Going the distance
The Indianapolis 500 is hosted in this Indiana city.
What is Speedway?
This fictional planet hosted the Tibanna Gas mining facility named Cloud City, which was administered by Lando Calrissian.
What is Bespin?
This 100 year old cylindrical wind instrument from Australia, requires cyclical breathing to play.
What is a didgeridoo?
This Beatle largely financed Monty Python's 1979 movie"Life of Brian" and was given a side character role in the film.
Who is George Harrison?
This is the die that is used to roll for initiative in the RPG Dungeons and Dragons.
What is a d20 (or 20 sided die)?
This company created the first floppy disk in 1972.
What is IBM?
Started in 1907, this European motorcycle race spans 60.19 km, is responsible for 275 deaths, with Sports Illustrated calling it "sport's most dangerous event"
What is the Isle of Man TT?
According to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, wrapping this thing around your head will allow you to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal
What is a towel?
The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh between the Duke of Somerset and the Earl of Arran in 1547 is believed to be the first usage of this Scottish musical instrument during combat.
What are bagpipes?
This contemporary stand up comedian, known for their Netflix special Mr. Universe cameoed in the movie Supertroopers as a speeding violator.
Who is Jim Gaffigan?
This hexagonal board game features settlements, roads, a robber, and allows the players to acquire and spend brick, wool, grain, lumber, and ore resources.
What is Settlers of Catan (or Catan)?
Douglas Englebart and Bill English in 1964 created this prototype computer control device which used two orthagonal wheels.
What is a computer mouse?
This Central California 11-mile race track includes a challenging section called the "Corkscrew" that contains a hard left turn, followed by a hard right turn, which drops 5 1/2 stories, in only 450 feet of track.
What is Laguna Seca?
This 1968 science-fiction novel follows a bounty hunter who "retires" rogue androids named Replicants, and was the basis for the film "Blade Runner."
What is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
This song featured on the Beatles 1966 album "Revolver" sings about the eponymous person who is lonely.
What is Eleanor Rigby?
The person who the medieval peasants implored to "leave us alone" during opening credits of the 1993 film "Robin Hood: Men in Tights"
Who is Mel Brooks?
Japanese game developer Shigeru Miyamoto based this video game off the their exploration of forests, hills, and caves near their childhood home.
What is the Legend of Zelda?
These components were used in the first-generation digital computers, and were used in the Colossus computer which broke German and Japanese cyphers in World War 2.
What are vacuum tubes?
This 5 day trail-less foot race crosses from north to south over the spine of the Cambrian Mountains in Wales
What is the Dragon's Back Race?
The Three Laws of Robotics was established in this 1950's science-fiction collection book?
What is I Robot?
This prolific American session drummer from the 70's and 80's, known for the iconic percussion style in Toto's "Rosanna", was posthumously inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1993.
Who is Jeff Porcaro?
This Canadian comedy show launched the careers of the likes of John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, and Eugene Levy.
What is SCTV (or Second City Television)?
This is the password used in the 1986 NES game "Metroid" that removes the protagonist's armor during gameplay.
What is Justin Bailey?
This open-source Unix-like operating system released by Apple in 2000 was used as the foundation for OS X graphical operating system.
What is Darwin?
This 2014 rowing race spanned from Monterey, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, and was threatened by Hurricanes Iselle and Julio
What is the Great Pacific Race?
In Star Trek, this Federation Policy prohibits its members from interfering with the natural development of alien civilizations.
What is the Prime Directive?
Richard Wagner wrote the libretto and instrumentation to Ride of the Valkyries, which was featured in this late 19th century series of operas.
What is Der Ring des Nibelungen (or The Ring of the Nibelung)?
This American comedy charity was established by Bob Zmuda in 1986, and was hosted by comedians Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, and Whoopi Goldberg.
What is Comic Relief?
The RPG Shadowrun features this Great Western Dragon and future President of the United Canadian and American States who was Awakened from Cherry Creek Reservoir in Denver, Colorado on January 12, 2012.
Who is Dunkelzahn?
This element beat out manganese and ruthenium in semiconductor manufacturing because scientists discovered in 2014 it minimizes electromigration in copper.
What is cobalt?