Memorize these and you could recognize 10.5% of all Technology clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a modem | 5 | It's the device that enables one computer to communicate with another by telephone |
| 2 | a mouse | 5 | Roving "rodent" attached to some computers |
| 3 | Thomas Edison | 4 | He also invented the meter to measure his customers' electrical use |
| 4 | Intel | 4 | This company describes its pentium chip as "The Computer Inside" |
| 5 | BASIC | 4 | This easy language was devised in 1965 at Dartmouth College |
| 6 | memory | 4 | The simple operating system permanently written into main storage, it's what "ROM" stands for |
| 7 | the telegraph | 4 | "The Victorian Internet" is a book about pioneers of this communication device |
| 8 | a laser | 4 | Philips, a Dutch company, invented the disc "read" not by a needle but by one of these |
| 9 | television | 3 | Sony's Mavica camera takes still photos that are stored on a disc & viewed on this equipment |
| 10 | sonar | 3 | It was the Titanic sinking that inspired the invention of this iceberg & sub detector |
| 11 | paper | 3 | French scientist Rene de Reaumur got the idea to make this out of wood from watching a wasp |
| 12 | Japan | 3 | While the U.S. has the most telephones by far, this country is 2nd |
| 13 | IBM | 3 | In 1961, this company introduced a "type ball" in place of the bars on some of its typewriters |
| 14 | DNA | 3 | In 1989 scientists using a scanning tunneling microscope saw this double-stranded molecule for the 1st time |
| 15 | Bluetooth | 3 | This technology used for wireless headsets is named after a Danish king who united parts of Scandinavia |
| 16 | artificial intelligence | 3 | Called AI for short, it refers to the use of computers to simulate human thinking |
| 17 | the telephone | 3 | When first used, people answered them with "Ahoy" |
| 18 | satellites | 3 | Successful types of these satellites have included the European Meteosat & the American Nimbus |
| 19 | hardware | 3 | It's the "nuts & bolts" or physical components that make up a computer |
| 20 | a printer | 3 | Piece of computer hardware on which you'd be likely to find a daisy wheel |
| 21 | a BlackBerry | 3 | The "Pearl" model of this Research In Motion device is an e-mail client, media player, camera & cell phone |
| 22 | Yahoo! | 2 | Engineers Jerry Yang & David Filo chose this name for their company in 1994; it's what each considered himself |
| 23 | transistors | 2 | After 1948 these tiny devices were used to replace vacuum tubes in electronic equipment |
| 24 | the speaker | 2 | Parts of this stereo component include the cone, magnet & voice coil |
| 25 | The Brooklyn Bridge | 2 | John Roebling designed this bridge across the East River, the oldest suspension bridge in NYC |
| 26 | steam | 2 | From 1801-1885, forerunners of the automobile had this low-pollution engine |
| 27 | Sony | 2 | Company which gave us the Walkman & the Watchman |
| 28 | robots | 2 | In 1984, for the 1st time, the Census Bureau began keeping track of these non-human workers |
| 29 | 2 | This site that calls itself "the front page of the Internet" hosted its first Presidential AMA in 2012 | |
| 30 | punch cards | 2 | The U.S. Census Bureau destroyed these from the 1930 census, so they have no way to check the figures |
| 31 | propaganda | 2 | Often employed by governments, this form of spreading doctrines or rumors sometimes uses "The Big Lie" as a weapon |
| 32 | postcards | 2 | In the early 1900s Congress allowed these with divided backs, half for the address & half for "Wish you were here" |
| 33 | operating systems | 2 | Computer software is generally divided into applications software & this type |
| 34 | nylon | 2 | Antron & Cordura are 2 types of this synthetic fiber made by Du Pont |
| 35 | Netflix | 2 | This California-based company calls itself the "world's largest online DVD movie rental service" |
| 36 | Morse code | 2 | This dash-&-dot dialect debuted in 1838 |
| 37 | Mars | 2 | The USSR lost contact with its Phobos 2 craft before it landed on Phobos, a moon of this planet |
| 38 | Lotus | 2 | Producer of 1-2-3, this company's name is the Hindu symbol of enlightenment |
| 39 | local area network | 2 | An in-house data communications system, LAN is an acronym of this |
| 40 | Linux | 2 | Most modern supercomputers run on this operating system developed by Linus Torvalds |
| 41 | Java | 2 | A "hot" World Wide Web browser is written in this programming language created by Sun Microsystems |
| 42 | input & output | 2 | In the acronym BIOS, these 2 words come between "basic" & "system" |
| 43 | 2 | This 6-letter .com claims to find "the right answer for... every one" of the 200 million queries its users have daily | |
| 44 | glass | 2 | The blowpipe for blowing this was invented about 30 B.C. in the Middle East |
| 45 | fuel injection | 2 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Daytona Int'l Speedway in Daytona Beach, FL.) Engines with carburetors ruled NASCAR for decades, but since 20... |
| 46 | Ethernet | 2 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew plugs us in to the next clue.) A common way of linking computers in the office is this type of local area networking technolog... |
| 47 | emojis | 2 | Different from emoticons, these pictographs come from the Japanese for "picture writing" |
| 48 | earthquakes | 2 | An architectural technique called base isolation uses rubber & steel pads to absorb waves from these |
| 49 | disk operating system | 2 | DOS is an acronym for this |
| 50 | digital | 2 | All modern PCs are this type of computer, as opposed to analog computers |