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This set of quick keys populates your present cell in excel with todays date.

Shift and SemiColon

100

Kathryn Hays long time actress on As the world turns was born in the year 1933 which was the year of this animal in the Chinese Zodiac that is also this noisy morning farm animal.

Rooster

100

This phrase is the most commonly seen when learning  the basics of a language the use of this phrase can be seen as early 1978 in the book The C Programming Language.

Hello, world!

100

Mike Judge produced Idiocracy, Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill, and this late 1990's cult classic about working in corporate America.

Office Space

100

When you turn your computer on it goes through this process to verify the systems hardware status. This 4 letter acronym is part of this services name that handles the mail.

POST

200

80 is a high score for this metric of typing skill. Accuracy and speed are equally important in determining this number.

WPM or Words Per Minute

200

Elizabeth Hubbard, Don Hastings, and Colleen Zenk have all been in over 1700 episodes of this Daytime drama that aired for over half a century.

As the world turns

200

C and C++ were invented at Bell Laboratories which were own and operated by this American run telephone company which bought Cingular wireless in 2004 to expand their own cellular services.

AT&T

200

In this film Christian Bale is a pop music aficionado of Huey Lewis and The News states Hip to be Square their Master piece explaining it's deeper meanings while wielding an axe. 

American Psycho

200

This type of internet scam is usually associated with robo calls and web alerts like the one pictured and usually needs the victim to purchase these items in bulk and then send them to the scammers.

Gift Cards

300

Pictured is the home row of this alternate keyboard layout that is designed to be more efficient then the traditional keyboard layout.

Dvorak

300

This star will not always be the same due to the earth's own rotation. Currently it is Polaris but in the 3000 B.C. it was Thuban and in 13000 yrs it will be Vega.

North Star

300

This programming language by Microsoft is designed for Quantum computing which has the potential to blow away todays encryption standards. 

Q # or Q Sharp

300

This film directed by Martin Scorsese features Jonah Hill as a founding partner of the Brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont.

Wolf of Wallstreet

300

Port 3389 is the default port for this kind session with another computer over the internet. Scammers will commonly try to establish this kind of session to further manipulate you.

Remote Desktop

400

This keyboard layout adopted from the type writer was actually design to slow down typing to help prevent jams on the type writer.

QWERTY

400

It takes this planet 29.5 years to complete one rotation around the sun, this is about half as long as "As the world turns" aired on network TV.

Saturn

400

Adobe flash was integrated into early versions of the Edge browser. After a lack of support for this version of the browser Microsoft overhauled edge to be based on chromium architecture which uses this code for video playback.

HTML5

400

In this movie released in 2000 Julia Roberts plays a legal assistant that almost single handedly Brings down a California power company for polluting a city's water supply.

Erin Brockovich

400

This term describes a Spearing Phishing attack against a senior company executive. If it were named after this device invented for the profession of the same name it would more likely have been called Rocket Harpoon Phishing.

Whaling

500

An Octothorpe would be found on which key on the standard QWERTY keyboard.

3

500

This Martian explorer landed on Mars two years after As the world turns ended. It continues to explore to this day.

Mars Curiosity Rover

500

The earliest version of Java was named after this tree from the genus Quercus that sat outside James Gosling office where he was it's lead creator.

Oak

500

Jane Fonda co starred with this Country music legend who has a song of the same name in this 1980's film.

Nine to five

500

Hackers grafted WannaCry to the vulnerabilities nicknamed EternalBlue and DoublePulsar which were vulnerabilities found by this US government agency.

NSA