Historic Gothic revival. Features include secret passageways, moving staircases, and a Great Hall. Warning: Proximity to Whomping Willow may affect insurance rates.
Hogwarts
You might say "double-u double-u double-u," but this acronym for the internet actually takes three times longer to say than the phrase it stands for.
World Wide Web
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Ghostbusters
50 Cent + Maroon 5
55
(50 + 5)
The four colorful ghosts that chase Pac-Man around the maze are named Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and this "C" name that doesn't rhyme with the others.
Clyde
Cozy subterranean dwelling. Round doors, low ceilings. perfectly suited for short tenants. Ample pantry space for second breakfast.
Hobbit Hole / The Shire
Itβs the "P" in PDF, explaining why you can open the file on a Mac, a PC, or a phone and it looks exactly the same.
Portable
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Forrest Gump
The number of "Days a Week" the Beatles love you - The Jackson ____
3
(8 - 5)
Before they made video games, this Japanese company was founded in 1889 as a manufacturer of hand-painted playing cards.
Nintendo
Prestigious estate in the Santa Monica mountains. Features include a pool house, a sarcastic live-in butler, and a front doorway specifically reinforced to handle the wear and tear of physically throwing the nephewβs best friend onto the driveway.
The Banks Mansion (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air)
Your company pays monthly subscriptions for Slack, Docebo, and Zoom because of this business model, which sounds like "Sass" but stands for "Software as a..." what?
Service
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Fight Club
The number of "Problems" Jay-Z has minus The number of Red Balloons in the German pop song.
0
(99 - 99)
In his debut appearance in the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong, Mario was not yet a plumber. He was a carpenter known simply by this athletic name.
Jumpman
31 Spooner Street. 4 Bed, 2 Bath. Features include a fully stocked bar, a piano for the talking dog, and a suspiciously high-tech nursery for the baby.
The Family Guy House
Developers talk about this three-letter "bridge" that lets different apps talk to each other. To you, it's just magic; to them, it stands for "Application Programming..." what?
Interface
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Groundhog Day
The number of miles The Proclaimers would walk initially divided by Lou Bega's "Mambo Number"
100
(500 / 5)
Generations of gamers have memorized the "Konami Code" (Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right...), which famously gave you 30 extra lives in this run-and-gun shooter game.
Contra
Unique fruit-based architecture located on the ocean floor. Comes fully furnished with a pet snail. Pineapple decor throughout.
SpongeBob SquarePants
The "T" in CAPTCHA, the test you take to prove you aren't a robot. It is named after the father of computer science.
Turing
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Lord of the Rings
Andre from OutKast divided by the number of seconds to a planet in Jared Leto's band name.
100
(3000 / 30)
This 1982 Atari game based on a hit Spielberg movie was so famously terrible that the company buried thousands of unsold cartridges in a New Mexico landfill.
E.T. (The Extra-Terrestrial)