Tech Talk
10 Letter Words
Movie Sum Up
____ or ____
-ologies
400
These deceptive videos can be created by using A.I. to put one celebrity's head on another's body; the word dates to 2017
What are deepfakes?
400
One who puts down in words the story of another's life
What is a biographer?
400
Let's go to the red planet! Let's bring everyone home from said red planet! Hey... where's Matt Damon?
What is The Martian?
400
The Scottish & Irish custom of guising, dressing in costume & getting rewards, was a predecessor of this activity
What is Trick or Treat/Trick or Treating?
400
If you know what house your moon is in, you're into this study
What is astrology?
800
Here's a picture made using this acronymic code:
What is ASCII?
800
"Mortal" word describing a jury that can't reach a verdict
What is 'deadlocked'?
800
We're all living in a simulation! Only a bank teller can save us!; life is a video game
What is Free Guy?
800
This expression meaning "do as I say" ends with a multi-lane road
What is "My way or the highway"?
800
For a B.S. degree in this -ology, you have to take courses like weather forecasting & climate dynamics
What is meteorology?
1200
In 2003 Valve Software created this platform, "the ultimate destination for playing, discussing, and creating games"
What is Steam?
1200
There's one of these on Wabash Avenue spanning the Chicago River; don't try to cross when it's up
What is a drawbridge?
1200
Opening Pandora's box; Sigourney Weaver, dealing with different aliens; unobtanium? Really?
What is Avatar?
1200
If you don't want to reveal your secrets in this party game, you may have to do something risky
What is Truth or Dare?
1200
Piscatology is the art or science of this activity
What is fishing?
1600
Sony's PlayStation 5 controller ditches rumble motors to create this 6-letter "feedback" so your hands can better feel the action
What is haptic?
1600
10-letter word for background music written to accompany a play, like Bizet's for 1872's "L'Arlesienne"
What is 'incidental'?
1600
PTA PTSD; maternal instinct, lapsed; liberty for Bell (& Hahn, & Kunis)
What is Bad Moms?
1600
Succeed or fail is at the heart of this "watery" alliterative idiom
What is "sink or swim"?
1600
From a Greek word for "creeping", it's the branch of zoology that deals with snakes & other reptiles
What is herpetology?
2000
Abbreviated NFT, it's a sort of title to a digital artwork that anyone can look at, not just its owner
What is a non-fungible token?
2000
This adjective for a defective argument begins with one of the 4 seasons
What is 'fallacious'?
2000
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? To war, so girls--play ball! You're Dottie if you want to play catcher
What is A League of Their Own?
2000
Robert Burns wrote, "Liberty's in every blow, let us" this, meaning succeed at all costs
What is "do or die"?
2000
It's the 11-letter name for the study of how extremely low temperatures affect living organisms
What is cryobiology?