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100

The Gaelic festival Samhain is considered one of primary contributors of the pagan side of the practices for this modern holiday.

What is Halloween?

100

This company produced one of the world's first commercially successful, multi-platform video game controllers: the CX40 Joystick.

What is Atari?

200

In American Football, this phrase could be used to describe a problem during the exchange of the ball between the center and its intended recipient.

What is "trouble with the snap"?

200

A now-defunct PC manufacturer, known for its cow-print boxes and logos.

What is Gateway (2000)?

300

These two Japanese electronics giants went to battle over which video tape format would dominate the VCR market: BetaMax or VHS.

What are Sony and JVC?

300

Nearly 750,000 units of this 1978 arcade classic were sold and played world-wide.

What is "Space Invaders"?

400

As the growing season comes to a close, perhaps you should give a thought to her, the ancient Greek goddess of the harvest.

Who is Demeter?

400

Computer technologies such as object oriented program languages, bitmap graphics, Ethernet LAN, and the mouse-driven graphical user interface were developed at this legendary Xerox laboratory.

What is the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)?

500

The highest grossing Bollywood film of all time, with a worldwide gross of over 2100 crore Rupees, or 330 million USD.

What is "Dangal"?

500

This influential processor helped power the first generation of mass-produced arcade cabinets and micro-computers.

What is the Intel 8080?