It's been a week of stark contrasts. A privately funded rocket made it into space, while stock market funds crashed to earth. Apple's grip on App Store developers and Hollywood's stranglehold on DVDs both slipped, while former politicos and spies eased quietly into the social networking space. Also: Steve Ballmer went on a speaking tour, adding to the supply of fear, uncertainly, and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Are you truly in the know? Take our quiz and find out. Correct answers are worth 10 points. Now take a deep breath and dive in.

1. When Steve Jobs sneezes, thousands of Apple fanboys reach for their hankies. What was the big news out of Cupertino this week?

a. App Store developers were released from their nondisclosure agreements

b. Apple stock tumbled nearly 20 percent

c. Norway is suing Apple for locking iTunes customers into iPods

d. All of the above

2. RealNetworks released its RealDVD copying software this week -- and was immediately sued by six movie studios. What's the name of the organization that monitors DVD copies?

a. DVD Content Control Alliance

b. DVD Copy Control Association

c. DVD Copyright Community Anonymous

d. DVD Copyright Cops of America

3. Steve Ballmer had plenty to say when he spoke to Santa Clara's Churchill Club earlier this week. Which of the following statements did NOT come from the mouth of Ballmer?

a. "You don't really brute force your way into any market."

b. "Every version of Windows statistically ... gets better than versions before."

c. "We see a real opportunity to democratize virtualization."

d. "We want the next killer application to be written for cell phones, not the Internet."

4. It seems Microsoft will try just about anything to get people to use Live Search. What is Redmond calling its latest prize-based search incentive program?

a. SearchPoints

b. SearchPrizes

c. SearchPerks

d. SearchJerks

5. A former member of the Bush administration is the new general counsel at Facebook. Can you name him?

a. J. Steven Griles

b. David H. Safavian

c. Theodore "Ted" Ullyot

d. Kevin Marlowe

6. Britain's Secret Intelligence Service is looking online for the next 007. Where?

a. AOL

b. NSA.gov

c. Facebook

d. Boyscouts.com

7. On its fourth try, a privately built rocket finally made it into space. What's the name of the first private company to successfully attain orbit?

a. Rocket 2.0

b. SpaceX

c. SpacePal

d. MySpace

8. Tech stocks went on a roller-coaster ride this week, but none more so than Google's. A Nasdaq glitch caused the search titan's stock to briefly hit an all-time low. What was it?

a. $400.52

b. $341.43

c. $249.34

d. $25.80

9. Still, a few Nasdaq hiccups didn't dim the celebratory mood in Mountain View. What did the Googlers do this week to commemorate the search company's 10th anniversary?

a. Wiped its search logs of all user IP addresses

b. Resurrected its search database from 2001

c. Offered to fund the $700 billion bank bailout

d. Annexed the moon

10. Take the number of digits in the largest prime number ever discovered, rounded to the nearest million. Multiply it by the market share of the Firefox browser in September, rounded to the nearest percentage point. Add the number of movie titles Starz will bring to Netflix's streaming movie service. Punch that into your pocket calculator and watch the numbers spin. What do you get?

a. 2,602,500

b. 2,605,200

c. 2,062,500

d. 6,202,500

Answer Key

Now that you know how you scored, you probably want to know why. Check out the answers below for the gory details. And be sure to return next week for another news quiz, ripped straight from the tech headlines.

Question 1: What's the haps at Apple?

10 points

d. All of the above

Like you were expecting a different answer? The biggest news is that developers of apps for the Jesus phone are now allowed to talk to each other about their creations, provided they've already been approved for sale. As for apps the App Store has rejected? Apple won't say -- but there are some folks at Google who might want a word with you.

Question 2: What does "DVD CCA"