You don’t know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz

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Sep 4, 20091 min

Apple throws a rock-n-roll bash, eBay trades Skype for cash

When it comes to generating buzz, Apple is King Bee — as it proved again this week merely by sending out invitations to its upcoming rock-n-roll-themed “special event.” Other special things that happened this week: Gmail fans get vexed at yet another service outage, TV feeds its Twitter fixation, and Wikipedia looks for the color of truth. Can you identify the truth in today’s quiz? Correct answers are worth 10 points a throw. All righty, then — let’s go!

1. It’s officially official. Apple has sent invitations to a “special event” to be held on Sept. 9. Which line from a classic rock-n-roll song was the invitation’s sole text?

a. Roll over Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news

b. You say you want a revolution?

c. It’s only rock and roll, but we like it d. Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends

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