Musical Machines
Garfield(2004)
Rodents
Tik Tok
Before and After
400
This appropriately named device usually consists of a collection of pins on a revolving disc or cylinder that play a song by plucking the tuned teeth of a steel comb.
What is a Music Box?
400
This actor, famous for his comedy roles in films like Sonic the Hedgehog, turned down the role of Jon Arbuckle.
Who is Jim Carrey?
400
Marmots may be 50% heavier in the autumn than in the spring, which is useful when they are in this physiological state.
What is Hibernation?
400
Known for their song, these extravagant time-telling devices quite often feature a bird to indicate the hour.
What is a Cuckoo clock?
400
The American name for an Appeltaart and a circular statistical graphic.
What is Dutch Apple Pie Chart?
800
This simple synthesizer features a mouth that players can open and close in order to get a "Wah-wah" effect.
What is an Otamatone?
800
Who is Joel Coen?
800
A Eurasian harvest mouse is distinct from many other mice for having this, which helps them climb the tall ground vegetation they live in.
What is a Prehensile tail?
800
This elderly clock uses a hidden pendulum to tell the time.
What is a Grandfather Clock?
800
A biblical game originally developed in a week-long game jam and one of the greatest mathematicians and most influential scientists of all time.
What is The Binding of Isaac Newton?
1200
Created in 1920 and largely used due to its "eerie" sound, this device was named after its inventor and requires no physical touch to play.
What is a Theremin?
1200
The amount of CGI Garfield shots (four hundred) doubles the amount of shots with this character in them in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
Who is Gollum?
1200
Rodents are most often characterized by two pairs of continuously growing these.
What are Incisors?
1200
Valued for its piezoelectric properties, this common crystal is widely used to create modern clocks.
What is Quartz?
1200
The time derivative of angular acceleration and a famous Jamaican meal.
What is Angular Jerk Chicken?
1600
It's not autotune! The beginning of Bruno Mars' 24K Magic features this device that puts sound, normally from a synthesizer, into the mouth of a performer where they can form it into words.
What is a Talkbox?
1600
Garfield was the first movie to air on The Hub, a U.S. children's television channel co-owned by Discovery Communications and this toy company.
What is Hasbro?
1600
Texas Pocket Gophers live mostly underground and gather food by pulling the roots of plants into their burrows, but they also practice coprophagy meaning they eat this.
What is Feces?
1600
What is a Water clock?
1600
A song from Taylor Swift's fourth studio album and the 3rd Poptropica island.
What is The Last Time Tangled Island?
2000
Its creator has been working on a sequel for 4 years because this music-playing device got 175 million views on Youtube just by playing a vibraphone, bass, snare and kick drum automatically using small metallic balls.
What is the Marble Machine?
2000
Much of Bill Murray's recording sessions were done aboard the boat he was occupying while filming this Wes Anderson directed movie. Apparently, Murray wasn't impressed with the recordings he did while on land.
What is The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou?
2000
The Ceratogaulus hatcheri is and extinct gopher that is the smallest known mammal and only known rodent to have a pair of these.
What are Horns?
2000
"time.ccs.neu.edu" is a local server running one of the oldest Internet protocols currently still in use, referred to with this acronym.
What is NTP?
2000
The opening number to a thought-to-be oscar winning film and the ancient firebending civilization from ATLA?
What is Another Day of Sun Warriors?