QUIZ: Blender history

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1. Who is the founder of Blender?

A. Pablo Vazquez
B. Bill Gates
C. Elon Musk
D. Ton Roosendaal

2. What is the official birth date of Blender?

A. June 15, 1987
B. January 2, 1994
C. August 29, 2008
D. May 8, 2017

3. Was blender originally open source?

A. Yes
B. No

4. Which version of blender first introduced the Cycles render engine?

A. 1.70
B. 2.42
C. 2.61
D. 2.80

5. Which version of blender introduced the EEVEE render engine?

A. 2.61
B. 2.79
C. 2.80
D. 3.0

6. Where is the headquarters of the Blender Foundation located?

A. New York City, New York
B. Munich, Germany
C. Amsterdam, Netherlands
D. Silicon Valley, California

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 7. What major version of blender introduced left click select as the default
click method?
A. 2.71
B. 2.93
C. 2.77
D. 2.80

8. What is the global gathering called where blender and cg enthusiasts meet
to share latest blender advances and projects?
A. Blender Unite
B. Blender Conference
C. Blender Hub
D. Comicon

9. What year was the first gathering officially announced?

A. 2002
B. 2008
C. 1999
D. 2020

10. What is the licensed use of Blender?

A. Personal
B. Professional
C. Educational
D. All of the above

11. How does the Blender Foundation get funding?

A. Subscriptions
B. Grants
C. Donations
D. All of the above

12. What major watershed release of Blender caused a massive influx of new
users?
A. 2.21
B. 1.80
C. 2.80
D. 3.0

13. Who is Pablo Vazquez?

A. The host of Blender Today on YouTube
B. The investor who purchased Blender
C. One of blenders lead developers
D. All of the above

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 14. What version of Blender released with Geometry Nodes?
A. 2.92
B. 2.80
C. 3.0
D. 3.3

15. Does The Blender Foundation allow for users to test its experimental
builds?
A. Yes
B. No

16. Where can you download older official versions of Blender?

A. blender.org
B. Within the Blender program
C. google.com
D. Wikipedia

17. Where does the name Blender come from?

A. Named after a Song from Swiss band Yello
B. Named after Ton’s favorite appliance
C. Named after an art style used to mix colors
D. Named after a famous Dutch painting

18. When was the Blender Foundation created?

A. July 1994
B. December 1989
C. September 2003
D. May 2002

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 Answers: Blender History
Number Answer Description

1 D Ton Roosendaal is the founder and mind behind blender.

2 B January 2, 1994 is the o cial birth date of Blender. Blender was intended to
address a perennial frustration among creatives: when a di cult client requires
multiple changes to a project, how do you implement those changes painlessly?
Thanks to its highly con gurable approach, Blender aimed at providing an
answer.

3 B No. Blender was built as an in-house application for company NeoGeo.

4 C Version 2.61 was the rst o cial release to incorporate the Cycles render engine.
It is still in use today and highly acclaimed for its ability to render realistic lighting.

5 C Version 2.80 was the rst o cial release of the realtime render engine known as
EEVEE. This renderer is capable of rendering entire scenes in a short time frame
compared to its counterpart, Cycles, but does so at the cost of a loss of certain
features and less true-to-reality lighting.

6 C Amsterdam, Netherlands is the headquarters of the Blender Foundation as well

as the Blender Institute. Blender’s employees also work remotely.

7 D 2.80 was the version where left-click to select was presented as a default option
on the Blender splashscreen. This was done in an e ort to accommodate new
users and other industry artists coming from other programs. This topic is still
often debated about whether left-click or right-click provides a quicker user
experience and still has many users sticking with the old default right-click to
select.

8 B Blender Conference is the o cial global gathering hosted by the Blender

Foundation.

9 A 2002 was the o cial fIrst Blender Conference. It coincided with Blender being
released as an open source software with the GNU General Public License.

10 D All of the above are correct answers. Thanks to the GNU General Public License
anyone can use blender for personal, education, and professional use.

11 D All of the above answers are correct. Blender Institute has a subscription plan
through Blender Studio (previously known as Blender Cloud) for users to get
access to exclusive content. The Blender Foundation also receives grants from
business and donations from individual users, public marketplaces such as
CGCookie, and from businesses globally.

12 C 2.80 rocked the 3D world when Blender 2.80 released with a massive set of
changes and features. The program also received a much needed face-lift to
make it feel more modern. Notable additions were EEVEE real-time render
engine, grease pencil improvements, the introduction of the Outliner, major
python API code changes, and User interface improvements.

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13 A Pablo Vazquez is the host of Blender Today and shares an amazing number of
YouTube streams about all things Blender related. More can be found on Blender
YouTube page here: https://www.youtube.com/c/BlenderFoundation/playlists

14 A Geometry nodes was o cially released on Blender 2.92 as a node-based system

for creating and manipulating geometry in Blender.

15 A Yes. Experimental builds are open to the community and can be found on the
blender.org downloads page

16 A blender.org has the o cial Blender releases and experimental builds available for
download. Link is here: https://www.blender.org/download/

17 A Blender comes from the name of a song by Swiss band Yello and the song was
presented in a showreel of the Blender application when it was used as an in-
house tool.

18 D Blender Foundation was created in May of 2002 as a non-pro t with the intention
to make Blender open source. The Blender Foundation raised enough money to
buy Blender back from backers of NaN (Not a Number) after a successful
crowdfunding campaign in July of the same year. The total amount raised was
one hundred and ten thousand euros.

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