Classic Video Games
Try Explaining to your kids how this 1972 4-letter arcade game from Atari was the coolest thing ever for a while
What is Pong?
His marvel.com bio says he's "Highly Proficient in Hand-to-Hand combat, swordsmanship, and hammer throwing."
Who is Thor?
To prevent the spread of possible moon germs, Apollo 11's capsule and crew were disinfected upon splashdown. The crew were then transported to Houston, inside a converted Airstream trailer called the "MQF," or Mobile This Facility.
What is Quarantine?
What is organic chemistry?
1972 was one of the biggest landslides in electoral college history as Republican incumbent Richard Nixon piled up 49 states and this anti-war Democrat senator carried only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, failing to carry even his home state of South Dakota.
Who is George McGovern?
Introduced in 1982, this sequel had as big an appetite as her male predecessor
Who is Ms. Pac Man?
The sense & sense ability of this hero/lawyer includes hearing a heartbeat from 20' away & tracking people by scent.
Who is Daredevil?
On its way to the moon and back in 1969, Apollo 11 carried a piece of wood from a craft employed by these two men from another famous flight 66 years earlier.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
Visitors at Paris' Bibliothéque Nationale must wear protective gear & sign a liability waiver to study her notebooks, which are stored in heavily shielded boxes.
Who is Marie Curie?
DAILY DOUBLE:
A third party candidate hasn't won a state in presidential election since 1968, when this American Independent Party nominee carried Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, and his native Alabama.
Who is George Wallace?
He was a bouncing orange critter with a big nose & an asterisk in his name.
Who is Q*bert?
Drax, Gamora, & Rocket Raccoon make up part of this team.
Who are the Guardians of the Galaxy?
In 1975, an Apollo module was launched from Florida, and this other craft from Kazakhstan, for an orbital linkup that marked a rare period of detente in the space race.
What is Soyuz?
Many folks weren't happy with the Nobel Committee's decision to give the 1918 Chemistry Prize to ammonia synthesizer Fritz Haber as he had also overseen Germany's production & use of this on World War I's Western Front.
What is Mustard/Poison Gas?
Upset over the inclusion of a Civil Rights plank in the 1948 Democratic platform, Strom Thurmond split the party, capturing 4 Southern States with his "Dixiecrat" party, and nearly helping this Republican defeat Harry Truman.
Who is Thomas E. Dewey?
Appropriately, the highest lance won in this classic game; less appropriately, there were flying ostriches.
What is Joust?
Travel doesn't seem to be an issue for this sorcerer & onetime surgeon; astral projection & teleportation are no prob.
Who is Doctor Strange?
This giant rocket that carried the Apollo missions into space stood taller than the Statue of Liberty, and weighed more than 6 million pounds. The ring-shaped unit that contained the guidance system was 22 feet in diameter, all by itself.
What is Saturn V?
The Russian Academy of Sciences rejected this great man's 1880 nomination for membership--maybe because of his progressive political leanings, & maybe because he proposed to a much younger woman while he was still married to his first wife.
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Who is Mendeleev?
New York didn't choose its electors in time and Rhode Island and North Carolina hadn't yet ratified the Constitution but the vote was otherwise unanimous when every elector cast a vote for George Washington in this year.
What is 1789?
You had left, middle, & right fire buttons in this game, also the name of a U.S. Army Unity known as MICOM.
What is Missile Command?
In the comics, Natasha Romanova, known by this "colorful" superhero name, was instructed by the Winter Soldier.
Who is Black Widow?
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The Apollo missions brought back more than 800 pounds of moon rocks, and showed that the dark flat lunar areas known as "seas" are not water but this common volcanic rock, that also makes up most of the oceanic crust here on Earth.
What is Basalt?
Real-life scientists whose name came up on "Breaking Bad" included, of course, Heisenberg, & also this Frenchman guillotined at age 50 after making chemistry a modern science.
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Who is Antoine Lavoisier?
The 1860 electoral map revealed the deep divisions of a country hurdling towards civil war. Abraham Lincoln won the North, the West, and the presidency; border states went for compromised candidate John Bell; Stephen Douglas carried Missouri; and this incumbent Vice President and defender of slavery carried the South.
Who is John C. Breckinridge?