WHEN THEY WERE TEENS
COMPUTER LITERACY
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
ANCIENT CHINA
DOUBLE TALK
200
'This "Speed" star, a cheerleader at her Arlington, VA. high school, also "Net"ted the title "Class Clown"'
Sandra Bullock
200
'Po Bronson's 1999 book tells of "The Nudist on the Late Shift and Other True Tales" of this hi-tech "Valley"'
Silicon Valley
200
'Wayne State College is in Wayne, Nebraska; Wayne State University is in this largest Michigan city'
Detroit
200
'4,000 years ago, the first needles used in this Chinese medical procedure were made out of stone, not metal'
Acupuncture
200
'Before you ever "walked the dog" in the U.S., this toy was a Filipino hunting weapon'
Yo-yo
400
'She was 16 when she was cast to play Beverly Hills teenager Donna Martin'
Tori Spelling
400
'This executive has written of "Business at the Speed of Thought" & "The Road Ahead"'
Bill Gates
400
'David Byrne of the Talking Heads attended this Providence art school'
Rhode Island School of Design
400
'The Chinese signed legal documents by affixing one of these, something criminals leave as a clue'
Fingerprint
400
'In popular names it precedes "Bean" & "Cool J"'
L.L.
600
'This "Good Will Hunting" star was a teen when he made his feature film debut in a bit role in "Mystic Pizza"'
Matt Damon
600
'This psychotic computer is repaired in Arthur C. Clarke's "2010: Odyssey Two"'
HAL
600
'"Pax et Lux" ("Peace and Light") is the motto of this university located in Medford, Massachusetts'
Tufts
600
'Ancient Persian courts would unravel this material from China & reweave it into their own designs'
Silk
600
'If you're a swan in "Swan Lake", you're probably wearing one of these'
Tutu
800
'She was the teen star of the 1969 film "A Walk with Love and Death", directed by her dad, John Huston'
Anjelica Huston
800
'A computer commits suicide after talking to Marvin the Robot in this first Douglas Adams novel'
"The Hitchhiker\'s Guide to the Galaxy"
800
'3 Baptist missionaries helped found this Waco school, Texas' oldest in continuing operation'
Baylor University
800
'The Chinese believed these occured when a dragon in the sky tried to swallow the sun'
Solar eclipses
800
'Said of something neither very good nor very bad; passable'
So-so
1000
'While a student at Hot Springs High, he played tenor sax in a jazz combo called Three Blind Mice'
Bill Clinton
1000
'This computer-driven sci-fi subgenre includes works by William Gibson & Bruce Sterling'
Cyberpunk
1000
'This Ivy League college in upstate New York was founded by a man who built telegraph systems'
Cornell
1000
'Originally, Chinese mathematicians rounded off pi to this whole number'
3
1000
'It's the once scandalous 19th century dance performed to the music heard here'
Can-Can
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