You don't know tech: InfoWorld news quiz and answer key

Webster told AdWeek. So that works out to about $2 million a minute for Seinfeld's unique brand of non-comedy. Who's laughing now?

Question 4: Which search term makes Googlers feel the luckiest?

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b. MySpace

Now now, get your mind out of the gutter. "MySpace" ranks first among these terms, followed by "sex," "porn," "YouTube," and "Facebook." According to research by Hitwise general manager Bill Tancer, social networks have eclipsed porn as the No. 1 interest on the Net. Yes, but you know people are only going to Facebook to look at the pictures.

Question 5: Which alleged retail hacker has rolled over for the feds?

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d. Damon Patrick Tohey

Three Americans, three Ukrainians, two Chinese, natives of Belarus and Estonia, and someone known only by his hacker handle "Delpiero" have been charged with stealing more than 40 million credit card numbers from the Wi-Fi networks of nine major U.S. retailers. So far, only Miami native Toey has flipped. Maybe it's because they never let him have a cool nickname.

Question 6: Which e-mail scofflaw is walking the streets, free to spam again?

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c. Jeremy Jaynes

The court found that Virginia's 2004 anti-spam law violates First Amendment protections on anonymous speech, which apparently includes the freedom to anonymously fill your inbox with get-rich-quick scams. Let's hope Jaynes' legal bills make him poor quick.

Question 7: What kind of coin did Best Buy drop to get Napster?

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c. $121 million

Napster has been out of the MP3 swapping game for some time, emerging in 2003 as a legal-yet-unprofitable music subscription service. Apparently, the Geek Squad think downloads, not gizmos, are the future of big-box retail. Hey, it might have been worse -- they could have purchased the Zune.

Question 8: Who could have sworn John McCain invented the BlackBerry?

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b. Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Pointing to his BlackBerry, Holtz-Eakin declared: "Telecommunications of the United States is a premier innovation in the past 15 years -- comes right through the Commerce Committee -- so you're looking at the miracle John McCain helped create, and that's what he did." The McCain campaign swiftly disavowed credit for the invention. Hmm, maybe Holtz-Eakin doesn't know how to use the InterWebs either.

Question 9: What's got frequent fliers in a tizzy?

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d. Passengers surfing porn

The people doing the complaining are the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, which wants airlines to put smut filters on their Net connections before the wheels go up and the honey-roasted peanuts come out. So far, however, no actual Net porn has been sighted at 30,000 feet. Please return to your seat and keep all your belts fastened. Thank you for flying.

Question 10: What's electric cars plus McD's hotspots times American gamers?

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c. 242,509,506

Electric cars should start rolling (silently) out of Tesla's $250 million factory some time in 2010. You can download tunes to your Zune at approximately 9,800 golden arches hotspots across the nation. According to Pew, some 97 percent of American kids play video games of one form or another. So 250M + 9,800 * .97 = 242,509,506. And that remaining 3 percent? Too busy chowing fries at Mickey D's while fiddling with their Zunes, no doubt. Come back next week for another wholesome and nutritious quiz.