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Which tech celebrity famously impresses dinner guests by whipping out an acoustic guitar and playing Beethoven's "Ode to Joy"?

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  1. Oracle chairman Larry Ellison

  2. Netscape inventor Marc Andreessen

  3. Google CEO Eric Schmidt

  4. Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff

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Correct Option: A

Jason Fried is the founder of what 3N (number noun name) Web 2.0 firm?
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  1. 43folders

  2. 37signals

  3. 30boxes

  4. 27jennifers

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Correct Option: B

The central premise of this Web 2.0-ish book is that common culture is dead and the future of business lies in niches. Which of the following best sellers is it?
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  1. "The Long Tail"

  2. "The Cluetrain Manifesto"

  3. "The Wisdom of Crowds"

  4. "The Tipping Point"

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Correct Option: A

According to Steve Wozniak, what famous hacker wrote the first word processor for the Apple II?
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  1. Then-imprisoned hacker and "phone phreak" John Draper (aka Captain Crunch)

  2. Kevin Mitnick, two decades before he went to prison in 1996

  3. Robert T. Morris, who also created the first known worm virus

  4. Jason Burks, aka v00d00, for whom 1976 was an extremely important year

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Correct Option: A

In college he started a Hot or Not?-style site for rating fellow students' physical attractiveness, which almost resulted in his expulsion. Since then he's founded a social network. Who is this mystery man?
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  1. Jonathan Abrams (Friendster)

  2. Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn)

  3. Biz Stone (Xanga)

  4. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)

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Correct Option: D

How did celeb hacker Kevin Mitnick get his start?
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  1. Breaking into Bank of America's corporate account records

  2. Breaking into the Department of Justice's records on its U.S. v. Microsoft case

  3. Hacking into Social Security number account records

  4. Hacking the Los Angeles bus punch card system in order to get free bus rides

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Correct Option: D

This blogging pioneer once denied wasting $2 million a year on "hookers and blow." Who is he?
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  1. Mena Trott, co-founder of Six Apart

  2. Brad Fitzpatrick, creator of LiveJournal

  3. Matt Mullenweg, creator of WordPress

  4. Evan Williams, co-founder of Blogger and Twitter

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Correct Option: B

In addition to co-inventing Ethernet technology at Xeroc PARC labs in 1973, Bob Metcalfe is famous for:
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  1. Metcalfe's Law that a network system's value is proportional to the square of its user population

  2. Predicting in 1997 that the Internet would soon fail due to traffic or he would eat his words -- and did, mushing his paper with liquid in a blender a year later

  3. Predicting that Microsoft Windows 2000 would kill Linux, likening the open source movement to "utopian balderdash" with "open sores"

  4. All of the above

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Correct Option: D

They met at Stanford, started an Internet company together, and are now worth gazillions. For which of these dynamic duos does this description NOT apply?
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  1. Larry Page and Sergey Brin

  2. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen

  3. Jerry Yang and David Filo

  4. Scott McNealy and Bill Joy

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Correct Option: B

What famous Microsoft-hater once led Microsoft's network software team and later founded a company that made him a billionaire?
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  1. RealAudio CEO Rob Glaser

  2. Chuck Thacker, co-inventor of Ethernet

  3. Lotus CEO Mitch Kapor

  4. Google CEO Eric Schmidt

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Correct Option: A