InfoWorld Web tablet mania reached a fever pitch this week. Microsoft also got some skin in the game when another old rumor made the rounds. There was even some actual news The White House added yet another tech first to its list, NASA slashed prices on used Space Shuttles and Twitter gained a new billionaire. Can you get the best of the InfoWorld quiz master? Give yourself 10 points for each correct answer. Now go out there and make us proud.

1. The rumors were flying fast and furious before Apples Jan. 27 product announcement. Which of the following was not one of the things in the rumor mill?

a. A tablet computer

b. iPhone 4.0 OS

c. 22-inch touchscreen iMac

d. The Newton II

2. Speaking of ancient ruins er, rumors Microsofts got a good one cooking of its own. Whats Redmond allegedly going to reveal sometime over the next two months?

a. The Zune Phone

b. Bill Gates is coming back

c. Microsoft Office for Linux

d. It will buy AOL

3. As tensions mount between Apple and Google, rumors fly that the iPhone may ditch Google and opt for a new default search engine. Which one?

a. Yahoo

b. Bing

c. Wolfram-Alpha

d. Ask Steves

4. Beloved by movie mall cops and Googlers, the Segway has a new daddy. Who just bought a controlling interest in Segway Inc.?

a. Jimmy Wales

b. Jimi Heselden

c. Jimmy Kimmel

d. Jimi Hendrix

5. “I dont like treating it like a religion. I dont like telling people that theyre bad or wrong for picking a particular device. The right computer for you, based upon your family income and your type of work, might be a PC and not a Macintosh. Id rather be a true salesman who cares about the customer.

” Who says hes sitting on the fence in the Windows vs. Mac wars?

a. Steve Wozniak

b. Bill Gates

c. Jay Leno

d. Conan OBrien

6. Ever wanted to own your spacecraft? Now you can get one cheaper than ever. What is NASAs new asking price for a retired Space Shuttle?

a. $42.0 million

b. $28.8 million

c. $22.6 million

d. No money down, $99.95 a month for 360 years

7. “Hello World. Hard at work on my foundation letter publishing on 1/25.” Somebody just finally joined Twitter. Who sent that as his first official tweet?

a. Larry Ellison

b. Warren Buffett

c. Bill Gates

d. Gordon Moore

8. The White House achieved another technological first this week. What is it?

a. It was hacked by the Chinese government

b. It added the White House blog to Amazons Kindle store

c. It released its first iPhone app

d. It announced the iBama Web tablet

9. Feeling left out in all the hubbub over Web tablets, Amazon has decided to fire back. What did it announce this week?

a. A backlit color Kindle

b. The Kindle App Store

c. It would remove DRM from Kindle titles

d. The iBezos Web tablet

10. Take the milestone recently surpassed by the mobile version of Tetris and add the amount Samsung is paying Rambus to settle a patent dispute. Multiply by the percentage of Internet users who choose supersimple passwords, according to security firm Imperva. Take that and drop it just so into the right slot. What do you get?

a. 2 million

b. 20 million

c. 200 million

d. 2 billion

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