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Chemistry / Elements

34 answers | 86 clues

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a modem 5x $600 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $200 2005 Thiscomputer device slowly takes you online

DJ $800 2017 In 1977 Dennis Hayes & Dale Heatherington invented this, enabling a PC to transmit data via phone lines

DJ $1,200 2018 In the 1990s Brent Townshend invented the 56K version of this PC communications device & licensed it at $2.50 each

Thomas Edison 4x 25.0% stumper $600 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1998 The collaboration between this man & W.K.L. Dickson led to the production of the kinetoscope in 1894

DJ $600 1986 He also invented the meter to measure his customers' electrical use

DJ $800 1992 The mimeograph was invented by this man around 1876

BASIC 4x $400 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $200 1998 This synonym for "fundamental" is the name of a common beginner's programming language

J $600 2020 In the acronym for this computer language created at Dartmouth in the 1960s, the first letter stands for "Beginner's"

J $200 1990 It's short for "Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code"

television 4x 33.3% stumper $233 avg J:3 FJ:1

J $100 1999 Suggestions on what to call this device ranged from farscope to telebaird

FJ 2002 After a demonstration of this, the April 8, 1927 New York Times said, "Commercial use in doubt"

J $300 1990 Sony's Mavica camera takes still photos that are stored on a disc & viewed on this equipment

a laser 4x $875 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $500 1993 First built in 1960, it's also been called an optical maser

DJ $1,200 2004 (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports with robot "Grace" at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.) One of the ways Grace avoids obstacles is by scanning with this narrow beam of light

DJ $600 1988 Philips, a Dutch company, invented the disc "read" not by a needle but by one of these

Worth Knowing (29)

sonar 3 Japan 3 DNA 3 Bluetooth 3 the telephone 3 a printer 3 a BlackBerry 3 transistors 2 The Brooklyn Bridge 2 steam 2 postcards 2 operating systems 2 Netflix 2 Lotus 2 local area network 2 Linux 2 fuel injection 2 earthquakes 2 desktop publishing 2 Deep Blue 2 Blu-ray 2 Bitcoin 2 analog 2 an ejector seat 2 acoustics 2 3D 2 the Loch Ness Monster 2 stainless steel 2 Henry Ford 2

Other

23 answers | 53 clues

Should-Know (1)

a mouse 5x 20.0% stumper $460 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $200 1995 In the 1960s Douglas Engelbart invented this device that moves a pointer on the display screen

J $500 1989 In 1983 Apple's Lisa computer gave PCs this device that moves the cursor around the screen

J $1,000 2011 A swelling under the eye, or a quiet, timid person

Worth Knowing (22)

IBM 3 artificial intelligence 3 hardware 3 disk operating system 3 Yahoo! 2 Reddit 2 punch cards 2 propaganda 2 Morse code 2 input & output 2 Ethernet 2 digital 2 Craigslist 2 computer chips 2 Apple 2 abacus 2 a robot 2 a hearing aid 2 a floppy disk 2 a firewall 2 (Seymour) Cray 2 the Space Shuttle 2

Astronomy / Space

7 answers | 19 clues

Should-Know (2)

Intel 4x $650 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $400 2007 In 2006 Apple started using this company's microprocessors in its Macintosh computers

J $600 2013 This chipmaker, the world's largest, has announced "systems on a chip" measuring 22 nanometers

DJ $800 2010 1993: this company introduces its Pentium processor

the telegraph 4x $633 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $300 1988 About 1840, an alphabetic code was created for communication via this new invention

DJ $800 1987 From Greek for "far" & "write", it was the 1st method used to send messages by electricity

FJ 2022 Upon the first use of this in 1844, the Baltimore Sun declared that time & space had been annihilated

Worth Knowing (5)

satellites 3 robots 2 Mars 2 Java 2 the Sun 2

Biology / Animals

7 answers | 15 clues

Worth Knowing (7)

paper 3 Sony 2 nylon 2 Google 2 Diamonds 2 an artificial heart 2 SOS 2

Math / Physics

6 answers | 14 clues

Should-Know (1)

memory 4x 25.0% stumper $850 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $400 2011 The mental capacity to recall facts, or a show-stopping number from "Cats"

J $600 2005 The ROM of your computer's CD-ROM stands for this

DJ $2,000 DD 1987 It's the "M" in RAM or ROM

Worth Knowing (5)

the speaker 2 glass 2 a scanner 2 a joystick 2 shortwave radio 2

Medicine / Health

2 answers | 4 clues

Worth Knowing (2)

emojis 2 a virus 2

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