Patently Stupid
The first U.S. patent was issued in 1790 and signed by this president
George Washington
Spoiler alert! Turns out "Split" (2016) was actually a sequel to this 2000 M. Night Shyamalan film
Unbreakable
You probably don't know about this Twitter founder and CEO
Jack Dorsey
Occupants of a secret bunker in this 2004-2008 TV show had to push a button every 108 minutes
Lost
This tube pasta is smaller than rigatoni
Ziti
A patent stops others from building your invention; to protect your brand name, you'll need one of these
Trademark
"Packing" and "cracking" are two forms of this process of redrawing district boundaries to advantage a political party
Gerrymandering
You don't know the nickname for this country flag that's a combination of three other flags
"Union Jack"
On 4/1/2015, a mysterious button and timer appeared on this website and dared users not to press it; over 1M did
It's the "Z" word in the NATO phonetic alphabet
Zulu
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is an agency within this Cabinet-level department
Department of Commerce
He's the member of Mystery Inc. with the catchphrase "let's split up, gang!"
Fred
You weren't paying attention during the lecture on this American author and founding member of the "Beat Generation"
Jack Kerouac
Historians have claimed, and the U.S. Air Force has denied, that for most of the 1960s its nuclear launch codes were set to this
00000000
A penny is 99.2% this
Zinc
A five-year-old received a UK patent in 2008 for a two-headed broom thought to be inspired by this claymation TV series
Wallace and Gromit
A port city on the Adriatic Sea, Split is the second-largest in this country
Croatia
You've heard of his son Joe, but not this Hall of Fame baseball and football play-by-play announcer
Jack Buck
It's what it's called when you push Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A
Konami Code
The "ZIP" in "ZIP code" is actually an acronym in which the "Z" stands for this
Zone
He is the only U.S. president to earn a patent: No. 6469, for a device to lift boats over sandbars
Abraham Lincoln
Wayne Gretzky—and his Edmonton Oilers—both got their start in this 12-team league, separate from the NHL
The WHA
You've certainly never met this Chinese billionaire, one of Forbes' "50 Most Powerful People"
Jack Ma
The first "like" button was introduced in 2005 at this streaming video site
Vimeo
In WWII, the Mitsubishi A6M was better known by this name
Zero