It’s About “Time”
This American news magazine was first published in New York City on March 3, 1923, and for many years it was run by its influential co-founder, Henry Luce.
What is TIME?
This Middle English and Old French term meaning “evenly divided game” was originally used in chess and other games to denote a problem, or a position in which the chances of winning or losing were evenly balanced, hence “a dangerous situation”
What is jeopardy?
In Britain, newspapers and other media will often refer to lengths in comparison to the length or height of this iconic London transport.
What is a double-decker bus?
This megacorporation that first appeared in WALL-E as the entity which controlled all economic and government services on the future Earth. It has since appeared in multiple subsequent Pixar films.
What is Buy-n-Large?
Categories in today’s first board: Money Gang, Nautical Nonsense, this
What is That’s Rad?
This serif typeface was commissioned by the British newspaper The Times in 1931.
What is Times New Roman?
This is Disney’s longest animated feature to date, and the only one with a running time of over two hours.
What is Fantasia?
Despite the somewhat-misleading title of Jules Verne’s classic novel, this unit of measurement refers to a distance, not depth, of three nautical miles.
What is a league?
This scientific research company founded by Walter White and Elliot Schwartz following their graduation from the California Institute of Technology.
What is Gray Matter Technologies?
In the NATO Phonetic Alphabet: tango, uniform, this
What is victor?
A technique in which the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than the frequency used to view the sequence.
What is Time-lapse photography?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination is often seen as the event that sparked WW1, Ferdinand was the heir presumptive to the throne of this multinational state.
What is Austria-Hungary?
This globally recognized price index measures the purchasing power parity between two currencies by comparing the relative price worldwide to purchase a staple of American fast food.
What is the Big Mac Index?
This fictional oil company has appeared in multiple Lego sets since 1992.
What is Octan?
On the periodic table: copper, zinc, this
What is gallium?
This visual effect or visual impression of detaching the time and space of a camera (or viewer) from that of its visible subject, first used with reference to the 1999 film The Matrix.
What is bullet time?
In Norse cosmology, this is the name of the immense and central sacred tree. Around it exists all else, including the Nine Worlds.
What is Yggdrasil?
In computing, a nibble is an aggregation of this many bits.
What is four?
This megacorporation appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Originally depicted as a prominent feature of the Marvel 2099 alternate future universe.
What is Alchemax?
U.S. Presidents: Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, him
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
This musical style had its peak from the 1890s to 1910s. Its cardinal trait is its syncopated or "ragged" rhythm.
What is Ragtime?
These two countries share the second longest international border.
What is Kazakhstan and Russia?
A unit of length used to measure the large distances to astronomical objects outside the Solar System, approximately equal to 3.26 light-years, a "parallax of one second."
What is a parsec?
The Aperture Laboratories Computer-Aided Enrichment Center is a research facility built completely underground. It serves as the direct rival to this other underground research facility located in the New Mexico desert.
What is the Black Mesa Research Facility?
States, alphabetically: New Mexico, New York, this
What is North Carolina?