W.W.D.C. 2025: The Pregame Quiz

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No sleep til’ dub dub! Or something like that? Today, I’m proud to give you the eleventh annual Swiftjective-C W.W.D.C. Pregame Quiz featuring Apple Intelligence, Jony Ive and more! If you want to test your mettle against previous years, you can hop back in to any of them:
Ground Rules
There are three rounds, and the point break down is as follows:
- Round 1 – 1 point each answer
- Round 2 - 2 points each answer
- Round 3 - 3 points each answer
The last question of each round is an optional wildcard question. Get it right, and your team gets 4 points, but miss it and the team will be deducted 2 points.
Round 1 - Apple (Un)Intelligence
You just know I had to. Let’s rip the band aid off! Don’t try and cheat and ask Siri for the answers, it’ll just reply back it found web results anyways (🥁).
Question 1:
Genmoji was supposed to usher in an era of creativity in the world of emoji expression. It…hasn’t quite hit that mark. Which API is meant to display them inline within text components?
A: NSGenmojiRepresentation
B: NSAdaptiveImageGlyph
C: AttributedImageString
D: AttributedGenmojiString
Question 2:
Apple AI chief, John Giannandrea, wanted to include which chat assistant instead of OpenAI’s chatGPT in iOS 18?
A: Meta AI
B: Gemini
C: Alexa
D: Claude
Question 3:
In the now infamous (and pulled) ad featuring Bella Ramsey about Apple Intelligence, what was the name of the guy Siri allegedly found using its (seemingly made up) context aware capabilities?
A: Matt Granger
B: Nolan Quindle
C: Derek Blanchard
D: Zac Wingate
Question 4:
We all want Siri to be more conversational, and, well — basically work like our favorite LLM chatbots do. To that end, what’s the internal codename for Apple’s revamped Siri architecture aimed at delivering a similar experience?
A: Siri 2
B: LLM Siri
C: Siri Chat
D: Siri Next
Wildcard:
The creators of Workflow (acquired by Apple) eventually went on to spearhead Shortcuts in Apple. Recently, key members left Apple to start a new company to bring AI to the desktop. What’s the name of the nascent company?
A: Quantum, Inc
B: DesktopOS, Inc
C: NewAi, Inc
D: Software, Inc
Round 2 - Sir Jony Ive himself
With all the rage being AI, LLMs, and similar beats — Jony Ive recently stepped into the ring with OpenAI and their company, io. Let’s chat!
Question 1:
Okay, io. Let’s see how much you follow the rumor mill — what’s the expected form factor of their first AI device according to reports?
A: Watch
B: Wearable necklace
C: Pin-on (i.e. Humane)
D: Smart glasses
Question 2:
Here’s one that surprised me a bit. When is their first device expected to hit the market?
A: 2025
B: 2026
C: 2027
D: 2028
Question 3:
A bit lost in all of the io new is LoveFrom, Ive’s design firm — which is now taking on design at OpenAI. To date, which of these ventures has LoveFrom not been a part of?
A: Designing Ferrari’s first electric car.
B: A new seal and typography for King Charles III
C: Airbnb core products
D: Redesigned and customized headphones for Bose
Question 4:
Ive’s first project at Apple, while working at design firm Tangerine, was for “Project Juggernaut”, which was a codename for…
A: The Apple Lisa
B: Newton
C: Powerbook
D: Macintosh Portable
Wildcard:
Bro got paid. 2011 was the last time that Ive’s compensation was publicly noted. In addition to his cool $25 million stock bonus, what was his reported base salary at the time?
A: $20 million
B: $25 million
C: $30 million
D: $35 million
Round 3 - Wildcard Callbacks
Let’s go back into my lore for a moment. If you’ll indulge me, can you answer these wildcard questions from quizzes in years past?
Question 1:
From 2019’s section on Apple Lore: What original Apple employee quickly sold off their 10% share of the company in 1977 for only $800 (which would be worth billions today)?
A: Ronald Wayne
B: Patty Jobs
C: Nikola Tesla
D: Johannes Kepler
Question 2:
From 2017’s Apple Brain Teaser section: Which famous English astronomer, mathematician and physicist was originally featured on Apple’s logo?
A: Isaac Newton
B: Galileo Galilei
C: Johannes Kepler
D: Nikola Tesla
Question 3:
From 2015’s Senior Developer Only’s section: Finish the sentence. At WWDC 14, it was famously declared that Swift is “Objective-C __ ___ __!”
A: with type safety!
B: without the pointers!
C: without the C!
D: with readable syntax!
Question 4:
From 2016’s Senior Developer Only’s section: What was the first (and eventually accepted) proposal for the Swift programming language submitted from the community?
A: Constraining AnySequence.init
.
B: Replace typealias
keyword with associatedtype
for associated type declarations.
C: Referencing the Objective-C selector of a method.
D: To allow most Swift keywords to be used as an argument label.
Wildcard:
A…wildcard in a wildcard section? Why not! From 2020’s Dub Dub Venues and History section: Paper badges were the norm for WWDC badges for much of its history. Can you name the year they finally made the switch to plastic badges for the first time?
A: 2009
B: 2008
C: 2010
D: 2012
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Answer Key
Round 1:
- B. NSAdaptiveImageGlyph.
- B. Gemini
- D. Zac Wingate
- B. LLM Siri.
- Wildcard: D. Software, Inc. — delightful website, too.
Round 2:
- B. Necklace.
- B. 2026. Guess they have a head start.
- D. Fake, though they did make a turntable!
- C. It was the first Powerbook (a Macintosh Portable successor), though as an official Apple employee — it was the Newton.
- Wildcard: C, $30 million!
Round 3:
- A. One of its oft forgotten co-founders, Ronald Wayne.
- A. Sir Isaac Newton. Because, you know, the whole Apple thing?
- C. Without the C indeed, good times.
- D. To allow most Swift keywords to be used as an argument label. From Doug Gregor, implemented in Swift 2.2.
- Wildcard: A. They made the switch after 08’.