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"You are the sleazebag I always suspected you were and should have listened more carefully to my gut instincts -- and to my friends. You are an absolute creep, and it was a colossal mistake on my part to have gotten involved with you." Which Web 2.0 bon vivant was scorned-woman Rachel Marsden furious at?
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  1. Mark Zuckerberg

  2. Sean Parker

  3. Jimmy Wales

  4. Ariana Huffington

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Correct Option: C

What tech revolutionary said the following regarding the Federal Trade Commission's 1991 investigation into Microsoft's allegedly unfair business dealings: "Gates has clearly won, the revolution is over, and the free-wheeling innovation in the software industry has ground to a halt. For me, it's the Kingdom of the Dead."
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  1. Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle

  2. New York Times reporter John Markoff in a flaming editorial

  3. Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus, in his 1999 book, "Hard Drive"

  4. The late Ray Noorda, founder of Novell (the words are on his tombstone)

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Correct Option: C

Amanda Congdon, who once put the fuel in RocketBoom, has returned to the Net with a new video blog. What's it called?
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  1. DailyDish

  2. Sometimesdaily

  3. Must-C-TV

  4. DailyDouble

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Correct Option: B

In 1992, Borland CEO Philippe Kahn held a developer's conference in Palm Desert that was infamously infiltrated by Microsoft. In the San Francisco Chronicle, Borland alleged that Microsoft employees:
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  1. Tried to get the developers drunk

  2. Lured them into busses and drove them off site

  3. Dressed them in Hawaiian shirts

  4. All of the above

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Correct Option: D

"He is erratic. There is no vision beyond page views. He is obsessed with the Gay Mafia. Jesus spent three days in Hell. I could only handle one." Which blog impresario was journalist Richard Morgan talking about?
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  1. Nick Denton

  2. Jason Calcanis

  3. John Battelle

  4. Josh Marshall

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Correct Option: A

Hardware pioneers Lynn Conway and Carver Meade are best known for their revolutionary work on popularizing VLSI chip design. Lesser known is that:

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  1. Lynn was once a man

  2. Carver was once a woman

  3. Lynn and Carver were secretly married on the IBM yacht, The Megabyte

  4. None of the above

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Correct Option: A

He's credited (or blamed) with coining the phrase "Web 2.0." Who did it?
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  1. Kevin Rose

  2. Tim O'Reilly

  3. Robert Scoble

  4. Michael Arrington

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Correct Option: B

What tech honcho was famously pictured enjoying his wealth in a Silicon Valley hot tub?
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  1. Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari

  2. Steve Jobs

  3. Bill Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard

  4. A young Bill Gates, fresh from writing a version of BASIC for the Altair

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Correct Option: B

He's not yet 38 years old, yet he already has more than 233 million close personal friends. Who is this exceedingly popular guy?
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  1. Tom Anderson

  2. Chris DeWolfe

  3. Om Malik

  4. Lawrence Lessig

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Correct Option: A

Which tech celebrity has an asteroid named after him?
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  1. Bill Gates

  2. Steve Jobs

  3. Intel co-founder Gordon Moore

  4. Linux inventor Linus Torvalds

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Correct Option: D