copy protection
Non-linear gameplay
Moddability
This Saboteur II feature was considered novel at the time it was released
Female protagonist
Art style
Large world
Martial arts
What was strage about the development of Sandy White's Ant Attack?
Assembled by hand
Night time development
Drunk coding
High level language
Which of the following is NOT a Mike Singleton game?
Beyond The Ice Palace
The Lords of Midnight
War in Middle Earth
Snake Pit
Which of the following is NOT a russian zx spectrum clone?
Cobra
Pentagon
Scorpion
Delta
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