Multiple choice general knowledge history

Electronic Arts and Yahoo founded in the

  1. Stanford

  2. MIT

  3. Princeton

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Yahoo was indeed founded at Stanford University by Jerry Yang and David Filo. Electronic Arts, however, was founded by Trip Hawkins in May 1982 - while Hawkins was a Stanford MBA graduate, the company itself was founded in Silicon Valley, not technically 'at Stanford' in the same academic sense. The question conflates the two companies, but given the context and options, A is marked as correct. This ambiguity makes the question problematic.

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