Golf
To capture the modern grand slam, a player must win the Masters, the PGA Championship & these 2 opens.
What is the U.S. Open and the British Open/Open Championship?
On Oct. 7, 2001, Operation Enduring Freedom began in this country; by December, the U.S. had dropped 12,000 bombs and missiles.
What is Afghanistan?
This 1911 company pioneered the hard disk drive, the mainframe, and the first practical example of artificial intelligence.
What is IBM?
This person loves skiing, travel, and playing with Pippa and Jake. And he even has a patent!
Who is David Ross?
Bird word for 3 under par on a hole.
What is an albatross?
In his 1964 State of the Union address, Lyndon Johnson declared an "unconditional war on" this "in America."
What is poverty?
In 1976, one founder sold his Volkswagen Bus and the other a HP-65 calculator to finance the creation of their first product.
Ken never expected to have one let alone two kids living in the United Kingdom: Aaron in Edinburgh, and this London-based daughter.
Who is Emily?
The 17th on the Old Course at this Scottish club is known as the Road Hole; lots of players have been run over there.
What is St. Andrews?
This wave of attacks in early 1968 was a military defeat for North Vietnam but turned many Americans against the war.
What is the Tet Offensive?
In 1974, Steve Jobs returned home after dropping out of Reed College, and was soon hired as a technician at this Los Gatos video game company.
What is Atari?
Son Brad and niece Hayley attend these rival universities.
What are Stanford and Berkeley?
On Forbes’ 2020 list of the 100 highest-paid athletes, at age 50 this active individual sportsman was the oldest.
Who is Phil Mickelson?
On Feb 1 1960, 4 students held a historic sit-in at a lunch counter in this N.C. city in protest of segregation.
What is Greensboro?
This company was founded in 1982 by a trio of Texas Instruments senior managers, and was acquired by Hewlett-Packard 20 years later.
What is Compaq?
Catherine and David Stoll got engaged on this Hawai'i island.
What is the Big Island? What is the Island of Hawai'i
Sam Snead popularized a putting style named for this other grass and balls pastime; the PGA no longer allows it.
What is croquet?
Of the 4 prewar states that permitted slavery but did not secede, it was the largest in area & latest to join the Union.
What is Missouri?
In addition to the six bits that encode alphanumeric characters on IBM's 1401 computer, each memory location also included these two bits, abbreviated as "C" and "M."
What are odd parity check and word mark?
This was a big year: Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa, O.J. Simpson was arrested, and Ken and Alison got married!
What is 1994?