No. 144: "Best Dais of Your Life"

By Randy Cohen

A major U.S. corporation will spend three years and $200 million to install customer-friendly equipment, including small, mobile, battery-powered podiums. What are the podiums for?

by noon ET Thursday to e-mail your answer to newsquiz@slate.com.

Responses to Tuesday's question (No. 143), "A and Q: Bite the Hand That Fed Michael Lewis"--

Bill Gates' answer was "I don't know what you mean 'concerned.' " What was the question?

"Are the ActiveX data objects of a frequency-division multiplexing DDR SDRAM with full duplex VRML granularity hashing and an MVS IA-64 chip concerned with narrow-band, random-access Winsock functionality?"--Daniel Radosh

"Do you understand that some spectators may be concerned by your nudity in the courtroom today?"--Noah Meyerson

"Can you give an example of a sentence that does not contain a preposition?"--Jennifer Miller (Tamara Glenny and Doug Ingram had similar answers.)

"Is it true you said of James Barksdale and Marc Andreessen, in an inexplicably British locution, 'I don't ever want to hear that those c**ts earned one sodding shilling off their bloody browser'?"--HapppyJack

"He was evading a question about Universal's troubled Babe: Pig in the City. He's under oath. It's the '90s. They can ask you anything."--Chris Kelly