Patently Stupid
The first U.S. patent was issued to Samuel Hopkins in 1790 with this man's signature on it
George Washington
It's the process of splitting an atom; uranium-235, for instance
(Nuclear) fission
Twitter co-founder and CEO
Jack Dorsey
Occupants of a secret bunker in this 2000s TV show had to push a button every 108 minutes
Lost
When car shopping, consider a "ZEV", short for this
Zero-Emissions Vehicle
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is an agency within this Cabinet-level department
Department of Commerce
Located on the Adriatic Sea, Split is the second-largest city in this country
Croatia
American hockey player and captain of the NHL's Buffalo Sabres
Jack Eichel
Historians have claimed, and the USAF has denied, that for most of the 1960s its nuclear launch codes were set to this
00000000 (all zeroes)
This tube pasta is smaller than rigatoni
Ziti
Five-year-old Sam Houghton in 2008 received a UK patent for a two-headed broom thought to be inspired by this movie/TV series
Wallace and Gromit
The "smooth" nickname for the 1989 breakup of Czechoslovakia
The Velvet Revolution
American author and founding member of the "Beat Generation"
Jack Kerouac
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A — or just call it this
The "Konami Code"
A penny is 99.2% this
Zinc
A patent stops others from building your invention; if you want to protect your brand name, you'll need one of these
Trademark
"Brexit" is the ongoing, protracted withdrawal of the UK from this
The European Union
Hall of Fame baseball/football play-by-play announcer; father of Joe
Jack Buck
On 4/1/2015, a button and countdown timer appeared on this website with a message not to press it; over 1M did
A popular nickname for WWII's Mitsubishi A6M
Zero
The only U.S. president to earn a patent: No. 6469, for a device to lift boats over sandbars
Abraham Lincoln
Gerrymandering takes two forms: "packing" a party's members into one district, and this rhyming word in which you split them up across districts
"cracking"
Chinese billionaire and one of Forbes' "50 Most Powerful People"
Jack Ma
The first "like" button was introduced in 2005 at this streaming video site
Vimeo
AKA ground state energy, it's the lowest possible energy in a quantum mechanical system
Zero-point energy