2000s Sci-Tech
The name of this revolutionary product, first unveiled on Oct. 23, 2001 and launched soon after, was proposed by Vinnie Chieco. After he saw a prototype, he was reminded of the line “Open the ___ bay doors, Hal”, from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
What is the iPod?
Barrack Obama referred to this place at an event to unveil tax reforms around May 2009 where he bemoaned the existing tax code incentivizing the use of this place.
What is Bangalore?
He’s an English television personality, entrepreneur, and record executive. He founded the British entertainment company Syco in 2005, as well as its now-defunct predecessor, Syco Music (also known as S Records) in 2002. However, it’s his involvement with various talent shows that has brought him fame and notoriety.
Who is Simon Cowell?
This massive change in astronomy in Aug. 2006, after a 76 year period, occurred as a result of the discovery (in Jan. 2005) of a relatively large Kuiper belt object called Eris, named after the Greco-Roman Goddess of strife and discord.
What is the demotion of Pluto to a dwarf planet?
It’s a rock band that was formed by Tom Scholz in 1975 that experienced significant commercial success during the 1970s and 1980s. Take a stab at this clue if you have "More Than a Feeling" about it.
What is Boston?
According to a certain source it’s the most massively useful item one can have. “You can wrap it around you for warmth … use it as a sail on a mini-raft … wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat …”
What is a towel?
It is a theorem about the characterization of the 3-sphere, which is the hypersphere that bounds the unit ball in 4D space. It’s eventual proof by Grigori Perelman in 2002-2003 built upon the work of Richard S. Hamilton’s program. The Clay Mathematics Institute, having included the problem in their well-known Millenium Prize Problem list, offered Perelman their prize of USD 1 million for its resolution. However, he declined the award, saying that Hamilton's contribution had been equal to his own.
What is the Poincare conjecture?
To date he is the only individual to have been elected to the post of Governor of two different US states.
Who is Sam Houston?
It’s an alias used by several characters in Marvel comics. These characters are primarily depicted as wearing a green and purple battle suit with a cape and clawed gauntlets. Donald Glover played the role of this character in a 2017 live-action film as a low-level criminal with a sense of morality attempting to buy some high-tech weapons.
Who is the Prowl(er)?
They were generally in the news from 2003 onward and were named through a student essay competition. The winning entry was by Sofi Collis, a third-grade Russian-American student from Arizona. "I used to live in an orphanage. It was dark and cold and lonely. At night, I looked up at the sparkly sky and felt better. I dreamed I could fly there. In America, I can make all my dreams come true. Thank you for the ______ and the ___________."
What are Spirit and Opportunity?
There are two versions of this character from Greek mythology. One from Arcadia, whose parents were Iasus and Clymene and who is primarily known from the tales of the Calydonian boar hunt and the Argonauts, and the other from Boeotia, who is the child of King Schoeneus and is primarily noted for skill in the footrace. In both versions, the character was a local figure allied to the goddess Artemis. The character also appears in three episodes of the wildly inaccurate, yet fun, TV show Hercules: The Legendary Journeys with a totally different back story.
Who is Atalanta?
Born Feb. 4, 1953, he was once an attorney. After earning a degree in politics from Princeton University in 1975 and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center in 1979, he moved into a different field in 1984. He was a visiting scholar at the Bipartisan Policy Center from 2010 to 2012, before returning to public service. He assumed his current role on Feb. 5, 2018.
Who is the Jerome Powell?
This international scientific research project was declared complete in 2003 after a 13 year period. Although it was reported to cover 99% of the project's focus with 99.99% accuracy, a major quality assessment of the project was published on May 27, 2004, indicating over 92% of sampling exceeded 99.99% accuracy which was within the intended goal. Subsequent work has improved on the missing elements from the original project.
What is the Human Genome Project?
He took a high profile wicket with his very first ball of test cricket, that of Sri Lankan, Kumar Sangakkara. He went on to take plenty more after that.
Who is Nathan Lyon?
It is the name of a viscount and Christiane Daae’s childhood friend in Gaston Leroux’s novel, The Phantom of the Opera, an illegitimate son of Athos in Alexandre Dumas’ novels and played by Peter Sarsgaard in the 1998 Hollywood film The Man in The Iron Mask, and the main antagonist of the 2012 film Skyfall, played by Javier Bardem.
Who is Raoul?