Microsoft Outlook Quiz 1: multiple choice
6 of the 20 questions have four options to choose from; the others stay as normal questions, because no fair wrong answers could be found for them. Tap an option to see if you are right.
1. Microsoft Outlook first appeared as part of which version of Microsoft Office?
Office 97
2. Which free web email service, bought by Microsoft in 1997, was rebranded as Outlook.com?
Hotmail
3. That email service was launched on 4 July 1996. Why was that date chosen?
It was US Independence Day, symbolising "freedom" from internet service providers' email accounts
4. The service's name was originally written with some letters in capitals, to highlight which web language?
5. In which year did Microsoft launch Outlook.com as the replacement for that service?
6. What is the file extension of the Outlook data file that stores a user's emails, contacts and calendar on their computer?
.pst (Personal Storage Table)
7. Which free email program was bundled with Windows from 1996 until it was replaced by Windows Mail in Windows Vista?
Outlook Express
8. Before Outlook for Mac arrived in 2011, what was Microsoft's email and calendar program for Apple Macs called?
Entourage
9. Which Microsoft server software do most businesses use to run their Outlook email and calendars?
Microsoft Exchange (Exchange Server or Exchange Online)
10. In Outlook, what is the official name of the feature most people call "Out of Office"?
Automatic Replies
11. Which Outlook feature, introduced in 2016, automatically sorts important emails into one tab and everything else into another?
Focused Inbox
12. Which Outlook command lets you try to pull back an email you have already sent?
Recall This Message
13. In which American city did Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft in 1975?
14. In which Washington State city is Microsoft's headquarters?
15. What was the official name of the paperclip assistant in Microsoft Office, popularly known as Clippy?
Clippit
16. Which Rolling Stones song was used to launch Windows 95?
17. Which professional networking site did Microsoft buy in 2016 for about $26 billion?
18. Which video calling service, bought by Microsoft in 2011, was shut down in May 2025 and replaced by Microsoft Teams?
Skype
19. Who became Microsoft's chief executive in 2014, succeeding Steve Ballmer?
20. Which video game publisher, maker of "Call of Duty", did Microsoft buy in 2023 for about $69 billion?
Activision Blizzard
ANSWERS
1. Office 97
2. Hotmail
3. It was US Independence Day, symbolising "freedom" from internet service providers' email accounts
4. B HTML
5. A 2012
6. .pst (Personal Storage Table)
7. Outlook Express
8. Entourage
9. Microsoft Exchange (Exchange Server or Exchange Online)
10. Automatic Replies
11. Focused Inbox
12. Recall This Message
13. A Albuquerque
14. C Redmond
15. Clippit
16. C Start Me Up
17. LinkedIn
18. Skype
19. B Satya Nadella
20. Activision Blizzard