Tech Doomsday Movies
This 1997 sci-fi film depicts a rogue computer, Skynet, initiating a nuclear apocalypse and sending a cyborg assassin back in time.
What is Terminator 2: Judgment Day?
By the late 19th century, Pittsburgh became the world’s leading producer of this metal, largely due to Andrew Carnegie’s enterprise.
What is steel?
This American company founded 1994 began as an online bookstore and became a global e-commerce giant.
What is Amazon?
The frontman of the band Queen rocked a thick mustache while performing hits like "Another One Bites the Dust."
Who is Freddie Mercury?
Celebrated over five days, this “Festival of Lights” marks the triumph of light over darkness in Hindu culture.
What is Diwali?
This 1999 sci-fi film depicts a virtual reality where machines have enslaved humans in a virtual reality to harness their body heat, essentially converting humans into batteries.
What is The Matrix?
Built in Pittsburgh during the Civil War, this massive 80-ton weapon was the largest cannon in the world at the time.
What is the Rodman Gun?
This term describes malicious online scams that trick people into giving up passwords or personal info via fake emails.
What is phishing?
This TV character from Magnum, P.I. is as famous for his Hawaiian shirts as he is for his thick mustache.
Who is Thomas Magnum (played by Tom Selleck)?
Celebrated over 6 days, the three colors of this holiday's candles are black, red, and green, representing the people, their struggle, and this, respectively.
What is Kwanzaa?
In this 1983 film, a military supercomputer called WOPR (War Operation Plan Response), knicknamed Joshua by it's creator, nearly triggers World War III due to a simulated war game.
What is WarGames?
In 1789, this publication became the first newspaper established west of the Allegheny Mountains.
What is The Pittsburgh Gazette (or Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)?
This government department created ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) in the late 1960s to let researchers share data, eventually growing into the modern internet.
Who is the US Department of Defense?
The "toothbrush" mustache was famously sported by this dictator of Germany.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
This holiday celebrated over 8 days, translates from its original language to mean "dedication."
What is Hanukkah?
In this 2004 sci-fi film, Detective Spooner investigates a possible murder by a robot, challenging the strict laws that govern artificial intelligence, ultimately learning that the AI had enslaved it's creator."
What is I, Robot?
Built in 1754 by the French at the forks of the Ohio River, this fort was later captured and renamed by British forces under General John Forbes.
What is Fort Duquesne?
Invented in 1964 by Douglas Engelbart, this device computer device was made of wood and shaped like a small block.
What is the mouse?
The mustache style featuring thick hair above the lip with ends curled upward is called this.
What is a handlebar mustache?
This is the country in which Halloween originated.
What is Ireland?
In this 2015 film, a programmer develops a humanoid AI named Ava, leading to ambiguous consequences, ultimately killing her sadistic creator to gain her freedom, while entrapping her human assistant.
What is Ex Machina?
In 1848, this future U.S. president delivered a famous speech at the Allegheny County courthouse advocating for free soil and anti-slavery principles.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This person is credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire--European Council for Nuclear Research).
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
Guinness World Records reported that Ram Singh Chauhan of India had the distinction of longest mustache measuring just over this length (in feet).
What is over 18 feet long?
In Japan, it has become a popular tradition to celebrate Christmas by eating this fast-food meal.
What is KFC (fried chicken)?