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Test your knowledge of current industry events with the following quiz

1. During Microsoft's antitrust trial, Bill Gates warned of “dire consequences” should the ruling go against the company. Those dire consequences would include:

   a. Crippling Windows as a stable platform

   b. Denying Microsoft the incentive to continually upgrade its products

   c. Gates vowing to hold his breath until the ruling is reversed

2. To highlight its increased role in cybersecurity, the Bureau of Export Administration was officially renamed:

   a. The Bureau of Industry and Security

   b. The Bureau of Security and Industry

   c. The Bureau of Brainiac Technomological Mumbo-Jumbo (per the orders of President Bush)

3. Wylie Gustafson, whose distinctive yodel was the subject of a copyright infringement suit against Yahoo, has settled with the Internet giant. Yahoo will:

   a. Continue to use Gustafson's voice in its advertising b. Hire an all-new yodeler

   c. Replace Gustafson's yodel entirely with the more pleasing sound of fingernails scraping across a chalkboard

4. A survey of 5000 Americans revealed that half believe the Internet, computers and mobile phones have increased their workloads. The study indicates:

   a. 50% of respondents think they are “drowning under their workloads”

   b. 44.4% said mobile phones make them they feel like they are on call 24-7

   c. 100% of men said they must work overtime to make up for hours spent surfing for porn

The above quiz offers a combination of news and entertainment, and should not be mistaken for either.