A.K.A Abbreviations/Acronyms
This 3-letter abbreviation is widely used as an emergency alert, outlined by 3 short beeps, 3 long beeps, then another 3 short beeps.
What is "Save our Souls"/SOS?
What is Sign Language?
After being exposed to oxygen and water, this reddish-brown coating forms on top of Iron and it's alloys.
What is Rust?
This country in 1776 broke off from its parent country with a formal statement, more well known as a "Declaration".
Who is the U.S.?
This large board is made connect all pieces of a comuter to a central area, allowing everything to access eachother.
What is a Motherboard?
This machine, allowing someone to withdrawl/deposit money is most commonly said wrong, causing a word to be said twice, similar to someone saying Chai Tea.
What is an ATM?
This 2x3 grid of alternating dots is used to allow anyone to read something, even if they cannot see.
What is Braille?
This metal is most commonly used in infrastructure work. It is also used in a nickname for the superhero "Superman".
What is Steel?
Beginning around the mid 1950's, this race between 2 rivaling countries aimed at trying to get most control of a part of the Earth that once wasn't colonised, due to it's extreme altitude.
What was the Space Race?
This crucial piece of technology is made to hold all active processes in a computer. It is commonly sold as "sticks" and shares a name with an adult male sheep and a popular truck company.
What is RAM?
Used to alert the public about a weather emergency, this U.S. emergency system is known by it's ear-peircing tone, and creepy black background. You will soon hear the tone played.
What is the "Emergency Alert System"/EAS?
This version of the alphabet is used to make spelling and radio communication less prone to misunderstandings.
What is the Phonetic Alphabet?
This high density metal, which is number 74 on the periodic table, holds the highest melting point of all metals. It has also been popularised in Internet Culture to be found as a large, extremely heavy cube.
What is Tungsten?
Most well known to have started after WWII, this political hostility term was used for the relationship between the U.S. and Soviet Russia.
What is a/the Cold War?
This computer virus is named after a Greek infiltration tactic from 1184 BCE. It appears to be a legitimate process, like an app, link, or email attachment, but then takes hold of your computer.
What is a Trojan (Horse) Virus?
Once rumoured to stand for something very satanic, this Australian-born hard rock band's name actually stands for the means of electricity output, found on the back of a sewing machine.
Who is AC/DC?
What is Alternating Current/Direct Current?
Whilst it just sounds like a bunch of noises, these different timed sounds can let someone speak when they cannot write. It is also most commonly used to gain emergency help, by typing out "SOS".
What is Morse Code?
This Iron Sulfite mineral was used to attempt fraud back during gold rushes, due to it having similar properties to Gold. This coined it the nickname "Fool's Gold."
What is Pyrite?
Starting in 1932, this Australian military operation became a humiliating failure, after losing to a native species of bird.
What was the Emu War?
Known in internet Horror culture to be a corrupted/satanic version of a software (most commonly a video game), this file type is used for files that are able to be ran on your computer as an application, or a piece of code.
What is a .exe file?
Zip Codes are used in delivery as area codes, but the word "Zip" is also an acronym for something else. Please state what ZIP stands for.
Zone Improvement Plan
What is Pig Latin?
Released on the 25th of July in 1983, this is the debut album for the metal band "Metallica", featuring the song "Seek and Destroy". It is also the name of an Action movie directed by Peter Malota.
What is "Kill 'Em All"?
This border dispute in North America around 1859 almost led to a war between 2 neighbouring countries, over the shooting of a farmer's pig.
What was "The Pig War"?
This extreme advancement in the early 1990's by Shuji Nakamura allowed commercial screen display technology to improve exponentially, with Nakamura later being awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics for it.
What is the Blue LED?