Play me that mtn. music
Spanning over 2,190 miles from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine, this is the longest hiking-only footpath in the world
What is the Appalachian Trail?
On August 1, 1981, this cable network debuted with the music video for the Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star"
What is MTV?
This iconic, robotic-sounding three-word greeting was played through computer speakers whenever a 90s user signed onto America Online
What is "You've got mail!"
This common term for electronic junk mail got its name from a 1970 Monty Python comedy sketch where a group of Vikings loudly and repeatedly sing the name of a canned meat product
What is spam?
Because of its incredibly low moisture content and high acidity, this is the only natural food sweet treat that never spoils or goes bad, even over thousands of years
What is honey?
Derived from the West African akonting, this stringed, gourd-derived instrument was brought to Appalachia by enslaved Africans and paired with the fiddle to form the backbone of mountain music
What is the banjo?
Placed in simulated "adoption centers," these soft-sculptured dolls became a massive 1983 holiday craze, leading to actual riots in toy stores
What are Cabbage Patch Kids?
This widely-used, open-source operating system kernel, created in 1991, powers the vast majority of the world's web servers, supercomputers, and Android devices.
What is Linux?
This wireless communication standard was named after the 10th-century Scandinavian king Harald Gormsson, who was famous for uniting warring tribes
What is Bluetooth?
Despite its name and the popular belief that it is a nut, this key ingredient in marzipan is actually a drupe, the seed of a fruit closely related to the peach
What is an almond?
Straddling the border of North Carolina and Tennessee, this is officially the most-visited National Park in the United States, famous for its blue-mist-covered ridges
What is Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
In 1982, Steven Spielberg's legendary film about a friendly, Reese’s Pieces-eating alien overtook Star Wars to become the highest-grossing film of all time
What is E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial?
Often used in data backup and redundancy, a RAID storage array stands for this
What is Redundant Array of Independent Disks? (Accept: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) [
Coined in a 1921 play by Czech writer Karel Čapek, this word for an autonomous mechanical worker comes from a Slavic word for "forced labor" or "drudgery"
What is a robot?
Invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Pemberton as a nerve tonic, this legendary soft drink originally got its signature green color from the use of coca leaves and kola nuts
What is Coca-Cola? (Accept: Coke)
Originally a derogatory term for poor mountain residents, this compound word's origin likely stems from 17th-century Ulster-Scots Protestant supporters of King William III
What is hillbilly?
In 1984, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis teamed up to save New York City from supernatural forces, but were warned never to "cross the streams".
Who are the Ghostbusters?
A lightweight data-interchange format that is easy for humans to read and write, JSON stands for this
What is JavaScript Object Notation?
This fundamental mathematical word is a Latinized derivation of the name of the 9th-century Persian scholar and mathematician al-Khwarizmi
What is an algorithm?
This is the most heavily stolen food product in the world, with roughly 4% of its global production ending up black-marketed or pocketed from store shelves
What is cheese?
The famously scenic Blue Ridge Mountains get their distinctive, hazy blue color from isoprene, a natural hydrocarbon released into the atmosphere by this ubiquitous type of tree
What is the oak tree?
Invented in 1974, this 3-D combination puzzle was originally called the "Magic Cube" by its Hungarian inventor before taking over the 1980s.
What is the Rubik's Cube?
An image file format commonly used for digital photos because of its lossy compression, JPEG stands for this
What is Joint Photographic Experts Group?
Before describing electronic hardware, this word historically referred to human professionals who spent their days performing complex mathematical calculations
What is a computer?
First cultivated by the Incas, this tuber became the first-ever vegetable to be successfully grown in space aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1995
What is the potato?