[Update, Friday morning: Here are the answers. How'd you do?]

Thanks to everyone who came out last night for the TechFlash Holiday Party & Birthday Bash. We had a ball catching up with everyone. And we had a ton of fun posing some stumpers in our first-ever tech trivia competition. Congrats to team Cheezburger -- Ben Huh, Todd "Sawickipedia" Sawicki, Geoff Entress and Scott Porad -- which came out on top with an impressive score of 31 points. They just edged out team Findwell, with the winner determined by tiebreaker. Third place went to Seattle's Spring Creek Group.

Think you can do better? Without the aid of a mobile device or Internet research, see how you fare by answering the 29 questions below. In addition, identify the eight images in the accompanying graphic. (Download a PDF of the graphic here.) The total possible score -- with some questions worth multiple points -- is 50 points. Check back at noon tomorrow for the answers. Good luck, and have fun.

CATEGORY ONE: ENTERTAINMENT & VIDEO GAMES:

1: Bill Gates appeared in 2001 on what TV sitcom?

2: Baby Bob and Shaquille O'Neil were spokesmen for which Seattle-area dot-com company?

3: What 1980s video-game character does Penny Arcade's "Gabe" like wear on his shirt?

4: In the famous "Monkey Boy" video, Steve Ballmer dances to what song by what singer? (Two points)

5: Robin Williams named his daughter after which video-game princess?

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SPONSOR QUESTION

Q: What Seattle-based mobile application company uses a development platform called BRAVA that can port apps to Android, BlackBerry, BREW, iPhone, Palm, Symbian and Windows Mobile phones?

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CATEGORY TWO: STARTUPS

1: What Seattle area venture capitalist (and former wireless executive) sits on Yahoo's board of directors?

2: As of Nov. 30, Urbanspoon had recorded how many 'shakes' of its iPhone app? (A guess within one million will be counted as correct)

3: What were the last three Washington technology companies -- including biotech -- to conduct initial public offerings on the Nasdaq? (Three points).

4: Season six of Donald Trump's "The Apprentice" starred which Seattle entrepreneur as a contestant?

5: What Seattle-area dot-com company featured a Prunus persica in its logo?

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SPONSOR QUESTION

Q: What information technology company, which shares a name with North America’s highest mountain peak, has strategic partnerships with companies including Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, VMWare, and Cisco?

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CATEGORY THREE: TECH HISTORY

1: What did Jeff Bezos originally call Amazon.com?

2: The UW's Mercer Hall dorm spawned what early blogging service?

3: Seattle's first radio station broadcast from a garage in what neighborhood?

4: What did Google's founders originally call their search engine?

5: In what decade was the Nintendo Co. founded?

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SPONSOR QUESTION

Q: What Seattle-area MBA program debuted a Leadership MBA this fall to complement its Technology MBA?

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CATEGORY FOUR: MICROSOFT

1: Microsoft moved to the Seattle area in 1979 from what city?

2: QDOS, which Microsoft bought and turned into MS-DOS, stood for what?

3: Bill Gates is known to his family and closest friends by what nickname?

4: Former Windows chief Jim Allchin gave his debut album what puzzling name?

5: What is the greeting etched in tiny print on Microsoft's Zune music players?

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SPONSOR QUESTION

Q: What firm, founded in New York City in 1910, performs the tax and audit work for several of the fastest-growing tech companies in Washington?

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CATEGORY FIVE: GRAB BAG

1: Amazon.com got into trouble this year for deleting what two digital books from Kindle readers? (Two points)

2: Which two Seattle area tech moguls have been named Time's person of the year, and in what years were they named? (Four points)

3: Which Seattle tech company has a bowling alley in its basement?

4: Google's new Kirkland cafeteria is named after what Unix command?

5: What is the name of the supercomputer currently regarded as the fastest in the world?

[Update, Friday morning: Here are the answers. How'd you do?]