Tech through
the ages
the ages
This wireless standard, named after a 15th century king, links your earbuds today.
What is Bluetooth
Prince’s iconic song needs to reschedule for another time.
What is Purple Raincheck ☂️
This book, released in 2003, sparked a rise in ticket sales to The Louvre museum in Paris.
What is The DaVinci Code
These music legends created a media sensation over their wardrobe malfunction during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show.
Who are Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake
This conservative activist’s assassination at a Utah university became a flashpoint in U.S. political violence discussions.
Who is Charlie Kirk
This 1957 invention became the first artificial object placed in Earth’s orbit.
What is Sputnik
Spielberg’s DNA cloned dinosaurs invade Monopoly’s 2nd most expensive property.
What is Jurassic Park Place
This 1994 film, directed by Frank Darabont and based on a Stephen King novella set in a prison, about a man wrongfully convicted of murder.
What is The Shawshank Redemption
This 1989 environmental catastrophe began when an oil tanker ran aground in Alaska’s Prince William Sound.
What is the Exxon Valdez oil spill
A months-long manhunt unfolded this summer for Travis Decker, the father accused of killing his 3 young daughters near this city.
What is Leavenworth
This 15th century device by Johannes Gutenberg revolutionized access to knowledge.
What is the printing press
Dr. Seuss serves breakfast to one of our founding fathers.
What is Green Eggs and Hamilton
This 1962 film, directed by Stanley Kubrick, is based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov… both of which were banned.
What is Lolita
This 2013 government website launch for a major national program crashed repeatedly for weeks and had to be rebuilt on the fly.
What is HealthCare.gov
President Trump tapped Elon Musk to head this bureaucratic cost cutting initiative nicknamed DOGE.
What is The Department of Government Efficiency
This once major phone maker created RAZR before vanishing into mergers.
What is Motorola
E.B. White’s famous arachnid launches a medical website.
What is Charlotte’s Web MD 🕷️
This 1994 movie, based on a novel by Winston Groom won 6 Academy Awards including Best Actor.
What is Forrest Gump
This singer’s attempt to stage dive in 2022 became a meme when the crowd failed to catch her, twice!
Who is Doja Cat 🐈
This year saw the longest Government Shutdown in U.S. history, lasting this many days.
What is 43
Before Google, this website featured a butler-type character as its logo to help you with your queries.
What is AskJeeves.com
A hollandaise-laden breakfast dish becomes a traitor in the United States.
What is Eggs Benedict Arnold
“Clueless” starring Alicia Silverstone is loosely based on this 1815 Jane Austen novel.
What is Emma
This festival promised luxury villas and gourmet meals in the Bahamas but stranded guests in FEMA tents with cheese sandwiches.
What is The Frye Festival
In October, this chipmaker became the first-ever company to hit a $5 trillion market valuation thanks to growing demand for AI technology.
What is NVIDIA