AROUND THE PACIFIC
TECHNOLOGY
3-LETTER WORDS
GOING TO...
THE DOGS
200
'2 of Chile's Juan Fernandez Islands are named for Alexander Selkirk & this fictional castaway he inspired'
Robinson Crusoe
200
'Suggestions on what to call this device ranged from farscope to telebaird'
Television
200
'It's one layer of toilet paper or wood'
Ply
200
'Continent Columbus thought he was going to when he set sail in August 1492'
Asia
200
'Bull's-Eye was Bill Sikes' mean dog in this Dickens novel'
"Oliver Twist"
400
'This river in Washington & Oregon was explored by Robert Gray in a ship of the same name'
Columbia
400
'Hubert Booth, not Herbert Hoover, developed the first practical electric one of these in 1901'
Vacuum cleaner
400
'A young fish, a way to cook it, or a "small" (unimportant) person'
Fry
400
'In 1932's legendary "Called Shot" his gesture indicated the ball would be going into the center field bleachers'
Babe Ruth
400
'Lobo sang about "Me and You and a Dog Named" this'
Boo
600
'In 1697 Jesuits founded Loreto, the 1st permanent European settlement on this "lower" peninsula'
Baja California
600
'In 1982 one of these vehicles deployed a satellite for the first time'
Space shuttle
600
'An eye irritation, or a pigpen'
Sty
600
'Jesus went from Bethany to this city where he had his last meal'
Jerusalem
600
'He's Augie Doggie's father'
Doggie Daddy
800
'The island of Mindanao is a Muslim center in this mainly Roman Catholic country'
Philippines
800
'Until a 1967 table top model with a smaller electron tube was introduced, this kitchen device was big & pricey'
Microwave oven
800
'A large coffee container, or a large vase to stash one's ashes'
Urn
800
'To try to prevent her son from going to this city to fight, Thetis disguised Achilles as a girl & sent him away'
Troy
800
'When an ancient Greek said, "Love me, love my dog", more often than not the dog was one of these'
Maltese
1000
'To call the Rotorua Man, you'll have to ring up this antipodean island nation'
New Zealand
1000
'On August 12, 1981 the world saw the first IBM personal computer using this Microsoft operating system'
MS-DOS
1000
'It equals 1/1000th of an inch'
Mil
1000
'Type of nightclub Mick Jagger was "going to" in a 1982 Rolling Stones song'
A Go Go
1000
'This dog wants you to take a bite out of crime'
McGruff the Crime Dog
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