COLLEGE AKA
GEEK LOVE
THE 19th CENTURY
THE ACC
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER
200
'In Alabama:
A reddish-brown colour'
Auburn
200
'The Woz, Steve Wozniak, built the first computer for this company'
Apple
200
'In the 1840s he began reaping fame & fortune from the sale of his reaping machines'
(Cyrus) McCormick
200
'On July 1, 2005 this school, Doug Flutie's alma mater, became the ACC's 12th member'
Boston College
200
'A rocket scientist in training, you interned at this lab, JPL for short'
the Jet Propulsion Lab
400
'In New York:
A brand of toothpaste'
Colgate
400
'Steve Ballmer has big geek shoes to fill for this Washington State software company'
Microsoft
400
'In June 1876 George Custer made his last stand at the Battle of this river'
Little Bighorn
400
'She's the ACC's all-time goals leader in women's soccer with 103'
Mia Hamm
400
'You worked with this group founded by Millard Fuller to help build homes for low-income families'
Habitat for Humanity
600
'In Texas:
An edible grain of the Gramineae family'
Rice
600
'This director's geek cred was sealed when he sold his film co.'s computer division & it later became Pixar'
George Lucas
600
'It was the largest & most powerful state of the German Empire in the 1800s'
Prussia
600
'You'll be a hell of an engineer if you graduate from this school, a 1990 champ in football'
Georgia Tech
600
'You worked as a "blended beverage technician" at this chain that started as The Juice Club in 1990'
Jamba Juice
800
'In Massachusetts:
Small clumps of hairs, trees or grass'
Tufts
800
'Sexy Linus Torvalds made us melt when he created this freely distributed UNIX clone in 1991'
Linux
800
'Much of the fighting in this war, 1853 to 1856, took place on a peninsula in the Black Sea'
the Crimean War
800
'In 1954, when you talked about Arnold, you meant this Wake Forest golfer & ACC champ'
Arnold Palmer
800
'You went to summer school to take this branch of science that deals specifically with compounds of carbon'
organic chemistry
1000
'In Iowa:
A male duck'
Drake
1000
'Hunky Marc Andreessen turned heads with this early web browser & company, later brought out by AOL'
Netscape
1000
'In 1889 this South American country's last emperor, Pedro II, was forced to abdicate'
Brazil
1000
'The only ACC withdrawal came in 1971 when this university's Gamecocks resigned'
the University of South Carolina
1000
'You slept til noon every day & read novels like "The Devil Wears Prada" & "Bergdorf" these'
Blondes
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